SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Tartarian Technocracy
TYPE: Stealth Heavy Cruiser
MODEL: BC-03
DATE INTRODUCED: 2186 AD
LENGTH: 4009 feet (1222 meters)
WIDTH: 1795 feet (547 meters)
HEIGHT: 610 feet (186 meters)
MATERIAL: Crystal Composite
POWER PLANT: x757 Republic Fusion Reactor RFR-60MA (Level III)
OUTPUT: 60,000 megawatts each (45,420,000 megawatts total)
ARMOR TYPE: Crystal Composite "Stealth" material
ARMOR THICKNESS: 1 inch
DISPLACEMENT: 5,500,000 tons
CREW: 917 + 700 pilots (1617 total)
CREW ROSTER: 75 GUNNERS, 300 ENGINEER, 55 ELECTRICIAN, 55 TECHNICIAN, 55 OPERATOR, 140 OFFICERS, 77 MEDICAL, 100 SECURITY, 60 SCIENCE, 700 PILOTS

PROPULSION
             FASTER THAN LIGHT DRIVE:
             4x Tartarian Technologies TT-SLV-T1-90K Super Luminal Velocity Drive
             SPEED: 1.11 Light-year per hour each (4.45 light-years per hour total)
             *Designed for a 9,000,000-ton ship

             SUBLIGHT PROPULSTION (PRIMARY):
             1x Isis Industrial II-EMD-T3-825K Electromagnetic Drive
             SPEED: KiloMACH 03 (2,280,000 miles per hour total)

             SUBLIGHT PROPULSTION (PRIMARY):
             2x Isis Industrial II-PD-T3-137.5K Plasma Drive
             SPEED: KiloMACH 01 each (1,520,000 miles per hour total)

WEAPONS:
             (PRIMARY ASSAULT WEAPONS):
             13x (Retractable) Diana Dynamics DD-20000 dual 10,000-megawatt Heavy Meson beam turret; Effective Range: 72,000-miles; Payload: unlimited with clutch; ROF: one dual blast per 1.7 minutes (10 melees).

             (PRIMARY TACTICAL WEAPONS):
             24x (Retractable) Diana Dynamics DD-1200 Triple 400-megawatt Meson beam turret; Effective Range: 2880-miles; Payload: unlimited with clutch; ROF: three blasts per twenty seconds or 6-blasts per minute.

              (PRIMARY BALLISTIC WEAPONS):
             4x (Retractable) Tyche Technologies ACM-10K-EMP24 (Ion Torp); Missile Type: IDST-10,000 ion drive space torpedo with computer-guided 10,000-pound Electromagnetic Pulse warhead; Effective Range: 1161.1 miles; Payload: 24 space torpedoes in an autoloading torpedo launcher; ROF: 1 to 24 torpedoes per two seconds with a cyclic rate of 720 torpedoes per minute per torpedo launcher.

ELECTRONICS:
              1x Microwave Radio Communications array with a 1000 AU range.
              1x Laser Radio Communications array with a 1000 AU range.
              1x SLV communications system with 10 light-years range
              1x RADAR arrawy with a range of 200,000 miles.
              1x Passive EMS array with a range of 1,000,000 miles.
              1x Active EMS array with a range of 100,000 miles.
              1x SLV sensor suite array with a range of 10 parsecs.
              5x Gravitational/Antigravity Control Unit; Effect: Spacecraft type g-compensation unit modified to act as an inertia maneuvering system in place of vector control thrusters. Four for Intersection Drive Units.

HANGAR BAY:
             1x 600,000-yd3; Holds 220 PS-ME262 Protean Space Fighter, 40 PI-H229 Protean Stealth Interceptors, 200 PA-HE162 Protean Aerospace Fighters, 200 PI-FW-TA283 Protean Interceptors, 200 PP-DO335 Protean Pursuit Fighters.

DEFENSE SYSTEMS:

           LIGHT BENDING SHIELDS
           1x Sophia Systems LBS-27.5MIL; Effective Range: hull; NUMBER: 1; POWER REQ: 27,500,000-megawatts; Effect: Most sensors have a 30% chance of detecting the ship. Lasers and PHELACs do no damage to shield, provides complete protection. Makes the ship totally invisible in the visible light spectrum.

            DEFLECTOR SHIELD GENERATORS
           6x Europa Research ER-DF-5M LVL-2 Gravitonic deflector field generators; Effect: has an output of 1080 Terajoules and a regeneration rate of 108 Terajoules every ten seconds.

Description/Overview:
           As with the HC-01 Heavy Stealth Cruiser before it, the BC-01 Stealth Battlecrusier was built in response to the introduction of Super Luminal Velocity drive technology by various Terran borne powers of the Local Group of Stars in the late 2180s. Khazar demanded two new heavy-scale (above 1,000,000 tons) classes of Capital ships for his Alien Repulsor Fleet. The HC-01 Heavey Stealth Cruiser was to be the main line capital vessel while the BC-01 was to be the flaghships of the fleets that Khazar envisioned for his Alien Repulsor FLeet. The engineers and technicians of the Tartarian Technocracy had early access to the Prodono Android's technology allowing them to develop their own Super Luminal Velocity drive system independent of Central Control's fleet before the other Terran stellar nations. Immediately the SLV drives were applied to the design of the new Stealth Capital ships. Outside of its size, number of SLV drives, and the number of weapons, the BC-01 was nearly identical to the HC-01 Heavy Stealth Cruiser. The reason for its size was identical to that of the HC-01, Khazar's desire for the capital ships of his fleet to have a much larger mecha compliment. The BC-02 Stealth Battlecruiser had the exact same hangar bay design as that of the HC-01 heavy stealth cruiser. Like the HC-01, the BC-01's size meant an insane increase in power requirement for the Light Bending Shield system due to the increase in square footage that had to be made invisible. The cost in energy was far beyond what was considered reasonable for a spacecraft of similar displacement.
            Just like the HC-01 Heavy Stealth Cruiser, the BC-01 Stealth Battlecruiser only saw combat in one action--the Battel of Altair VII--where its performance was substandard. In fact, only one BC-01 was built, and its bridge section was destroyed in that battle, in addition to other serious damage done to the ship. Comparitively, the Yamamoto class Super Dreadnought, at only 3,000,000-tons displacement performed far better than the BC-01 Stealth Battlecruiser. Like all of the other ships of Khazar's Alien Repulsor Fleet, the BC-01 Stealth Battlecruiser was lost with the Goro Yuradei when it left the Altair system and the Local Group of Stars via the Annunaki Galaxy Gate.