Babylon 5 Tashkat Advanced Cruiser

**Name**: Tashkat
**Craft**: Brakiri Syndicracy Tashkat Advanced Cruiser
**Type**: Advanced Cruiser
**Scale**: Capital
**Length**: 1,600 meters (estimated)
**Skill**: Capital Ship Pilot
**Crew**: 385; Skeleton: 39/+10
**Crew Skill**: Astrogation: 6D; Capital Ship Gunnery: 4D+2; Capital Ship Piloting: 6D; Capital Ship Shields: 6D; Communications: 6D; Sensors: 6D; Starship Gunnery: 4D+2
**Passengers**: 3,500
**Cargo Capacity**: 7,000 metric tons
**Consumables**: 40 months
**Hyperdrive**: x11
**Nav Computer**: yes
**Maneuverability**: 1D+2
**Space**: 9
**Hull**: 8D
**Shields**: 2D
**Sensors**

* Passive: 28 / 0D+2
* Scan: 56 / 1D+2
* Search: 84 / 2D+2
* Focus: 3 / 3D+1

**Weapons**

* **Graviton Shifter**

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+1
Space Range: 1-5/12/23
Atmosphere Range: 2-10/24/46km
Damage: Any ship struck by a gravitic shifter it loses its Maneuverability bonus
* **4 Graviton Beams**

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+1
Space Range: 1-9/23/45
Atmosphere Range: 2-18/46/90km
Damage: 6D
* **18 Graviton Pulsars**

Fire Arc: 5 forward, 5 port, 5 starboard, 3 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+1
Space Range: 1-2/6/11
Atmosphere Range: 10-200/600/1,100m
Damage: 7D+1
* **3 Gravitic Bolts**

Fire Arc: 3 turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+1
Space Range: 1-5/12/23
Atmosphere Range: 2-10/24/46km
Damage: 6D
**Miscellaneous**:

* Artificial Gravity: Yes
* Crew: 385

* Officers: 10
* Pilots: 10
* Sensor Operators: 15
* Crewmen: 350

* Average Crew Experience Level: Brakiri Veteran
* Stealth: 7 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
* Gravitic Engine

**Complement**:

* Light Shuttle: 6

**Description**: After seeing the results of the Earth-Minbari War and knowing that they would never be able to withstand such an assault, the Brakiri collectively came together into a single ship design and construction project as one entity for the first time since their conception generations earlier. The result was the highly advanced and expensive Tashkat cruiser. Relatively few in service due mostly to their sheer expense, the deployment of the Tashkat has raised eyebrows with fleet spies of nearly every other major race. The focused graviton beams on the prow can match the heavy lasers of Earth in raw destructive capability, while the highly scientific graviton shifters can ruin the combat maneuvers of any enemy fl eet, breaking any momentum before it can launch a concerted attack with their primary weapon systems.

After a decade of the Tashkat’s success, especially during the Shadow War, the Brakiri came together again under the fl ag of the Interstellar Alliance to create another technological marvel – the Takata. Officially classed as an experimental vessel, the Takata was designed to carry new gravitic mine weapon systems into battle to be tested against a new enemy; the Drakh. Hurling tiny gravitic anomalies at one another to create massive energic backlashes at extreme ranges, the Takata also retains the formidable firepower of its parent ship, making it a formidable warship to face at closer ranges as well.

**Source**:

* Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 103-104)
* thedemonapostle