Terran Confederation "Hades" Quick Strike Cruiser

Name: Hades Class Quick Strike Cruiser
Craft: Orion Station Shipyards Hades Class Quick Strike Cruiser
Type: Strike Carrier
Scale: capital
Length: 777 meters
Skill: capital ship pilot
Crew: 150; skeleton: 15/+10
Passengers: 36 passengers; 144 Hospital beds; & 360 prisoners
Cargo Capacity: 12,800 metric tons
Consumables: 106 months
Primary Jump Drive: x1
Secondary Jump Drive: x10
Tertiary Jump Drive: x100
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 2D+1
Space: 6
Atmosphere: 330; 950 km/h
Hull: 7D
Shields: 3D
Sensors

• Passive: 55 / 1D+1
• Scan: 110 / 2D+2
• Search: 165 / 4D
• Focus: 6 / 5D+1

Weapons

• 4 Dual Offensive Lasers

Fire Arc: 4 turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 7D+2
Space Range: 1-3/8/15
Atmosphere Range: 10-300/800/1,500m
Damage: 4D

• 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: 12D

• 10 Dual Heavy Long Range Tachyon Guns

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

• 2 Enhanced Long Range Image Recognition (ELRIR) Missile Launchers

Fire Arc: 1 port, 1 starboard
Crew: 2
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 4D+2
Space Range: 1-18/45/90
Atmosphere Range: 2-36/90/180km
Ammo: 100 per launcher
Damage: 10D+1

• 6 Lance Heavy Torpedo Launcher Bays

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 5
Scale: death star
Skill: Capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 4D
Space Range: 1-4/10/20
Atmosphere Range: 2-8/20/40km
Ammo: 50 per launcher
Damage: 16D

• 1 Tractor Beam

Fire Arc: turret
Crew: 2
Scale: capital
Skill: Capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 5D
Space Range: 1-5/12/24
Atmosphere Range: 2-10/24/48km
Strength: 3D

• 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+1

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: 2; 93 person capacity

Ship Complement

• F-106/A Piranha Scout Fighter: 6
• F/A-105/A Tigershark Medium Multi-Purpose Fighter: 6
• F-110 Wasp Interceptor/Anti-Bomber: 6
• F-109/B Vampire Class-A Space Superiority Fighter: 6
• TB-80 Devastator Class-A Torpedo Bomber: 6
• SR-51 Seahawk Space Early Warning/Space Warning and Control System Craft: 6
• SAR-23 Condor SAR/Refueling Shuttles: 4
• Hercules Marine Shuttles: 2

Description: The Hades-class Quick-strike 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: Prophecy.

In the Wing Commander Universe, the Confederation introduced the new Hades-class Quick-strike Cruiser in 2681 and was first seen in the Secret Ops expansion for the computer game Wing Commander: Prophecy. The TCS Cerberus was the first Hades-class cruiser introduced. In Secret Ops, Lance Casey and several of his fellow pilots from the TCS Midway are transferred to the TCS Cerberus to aid the cruiser in several assignments that involved new Nephilim threats. The TCS Cerberus was instrumental in the elimination of the Nephilim threat in the Proxima system.

The Hades-class Quick-strike Cruiser was a big improvement over the older Confederation Cruisers. Although not as large and heavily armed as the Plunkett-class Heavy Artillery Cruiser, these cruisers performed their tasks extremely well, which were performing quick-strikes for almost any kind of assignments. These cruisers were equipped ten dual Tachyon cannon turrets, four laser turrets, and a single Mark IV Heavy Plasma Cannon, one of Confed's newest weapons. Unlike older Confederation capital ships, the Hades Quick-strike cruisers were equipped with missile payloads that included four Image Recognition missiles and six standard capital ship torpedoes. A Hades-class cruiser can also house thirty starfighters, four transport shuttles, and two Marine boarding crafts. It is uncertain if these quick-strike cruisers were mass-produced for the Confederation fleet like the Plunkett-class Heavy Artillery Cruisers and Murphy-class Destroyers.

Source:

• Wing Commander Encyclopedia: Hades-Class Quick Strike Cruiser
• Wing Commander Information Center: Hades-class Quick Strike Cruiser
• The Wing Commander Role Playing Game (pages 410-411)
• thedemonapostle