MIKHELL CRUISER

     Craft:  Shuluj Military KKR Mikhell Cruiser
     Type:  Battle Cruiser, archaic
     Scale:  Starfighter
     Length:  70 meters
     Skill:  Archaic Starship Piloting, Mikhell Cruiser
     Cost:  15,000 credits (3 Million credits +, in mint
condition)
     Crew:  180
     Passengers: 50

     Cargo Capacity:  500 kg.
     Consumables:  2 months
     Hyperdrive Multiplier:  x12
     Hyper Backup:  No
     Nav Computer:  Takes a week to compute jump, cannot store
more than one jump.
     Maneuverability:  1D+2
     Space:  2
     Atmosphere:  140/400
     Hull:  2D+2
     Shields:  1D
     Sensors:
          Passive: 20/0D 
          Scan:  30/1D
          Search: 50 /1D+2
          Focus:  4/2D
     Weapons:  
     12 Double 105mm Projectile Cannons.
          Scale: Starfighter 
          Fire Arc:  Turret
          Crew:  1
          Skill:  Starship Gunnery
          Fire Control:  1D
          Space Range:  1/3/5
          Atmosphere Range:  100/300/500
          Damage: 2D+2
     4 Impulse Torpedo Tubes
          Scale:  Starfighter
          Fire Arc:  Front

          Crew:  4
          Skill:  Starship Gunnery
          Fire Control:  2D
          Space Range:  1/4/9
          Atmosphere Range:  100/400/900
          Damage: 7D+2

     One of the most powerful cruisers of it's age, the Mikhell
cruiser was a contemporary of the Hero and Lancer class fighters. 
It's twelve double cannons put out a quite heavy field of fire,
and it's torpedo tubes (each of which carried up to three Impulse
torpedoes) were one of the deadliest weapons of it's age.  These
torpedoes were almost the size of a fighter craft, and are very
slow when compared to modern weapons (double the penalties vs.
moving targets).  However, the amount of damage that they put out
is comparable to that caused by modern weapons, enabling a few
Mikhell cruisers to survive as pirate or escort craft.
     These ships were one of the first stock craft fitted with
hyperdrives (and due to their hull rating, it was a starfighter
hyperdrive years before those appeared again).  They have no mass
shadow detectors, and their nav computer is ungainly and slow,
relying on magnetic storage and solid state circuitry. 

Furthermore, the hyperdrives are unshielded, and they produce
substantial, easily followed wakes that are often strong enough
to draw other craft in with them.  Because of the space taken up
by their high powered torpedoes, Mikhell cruisers do not carry
any starfighters.