Lola I Type: Destroyer In Class: ? Mass: 400,000 Sail Integrity: 4 Thrust: 3/5 Fuel: 2000 tons Structural Integrity: 40 Armor: 320 tons of standard armor (128, 24+4 fwd, 22+4 all others) Docking Collars: 0 Fighters: 6 Small Craft: 2 Crew: 200 Lifeboats: 20 Escape Pods: 0 Grav Decks: 1 60 meter Cargo: 4,000 Bay 1: Fighters (6) 2 doors Bay 2: Cargo (4,000) 1 door Bay 3: Small Craft (2) 1 door Weapons: Forward: 2 NAC 10 4 White Shark Fore Left / Fore Right 3 NAC 10 4 White Shark Left Broadside / Right Broadside 3 NL 45 2 White Shark Aft Left / Aft Right 2 NAC 10 Aft 6 NL 45 Designers Notes: As always underweight. Engine mass was calculated for 5/8 rather than 3/5, making the engines heavier than they technically would be by the rules, but given this is an old ship, I don't mind too much. The KF drive was also calculated at much larger than it was supposed to be. The end result makes for a very nice old destroyer I think. I actually like this little old lady. Overview: The Lola I class destroyers were the oldest ships to serve in the star league navy. The first came into commision with the Hegemony Armed Forces in the year 2345 and the last wasn't taken off the line until 2605. All during this time the Lola I served as a reliable picket ship and escort, ultimately done in by their age more than their combat ability. The Lola I was at the time of its launching one of the fastest and best armed destroyers in existance. It was also one of the first ships to utilize warship grade lasers, an addition that proved to be troublesome in this ship at first. The early model naval lasers were massive affairs, their sheer size limiting them to a very narrow range of fire. Though modifications on all the Lolas in service when newer lasers became available corrected this problem, the laser batteries are still somewhat limited in their firing arcs. This was one of the reasons that the Hegemony designers included so many launching hardpoints for the early Redtail missile system (These were later switched to white sharks when those became available). Central to the Lola I's firepower however, are the twelve PWB Naval Autocannons. These guns were the best available at the time. Though they lacked the raw power of the cannons used on later ships such as the Monsoon and Aegis, they were some of the most reliable weapons in the galaxy at the time. Though considered barely mediocre by modern standards, the Lola I's armor was more than adequate for the oponents of her day. Likewise later work done during the amaris coup proved that the Lola I was well suited to upgrades to newer types of armor plate. Though the last Lola I was removed from service in 2605, this would not be the end for the old destroyers. During the Amaris Coup a brilliant young engineer hit upon the idea of reactivating old Lola I class destroyers and refitting them for service. Amazingly relatively simple field modifications allowed for a tremendous boost in engine power, and the ships proved easily refitted with newer heavier armor. These craft were employed quite effectively alongside Kimagure and Sovremenyy class cruisers as fast attack ships, though almost all of them were destroyed in the long march to Terra. There were as many as a hundred Lola Is still in mothballs or in house fleets when the succession wars broke out. The vast majority of these were confirmed destroyed, though exact records are not available and there are still at least a dozen ships unaccounted for. As with other old warships it is entirely possible that ships of this type have survived hidden away somewhere. Relatively recently there were rumors that someone might have found at least some of these ships. In the year 3025 Sal Brennerman, A business tycoon from the Federated Suns world of June, began sending quiet feelers among lostech prospectors for any information they could deliver about the modified Lola Is used by General Kerensky. Reportedly he also told friends that they could expect "a sixth successor state rising up in the outback under my control" within the next ten years. Though most attribute his comments to his typical excentricities, nobody will truly ever know what he might have found. He died of a suprise heart attack shortly after he began looking for information on the old warships. Though a number of lostech prospectors have been drawn to that region of space because of Sal Brennerman and his somewhat unexpected demise, nobody has ever found anything.