OTU Only: Does anyone know of a Canon Class for Battle Tenders?

[Commander Truestar]

I'm also not certain what the Squadron code would be for the five 30k dTon Zhimaway BattleRiders

 

[TheDark]

Going through each weapon:

The missiles are 50-ton bays.
The sandcasters are UCP 9. At TL-14, that requires 30 barrels.
The beam lasers are also UCP 9. They also require 30 barrels per battery.
The plasma guns are UCP 3. At TL-14 that requires 1 barrel per battery.

Assuming they went with the most space-efficient layout, it would be 200 triple sand turrets, 100 triple beam laser turrets, and 20 single plasma gun turrets, plus the 20 missile bays. AAB 14 claims 400 turrets but I have no idea how to make that work. Looking at HG '80, the USPs should be the same as the UCPs for the turret batteries after accounting for the TL bonuses, so it would have 20 batteries of USP 9 sandcasters, 10 batteries of USP 9 beam lasers, and 20 batteries of USP 3 plasma guns (along with 20 USP 9 missile bays). Since it's 300,000 dTons, only 60% of those will bear.

 

[TheDark]

I'd just treat the Zhimaway as regular ships whenever they're launched, but I'll admit that's because I don't remember squadron rules and they're cruiser-sized as individual ships. As mentioned earlier in the thread, they're 30k-ton ships, and they have a big spinal gun (Class M Meson), 2 50-ton particle bays, 3 50-ton fusion bays, and 10 50-ton missile bays, plus what looks to be 30 triple beam laser turrets in 3 batteries of 10 turrets and 120 double sandcaster turrets arranged into 8 batteries of 15 turrets each (it's said to have 150 turrets, and that works mathematically even if it feels a bit weird from a design standpoint). They're M6 and pretty decently armored.

Changing topics, I don't know whether these would count or not, but Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium has Tenders and Riders for TL-14 and TL-15, with two riders at each tech level, one with a particle spinal and one with a meson spinal. All of the Riders are 30k dTons. Like everything else in that book, they don't have names, but they could be adapted for use as classes that might be mentioned in sources without details.

 

[Commander Truestar]

I'd just treat the Zhimaway as regular ships whenever they're launched, but I'll admit that's because I don't remember squadron rules and they're cruiser-sized as individual ships. As mentioned earlier in the thread, they're 30k-ton ships, and they have a big spinal gun (Class M Meson), 2 50-ton particle bays, 3 50-ton fusion bays, and 10 50-ton missile bays, plus what looks to be 30 triple beam laser turrets in 3 batteries of 10 turrets and 120 double sandcaster turrets arranged into 8 batteries of 15 turrets each (it's said to have 150 turrets, and that works mathematically even if it feels a bit weird from a design standpoint). They're M6 and pretty decently armored.

Changing topics, I don't know whether these would count or not, but Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium has Tenders and Riders for TL-14 and TL-15, with two riders at each tech level, one with a particle spinal and one with a meson spinal. All of the Riders are 30k dTons. Like everything else in that book, they don't have names, but they could be adapted for use as classes that might be mentioned in sources without details.

My thoughts are that since they are fighting ships on their own rather than squadrons of fighters, the "Fighter USP code" might be Zero.
Then, despite the fact the tender carries them, they are perhaps treated as independent ships

Thoughts?

 

[Commander Truestar]

So, if my numbers and reading your comments is correct here...
The USP for a World Class Battle Tender is: BT-T7419H3-190600-93009-0 MCR 79 300,000 tons