According to Wars of Reaving, the Clans had at least one Riga-class Frigate in their Naval Caches. We know this because the vessel in question was activated by the Reborn Clan Burrock as CBS Hetherington.
But, we have little (if any) other information than that this ONE ship existed and it was subsequently blown apart in combat. Now, my question is, who the HELL would have left a freaking RIGA-class Frigate in mothballs in order to add . . . let us say a Congress to their Touman? Not me. Probably not YOU.
Anyway, here is my idea of how a Clan Riga (fully upgraded) might have looked like.
To start, it gets a name change to the Legacy-class. We keep the same Ferro-Carbide armor, but increase the tonnage to just under 1050 tons . . . right at maximum for our size and SI. We make the weapon arcs a bit more homogenous, ditching the multi-calibered NACs and differing N-PPCs and NLs for a battery of the same weapons: a Heavy N-PPC in every arc, a two-gun NL-55 battery in every arc, and a two-gun NAC-25 battery in every arc except dead astern. Since hostile ASF were ones of the weaknesses of the class, we add two two-gun Large Pulse Laser turrets and three three-gun Medium Pulse Laser turrets to every arc as well.
The heat sinks are converted to doubles and increased to 2,479 in order to give this ship the ability to fire in all directions at once.
Since it is a Clan upgrade, we add Lithium-fusion batteries and an HPG, as well as expand the fighter bays to accommodate 20 OmniFighters. We add space for a Binary of Marine Elementals as well and give the bay personnel their very own staterooms (ain't we nice?).
Fuel tankage is expanded a little . . . but what did that cost us? Oh, just about 23,000 tons of cargo space, leaving us with over 100,000 tons remaining.
I've been working a bit on streamlining some of the Clan Fleets, and this should fit NICELY within my new Scorpion Touman in place of their old standard Congresses.
AeroTech 2 Vessel Technical Readout
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Class/Model/Name: Legacy
Tech: Clan / 3040
Vessel Type: WarShip
Rules: Level 2, Custom design
Rules Set: AeroTech2
Mass: 750,000 tons
K-F Drive System: (Unknown)
Length: 693 meters
Sail Diameter: 1,375 meters
Power Plant: Standard
Safe Thrust: 3
Maximum Thrust: 5
Armor Type: Ferro-carbide
Armament:
8 Heavy NPPC
16 NL55
14 NAC/25
32 Large Pulse Laser
72 Medium Pulse Laser
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Class/Model/Name: Legacy
Mass: 750,000 tons
Equipment: Mass
Power Plant, Drive & Control: 135,000.00
Thrust: Safe Thrust: 3
Maximum Thrust: 5
Kearny-Fuchida Hyperdrive: Compact (Integrity = 16) 339,375.00
Lithium Fusion Battery 7,500.00
Jump Sail: (Integrity = 4) 68.00
Structural Integrity: 70 52,500.00
Total Heat Sinks: 2,479 Double 1,915.00
Fuel & Fuel Pumps: 14,714.00
Bridge, Controls, Radar, Computer & Attitude Thrusters: 1,875.00
Fire Control Computers: .00
Food & Water: (365 days supply) 766.50
Hyperpulse Generator: 50.00
Armor Type: Ferro-carbide (987 total armor pts) 1,049.50
Capital Scale Armor Pts
Location: L / R
Fore: 170
Fore-Left/Right: 170/170
Aft-Left/Right: 170/170
