Terran Confederation "Plunket" Heavy Atrillery Cruiser

**Name**: Plunkett Class Artillery Cruiser
**Craft**: Terran Confederation Plunkett Class Artillery Cruiser
**Type**: Cruiser
**Scale**: capital
**Length**: 1,200 meters
**Skill**: capital ship pilot
**Crew**: 3,000; skeleton: 300/+10
**Passengers**: 744 passengers; 50 Hospital patients; & 125 prisoners
**Cargo Capacity**: 25,600 metric tons
**Consumables**: 84 months
**Primary Jump Drive**: x1
**Secondary Jump Drive**: x10
**Tertiary Jump Drive**: x100
**Nav Computer**: yes
**Maneuverability**: 2D
**Space**: 4
**Atmosphere**: 280; 800 km/h
**Hull**: 9D+1; 11D+1 vs energy weapons
**Shields**: 3D
**Sensors**

* Passive: 25 / 0D+2
* Scan: 50 / 1D+1
* Search: 75 / 1D+2
* Focus: 3 / 2D+1

**Weapons**

* **17 Dual Long Range Lasers**

Fire Arc: 17 turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: walker
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 8D+1
Space Range: 1-8/20/40
Atmosphere Range: 10-800/2,000/4,000m
Damage: 4D+2
* **3 Triple Heavy Particle Cannons**

Fire Arc: 3 turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 5D+2
Space Range: 1-4/10/20
Atmosphere Range: 10-400/1,000/2,000m
Damage: 3D+2
* **Dual Heavy Particle Cannon**

Fire Arc: 1 turret
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 5D+2
Space Range: 1-4/10/20
Atmosphere Range: 10-400/1,000/2,000m
Damage: 3D
* **Triple Enhanced Plasma Cannon**

Fire Arc: 1 turret
Crew: 2
Scale: Capital
Skill: Capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 5D+1
Space Range: 1-6/15/30
Atmosphere Range: 2-12/30/60km
Damage: 13D+2
* **4 Dual Heavy Long Range Tachyon Guns**

Fire Arc: 4 turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 5D+2
Space Range: 1-4/10/20
Atmosphere Range: 10-400/1,000/2,000m
Damage: 4D+1
* **Electronic Counter Measure Module**

Fire Arc: all
Crew: 1
Skill: sensors
Space Range: 1-5/13/25
Atmosphere Range: 10-500/1,300/2,500m
Effects: Enemy Sensors and Fire Control -1D
**Gear**:

* External Docking Port: 2
* Phase Shields: While active the ship becomes immune to all forms of damage provided it is not hit by anything that can bypass its shields (such as Anti-Matter Guns or torpedoes).
* Escape Pods: 24

**Description**: The Plunkett-class Heavy Artillery Cruiser is a cruiser-class capital ship that served under the Terran Confederation fleet in the Wing Commander universe. The first appearances of these cruisers were in the computer game Wing Commander: Secret Ops.

These Plunkett cruisers were first seen in Secret Ops. In Secret Ops, Lance Casey and several of his wingmen fly and escort the TCS Tereshkova, a Plunkett-class cruiser, along with two Murphy-class Destroyers to the TCS Cerberus, which was assigned in the Ella system at the current time.

The newer Plunkett-class cruisers are larger, much more powerful cruisers than any cruiser the Confederation ever produced. It measured a massive one thousand and two hundred meters long, which is almost three times the size of the Tallahassee-class Cruiser. These artillery cruisers are also well equipped with heavy duty firepower. A single Plunkett cruiser's arsenal includes twenty-two dual laser turrets, three triple heavy Particle cannons, and a single triple heavy plasma cannon. Its phase shields and extremely well-built armor plating make this cruiser a formidable capital ship to face-off against. The Plunkett cruiser's speed is also a major improvement over past cruiser models. It could reach a maximum velocity of two-hundred and 40 km/s, 90 km/s more than the Confederation Cruisers and 40 km/s more than the Waterloo-class heavy cruiser.

**Source**:

* Wing Commander Encyclopedia: Plunkett-Class Cruiser
* Wing Commander Information Center: Plunkett-class Heavy Artillery Cruiser
* The Wing Commander Role Playing Game (page 410)
* thedemonapostle