Okhotsk Class Cruiser

## History

The Okhotsk Class Cruiser was designed for a 3996 Protectorate Navy design order for an escort gunship or corvette for use against enemy subcapital ships, with the additional capability allowing it to be used as an anti-capital bomber. Due to its intended role flexibility, the design team made it significantly more maneuverable than was normal for a ship of its size, with high-powered maneuvering thrusters and a mass profile designed for maximum maneuvering efficiency. Surprisingly for a design of military origin, the Okhotsk was designed with generous cargo capacity. It was also designed with a probe launch bay, although it was never deployed as a probe carrier or even as a support ship in that role. The Okhotsk had an extremely powerful forward battery when fully equipped, and the military version was one of the most deadly subcapital ships in the Protectorate Navy at the time. The Protectorate Navy ordered 24,000 units in 4001 and an additional 16,000 units in 4190; it was also purchased by the UHW Navy, which acquired 800 units in 4003. The Okhotsk was quite popular on the civilian market despite its price and size, with 32,000 units sold in its first 50 years there, an impressive amount for a military-oriented ship; 30,289 of these were sold in Bandorian space, mostly to bounty hunters.

## Overview

The Okhotsk is a powerful mixed weaponry anti-fighter/bomber corvette, maintaining enough pylons capable of holding torpedoes for it to also be extremely useful as a heavy bomber. When the weapons systems on the Okhotsk are fully upgraded, it is an extremely powerful ship, easily capable of destroying even military capital ships. The Okhotsk is mainly used in the Bandorian Navy as a heavy bomber, corvette, or high damage escort due to its quad ACAC turrets. It is known for having good handling and reasonably good defense in stock form. The chief drawback to the Okhotsk is its high price.

### Weapons Emplacements

12 ultra MPs fwd, 8 ultra MPs aft, 4 ultra MPs lateral, 12 missile-only heavy pylons, 2 standard heavy pylons, 8 light pylons, 18 light MPs fwd, 12 light MPs aft, 6 light MPs lateral, 4 light turret MPs

Stock DPS Rating: 35,300

 Afterburner 2
 Afterburner 3

Date of Release: 4001

## Equipment Defaults

ISFTL Drive

Shields

STL Drive System

Reactor 20

Advanced Combat Scanner

Comm Relay

Anomaly Detector/Analyser

Threat Assessor

Bounty Informer

Fuel Scoops

Plasma Collector/Recycler

TBA Escape Pod Collector

TBA UCP Collector

Heat Shielding

Atmospheric Drive

Stealth Package

Type-2 Cloaking Device

ECM 3

Repair System 3

Armored Fuel Tanks, Damage Resistance +600

Ablative Cockpit Armor, Damage Resistance +1200

Probe Launch Bay (capacity is 75 PLBUs)

Variable-Thrust Maneuvering Thrusters

### Equipped Weapons

4x Brock Industries ACAC twin turret

12x Brock Industries Ultra Disruptor Cannon fwd

8x Brock Industries Ultra Disruptor Cannon aft

4x Brock Industries Ultra Disruptor Cannon port

4x Brock Industries Ultra Disruptor Cannon stbd

12x Brock Industries Pluton Torpedo Mk5

2x Seldar Industries Heavy Flechette Missile Launcher fwd.

8x Brock Industries Seeker missile

18x Brock Industries Ion Pulse Cannon fwd

12x Brock Industries Ion Pulse Cannon aft

6x Brock Industries Ion Pulse Cannon port

6x Brock Industries Ion Pulse Cannon stbd