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ATORIAN EMPIRE
The Former Atorian Empire.
BLOCKADER-Class Picket Ship.
ATORIAN EMPIRE
The Former Atorian Empire.
The BLOCKADER-Class Picket Ship is a thoroughbred interdiction, blockade, and isolation ship, specially designed for the internment of the Fehran Militry and civilian populaces after the Fehran's
THE ATORIAN NAVAL VSL TRENOR, THE LAST IRANDUIA-CLASS, WHICH STILL SERVES AS A MUESEUM TO THE ATORINA/UGC WAR- AFTER HER CAPTURE, SHE WAS RE-UTILIZED AS A POW BARGE FOR MANY YEARS, AND HER DAYS AS A PRISON ARE STILL SHOWN WITH BERTHING COMPARTMENT 22-A-731 DRESSED UP A PRISON CELL WITH MANNEQUINS DRESSED IN ATOR POW UNIFORMS. SHE IS CURRENTLY STATIONED AT CHAIRMAN'S POINT ANCHORAGE, JUST ABAFT OF THE COUNCIL STATION.
The IRANDUIA-Class TRENOR, Last Of Her Class; After Being Captured The REF Converted Her To A POW Ship, Which She Did For Many Years- Holding The Last Atorian Princesses. She Is Now A Museum To The War And Her Days As A Prison.
Cut Away View.
defeat at the end of that war.
The design, which was based on the IRANDUIA-Class Corvette (indeed, the first BLOCKADER-Class vsls were IRANDUIA-Class Corvette captured during the war with the Atorian Empire, though they remained named IRANDUIA-Class until the REF started building their own version), has since then been put to good use in many star systems, and serves as a picket ship for many space stations and planets. Though not powerful enough to survive open space on it's own, the BLOCKADER-Class is a SUBSTANTIAL assets when combined with another, larger, facility. Few colonized planets are without at least one, and many off-world mining and water-collection facilities have them.
The originals ten BLOCKADER-Class ships were, in fact, overhauled IRANDUIA-Class Corvettes, with every square inch of armor removed and replaced with REF Standard armor, and the laser turrets replaced with T'sentraedi Laser turrets. This fleet guarded the prisoner fleet over Mars during the war, and was mostly modified as automated weapons platforms. Only one, the EMPRESSES IMAZADI, was manned, by a joint Human-T'sentraedi force, as the command ship. Since then, all BLOCKADER-Class ships have been purpose-built, and only one of the original IRANDUIA-Class corvette remains, a perfectly-preserved one kept in the Chairman's Point Anchorage as a "historically significant heritage vessel" (i.e. a museum, this one dedicated to the defeat of the Atorian Empire).
The Patrol made a decision to decommission their fleet of BLOCKADERS about 100 years ago, and began selling off the hulls; Of the 500 hulls then in service, 10 are still in commission with the Patrol awaiting replacements, and 453 have been sold. It is a testament to the design that none of these, nor any of the other 4,000-odd hulls that have served, have been scrapped to date unless the vsl had suffered irreparable damage (of which there are over 100, each with a very interesting story to tell). Most of the sold hulls have been purchased by various concerns as not-for-hire shipping interests, such as private (for profit) anti-piracy companies (anti-pirate mercs), high risk shipping and courier service (not unknown to include smugglers), and ironically, pirates (usually purchased under pretext of anti-piracy operations). The Office Of The State has also purchased about a dozen or so for urgent delivery courier duties, due to their high speeds and low moor-to-underway time (only a half hour), though these are also expected to go out of service over the course of the next decade or so. Over 100 are also in service with various civilian shipping academies as working cargo and passenger ships; The extremely difficult process of loading and unloading (these were NOT designed as freighters) and upkeep on the passenger staterooms (not intended as luxury liners, either) give the students a lot of practical experience.
Name: RDF and REF BLOCKADER-Class Picket Ship
Model Type: Picket Ship/Corvette
Crew: 10-1,000.
Passengers: Another 10 can be brought on board (100 for a dedicated liner configuration).
MDC By Location:
Main Hull-
Bridge-
External Hatches (about 150)-		1,000
500
150 each		Internal Hatches (up to 10,000)-
Fighter Hanger Doors (5)-
Thrusters (02)-		100 each
500 each
600
Speed and Statistical Data:
Spacefold: Not possible
FTL: Factor 02
Cruising Speed: Mach 20
In Atmosphere: Mach 10
Clearance: 200 feet
Beam: 500 feet
Length: 600 feet
Weight: 2 million tons
Cargo: 500 tons		Power Systems:
Primary: AMRS-1,002 (Anti-Matter). Lifespan: 200 years.
Secondary: Solar Sails Lifespan: Unlimited, but can not achieve FTL; Used for station keeping in system.
Tertiary: Emergency Batteries 20,000. Lifespan: 10,000 hours on emergency power status.
Cost and Availability: 100 million credits; Extremely rare.
Black Market: Not available; Even re-habed Tśentreadi warships are worth more, and not NEARLY as expensive. The REF can't even sell captured ones as warehouses, and are forced to scrap them out (at a cost of some 80,000 credits)
Weapons Systems:
1. T'sentraedi Style Heavy Laser (04): Still a highly effective design, it is an REF standard weapon throughout the fleet.
MD: 1D4 times 100 per blast.
Rate of Fire: Twice per melee.
Range: 200,000 miles.
Payload: Unlimited.

