Designation: Heavy Cruiser
Tech: Star League
Introduced: 3079
Mass: 785,000 metric tons
Length: 761 meters
Sail Diameter:
Fuel: 7,000 tons
Tons/Burn day: 39.52
Safe Thrust: 3
Maximum Thrust: 5
Sail Integrity:
KF Drive Integrity:
Heat Sinks: 3,700 (7,400)
Structural Integrity: 70
Armor
Fore:
Fore-sides:
Aft-sides:
Aft:
Cargo
Bay 1: Fighters(18) 4
Bay 2: Cargo(27,000) 2
Bay 3:
Dropship Capacity: 4
Grav Decks: 2 - 150 meter
Escape Pods: 40
Life Boats: 40
Crew: 244 crew, 18 pilots, 64 marines, 20 passengers
Armament
Fore:
ForeSides L/R:
BroadSides L/R:
AftSides L/R:
Aft:
Armament Totals:
40 NAC/25
18 Medium Naval PPC
2 Killer Whale Launchers
28 White Shark Launchers
4 Barracuda Launchers
74 ER Large Laser
74 ER PPC
74 Gauss Rifle
216 Small Pulse Laser
216 AMS
Ammunition: 1,200 rounds NAC/25 ammunition(480 tons), 20 Killer Whale Missiles(1,000 tons), 280 White Shark Missiles(11,200 tons), 40 Barracuda Missiles(1,200 tons), 16,320 rounds Gauss Rifle ammunition(2,040 tons), 24,480 rounds AMS ammunition(2,040 tons)
Cost:
Battlevalue:
Notes: Equipped with 1,000 tons Lamellor Ferro-Carbide armor and Lithium Fusion Battery.
In 3074, after the Snow Raven memory core's contents were distributed to the various Star League shipyards, the nascent SLDF Naval Command offered a shipbuilding contract for the shipyard whose cruiser-class design was judged most suitable to serve as the SLDF's primary Warship-of-the-Line. After about two years, the finalists were drawn down to two designs, both from Kathil's Lightspeed Naval Design Group, at the time affiliated with but not a part of the McKenna Shipyards: the Kearsarge Class Heavy Cruiser and the Victory Class Battlecruiser. Funds were allocated for the construction of one of each design; the SLS Victory at Ross 248, and the SLS Kearsarge at Kathil.
The two prototype cruisers served well in the Blakist War and in the beginnings of Operation Silver Spear. After the recapture of Terra, the decision was made to put the smaller and cheaper Kearsarge into full production, and to put the Victory on limited production once the gains from Silver Spear had been consolidated. The Second Clan War threw that plan out of whack, and both designs were put into full production, regardless of the cost.