Phantom-class

The Phantom-class is an escort ship, and escort ships are often an underrated asset. Allocating the budget to manufacture a ship specifically to escort others is usually not deemed worthwhile given that high-value personnel and equipment can travel in larger vessels. The number of already-existing vessels of the older UNN Phantom-class made them perfect candidates for refit as dedicated escort ships rather than being retired and scrapped.

A Ghost of Time

While older models can still be found bringing up the rear of some UNN fleets, most of these ships have been retired. However, the Phantom-class is a large enough force to be reckoned with that they are still used to escort and sent out to recon certain areas.
While software on the Phantom-class ships are upgraded and updated as often as possible, the hardware has significantly fallen behind in the last several decades. Although they were intimidating back in their day, they now lumber, stutter, and hesitate when faced with modern foes, clearly outclassed. However, these ships provide non-armed research and science vessels an escort powerful enough to provide defense without making new ships just for this purpose.
This means that all the remaining Phantom-class ships are assigned to the Outer Planets and The Belt while other more aggressive and modern ships are kept toward the Inner Planets to standoff against the Martian Congressional Republic Navy. Back in its prime, the standard complement of these escort vessels was 20 crew—but due to their age, this has increased to 24 to account for the additional needed systems and repairs.

Power Generation

Fusion Drive

Propulsion

Epstein Drive, Thrusters

Weapons & Armament

• 2x Fore-mounted torpedo tubes
• Fore-mounted Point Defense Cannon Network 

Armor and defense

Reinforced hull plating

Communication Tools & Systems

Wide and Narrow band communication antenna

Sensors

RADAR, LADAR, Radio receptor, optical telescopes

Additional & auxiliary systems

Atmosphere Capable, Hull Plating II, Maneuverable, Rapid Reload Torpedo Tubes, Sensor Scrambling

Designation

Escort

Manufacturer

United Nations Navy

Owning Organization

The United Nations

Length

42m

Complement / Crew

6 (24)