Furious II class Escort Cruiser
Mark "Indy" Kochte
Tech: Human (FB)
Govt: NAC
Mass: 64
Cost: 221
Clas: Escort Cruiser (CE)
Strm: None
FTL: Std.
MD: 4
Armr: 3
Hull: 19 (Military)
Damg: 5/5/5/4
Crew: 4
Sens: Std.
Systems
1 x Screen
2 x FCS
2 x ADFC
5 x PDS
1 x Class-3 beam (F)
1 x Class-2 beam (AP,FP,F)
1 x Class-2 beam (F,FS,AS)
1 x Class-1 beam (All)
Notes:
After studying the ESU's highly effective 'defense close-support' variant of
the BEIJING/B CEs, the NAC decided to pull some of the currently under
construction FURIOUS CEs and redesign them for a more specialized
anti-fighter/missile role. Thus was born the FURIOUS II, which could now
either offer anti-fighter/missile protection to two seperate ships, or
concentrated withering protective fire for one ship. By losing the pulse
torpedo, it lacked the extra punch the original FURIOUS class had, but this
was not a large detriment as the restricted arc of the pulse torpedo (and the
Class-3 battery) did not always allow it to come into play in ship-to-ship
combat actions. As it is, the Class-3 battery doesn't always come into play,
either. Some BuShip Designers have suggested replacing the Class-3 battery
with either 4 more PDS arrays, or a couple of offset Class-2 batteries, or a
combination of both. So far only two FURIOUS IIs currently under construction
have been slated to drop their Class-3 batteries in lieu of another suite of
PDS'.