Type: C - Mercenary Cruiser

The mercenary cruiser is built to carry small troop units for corporate, governmental or, more commonly, mercenary operations. It has enough space to carry a combat platoon, plus crew and support personnel, along with their equipment, albeit in fairly cramped confines.

The platoon can be deployed to a planet's surface within the two modular cutters housed inside the ship and can then disembark using the ATV's the two cutters carry. Turrets are fitted as standard but while shipyards do not generally include weapons, it is a rare mercenary cruiser that is not armed to the teeth.

TL 12		Tons	Cost(MCr)
Hull	800 tons, Sphere	—	32
Armor	Crystaliron, Armour: 4	40	6.4
M-Drive	Thrust 3	24	48
J-Drive	Jump-3	65	97.5
Power Plant	Fusion, Power 750	50	50
Bridge		20	4
Fuel Tanks	J-3, 4 weeks operation, fuel for Cutters	252	—
Computer	Computer/20bis	—	7.5
Sensors	Military Grade	2	4.1
Weapons	Triple Turrets x8	8	8
Systems	Docking Space (4 tons) Air/Raft Docking Space (50 tons) Modular Cutter Docking Space (50 tons) Modular Cutter Repair Drones ATV x2 (on cutters)	5 — 55 — 55 — 8 —	1.25 0.2 13.75 10.287 13.75 10.287 1.6 0.31
Software	Auto-Repair/2 Evade/1 Fire Control/1 Jump Control/3 Library Manoeuvre Intellect	— — — — — — —	10 1 2 0.3 — — —
Staterooms	Standard x25	100	12.5
Common Areas		44	4.4
Cargo		72	—

Crew
Pilot, Astrogator,
Engineer x3
Medic
Hull: 320

Running Costs
MAINTENANCE COST
Cr24,372/month
PURCHASE COST
MCr292.4646

Power Requirements
Basic Ship Systems
160
Manoeuvre Drive
240
Jump Drive
240
Sensors
2
Turrets
8