2. Automated Missile Battery (1): Each vessel has one automated missile battery in a fixed-forward position.
Missile Type: Any MRM or LRM
Purpose: Anti-Ship Defense.
MD and Range: Varies by type used.
Rate of Fire: Twice per melee.
Payload: Up to 10.

3. Defensive Laser Batteries (100): Each vessel has at least 100 defensive laser batteries for anti-missile and meteorite defense.
MD: 5D6 per blast.
Rate of Fire: Per gunners attacks per melee plus bonuses (generally 4 or 5 per melee).
Range: 500 feet.
Payload: Unlimited.

4. Ships, Fighters, Power Armor, and Robots:
Shuttles- 02
Space, Guardian, and Veritech Fighters- 04

Features:
  • ESM: Radar Detector. Passively detects other radars being operated.
  • Radar: Combat grade radar. Range 100 miles, can track up to 50 individual targets. 95% reliability (24% against unfriendly stealthed vehicles).
  • Blue Force Tracker: Identifies friend from foe. Overlays the information on both the radar and HUD, ensuring that friendly forces are not accidentally targeted.
  • HUD: Displays maps, radar, targeting information, and any OTHER information the wearer wants directly in front of the user. One is located at each weapons control station, and another makes up the majority of the bridge.
  • Virtual Map: Displays a continuously-updating map of local terrain for the bridge. Takes data from and gives data to other friendly units in the area. Effective navigation of 85% as updates come. Good to 500 miles. Specific range can be adjusted in 10,000 mile increments.
  • Anti-Jamming System: Reduces Electronics Countermeasure by 25% (decrease skill level appropriately).
  • GPS: Standard tracking device. Ties into the Blue Force Tracker.
  • FLIR/SLIR: Forward and Side Looking Infrared. Allows pilot to get visuals on targets at night.
  • 1 MC: Internal loudspeaker.
  • Video Camera: Records from the HUD. 5,000 hours of recording available.
  • Full range optic sensory suite: Infrared, ultra violet, Magnification, night sight, color filters, thermal imager.
    Range is about 200 miles for MOST sensors.
  • Survival Pack: A pack of simpler emergency survival supplies: Pup tent, sleeping bag, black light, GPS, first aid kit (bandages, gauze, bandage tape, pads, antiseptic/analgesic), plasma torch (for small repairs and starting fires), repair kit (with MDC Repair Spray), sewing kit (a small spool of thread and 5 needles), 7 star flares (250 feet apogee), 2 white parachute flares (1,500 feet apogee), 100 feet of black or brown parachute cord (150 lbs tensile strength), 2-5 days rations, 2 gallons water, water purification kit- good for about 10 gallons.
    Combat Profile for BLOCKADER-Class Picket Ship Combat Elite:
  • 8 total attacks per melee.
  • +4 Initiative.
  • +6 Strike.
  • +5 Dodge.
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