CSA Erma Felna

Background: The Erma Felna is not nearly as well-known as her sister-ship, the Jennifer Brisby. Nevertheless, out of the original fleet of five Mordens-class armored scouts -- consisting of Brisby, Felna, Journeyman, Legend Seeker, and Dewclaw -- the Felna was the last to be converted to Bricriu-class specificatons, and the only one besides the Brisby to have survived. Traditionally, the Felna is used as an exploration craft, surveying locations prior to more detailed exploration. She continues this role, also serving as both a spaceborne early warning and control craft for the Despayre spaceguard, and conducting mining surveys of the Smuggler's Belt in the same system. The Felna is also infamous as having at one time been commanded by Lieutenant Dariel Cholis, CSA Scouts.

Features:

Length	56 meters
Draft	15 meters
Beam	41 meters
Mass	12 kilotons
Crew	12
Propulsion	Two carbon-diamond NERVA engines, two twin plasma engines with afterfuser assemblies
Armament	1 twin hyperkinetic cannon turret (dorsal) 2 fixed pulse plasma discharge cannons (2 forward) 4 ordnance bays
Defenses	Armor: 10cm bonded coherent superdense laminates; 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: Stilleto space defense and control array; astrosol/flare/chaff/CM launchers; IR signature masking Decoys: Loadout CLASSIFIED Defense Grid: 1 close-in laser array, particulate/astrosol/flare/chaff/CM canister launchers Cloak: canister launchers can carry ionized particulates, sensor buoy droppers Electronic Warfare: 1 suite, consisting of 2 jammer arrays, 2 sensor masking arrays, 1 counterjamming array, 1 DFF track-on-jam/pattern analyzer, and 1 Bernoulli sensor manticore; small towed array
Small Craft	Drones: 12 probes
Miscellaneous	Tractors: 0 Supplies: 6 months Fuel: 4 weeks/constant thrust Life Support: 0.9 years Motto: "Lamp of Diogenies"

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