Enterprise 3023

Mass: 275000 tons
Use: Jumpship
Hull Type: Aerodyne
Structural Integrity: 1
Grav Decks: 100m, 100m
Armor: Standard
Armament:
     14 PPC
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Communication System:
Targeting & Tracking System:
Introduction Year: 3023
Tech Rating/Availability: IS Level 3
Cost: 41.75 billion C-bills

Overview
The Enterprise class is one of the most closely held secrets in the Periphery March: locally assembled JumpShips, built where the Inner Sphere agrees such things cannot be built. Introduced in 3023 as TriStar Interstellar's custom heavy hull, the 275,000-ton Enterprise carries five docking collars where most Inner Sphere JumpShips manage two to four, and — uniquely for a commercial hull — fourteen PPCs of genuine defensive armament, not token guns.

Capabilities
Five collars and a pair of hundred-meter grav decks make the Enterprise the backbone of TriStar's long-haul lift; the fourteen-PPC battery makes it something the Inner Sphere's merchant fleets are not — able to refuse a pirate's terms. The armament traces to the aftermath of the Tortuga Campaign, a fleet that had decided, with a shipping company's thoroughness, never to be defenseless again.

Deployment
Enterprise hulls anchor TriStar's scheduled routes and strategic lift across the Federated Suns and into the Periphery. Fleet Protection Wing fighters ride the class as escort; the first hull off the line, the TSS Memphis, remains the fleet's flagship out of the home port it is named for.

History
That a Periphery March shipping company assembles its own armed JumpShips is a fact ComStar's own files did not fully grasp until the late 2990s, and one New Avalon prefers not to examine closely. By 3025 the class numbers eighteen hulls of an eighty-two-ship fleet — the visible portion of a company that spent two centuries turning an arsenal into a revenue line.

Type: Enterprise
Technology Base: IS Level 3
Tonnage: 275,000

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Cost: 41.75 billion C-bills
Heat Sinks: 126
Fuel: 1,482
Safe Thrust: 0
Maximum Thrust: 0
Structural Integrity: 1

Crew and Passengers

Type	Number
Officers	10
Crew	70
Gunners	10
Passengers	30

Transport Bays

Bay Type	Capacity	Doors
Docking Collars	5	-
Small Craft Bay	5	5
Cargo Bay	129 tons	1

Quarters

Class	Capacity
Steerage	30
First Class	10
Crew	45

Safety Equipment

Type	Number
Life Boats	10
Escape Pods	6

Armor Distribution

Location	Armor Value
Nose	15
Fore Left	11
Fore Right	11
Aft	6
Aft Left	9
Aft Right	9

Weapon Bays

Arc	Weapons
Nose	3 PPC
Left Front	2 PPC
Right Front	2 PPC
Aft Left	2 PPC
Aft Right	2 PPC
Aft	3 PPC