Aft: 137
Cargo:
Bay 1: Fighters (20) with 2 doors 3,000.00
Bay 2: Small Craft (4) with 2 doors 800.00
Bay 3: Cargo (1) with 2 doors 63,822.00
DropShip Capacity: 2 Docking Hardpoints 2,000.00
Grav Deck #1: (140-meter diameter) 100.00
Grav Deck #2: (65-meter diameter) 50.00
Escape Pods: 70 (7 tons each) 490.00
Crew and Passengers:
43 Officers (43 minimum) 430.00
152 Crew (152 minimum) 1,064.00
56 Gunners (56 minimum) 392.00
59 2nd Class Passengers 413.00
50 Marine Battle Armor Troopers/Elementals 350.00
60 Bay Personnel .00
Weapons and Equipment Loc SRV MRV LRV ERV Heat Mass
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1 Heavy NPPC Nose 15 15 15 15 225 3,000.00
2 NL55 Nose 11 11 11 11 170 2,200.00
2 NAC/25(100 rounds) Nose 50 50 50 -- 170 6,060.00
2 Large Pulse Laser Nose 2(20) 2(20) 2(20) -- 20 12.00
2 Large Pulse Laser Nose 2(20) 2(20) 2(20) -- 20 12.00
3 Medium Pulse Laser Nose 2(21) 2(21) -- -- 12 6.00
3 Medium Pulse Laser Nose 2(21) 2(21) -- -- 12 6.00
3 Medium Pulse Laser Nose 2(21) 2(21) -- -- 12 6.00
1 Heavy NPPC FL/R 15 15 15 15 450 6,000.00
2 NL55 FL/R 11 11 11 11 340 4,400.00
2 NAC/25(100 rounds) FL/R 50 50 50 -- 340 12,120.00
2 Large Pulse Laser FL/R 2(20) 2(20) 2(20) -- 40 24.00
2 Large Pulse Laser FL/R 2(20) 2(20) 2(20) -- 40 24.00
3 Medium Pulse Laser FL/R 2(21) 2(21) -- -- 24 12.00
3 Medium Pulse Laser FL/R 2(21) 2(21) -- -- 24 12.00
3 Medium Pulse Laser FL/R 2(21) 2(21) -- -- 24 12.00
1 Heavy NPPC L/RBS 15 15 15 15 450 6,000.00
2 NL55 L/RBS 11 11 11 11 340 4,400.00
2 NAC/25(100 rounds) L/RBS 50 50 50 -- 340 12,120.00
2 Large Pulse Laser L/RBS 2(20) 2(20) 2(20) -- 40 24.00
2 Large Pulse Laser L/RBS 2(20) 2(20) 2(20) -- 40 24.00
3 Medium Pulse Laser L/RBS 2(21) 2(21) -- -- 24 12.00
3 Medium Pulse Laser L/RBS 2(21) 2(21) -- -- 24 12.00
3 Medium Pulse Laser L/RBS 2(21) 2(21) -- -- 24 12.00
1 Heavy NPPC AL/R 15 15 15 15 450 6,000.00
2 NL55 AL/R 11 11 11 11 340 4,400.00
2 NAC/25(100 rounds) AL/R 50 50 50 -- 340 12,120.00
2 Large Pulse Laser AL/R 2(20) 2(20) 2(20) -- 40 24.00
2 Large Pulse Laser AL/R 2(20) 2(20) 2(20) -- 40 24.00
3 Medium Pulse Laser AL/R 2(21) 2(21) -- -- 24 12.00
3 Medium Pulse Laser AL/R 2(21) 2(21) -- -- 24 12.00
3 Medium Pulse Laser AL/R 2(21) 2(21) -- -- 24 12.00
1 Heavy NPPC Aft 15 15 15 15 225 3,000.00
2 NL55 Aft 11 11 11 11 170 2,200.00
2 Large Pulse Laser Aft 2(20) 2(20) 2(20) -- 20 12.00
2 Large Pulse Laser Aft 2(20) 2(20) 2(20) -- 20 12.00
3 Medium Pulse Laser Aft 2(21) 2(21) -- -- 12 6.00
3 Medium Pulse Laser Aft 2(21) 2(21) -- -- 12 6.00
3 Medium Pulse Laser Aft 2(21) 2(21) -- -- 12 6.00
1 Lot Spare Parts (5.00%) 37,500.00
60 Bay Personnel Quarters 420.00
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TOTALS: Heat: 4,958 750,000.00
Tons Left: .00
Calculated Factors:
Total Cost: 12,032,842,400 C-Bills
Battle Value: 158,848
Cost per BV: 75,750.67
Weapon Value: 79,909 (Ratio = .50)
Damage Factors: SRV = 5,939; MRV = 5,870; LRV = 4,184; ERV = 1,574
Maintenance: Maintenance Point Value (MPV) = 433,793
(62,243 Structure, 189,938 Life Support, 181,612 Weapons)
Support Points (SP) = 556,650 (128% of MPV)
BattleForce2: Not applicable
