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Commanding-General,

 As per the request of the Star League Defense Force Department of
Naval Intelligence, CDT using its contacts with the Chatterweb of the
Clan Sea Fox. CDT has once again completed its assigned contract for
comparing note and rumors of the new Nova Cat construction the
Liger-class Strike Carrier.

Overall the numbers were extremely accurate, between the
information gathered by the Sea Foxes and them crunched by our
research and development teams aboard the CDT's mobile
headquarters we was only able to find a minor difference of
tonnage by 100 odd tons, in the normal course of ship this size that
is negligible, the extra mass we verified was there upon assigned
as extra food stores that extended the patrol time of the ship to 212
days or roughly a 7 month deployment food stores wise, this is not
a actual estimate of the ships actual deployment cycle based upon
raw cargo tonnage and repair parts available aboard ship.

Over all the new carrier compares very favorably with other similar
sized carriers, but with its better than average speed this ship will
be a considerable threat to the enemies of the Clan Nova Cats Naval
Touman.  With the development of the new Naval Pulse Laser by
Clan Snow Raven, the Repeating Naval Gauss Rifle by the Hell's
Horses and the Federated Suns Lithium Fusion Battery Mark II I
would not be surprise if there was a variant of this class sooner
rather than later.

Respectfully submitted by CDT(Corsair Development Technologies)

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Liger Strike Carrier
Tech:              Clan / 3094
Vessel Type:       WarShip
Rules:             Level 3, Standard design
Rules Set:         AeroTech2

Mass:              920,000 tons
K-F Drive System:  (Unknown)
Length:            860 meters
Sail Diameter:     1,177 meters
Power Plant:       Standard
Safe Thrust:       4
Maximum Thrust:    6
Armor Type:        Lamellor Ferro-carbide
Armament:         
   12 NAC/20
   16 NL45
   47 LRM 20+ArtIV
   33 ER Large Laser
   34 AMS
    4 Medium N-Gauss
    8 AR10 Launcher
    6 Heavy NPPC
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==Overview:==
   The Liger-class Carrier was developed in the run up to the
Clan invasion of the Inner Sphere.  The scientists believed that the
Nova Cats lacked sufficient aerospace fighter support.  The Khans
and the warrior caste disagreed but that did not stop the scientists
playing with their ideas.

   In 3094 these ideas and designs were revisited as the Nova
Cat leadership now saw the need for such a vessel.  From what
Intelligence suggests it appears that the Liger is based on construction
notes the SLDF in Exile held of the Federated Suns New Syrtis-class
Carrier.

Capabilities
   The Liger-class Carrier's routes are quite clearly with the New
Syrtis class the ship's main asset is the 150 Aerospace fighters and 10
small craft.  The ship is also equipped with a Lithium Fusion Battery
allowing it to keep up with the fastest of Clan transports. [CDI EDIT] although
with the development of the LFMk II it may struggle against future WarShip
designs.  This is not seen as such a large disadvantage as the LFMkII can be
refitted onto current designs that have enough spare cargo space something
that the Liger has plenty of to spare.[END EDIT] Four DropShips and seventy-
five Elementals round out the ship's capabilities.  The seventy-five Elementals
have free run of the entire ship with all corridors wide enough to fit a fully armoured
Elemental they are used as security onboard the ship and can be used in
assaults against enemy ships as well using the ten small craft.

   The ship's armament is based around Naval Autocannons, Particle
Cannons Lasers, Missiles and Gauss Rifles for anti-ship warfare.  While
Extended Range lasers and Artemis equipped Long Range Missile launchers
dominate the conventional defences.  Finally the vessel has multiple Anti-
Missile System to defend the vessel.

Deployment
   Current the Nova Cat have built two vessels for evaluation and trials.
It is believed that the Nova Cats plan to build at least five such vessels with one
ship to accompany each of the Nova Cat's Naval stars.

       One concern the Nova Cats reportedly have at present is having enough
aerospace fighters to support these craft.  Reportedly this has led to larger
aerospace sibkos being formed on the Nova Cat Capital New Barcella.
Unfortunately as no outside nation has access to this world these rumours
cannot be confirmed.

