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Section of Site: Starships D6Belongs to Faction: Galactic EmpireSubtype: CapitalEra: ImperialCanon: EU




Name: Pursuit-class light cruiser
Type: Kuat Drive Yards Pursuit-class light cruiser
Scale: Capital
Length: 500 Meters
Skill: Capital Ship Piloting: Pursuit Class
Crew: 1,120, skeleton 220/+20
Passengers/Troops: 700
Crew Skill: Capital Ship Piloting 5D+1, Capital Ship Gunnery 4D+2, Capital Ship Shields 4D+1
Consumables: 1 Year
Cargo Capacity: 4,000 Tons
Hyperdrive Multiplier: X2
Hyperdrive Backup: X16
Nav Computer: Yes
Space: 7
Maneuverability: 1D+1
Hull: 5D
Shields: 2D
Sensors:
            Passive: 30/1D
            Scan: 60/2D
            Search: 120/3D+1
            Focus: 3/4D+2

Fighters: 2 Squadrons
Transports: 1

Weapons:
            20 Medium Laser Cannon Batteries
                        Scale: StarFighter
                        Fire Arc: 8 Front/Left, 8 Front/Right, 4 Back
                        Fire Control: 2D
                        Space: 1-5/15/30
                        Atmosphere Range: 100-500/1.5/3km
                        Damage: 5D
            5 Light turbolaser batteries
                        Scale: Capital
                        Fire Arc: 2 Front/Left, 2 Front/Right, 1 Back
                        Fire Control: 2D
                        Space: 1-8/25/60
                        Atmosphere Range: 2-16/505/60km
                        Damage: 4D
            4 Ion Cannons
                        Scale: Capital
                        Fire Arc: 2 Front/Left, 2 Front/Right
                        Fire Control: 2D+1
                        Space: 1-10/25/50
                        Atmosphere Range: 2-20/50/100km
                        Damage: 3D
            3 Tractor beam projectors
                        Scale: Capital
                        Fire Arc: 1 Front/Left, 1 Front/Right, 1 Back
                        Fire Control: 4D
                        Space: 1-5/15/30
                        Atmosphere Range: 2-10/30/60km
                        Damage: 4D
            2 Twin HeaVY TurboLaser Turrets
                        Scale: Capital
                        Fire Arc: Turret
                        Fire Control: 4D
                        Space: 3-15/36/75
                        Atmosphere Range: 6-30/36/150km
                        Damage: 6D

Description:
The Pursuit-class light cruiser was a type of capital ship in the Imperial Navy.

It resembled a small variant of the more common Star Destroyers that the Galactic Empire used, although the main hull was a rather flat, square-bowed platform rather than a deep-keeled dagger. The main engines were mounted in the superstructure rising above the hull platform at the rear, which was topped by a row of sensor globes.

The primary armament consisted of two weapons turrets, perhaps turbolasers, mounted ahead of the superstructure, which were probably supplemented by other weapons in less prominent emplacements.

The Pursuit-class cruiser had docking bay capable of launching several TIE series starfighters and was sometimes equipped with more potent TIE Advanced x1 starfighters. In open space, the cruiser's straight-line acceleration seems to have been slightly below that of Millennium Falcon.

The class was used and well-known in the year following the Battle of Yavin. One vessel was used as a command ship by Commander Strom in his sector near the Wheel, but little more is known about the design's service history.



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26/Jun/2019 10:14:08 Posted by J

A light cruiser with a hull tougher than that of a Victory-class Star Destroyer? :\ Maybe it should be less armored, paying a price for all that speed. Lesser mass and armoring is part of what makes it a "light" cruiser, after all...right?


26/Jun/2019 10:49:24 Posted by Freddy

It's definitely something to consider, but since the Victory Class Star Destroyer (900m long) has the same hull (4D) as a Corellian Corvette (150m long), I think the Victory is maybe needing revision upwards.


25/Sep/2024 23:59:43 Posted by J

It's not the length that has anything to do with it, but the role. The Corellian Corvettes are apparently reasonably tough in-universe, so I can see them being armored to a similar standard as a ship designed for combat and atmospheric entry like the Victory-class SDs. But the Victory have big opening bays and so on that presumably compromise their defenses to some degree. The Pursuit-class, by comparison, is considered a light cruiser and evidently makes something of its speed, so if it can be both significantly faster and significantly more heavily armored than a Star Destroyer, then:

1. These ship classifications mean little or nothing (and they might, but at least comparing an Imperial light cruiser to other Imperial frontline ships is apples-to-apples)
2. We'd have to explain why this type of ship, supposedly tougher *and* faster than a Star Destroyer, was seen a grand total of onceā€”and was posted to a sector where the Imperial forces were operating under unusually strict rules of engagement

Given that the Pursuit-class is still faster than a standard Corellian corvette, then, wouldn't it be balanced for it to be more vulnerable? And wouldn't this accord well enough with what little was shown? The idea that the Imperial ships have to be tough to some degree was really destroyed by SW: Rebels, in which the Arquitens-class ships (also light cruisers, mind you) were shown to be threatened by starfighter-scale weaponry. The Pursuit-class ships, being fast themselves, presumably would have little need of carrying fighters unless they were also vulnerable to starfighter-scale weapons...


26/Sep/2024 07:36:49 Posted by Freddy

Wow, 5 years on.

The size I'd say accounts for some of the damage resistance of a ship. Energy Weapon explosions are only so big, so a small vessel has to be packing a LOT more armour to resist attacks that a massive ship can absorb easily. So a larger ship will tend to be tougher than a smaller one. So the Victory is a lot more fragile than the Corvette.

Okay, why was it seen once? Well the Empire did tend to go for either massive and impressive, or cheap and disposable. So the Pursuit didn't fall into either of those categories. It also seems to be flying with Tie Advanced, so seems to have been assigned to some kind of special duties.

As for Rebels, well, the Movies and TV shows do things for visual effect. Starfighters disable a Star Destroyer in Rogue One, Starfighters take out Capital Ship shields and a Super Star Destroyer in Return of the Jedi. The rules don't account for these, so I'd say they were GM calls. It sounds cool, so it'll work this time.

See you in another 5 years?


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