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The Skirmish carrier, as its name indicates, is intended to carry craft used mainly for screening of a larger task force, or for lighter raiding and strike operations against civilian or lightly defended military targets. The ship is too slow and lightly armored to withstand larger capital ships in a stand up battle, and its acceleration is poor, making it heavily dependent upon escorts for protection against enemy counterattack. The Skirmish was first deployed in the 1070s, and it became a common sight in many frontier areas. At least a few thousand were built prior to the Imperial Final War, and most of these were lost in fleet actions or Black War raids in the subsequent hostilities. The ship's heavy laser weaponry make it deadly against smaller warships and fighters. 
A Skirmish class light fleet carrier Original illustraion copyright 1981 Paul Jaquays |
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| General Data | ||
| Displacement: 29,000 tons | Hull Armour: 448 | |
| Length: 237 meters | Volume: 406,000 cubic meters | |
| Price: MCr9,318.875 | Target Size: L | |
| Configuration: Wedge SL | Tech Level: 15 | |
| Mass: (Loaded/Empty) 252,734.02/233,869.16 tons | ||
| Engineering Data | ||
| Power Plant: 65,280Mw Fusion Power Plant (299.45Mw/hit), 1 year duration | ||
| Jump Performance: 1xJump-4 (101,500 cubic meters) | ||
| G-Rating: 2 (14,500Mw/G), High Efficiency Contra-Grav Lifters (2,900Mw) | ||
| G Turns: 56 (70 with jump-3 reserve, 84 with jump-2 reserve, 98 with jump-1 reserve, 112 with no jump reserve), 1,812.5 cubic meters each | ||
| Maintenance: 10,447 | ||
| Electronics | ||
| Computer: 3xTL15 Fb (1.0Mw each) | ||
| Commo: 1x1,000AU Radio (∞ 20Mw), 2x300,000km Radio (10 hexes; 10Mw each), | ||
| 2x1,000AU Maser (∞, 0.1Mw each) | ||
| Avionics: TL10 Avionics, TL15 Terrain Following Avionics, Inertial Positioning | ||
| Sensors: 1x210,000km Passive EMS Folding Array (7 hexes; 0.25Mw), 1x150,000km Passive EMS Fixed Array (5 hexes; 0.15Mw), 1x300,000km Active EMS ( 10 hexes; 21Mw) | ||
| ECM/ECCM: EM Mask (408Mw) | ||
| Controls: Bridge with 145xBridge Workstations, plus 464 other workstations | ||
| Armament | ||
| Offensive: 4xTL15 1,720Mj Bay Lasers (Loc: 1x2,1x3,1x4,1x5; Arcs:1,2,3; 475Mw each; 1 Crew each), 100xTL15 420Mj Remote Laser Barbettes divided into 10 batteries of 10 (Loc: 10x2,10x3,10x4,10x5,10x6,10x7; Arcs: 1,2,3; Loc: 10x10,10x11,10x16,10x17; Arcs: All; 128Mw each; 1 Crew for each battery),50xTL15 120Mj X-Ray Remote Laser Turrets divided into 5 batteries of 10 (Loc: 10x1; Arcs: 1,2; Loc: 10x10,10x11; Arcs: All; Loc: 10x18, 10x19; Arcs: All; 264Mw each; 1 Crew for each battery), 50xRemote Missile Barbettes divided into 5 batteries of 10 (Loc: 10x1,10x12,10x13,10x14,10x15; 5 ready missiles or recce drones each; 0.15Mw each; 1 Crew for each battery) | ||
| Short | Medium | Long | Extreme | |
| 1,720Mj Laser Bay | 10:1/33-103 | 20:1/33-103 | 40:1/33-103 | 80:1/33/-103 |
| -2 Difficulty Levels | ||||
| 420Mj Laser Barbette | 10:1/17-51 | 20:1/17-51 | 40:1/17-51 | 80:1/17-51 |
| -2 Difficulty Levels | ||||
| 120Mj X-Ray Laser Turret | 10:1/9-27 | 20:1/9-27 | 40:1/9-27 | 80:1/9-27 |
| -5 Difficulty Levels |
| Defensive: 50xTL15 Remote Sandcaster Turrets divided into 5 batteries of 10 (Loc: 20x10,10x11,10x18,10x19; Arcs: All; 2D10x5 per hit; 50 Cannisters each; 1Mw each; 1 Crew each battery), 10xTL15 Nuclear Damper 50-ton Bays (Loc: 5x16,5x17; Arcs: All; 26.92Mw each; 127,260km range, 1 Crew each) | |
| Master Fire Directors: 10xTL15 (6 Diff Mod; Beam; 10 hexes; 1.56Mw each; 1 Crew each) | |
| Accommodations | |
| Life Support: Extended (81.2Mw), Gravitic Compensators (6G; 2,030Mw) | |
| Crew: 794 (438xEngineering, 4xElectronics, 4xManeuver, 34xGunnery, 15xScreens, 79xMaintenance, 86xFlight Crew, 109xCommand, 18xSteward, 6xMedical) | |
| Crew Accommodations: 397xSmall Staterooms (0.0005Mw each) | |
| Passenger Accomodations: None | |
| Cargo: 560 cubic meters, 3,500 cubic meters for fighter support, four large cargo hatches | |
| Small Craft and Launch Facilities: 60 50-ton Revenant class heavy fighters in docking rings, 20 15-ton Rampart class light fighters in docking rings, 800-ton hanger (spacious) for arming and maintenance of 4 Revenant or 20 Rampart fighters. One launch tube (50-ton capacity), 2 40-ton Pinnaces with internal hangers (minimal) and one launch port each. | |
| Air Locks: 290 | |
| Additional Fittings: 2x8-ton Sick Bay (0.8 Mw each), 2x10-ton Machine Shop (1 Mw each), 2x6-ton Electronics Shop (0.6Mw each) | |
| Notes | |
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Fuel purification equipment (203.8Mw) is sufficient to purifiy full fuel load in 24 hours. Fuel scoop capacity is sufficient to skim entire load in 2.5 This version of the Skirmish, and the accompanying description was designed by Peter Gray, and is posted with his kind permission. |
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| Area | Surface Hits | Internal Explosion | Systems |
| 1 | 1-12:Ant | 1-4:Elec,5-6:Wpn,7-20:Hold | JD-406H,PP-218H, |
| 2-3 | Ant | 1-2:Elec,3-4:Wpn,5-10:Qtrs,11-20:Hold | FPP-203H,LS-68H, |
| 4-5 | 1-10:Ant | 1-2:Elec,3-4:Wpn,5-20:Hold | CG-58H,EMM-41H, |
| 6-7 | 1:AL | 1-2:Wpn,3-20:Hold | ELS-34H,MD-29H, |
| 8-9 | 1-8:LnchTube,9-20:Hold | Hanger-23H, | |
| 10 | 1-5:Elec,6-9:Wpn,10-20:Hold | LnchTube-18H, | |
| 11 | 1-4:Wpn,5-20:Hold | LBay-6H,LB-2H, | |
| 12-15 | 1:LP | 1:Wpn,2-20:Hold | MBay-1H,LT-1H, |
| 16-17 | 1:AL | 1-10:Eng,11-12:Wpn,13-20:Hold | Sand-1H,ND-1H, |
| 18-19 | 1:CH | 1-9:Eng,10-11:Wpn,12-20:Hold | Sickbay-1H, |
| 20 | EMMR | 1-13:Eng,14-20:Hold | MachineShop-1H, |
| Electronics Shop-1H, | |||
| EMMR-(408h),MFD-(2h), | |||
| SSR-(2h),All others-(1h) |
