The Erlir Class Patrol Cruiser is built by the Ansha Starship Cooperative on Ansha. Ansha has long been in a state of cold war with the nearby world of Gadirur.

When the Imperial expansion came Ansha quickly become a member of the Imperium. Ansha benefited from its membership in the Imperium by gaining allied against Gadirur while the Imperium gained a means of keeping Gadirur, which had been hostile to Imperium advances, in check.

The Erlir Class Patrol Cruiser is the first ship to be built by the Ansha Starship Cooperative that is fully compatible with Imperial Naval Service standards.

Despite full comparability with INS standards, the Erlir class is distinctly different from typical Imperial vessels in appearance. Like all ship built on Ansha the Erlir has a very organic shape.

Even more striking than the shape are the wild colour schemes that are exhibited on Ansha ships. The abstract color schemes are painted on the ships by artist priests, who while having to follow certain guidelines still maintainmuch freedom to determine the ship's final apperance.

Ship's Specifications

General

Displacement: 600 tons
Hull Armor: 20
Length: 96 meters
Volume: 8,400m3
Price: 884.8MCr
Target Size: S
Configuration: Needle, AF
Tech Level: 12
Mass Loaded: 12,149.5 tons

Power Plant: 2,400MW Fusion Power Plant (50MW per hit), Fuel 90Kl; duration: 0.25 year
Jump Performance: 2 (1,680kl fuel; 840kl per Parsec;)
G-Rating: 2 (138.6 MW/G) uses Thruster Plates; 1G High Efficiency AntiGrav (39.6MW/G)

Computers: 3xTL-12 Fib Mod ( MW ea.)
Commo: 2x300,000km radio (10 MW ea.), 2x 1,000AU MaserComm (1MW ea.) 1x1000AU laserComm (0.3 MW)
Avionics: TL-10+ avionics
Sensors: 1xTL12 120,000km PEMS folding array (4 hexes, 0.15MW ea.), 2xTL12 300,000km AEMS (10 hexes, 27.5MW ea.)
ECM/EMM: 1xTL12 300,000km AEMS Jammer (10 hexes, MW) EM Masking (8.4MW)
Controls: Dynamic Linked, 15x Bridge Workstations, 2x Other Workstations

Offensive: 20xTL12 251Mj Lasers in 4xBatteries (Loc,Arcs: ; Loc 6, Loc 7, Loc 8, Loc 9) 130MW)
2x TL12 Missile Barbettes (Loc 4, Loc 5: ;10 ready missiles; 0.15MW)

Defensive:2x Sand Caster (Loc 2, Loc 4; 30x Canisters ea.; 1MW ea.; 1 Operator ea.),
2xTL12 60,000km Nuclear Damper (Loc 3, Loc 5; 15MW ea.; 1 Operator ea.),
1xTL12 factor 122 Meson Screen (6MW; 1 Operator)

Master Fire Director: 6xTL-12 (4 Dif Mod; 10 hexes; 3.1MW; 6 gunners)

                   ROF     Very Short   Short        Medium       Long    
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TL12 251Mj Laser   100     10: 1/13-40  20: 1/11-33  40: 1/5-17   80: 1/3-8

Life Support: Extended (2.52 MW), Gravitic Compensators (3G; MW)
Crew: 27 (2xSensor Operators, 4xEngineers, 1xPilot, 1xNavigator, 6xGunners, 5xScreen Operators, 3xCommand, 1xmedic, 4xTroopers)
Crew Accommodations: 5xLarge Staterooms, 24xBunks
Cargo: 178m3
Air Locks: 6

Fuel Systems: Fuel Scoops, Fuel Purifiers (3,400kl/hour; 42.5 hours for 1,770kl)
Other Facilities: 1x Sick Bay, various crew facilities (140m3)

Area
(1D20) Surface              Hits		     Systems
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1                           Elec                     JD-8H     MD-11H
2-3    1-13, Ant            1-6, Elec; 7-19, Qtrs;   PP-48H    AG-2H
                            20 Wpns                  FPP-2H    AL-6x1h
4      1, AL; 2-13, Ant	    1-6, Elec; 7-19, Qtrs;   FT-18H    HULL-4H
                            20 Wpns                  LS-9H     ELS-5H
5      1-12, Ant	    1-6, Elec; 7-19, Qtrs;   AEMS-2h   MFD-6x1H
                            20 Wpns                  PEMS-1h   PEMS Ant-1h
6-7    1, AL; 2-5, Screen   Wpns                     EMM-1H    EMM Rad-8h
8-9    1-4, Screen          Wpns                     MS-1H     ND-2x1H
10-11                       1-2, Eng; 3-13, Wpns;    LSR-5x1H  SSR-20x2h
                            14-20 Fuel               LT-20x1H  All Others-1h
12-15                       Fuel                     ST-2x1H
16-17  1-4, EMM Rad         Eng
18-19  1, AL; 2-5, EMM Rad  Eng
20     1, AL                Eng

Erlir Class Patrol Cruiser (Type PC)
(QSDS 1.5, The Big Hull List & SSDS)

Tons: 600dton (Needle S)  Volume: 8400 m3  Cost: 884.8MCr (669.3MCr)
Crew:  23                   Hi/Md P: 2        Low P: 0
Cargo: 12.6dton            Controls: Fib/Bridge  TL: 12

Size: 8                     2   Jump (60dton/Pc Fuel)
                            4   Maneuver (T-plate, 24000 T/Thr)
Lsr trt 4x(+4) 1/6-5-3-2    8   Power Plant (2000 + 200, 200 MW)
Msl barb 2                126.4 Fuel (S 240 R 3)
MFD 2x(+4) (8 ctrld)        4   Meson Screen (6 MW)
                            2   Sandcasters (60 cans)
1 Sickbay 8dton             2   Nuclear Damper (15 MW)
                           A16 P5 J16 Sensors (EMM 8.4MW)
                           20   Armor  19 Structure
                           96.8 Length (m)

Crew: 23 (2 elec 4 engr 2 mnvr 6 gun 5 scrn 3 cmd 1 medic 4 troops)

The Erlir is pretty much a typical Patrol Cruiser. The design favors features over cost.

The design was done with the assistance of Craig Barry's QSDS spread sheet and includes a hull from Guy Garrnett's Big Hull List and EMM from SSDS.

To get the TNE style data the ship was roughly redesinged using FF&S and a spreadsheet found at the Vyborg campaign home page.

The ship acceration is the only real difference between the TNE style design and the T4 design. The acceleration of the TNE Style design is based on the mass of the ship and is only 2Gs, while the T4 design is based on volume and is 4Gs. Personally I prefer using mass based acceleration.

The length for the ship was roughly calculated from drawings of the ship. And finally a thanks to Dr. Mark Clark for posting his design to the TML. After seeing his design I decided to split the 2 batteries of 10 lasers into 4 batteries of 5.