Well Master Arminas is around here somewhere and like Irose has written some absolutely fantastic Taurian stuff. I can't find the Colt but there is the pinnacle of Taurian shipbuilding the Samantha Calderon.
http://solaris7.com/TRO/Spaceship/ShipInfo.asp?ID=1506This ship is part of Master Arminas excellent and as of yet uncompleted work By the Horns, I highly recommend you check it out.
http://www.ourbattletech.com/forum/parallel-universes/by-the-horns-%28a-battletech-alternate-universe%29/I checked over the Naval Archive which Irose and myself were a part of and there were a few large Taurian craft designed by Liam's Ghost. You can still find him on the CBT forum and he was also an excellent Taurian writer. If I could get all three of them together on a Concordat project, wow! Anyway Liam did make a Battlecruiser named the Jamestown, enjoy!
Jamestown class Battlecruiser In class: 0, 20 planned
In service: N/A
Original projected service date: 2590
Mass: 890,000
Sail Integrity: 5
Thrust: 3/5
Fuel: 8,000 tons
Structural Integrity: 120
Armor: 2136 tons of ferro aluminium armor (1281, 213+12 fore sides and aft, 214+12 aft sides and foreward)
Docking Collars: 0
Fighters: 32
Small Craft: 6
Crew: 400
Lifeboats: 0
Escape Pods: 30
Grav Decks: 0
Cargo: 10,402
Bay 1: Small Craft (6) 2 door
Bay 2: Cargo (10,402)
Bay 3: Fighters (32) 5 doors
Other equipment
None
Weapons: (Heat Sinks: 4811)
Forward
20 White Shark Launchers
Fore Left/Fore Right
8 Naval Autocannon 30s
8 White Shark Launchers
Aft Left/ Aft Right
5 Naval Autocannon 35s
3 Naval Autocannon 30s
8 White Shark Launchers
Aft
8 Naval Autocannon 30s
8 White Shark Launchers
Ammo
820 White Shark Missiles
300 rounds of Naval Autocannon 35 ammo
900 rounds of Naval Autocannon 30 ammo
Overview:
The Jamestown class battlecruiser was, in many ways, the Concordat's unrealized last stand. Designed in the years before the Reunification War, the Jamestown was intended to go toe to toe with the best Davion, Liao, or the Terran Hegemony could throw at her, and win.
The Concordat had already been pushed to the wall by her two more powerful neighbors before. In the mid 24th Century the Concordat fought Davion in several costly naval battles, her tiny corvettes giving a good account of themselves against the larger Davion ships. In the next century they faced off against Liao in a virtual extermination war. Knowing the greater industrial might and superior military strength of their neighbors, the Concordat depended on guile, skill, and a fleet of well designed warships.
Nevertheless, this was not enough. Knowing that the fleet was still too weak to stand indefinitely against the growing alliance of the inner sphere, the Concordat committed itself to an extensive military buildup, a buildup so extensive and so secret that many of its preparations weren't even apparent until after the war's end.
The Jamestown was to be the culmination of those efforts.
Capabilities:
The Jamestown, like so many Taurian vessels, was designed with no other purpose but to destroy her enemy, and she would have done that frighteningly well.
Unlike most Taurian vessels (which generally depended on maneuver and superior gunnery to gain the edge) the Jamestown is intended to fight her enemies on their terms and destroy them. Had she been completed, she would have pretty much outclassed any ship she could expect to meet in every way.
The ship is armed with forty heavy naval autocannons, along with sixty naval missile tubes and nearly three dozen aerospace fighters. Though the ship lacks weapons directly forward (with the exception of a nest of missile tubes), this was not considered a major flaw. She was intended as a broadside fighter opperating in a traditional line of battle, as a consequence most of her fighting would be done from the broadsides. Nevertheless, this did leave a potential weakness that could be exploited, though the ship's nose mounted missile cluster was nothing to snear at.
In addition to the heavy broadside, the ship also has a number of guns covering its aft quarter, meaning attacks on the ship's aft quarter would have been very dangerous indeed. Why the designers made sure to cover the aft while leaving the nose much more lightly armed is not known.
Intended for primarily defensive operations, the Jamestown would have had relatively low endurance. Cargo capacity is light, roughly sufficient for four to six months of operation.
Deployment:
Though the design was apparently completed early on in the Reunification War, the shipyards to build her were not. Plans were made to begin construction of the class in 2590, however as the war dragged on the resources to construct the ship weren't available, and the project was continually delayed year after year. The death knell for the program came in 2594, when the SLDF managed to destroy the shipyards over Jamestown (where the new ship was to have been built). Though never actually cancelled, the program was essentially abandoned after that.
Had the war been delayed a decade and construction gone forward, it is believed that Jamestown class ships (twenty were planned), would have formed the last line of defense of the Hyades Cluster. It was hoped that any fleet that penetrated the considerable defenses of the cluster could be quickly dispatched by such a force, allowing the Hyades Cluster, the industrial and cultural heart of the Concordat, to hold out indefinitely. Whether this would have worked or not is anybody's guess.
Variants:
The Hyades Report, a highly classified and very extensive report on TDF forces that survived the Reunification War, devotes an entire section to another unrealized Taurian battlecruiser, identified as the Electra and intended for production in the Pleiades Cluster. Unlike the Jamestown, the Electra was intended to serve on the front lines as a fast attack ship. Though the ship's design schematics were lost when the Pleiades Cluster fell to the League, remaining information indicates she was to be the same mass as the Jamestown, though less well protected, less well armed, and significantly faster.
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