Bonaventure Class Corvette (Refits) (Great Captain Robert Tales)

==Overview==
The Bonaventure-Class Corvettes were series of WarShips which were once the mainstay of the early Star League and Terra Hegemony's Navies, where they acting as picket vessels for their militarizes. Largely obsoleted and out classed in speed and fire power by newer Warships constructed in the centuries to come. However, pair of these ships were loss during the Reunification War, and salvaged by Taurian Concordat and secretly transferred too the Outworlds Alliance as means fight its fight for independence from the Star League for conflict known later as the Periphery Uprising. 
This article covers one of these two ships which were loss during the Succession Wars and salvaged by the Raven Alliance in early years of the Dark Age Era. These two vessels were pressed into an unusual service with Outworlds Alliance's Privateer Fleet. The Illusive is unusual too it substitution Sub-Capital Weaponry in place of most of the Warship's conventional weaponry.
The unusual refit was due to pressure of interstellar political reasons, the ship was handed too aging Clansman, Fleet Captain David Foster.
*;Wiki Note: The ship was featured in the fan story, Strategos (A Great Captain Roberts Tale!!) written by Cannonshop, stats by Giovanni Blasini.
==Armaments and Capacities==
To subdue political pressures of rearming Warships for service during a time period of peace in 3115. The Illusive was salvage ship which was stripped its original armaments in favor newer but less "threatening" weaponry, but nevertheless effective for duty it was being pressed into. 
The ship is protected by 172 tons of Ferro-Carbide armor. It employs a modest compliment of Battle Armor Marines, 25 of them for boarding actions as well assistance on the ground. It's weapon focus has shifted to anti-DropShip and light Warship combat. The ship relies on it's double Star of Aerospace Fighters to provide coverage against other Aerospace Fighter, as most of it's standard anti-aerospace fighter weaponry was removed for it's intended fire support role.
For it's exploration/surveillance work, the ship is equipped with a Mobile HPG and retains the Naval Comm-Scanner Suite (Small).
===Weaponry Layout===
*;Nose : x2 Sub-Capital Missile Launcher (Piranha) (30 Missiles)
*;Forward Right/Left Sides : x1 Naval Laser /35 x2 Sub-Capital Lasers (SCL/1) x3 Laser AMS 
*;Broadside Right/Left : x1 Sub-Capital Cannon (Light) (40 Rounds)
*;Aft (Rear) Right/Left Sides : x2 Sub-Capital Lasers (SCL/1) x3 Laser AMS 
*; Aft : x2 Sub-Capital Missile Launcher (Piranha) (30 Missiles) x4 AMS (48 Rounds)
*; Ammunition : 80 rounds of SCC/L Ammunition 60 Missiles of Piranha Sub-Capital Missiles
==Cargo==
*Bay 1: Fighter (10) 2 Doors 
*Bay 2: Fighter (10) 2 Doors
*Bay 3: Small Craft (2) 1 Door 
*Bay 4: Battle Armor (25 Troopers) 1 Door
*Bay 5: Cargo (47196.0 tons) 1 Door 
==Technical Info==
*Tech Rating: E/X-X-F-F
*Total Cost: 6,637,274,000 C-bills
==Other Refits==
;Evanescent Refit : Unlike the Illusive refit, the Evanescent retain much of it's original Capital Weaponry. Primarily it's twin Class 35 Naval Lasers, mounted in front sides of the ship. Like standard Bonaventure Class Corvettes, the ship has minimum capital weapons as its intended to be picket vessel. It's standard Class 10 Autocannons in the broadsides are replaced with LB-X 10 Autocannons, while the nose mounted Long Range Missiles are traded with Clan tech Artemis IV guided LRM 10 launchers. Like the sistership, the Evanescent received Battle Armor Bay for Star (25) Battle Armor troopers and Mobile HPG to contact similarly equipped sistership and Raven Alliance's Clan military command. BV2: 5,883
==Notes==
*Wiki editor note (Design Origin): The ships were designed by Giovanni Blasini, whom had accepted the challenged to bring the ship which fan writer Cannonshop had written to life. The ship was undergunned due to the nature of the story, need for weapon restrictive vessel.
==External Links==
*MegaMekLab file for Bonaventure Class Corvette (Illusive Refit)
*PDF Record Sheets of the Bonaventure Class Corvette (Illusive Refit)
*MegaMekLab file for Bonaventure Class Corvette (Evanescent Refit)
*PDF Record Sheets of the Bonaventure Class Corvette (Evanescent Refit)
*Forum Challenge Bonaventure Class Corvettes on BG.BattleTech.com
==References==
Refit
Refit
Illusive
Illusive