TME-143 Galleon Clandestine Corvette Warship

STATISTICS

OVERVIEW

    The TME-143 Galleon is a vessel specifically commissioned of TME Industries by the reincarnated Star League Defense Force admiralty in 3059.  Designed to fulfill the roles once played by the Bugeye-class reconnaissance corvette, the Galleon is intended to masquerade as a standard heavy DropShip.  Using the latest in compact Kearny-Fuchida hyperspace drives, the Galleon fits all of the equipment required of a minor capital WarShip into the shell of an atmosphere- and planetary surface-capable DropShip.  If necessary, the Galleon can even attach to JumpShips for hyperspace jumps in order to keep up appearances.

CAPABILITIES

    The Galleon is a tightly packed vessel despite its hundred-thousand ton mass.  Its central core is filled by the K-F hyperdrive and ringed by tens of decks devoted to weapons control, living quarters, signals analysis, hangars, and engineering.  While well armed by DropShip standards, its array of standard weapons cannot match the capital weapons of larger ships.  This is yet a blessing, because even with the Galleon's advanced sensor baffles in its armor plating and hull the energy signatures given off by capital-grade weapons would give away the Galleon's true identity.   Dozens of large-caliber rapid-fire autocannon, shotgun autocannon, large pulse and extended-range lasers provide a direct punch over various ranges while heavy short- and long- range missile launchers aided by Artemis fire-control systems barrage the enemy.   A dozen medium-range missile forty-racks can fill the space around the Galleon with hundreds of missiles in the space of seconds.  Twelve fighters can support the Galleon in aerospace combat while six small craft act in  more civilian-oriented materiel support duties.  Five platoons of marines give the Galleon the capability of capturing pirate vessels.

    The Galleon's primary duties of signals intelligence are met through a sophisticated array of recieving apparatus dedicated to picking out intelligible signals even through the busiest broadband chatter or cover-noise.  Utilizing advances in communications equipment since the fall of the first Star League, the Galleon can nose in on private conversations without a panalopy of fold-out antennas and broadband reciever dishes.

DEPLOYMENT

    By agreement with the SLDF navy, that is highly classified.   Sorry.

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