SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Tartarian Technocracy
TYPE: Stealth Frigate
MODEL: FF-01
DATE INTRODUCED: 2180 AD
LENGTH: 1308 feet (399 meters)
WIDTH: 394 feet (120 meters)
HEIGHT: 194 feet (59 meters)
MATERIAL: Crystal Composite
POWER PLANT: x18 Republic Fusion Reactor RFR-60MA (Level III)
OUTPUT: 60,000 megawatts each (1,080,000 megawatts total)
ARMOR TYPE: Crystal Composite "Stealth" material
ARMOR THICKNESS: 1 inch
DISPLACEMENT: 150,000 tons
CREW: 162
CREW ROSTER: 10 GUNNERS, 15 ENGINEER, 15 ELECTRICIAN, 15 TECHNICIAN, 15 OPERATOR, 14 OFFICERS, 8 MEDICAL, 10 SCIENCE, 60 PILOTS

PROPULSION
             FASTER THAN LIGHT DRIVE:
             2x Tyche Drives TD-ID-T6-15K Intersection Drive (Retractable)
             SPEED: 0.5* Light-years per hour each (time dilation), 1 Light-year per hour total
             *Designed for a 150,000-ton ship

             SUBLIGHT PROPULSTION (PRIMARY):
             1x Isis Industrial II-EMD-T2-31500 Electromagnetic Drive (Retractable)
             SPEED: KiloMACH 03 (2,280,000-mph)

WEAPONS:
             (PRIMARY TACTICAL WEAPONS):
             8x (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):
             2x (Retractable) Tyche Technologies ACM-10K-EMP12 (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: 12 space torpedoes in an autoloading torpedo launcher; ROF: 1 to 3 torpedoes per two seconds with a cyclic rate of 90 torpedoes per minute per torpedo tube.

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.
              3x Gravitational/Antigravity Control Unit; Effect: Spacecraft type g-compensation unit modified to act as an inertia maneuvering system in place of vector control thrusters. Two Intersection Drive Units.

HANGAR BAY:
             1x 60,200-yd3; Holds 20 PS-ME262 Protean Space Fighter, 40 PI-H229 Protean Stealth Interceptors.

DEFENSE SYSTEMS:

           LIGHT BENDING SHIELDS
           1x Sophia Systems LBS-750K; Effective Range: hull; NUMBER: 1; POWER REQ: 750,000-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:
           While the DDC-01 Stealth Corvette and Type-001 Stealth Scout Ship were considered successful escort grade warships for the Alien Repulsor Fleet, Khazar wanted large-scale vessels (over 100,000 tons) for his fighting ships, and heavy-scale (over 1,000,000 tons) spacecraft for his capital ships. This consumed enormous resources and skilled personnel to conduct the manufacture of the fleet. However, the Council on Stellar Relations base at Tyche had come online to full capacity in 2178, giving Khazar the shipyards he needed to build ships of the size and power his Alien Repulsor Fleet required. The first of the fighting ships was the FF-01 Stealth Frigate. This ship was a large-scale frigate class of 150,000 tons, which made it as large as battlecruisers of the 1st Interplanetary War era.
            The FF-01 Stealth Frigate used a very basic, angular, design that required retractable weapons in order for it to have complete stealth in addition to its invisibility via the Light Bendig Shield generator. A central electromagnetic drive was used for the sublight drive. This drive was designed to allow for a slow, wide, stream of electromagnetic particles that mimiced natural solar radiation. In this manner, it made detecting the FF-01 frigate's EMD engine very difficult unless they were in a close formation. Overall the FF-01 was an excellent design for the 2180s. However, by the 2190s the age of the class was starting to show. The FF-01 only saw combat in the final battle of the 2nd Interplanetary War, where is performed less than expected and proved the design was not as capable against Prodono Imperial ships as it was against Republic era craft.