VIGILANTE

Craft: Peacekeeper Vigilante
Type: Multi-purpose light capital ship
Scale: Capital
Dimensions:
-Length: 300m
Skill: Capital ship piloting: Vigilante
Crew: 500
-gunners: 74
-skeleton: 50/+5
Crew Skill: Capital ship gunnery 5D, capital ship piloting 4D+1, capital ship
shields 4D, starship gunnery 5D
Passengers: 1,000 (troops; other personnel)
Cargo Capacity: 800 metric tons
Consumables: 2 years
Cost: Not available for sale (42,000,000 currency pledges)
Hetch Drive: 7
Nav Computer: Yes
Maneuverability: 1D
Speed:
-Space: 4
Hull: 4D
Defenses:
-Defense Screens (Shields): 2D
Sensors:
  Passive: 25/1D
  Scan: 50/2D
  Search: 100/3D
  Focus: 5/4D

COMPLIMENT:
-Prowlers: 24 (2 squadrons)
-Marauders: 12 (1 squadron)

WEAPONS:
   Rail Gun
      Location: Mounted to the forward hull
      Fire Arc: Front
      Crew: 4
      Skill: Capital ship gunnery
      Scale: Capital
      Fire Control: 2D
      Space Range: 5-20/40/60
      Atmosphere Range: 10-40/80/120km
      Damage: 8D
      Ammo: 40 slugs
      Rate of Fire: 1/2

   2 Heavy Pulse Cannons
      Location: Mounted to the forward hull
      Fire Arc: Front
      Crew: 4 (2)
      Skill: Capital ship gunnery
      Scale: Capital
      Fire Control: 4D
      Space Range: 5-10/20/40
      Atmosphere Range: 10-20/40/80km
      Damage: 6D
      Ammo: N/A
      Rate of Fire: 1

   6 Small Pulse Cannons
      Location: Mounted along the outer ring
      Fire Arc: 3 right, 3 left
      Crew: 2 (6)
      Skill: Capital starship gunnery
      Scale: Capital
      Fire Control: 3D
      Space Range: 3-12/24/40
      Atmosphere Range: 6-24/48/80km
      Damage: 2D
      Ammo: N/A
      Rate of Fire: 1

   20 Defensive Pulse Turrets
      Location: Mounted along the hull
      Fire Arc: 4 front, 6 right, 6 left, 4 rear
      Crew: 1 (4), 2 (12), 3 (4)
      Skill: Starship gunnery
      Scale: Starfighter
      Fire Control: 3D
      Space Range: 1-3/12/24
      Atmosphere Range: 50-300/1.2/2.4km
      Damage: 5D
      Ammo: N/A
      Rate of Fire: 1

   2 Torpedo Launchers
      Location: Mounted forward and aft
      Fire Arc: 2 front
      Crew: 5 (2)
      Skill: Capital starship gunnery
      Scale: Capital
      Fire Control: 3D
      Space Range: 3-15/30/60
      Atmosphere Range: 300-1.5/3/6km
      Missile Speed: 10 (1km) per round
      Damage: 6D/4D/2D
      Blast Radius: 0/1/2
      Ammo: 10 torpedoes
      Rate of Fire: 1/2

DESCRIPTION:

   Vigilantes were a class of mid-sized Peacekeeper warships. At presumably
several hundred meters in length these ships were dwarfed by the Command
Carriers whom they were often seen escorting. In addition to convoy escort duty
Vigilantes are also used to lead retrieval squads to capture escaped prisoners
or Leviathans. Vigilantes had their own living quarters, room for large
quantities of supplies, could carry Prowlers and presumably one or more
Marauders as well, making them autonomous warships that could act independently
from Command Carriers or bases for extended periods of time. When acting in
groups Vigilantes could take on far larger warships such as Scarran
Dreadnoughts, but even on their own they were a threat to less powerful species.

   Many squadrons of Vigilante ships were seen during The Peacekeeper Wars engaging Scarran Dreadnoughts, and succeeding in bringing them down with massed fire from their main weapons.