SHIP CLASS:

BATTLE CRUISER

SHIP'S COMPLIMENT:

47 Officers, 382 Enlisted

6 Pilot/Navigator teams

MASS:

291,084 metric tons

POWER PLANT:

3 Hendricksen VIII Fusion Piles

1 Mulchaski-Ionet Fusion Pile

PRIMARY ROLE(S):

1. PEACETIME:

Picket/Security Operations

2. WARTIME:

Fleet/Special Operations

PROPULSION:

1. SUBLIGHT:

6 Ionet-Yamamuchi Newtonian Drives

2. FTL:

4 Brahm-Ionet HD-42 Tachyonic Drives

WEAPONS:

1. BEAM:

4 Reiten CEB-35

2 Grahsk AM-09 (Anti-matter projectors)

20 Dask-III Anti-fighter pulse guns

2. MISSILE:

20 Tulsock ZEDX Mines

3. FTL:

8 Ghazul IMBFM-XX (Domino Drones)

SENSORS:

1. SUBLIGHT:

Ionet-Feldglassum XES-LI-A

2. FTL:

Shaitan-Muosk-Ionet TDS-XIII

3. FIRE CONTROL:

Khardurl-Ionet FC-40DN (Mains)

Yellowjacket A-12C (Defense)

VESSEL HISTORY:

Originally planned as a Tenata class assault ship, StarLion had her keel laid at K'ionel Shipyards, Phelspharia, on December 16, 2246. Construction was halted in November of 2247 with the announcement of the Golden's Hold cease-fire. With the end of declared hostilities, the order was canceled and the hull was scheduled to be dismantled.

That would have been the end of the story had it not been for Commander Walter Ionet. A design engineer working out of the L-5 shipyards, Ionet had been pushing for his radical techniques to be incorporated into a new spaceframe. Hearing of the abandoned keel in orbit about Phelspharia, Ionet pressed his request up the chain of command. The project was approved on February 16, 2248, by Admiral Bryan Reynolds.

By the time her space-trials were complete, StarLion had broken four speed records and had shattered previously established standards for weapons accuracy. The "radical" design techniques had proven to be the work of a genius.

There are currently three StarLion Class Battle Cruisers in service, with four on order. Ionet has left the design field and currently serves as the Chief Engineer of the TSS StarLion, a job for which he is unquestionably the best qualified.