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TFS Challengerby ~Norsehound

Digital Art / Drawings / Sci-Fi

Created on Commission for Shogunblade.

Listed Specifications:
Name: Liberty-class medium fighter carrier
Origin: Terran Federation/Stellar Combat Command
Manufacturer: L3 Naval Construction Complex, Lagrange Point 3, Earth orbit
Type: Medium interstellar fighter carrier
Control System: Bridge w/virtual control stations
Length: 760 meters
Width: 380 meters
Main Drive: 4 x 2.1 GW
Secondary Powerplant: 2 x 10,000 KW
Main Thrusters: 4 x Thermonuclear Fusion Engines
Verniers: 80
Acceleration: 4.0 g (maximum space acceleration); 1.5 light years per minute (faster-than-light capability)
Onboard Sensors: ECM, ECCM, fire control radar, hyperspatial distortion detector, infrared/ultraviolet, lidar, low-light, magnetometer, magnetic resonance lens, microwaves, motion detectors, radcounter, search radar, telescope
Fixed Armament: 20 x PD laser turrets, 10 x long-range anti-ship missile launchers, 8 X long-range anti-ship laser cannons
Additional Armament/Compliment: 540 crew, 90 officers; 400 fighter pilots/troops, 96 starfighters (4 squadrons), 4 personnel transports/shuttles
Defensive Systems: Screen deflectors, PD laser turrets
Equipment: 2 x launch rack systems, artificial gravity system, lifeboat escape system, interstellar communication system, satellite uplink, hangars (4), hyperspace generator
Commissioned: 07/10/2872 (TFS Liberty)
Ships of Class: TFS Liberty, TFS Challenger, TFS Endeavor, TFS Columbia, TFS Discovery, TFS Atlantis, 20 others in service

Some notes:

Fighter craft are dispatched by a central launch rail and recovered by landing pads on either side of it. Each hangar has a side-door for immediate access when the ship is in dock.

The second mast at the rear of the craft is a long-range FTL communication antenna. Due to the power of the device it has to be pointed away from the command tower to transmit (it is harmful to electronic equipment and living beings).

The four main anti-ship laser turrets have covers on them to protect the lenses. These retract when activated. The missile systems are on turrets (as requested).

Life-pod arrays are located in the superstructure to service the crew there. Crew evacuating in the hangar areas would attend to life pods in the hangars themselves (or launch on shuttles).

Main cargo for support services have doors on either side of the indent into the main hangar.

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