STATISTICS
| Mass: 1,000,000 tons | Structure Type: Cylindrical Station, Modular Spars |
| Power Plant: TME 500K Fusion Drive | Armor Type: TME 3000 Standard |
| Comm Systems: TME SysDef | Stationkeeping Drive: TME SureThrust 18 |
| Targeting/Tracking Systems:
TME 3050 InertiaKing |
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| Armament: 30 TME/BTSTS-AMG:3049 "Fly Swatter" Anti Missile Flechette System 30 TME/BTSTS-ELL:3049 "Lightspear" Extended Range Large Lasers 60 TME/BTSTS-ÜNAC:3050 "ThunderBoom" Über Naval Autocannon |
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OVERVIEW
The TME-101 Forge shipyard is a central construction facility for the production and repair of DropShips and WarShips. It consists of a central core that contains all flight bays, crew quarters, guest suites, command and control equipment, and weapons; as well as six modular spars which hold the secondary cargo bays and construction facilities.
CAPABILITIES
The central core of the Forge station is a squat stacked cylinder with the six attachment points for cargo and repair modules, as well as all of the DropShip docking collars, along an equatorial band. The ventral and dorsal slopes of the station are armed with sixty anti-missile systems, thirty naval autocannon of the largest class, and thirty extended-range large lasers. While these weapons do not constitute a "perfect defense," they do protect the Forge from boarding actions at close range. This is not considered a weakness because of the Forge's fighter wing, which could easily destroy threatening enemy WarShips.
However, war is not the primary purpose of the Forge. As with its definition of shipyard, it is intended as both a construction and repair center for heavy aerospace assets, accomplished through the use of its various modular "spokes." The least interesting, a large cargo module, adds an additional seventy thousand tons of cargo space. The most common, the Light DropShip (LDS) service module, is a long spar with ten pressurized and twenty unpressurized repair bays that can each service any DropShip massing up to fifty thousand tons. The Heavy DropShip (HDS) service module is similar to the LDS except that it has only five pressurized and ten unpressurized bays; however, these bays can service even Mammoth-class or TME-19 Vanguard dropships. Even WarShips can be serviced or built at the Forge; the Light WarShip (LWS) service module carries one pressurized and two unpressurized bays with five-hundred-thousand-ton capacity each; the Medium WarShip (MWS) service module has two million-ton capacity unpressurized bays, large enough for most ships of cruiser classification and below; and the Heavy WarShip (HWS) spar has a single unpressurized bay that can hold even the Leviathan-class or TME-52 Supreme Emperor battleships.
All of these vessels may be serviced by the five thousand repair technicians aboard the Forge--if additional workers are needed, each module has excess internal space and tonnage that can be devoted to additional quarters.
TME-101 Forge Shipyard |
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| 1,000,000 tons | Space Station | Station-Keeping Only | 20 DropShip Collars |
| Reactor mass: 12,000 t | Control Mass: 1000t | Integrity: 1 (.5G) | Structure Mass: 10,000t |
| Armor Mass: 1,500 t | Armor Points: 900 | Fuel: 2,000 t | Tons/BurnDay: 19.76 |
| Fuel Pump Mass: 40t | Crew: 16 officers 85 enlisted |
Gunners: 45 | Marines: 2,800 |
| Passengers: 3,000 Workers: 5,000 |
1,400 Lifeboats | ||
| 72 fighters | 30 small craft | Grav-Decks: 6 300m | Cargo Mass: 160,000 t |
ARMOR (Capital Scale in Parenthesis) |
EQUIPMENT |
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| Front: | 555 (56) |
10 Anti-Missile Systems w/ 600 shots | each arc |
| Fore Left/Right: | 555 (56) / 555 (56) |
5 ER Large Lasers | each arc |
| Aft Left/Right: | 555 (56) / 555 (56) |
5 Naval AC/40 | each arc |
| Rear: | 555 (56) |
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| Heat Sinks: 5,000 (10,000) Double Sinks | |||
MODULES |
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| Cargo | 71,250 tons additional cargo space |
| LDS Repair | 10 pressurized 50,000 ton construction bays 20 unpressurized 50,000 ton repair bays 8,750 tons additional cargo space |
| HDS Repair | 5 pressurized 100,000 ton construction bays 10 unpressurized 100,000 ton repair bays 8,750 tons additional cargo space |
| LWS Repair | 1 pressurized 500,000 ton construction bay 2 unpressurized 500,000 ton repair bays 8,750 tons additional cargo space |
| MWS Repair | 2 unpressurized 1,000,000 ton repair bays 21,250 tons additional cargo space |
| HWS Repair | 1 unpressurized 2,500,000 ton repair bay 8,750 tons additional cargo space |