The Svathana-class is the smaller of the two Republic Naval vessel classes dedicated to putting Republic Star Marines onboard enemy ships. The Butler-class marine assault ship is the larger counterpart, and whereas that vessel focuses on deploying a great number of boarding pods at once, the Svathana focuses on using its overpowered drive systems to close in on enemy vessels and attempt to dock.
Each Svathana-class frigate carries fifty CSRMC Star Marines and their equipment, with equipment geared to get as close to an enemy ship as possible so it can latch on with its breaching tube and deploy battle-armored Marines into the enemy ship. The breaching chamber aboard is carefully sealed and uses turret-mounted plasma guns to defend the Svathana against counterattacks. Oddly, for a Navy ship, it is regarded as something of a plush post, with considerably more amenities than the average light ship. This is perhaps to compensate for the fact that the Spartan People's Navy painted the equivalent of a big, red bullseye on the hull of any Svathana they encountered in the Core Systems-Spartan War.
Svathana-class Marine Frigate | d-Tons | Cost (MCr) | ||
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Hull | 1500 tons | Hull 30 | 160 | |
Structure 30 | ||||
Armor | Ceramol | 8 points | 150 | 64 |
Jump Drive S | Jump 4 | 90 | 170 | |
Maneuver Drive BB | Thrust 6 | 55 | 112 | |
Power Plant BB | 85 | 222 | ||
Bridge | Hardened Bridge | 40 | 9.375 | |
Computer | Model 3/bis | Rating 15 (20 for JC) | 3 | |
Electronics | Advanced | +1 Jamming DM | 3 | 2 |
Weapons | Hardpoint #1-10 | Triple Turret (pulse/pulse/pulse) | 10 | 25 |
Hardpoint #11-15 | Double Turret (particle/sandcaster) | 5 | 19 | |
Fuel | 808 tons | Jump-4 and 8 weeks | 808 | |
Cargo | 40 tons | 40 | ||
50 Staterooms | 100 max personnel | 200 | ||
Extras | Ship's Locker | |||
5 Marine Armories | 10 | 2.5 | ||
Breaching Tube | 3 | 3 | ||
Luxuries | 1 | 0.1 | ||
Software | Maneuver/0 | |||
Library | ||||
Jump Control/4 | 0.4 | |||
Evade/2 | 2 | |||
Fire Control/3 | 6 | |||
Total | 1,500 | 800,375,000 Cr | ||
Maintenance Cost (monthly) | 66,698 Cr | |||
Life Support Cost (monthly) at full occupancy | 150,000 Cr |