Scimitar-class escort frigate

Scimitar-class escort frigate
The CCV Kraken's Grasp in orbit over Volnir.
Class overview
Builders	Sampson and Co. Craft Yards
Preceded by	Sirius-class dreadnought
In commission	10 March 3271
Building	10000
Planned	65000
Completed	45000
Cancelled	11000
Active	39220
Lost	5254
Scrapped	526
General characteristics
Type	Escort frigate
Mass	9,551,386 tonnes (9,400,536 long tons; 10,528,601 short tons)
Length	890 metres (2,920 ft)
Beam	366 metres (1,201 ft)
Height	258 metres (846 ft)
Engineering
Sublight drive(s)	4 × Sampson VVG-005 antimatter drives 5 x Hurston-D'aarh maneuvering control systems
Sublight acceleration	2,218 metres per second squared (7,280 ft/s2)
Maximum atmospheric speed	5,325 kilometres per hour (3,309 mph)
FTL drive(s)	Axiom XLV-5F rift drive
FTL speed	Practically instantaneous at maximum powerrs
Installed power	2 × Versingshire AIF-VER.213 antimatter reactor 2 × Secondary Weyville Co. nuclear fusion reacto
Endurance	Practically infinite
Electronics
Main computer	Class 9X Artificial Intelligence
Sensors	Advanced Ranging - Targeting - Entanglement Mission Instrument System (ARTEMIS) Sensor Suite: QES-23 quantum sensor system Other Sensors: - Mk 78 Secondary Sensor Suite 2,000 × Mk 56 "Crow" Sensor Drones
Navigation systems	Yang-Torres star chart version 9.2
Communication systems	QCS-25 "Hermes" Quantum Communication System CCS-21 Conventional Communication System
Targeting systems	ARTEMIS QFC-7 "Deadeye" fire control system
Countermeasures	ARTEMIS EWS-36 electronic warfare system
Defensive systems
Shields	Verra DSE-215 energy shielding
Shield strength	Classified but at least 500 teratons of TNT resistance
Hull	Hull: 221 cm of nanonium Citadel: 547 cm of nanonium Turrets: 917 cm Interior Bulkheads: 291 cm
Armament
Primary armament	Guns 2 × APP-VER2.21 spinal antimatter accelerators Missiles 10x ST-5 torpedo tubes AGP-624 "Pulsar" anti-ship torpedoes
Secondary armament	Guns 15 × EAC-50 antimatter accelerators Energy weaponry 12 × FLP-71 "Ruby" laser projectors Missiles 5 × Reckoning missile silos
Tertiary armament	Guns 40 × MAG-501 secondary railguns Energy weaponry 200× FLP-82 "Focal" laser point defences 150 × EAC-325 "Hailstorm" antimatter CIWS Missiles 1520 × MLP-521 "Hwacha" missile pods Nuclear weaponry 50 × Reaper nuclear mines
Crew and support craft
Complement	Crew: 521
Passengers	Combat personnel: 500
Small craft complement	*125 starfighters and bombers 4 dropships
Docking facilities	Hangar bays 5 spacecraft hangar bays (30 capacity each) 10 launch bays (3 capacity each) Docks 1 intership coupler

The Scimitar-class escort frigate is a class of frigates in service in the Concordian Navy. Developed and built by Sampson & Co Craft Yards as a replacement for the older Sirius-class of light frigates. Designed as an escort frigate to support larger warships, the Scimitar-class was conceived to perform fighter screening and escort duties for fleet, influencing the ship to be heavily equipped with secondary weapon batteries and point defences. Developed during the latter stages of the Great Intergalactic War, the Scimitar-class was designed to be far more effective at countering the large numbers of spacecraft such as fighters and bombers that the Oderran Confederation were frequently dependent on in space battles than the preceding frigate designs like the Sirius-class whose armament were more specifically dedicated to ship-to-ship engagements.

Characteristics

Weapons

Guns

The Scimitar-class features a light armament of guns when compared to dedicated anti-ship frigates such as the Sabre-class. Unlike the conventional turrets of preceding frigate designs, the Scimitar-class has a primary gun armament of two APP-VER2.1 antimatter accelerators in spinal configuration, where the weapons run along the centre of the vessel to maximise the velocity of the projectile launched.

Defences

Shielding

The Scimitar-class utilises unconventional displaced shielding technology, which projects shielding in a ellipsoid "bubble" around the exterior hull of the vessel as a measure to increase the stand-off distance against anti-ship missiles and torpedoes. While the system was highly effective at dissipating the plasma warheads of Oderran spacecraft, it proved to be vulnerable against the kinetic armaments of comparable frigate designs, such as the Oderran Invigilator-class.

Armour

Scimitar-class frigates are equipped with laminated electromagnetic hull plating designed to dissipate energy warheads, with the hull sporting 221 cm thick nanonium armour plating that was reinforced by tungsten duramide.