Igarashii

Type: Battlecruiser
Introduced: 2708
In class: 34

Mass: 802,000
Sail Integrity: 5
Thrust: 3/5
Fuel: 4000 tons
Structural Integrity: 120
Armor: 1400 tons of ferro carbide armor (1120, 186+12 fwd and aft, 187+12 rest)

Docking Collars: 4
Fighters: 18
Small Craft: 10
Crew: 208
Lifeboats: 0
Escape Pods: 20
Grav Decks: 65 and 85 meter
Cargo: 68,530

Bay 1: Fighters (18) 3 doors 
Bay 2: Cargo (68,530) 1 door
Bay 3: Small Craft (10) 2 doors

Weapons:
Heat Sinks: 1570 (3140) (enough)

Fwd
4 Naval Autocannon 30s

FL/FR
4 Naval Autocannon 30s
4 White Shark Launchers
1 Barracuda Launcher

LBS/RBS
4 Naval Autocannon 25s
1 Barracuda Launcher

AL/AR
4 Naval Autocannon 25s
1 Barracuda Launcher

Aft
2 Naval Autocannon 30s

Ammo Load:
200 tons of Naval AC 30 ammo
200 tons of Naval AC 25 ammo
60 Barracuda
80 White Shark


Designer's notes: 

Recognize it? :)


Overview:

The Igarashii class battlecruiser was first deployed by the Draconis Combine 
early in the twenty-eighth century as an answer to the SLDF's fearsome Black 
Lion. What's truly interesting about this ship is how much of a role 
espionage played in its design. A great deal of advanced hegemony technology, 
such as Ferro Carbide armor, was used to make the ship what it is, almost all 
of it acquired through the efforts of Kurita intelligence operatives. Even 
the ship's basic design seems to have been largely copied directly from the 
Black Lion.

Capabilities:

The Igarashii is designed to defeat a Black Lion in a stand-up fight, however 
there is some debate as to how successful the design team was. Both ships are 
just a hair over eight hundred thousand tons, and each is capable of 2.5 gs 
of acceleration. The Igarashi has superior armor protection to the Black 
Lion, and a heavily reinforced hull, and also has marginally better heat 
disipation capabilities.

The Black Lion, on the other hand, outguns the Igarashii by about 33%. Even 
with the superior heat disipation of the Igarashii, the Lion still has the 
edge in firepower, and it is debatable whether the Igarashii's heavier armor 
is enough to overcome that disadvantage.

Of course the debate is wholely academic now, as the Igarashii and the Black 
Lion never faced each other in combat, and there are no Igarashiis left 
anyway.

Deployment:

The Combine constructed a total of 34 Igarashii class battlecruisers before 
the start of the First Succesion War, and based most of them along the Davion 
frontier. Though the ships never got to face their rival in battle, they did 
prove to be more than a match for Davion warships such as the Rodney. Their 
fearsome capabilities, however, made them prime targets and the entire class 
was wiped out by the end of the First War.

Recently, Combine engineers rediscovered the design schematics for the 
Igarashii, and a few officers have suggested that it might be worthwhile to 
construct new ships of this class. After the failures with the Yamato class 
battleship, it has been argued that an old, battle-proven design like the 
Igarashii is just what the Combine fleet needs. Despite that, there are no 
plans right now to construct new Igarashiis.