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| Ugznaezdouzgzu Class Corsair - Light Frigate |
| Designed by: Father Fletch |
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900-ton Hull (Cone) - Streamlined
AC: 15 (14 vs. Meson Guns) AR: 2 (TL-13) SI: 220 Initiative: 3
Starship Size: Medium Cost: 506.453 MCr (633.066 MCr without discount)
Model/5 Computer Avionics: Less than 1,000-ton Sensors: Very Long Range Communications: Very Long Range
Cargo: 110.2-tons
Annual Maintenance = 50.645 KCr (25.323 KCr if routinely maintained)
Routine Maintenance = 12.661 KCr/Month (126.613 KCr per year) |
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Jump-3 (enough fuel for 1x Jump-3)
Acceleration: 4-G Agility: 3
Power Plant: TL-13 Fusion (83 EP output, enough fuel for 4 weeks)
Fuel Scoops, Fuel Purification Plant (TL-13, 7hrs per 200 tons of fuel)
Atmospheric Speeds: NOE = 1,175kph Cruising = 3,525kph Maximum = 4,700kph |
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Hardpoints: 9
2x Triple Missile Rack Turret TL-13 (4 missile magazines)
Missile +4 To Hit, 4d6 (18/x1), Range: 90,000km, Ammo: 80 missiles
2x Triple Pulse Laser Turret TL-13, +4 To Hit, 4d10 (19/x2), Range: 45,000km
3x Double Plasma Gun Turret TL-13, +3 To Hit, 3d12 (18/x2), Range: 4,500km
2x Triple Sandcaster Turret TL-13, +5 AC, Ammo: 40 sand canisters
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Ship's Vehicles: |
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1x 10-ton vehicle hangar
1x 5-ton vehicle hangar
1x 30-ton small craft (Internal Hangar)
Launch facilities for 1 Craft per turn |
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14x Double Occupancy Stateroom (28 People)
14x Low Berth (14 People)
1x Autodoc
3x Airlocks
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1x Pilot
1x Astrogator
7x Engineer
12x Marines
1x Medic
1x Flight Crew
4x Gunner |
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Ugznaezdouzgzu-Translated, as "Stinging Nettle" is an appropriate name for this deadly corsair, known throughout the Gelath sector as a ship to avoid. Named after a Vokskhon native plant that produces beautiful but painful spike covered flowers, it is also a play on words. Since the main prey of this ship is K'kree merchants and those who trade with them, the Vargr designers wanted to name a ship after a plant the K'Kree couldn't eat, at least not without a great deal of discomfort.
In appearance it also looks much like the nettle it is named after. With ornate cooling fins, weapon blisters, sensor and communications antennae and other typical Vargr garishness this ship bristles with points. And it does sting!
The sensors are very long ranged, more than twice what the typical merchant mounts and similar to what anti-piracy forces carry. This gives the Ugznaezdouzgzu a chance to both find prey and avoid becoming prey.
The weapons suite is oriented more to close range combat; especially since the Ugznaezdouzgzu is not meant to duke it out with military ships. Her combination of long range hitting missiles, with magazines, mean that she is a threat coming and going. Her pulse lasers are optimized for anti-missile defense, as are her sandcasters. The armored hull allows her to take a few hits and keep fighting, or running!
The coup-de-gras weapon is the three-double plasma turrets, meant to peel open a merchantman with ease. Short ranged they may be, but deadly, and they also help keep anti-piracy fighters at a distance.
With over 100 tons of cargo space the Ugznaezdouzgzu can take on large amounts of prize cargo, without having to go back to rear areas often. Her missile magazines, fuel scoops and processors, and the extra capacity in her cargo bay for ships stores allow her to remain on station for a long time. This allows her to pick a system clean before anti-piracy forces can respond. One of the greatest dangers to a corsair is the initial system entry and egress. During these times she cannot hide in the signature of a planet or asteroid belt, but has to be somewhere close to the 100 diameter limit.
One tactic that the Ugznaezdouzgzu uses is to deploy the 30-ton ships boat as a lure. Dangling the boat just at the edge of sensor range, it will broadcast a distress signal to a merchant in the area, but only with enough signal strength for that merchant to hear. The Ugznaezdouzgzu having previously detected the merchant with her long-range sensors, the corsairs know how close the nearest help really is!
As the merchant approaches to provide aid, and hopefully comes alongside the ships boat, the Ugznaezdouzgzu powers up and threatens the merchant to "accept death or surrender and save your worthless bean eating hides!" Meanwhile the ships boat, in apparent 'dead-mans-tumble' suddenly powers up as well, pinning the merchant between two armed ships! The boat discharges the 12 troops, who quickly board, search and strip the merchant of all her useful goods.
If the merchant ship is intact, a portion of the frozen watch will be revived, and sent across as a prize crew. This is the main purpose of the frozen watch. One factor that helps keep corsair crews loyal is the Autodoc, often the best Imperial model on the market. This lets boarding parties and the crew as a whole knows that if they get into a bad scrape, they will be taken care of. The G-Carrier and Air-Raft are carried to allow interface activities, since the frozen watch and extra cargo capacity can quickly be converted allowing the Ugznaezdouzgzu to act as a mercenary cruiser whenever the piracy business gets too hot!
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