Class/Model/Name:  Liger Strike Carrier redone
Mass:              920,000 tons

Equipment:                                                            Mass 
Power Plant, Drive & Control:                                      220,800.00
Thrust:  Safe Thrust: 4
      Maximum Thrust: 6
Kearny-Fuchida Hyperdrive:  Compact (Integrity = 19)               416,300.00
Lithium Fusion Battery                                               9,200.00
Jump Sail: (Integrity = 5)                                              76.00
Structural Integrity: 60                                            55,200.00
Total Heat Sinks:    2,000 Double                                    1,291.00
Fuel & Fuel Pumps:                                                  20,400.00
Bridge, Controls, Radar, Computer & Attitude Thrusters:              2,300.00
Fire Control Computers:                                                   .00
Food & Water:  (54 days supply)                                        328.50
Hyperpulse Generator:                                                   50.00
Armor Type:  Lamellor Ferro-carbide  (1,120 total armor pts)           985.50
                           Capital Scale Armor Pts
   Location:                            L / R
   Fore:                                208
   Fore-Left/Right:                  186/186
   Aft-Left/Right:                   184/184
   Aft:                                 172

Cargo:
   Bay 1:  Fighters (75) with 6 doors                               11,250.00
   Bay 2:  Fighters (75) with 6 doors                               11,250.00
   Bay 3:  Small Craft (10) with 4 doors                             2,000.00
   Bay 4:  Cargo (1) with 1 door                                    38,000.00
   Bay 5:  Cargo (1) with 1 door                                    20,425.00

DropShip Capacity:  4 Docking Hardpoints                             4,000.00
Grav Decks #1 - 2:  (90-meter diameter)                                100.00
Life Boats:  150 (7 tons each)                                       1,050.00
Escape Pods:  75 (7 tons each)                                         525.00

Crew and Passengers:
     90 Officers (82 minimum)                                          900.00
    350 Crew (139 minimum)                                           2,450.00
     60 Gunners (65 minimum)                                           420.00
    150 1st Class Passengers                                         1,500.00
    150 2nd Class Passengers                                         1,050.00
     75 Marine Battle Armor Troopers/Elementals                        525.00
    350 Bay Personnel                                                     .00
Weapons and Equipment      Loc        SRV    MRV    LRV    ERV  Heat    Mass
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2 NAC/20(100 rounds)       Nose        40     40     40     --  120  5,040.00
4 NL45                     Nose        18     18     18     18  280  3,600.00
6 LRM 20+ArtIV(360 rounds) Nose    10(96) 10(96) 10(96)     --   36     96.00
4 ER Large Laser           Nose     4(40)  4(40)  4(40)  4(40)   48     16.00
4 AMS(1200 rounds)         Nose        --     --     --     --    4     52.00
2 Medium N-Gauss(100 roundsFL/R        50     50     50     50   60 22,080.00
2 AR10 (20 KW, 20 WS, 20 B)FL/R         *      *      *      *   80  5,800.00
2 NL45                     FL/R         9      9      9      9  280  3,600.00
6 LRM 20+ArtIV(360 rounds) FL/R    10(96) 10(96) 10(96)     --   72    192.00
4 ER Large Laser           FL/R     4(40)  4(40)  4(40)  4(40)   96     32.00
4 AMS(1200 rounds)         FL/R        --     --     --     --    8    104.00
2 NAC/20(100 rounds)       L/RBS       40     40     40     --  240 10,080.00
6 LRM 20+ArtIV(360 rounds) L/RBS   10(96) 10(96) 10(96)     --   72    192.00
4 ER Large Laser           L/RBS    4(40)  4(40)  4(40)  4(40)   96     32.00
3 Heavy NPPC               L/RBS       45     45     45     45 1350 18,000.00
5 AMS(1200 rounds)         L/RBS       --     --     --     --   10    105.00
2 NAC/20(100 rounds)       AL/R        40     40     40     --  240 10,080.00
2 NL45                     AL/R         9      9      9      9  280  3,600.00
2 AR10 (20 KW, 20 WS, 20 B)AL/R         *      *      *      *   80  5,800.00
6 LRM 20+ArtIV(360 rounds) AL/R    10(96) 10(96) 10(96)     --   72    192.00
4 ER Large Laser           AL/R     4(40)  4(40)  4(40)  4(40)   96     32.00
4 AMS(1200 rounds)         AL/R        --     --     --     --    8    104.00
2 NAC/20(100 rounds)       Aft         40     40     40     --  120  5,040.00
4 NL45                     Aft         18     18     18     18  280  3,600.00
5 LRM 20+ArtIV(318 rounds) Aft      8(80)  8(80)  8(80)     --   30     83.00
5 ER Large Laser           Aft      5(50)  5(50)  5(50)  5(50)   60     20.00
4 AMS(1200 rounds)         Aft         --     --     --     --    4     52.00
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TOTALS:                                            Heat: 4,122     920,000.00
Tons Left:                                                                .00

Calculated Factors:
Total Cost:        17,274,048,000 C-Bills
Battle Value:      188,122
Cost per BV:       91,823.65
Weapon Value:      90,670 (Ratio = .48)
Damage Factors:    SRV = 5,864;  MRV = 5,508;  LRV = 4,037;  ERV = 1,473
Maintenance:       Maintenance Point Value (MPV) = 591,519
                   (85,730 Structure, 323,680 Life Support, 182,109 Weapons)
                   Support Points (SP) = 586,330  (99% of MPV)
BattleForce2:      Not applicable