Ship/Smallcraft Code/Type CL Light Cruiser
Service/Source Grayson Space Navy (Pre Alliance)
Class Name Austin Grayson
Mass/Displacement (Tons) 90,000
Length Overall (Meters) 800
Maximum Beam (Meters) 175
Maximum Height (Meters) 100
Maximum Acceleration (G) 500 in Normal-Space 4,824.5 Hyper-Space
Complement 525 (41 Officer + 484 Warrant/Enlisted)
Core Crew 375 (35 + 340)
Marine Complement 150 (6 + 144)
Armament Mounted Weapon Mount Placement
Type/Number Broadside Mounts P/S Chase Mounts F/A
Launcher Mod 1 x16 6/6 2/2
Laser 30cm x6 3/3 0/0
Laser 60cm x2 0/0 1/1
Launcher Mod 1CM x12 4/4 2/2
PD Laser Cluster x28 10/0 4/4
Missile(s) Used GSN 120t Standard Nuke, 50Mt yield (30K G max accel).
GSN Mk1 Countermissile (Reaction Drive)
Parasite Complement LCL x2 (Snipe); LCS x1 (Pup); Other Smallcraft
Designer/Creator GSN Office of Shipbuilding
Notes This class of three ships was the largest class of warship in the GSN inventory prior to the Alliance.
Ship CO rank is Captain Senior Grade.
Marine Detachment CO rank is Captain (GA).
Marine Complement is Grayson Army detachment assigned to shipboard duty.
This class was introduced (and mostly destroyed) in The Honor of the Queen.
Three ships: GNS Austin Grayson, CL-01, destroyed in the First Battle of Yeltsin; GNS Covington, CL-02; and GNS Glory, CL-03, damaged past economical repair in the Battle of Blackbird and scrapped. GNS Covington, as the only original Grayson Navy ship to survive First and Second Yeltsin, became the core of the rebuilt Grayson Fleet.



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