CSA Aurora

Background: The newest of the Valhalla-class corvettes, the Aurora was built soon after the Valhalla and just before the Alexandria Belle. Like her sister-ships, Aurora carries no jump engines and must rely on jump gates or jump-capable starships for interstellar travel. Her motto is taken from the CSA Oath (or Affirmation) of Service.

Features:

Length	174 meters
Draft	137 meters (including rotational gravity section)
Beam	68 meters (not including rotational gravity section)
Mass	151 kilotons
Crew	68 (including 2 pilots)
Propulsion	two capship vectored-thrust plasma recombusion engines, various RCS thrusters
Armament	1 heavy neutral particle accellerator weapon (fixed forward) 2 twin hyperkinetic cannon turrets (1 forward/port/aft, 1 forward/starboard/aft) 2 twin rapidfire plaser turrets (defense grid) 4 five-tube torpedo packs (2 fixed forward, 2 fixed aft) (loadout CLASSIFIED)
Defenses	Armor: 24cm bonded coherent superdense laminates, DoubleHawk hull design; active deflector plating; aerogel filler; ionized ablative hull coating; radar absorbent hull material Passive: tempest/EMP hardening, passive aerogel/antiradiation/kinetic-energy absorbtion materials Active: ScimitarRHO space defense sensors; astrosol/flare/chaff/CM launchers; IR signature masking, EW gear Decoys: Loadout CLASSIFIED Defense Grid: 1 close-in laser array, particulate/astrosol/flare/chaff/CM canister launchers, 1 point-defense missile launcher Cloak: canister launchers can carry ionized particulates, 1 sensor buoy dropper Transporter: 1 antitransporter systems, can function in low-emission 'stealth' mode Electronic Warfare: 1 suite, with: 2 jammer arrays, 1 sensor masking array, 1 counterjamming array, 1 DFF track-on-jam/pattern analyzer
Small Craft	Transports: 2 Gosling OTVs Drones: 6 shrikes
Miscellaneous	Tractors: 0 Supplies: 0.9 years Fuel: 10 months/constant thrust Life Support: 0.6 years Motto: "Into Terror, Into Valor"

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