Suiseiseki class light cruiser

Suiseiseki-class light cruiser
Class Overview
Class type:	Light Cruiser
Class name:	Suiseiseki
Preceded by:	Musai Daioh class light cruiser
Succeeded by:	N/A
Operated by:	Bryn Shander, New Haven
General Characteristics
Mass:	10,300,000 tons
Length:	2,135 ft 4 in (650.82m)
Beam:	723 ft 5 in (220.5m)
Height:	368 ft (112.16m)
Complement:	2280 officers and men
Powerplant:	8 1.1TW Minovsky-Ionscoe Supercompact Fusion Reactors
Drives:	-16 Particle Impulse Engines -One Hermes Mk. 21 Jump Capable Hyperdrive -One emergency solar sail system
Weapons:	-One 250GW spinal megapartical cannon -20x 2.5GW megaparticle cannons in ten twin turrets -96x 120mm autocannons in forty eight twin mounts -10x 1000mm torpedo tubes (6 fore, 4 aft)
Shields:	14 Aegis Mk. 33 10GW Shield Generators
Armor:	6000mm multi layer Lunar Titanium-Ceramic composite
Auxillery Craft:	-72 mobile suits -144 fighters -8 shuttles
Other systems:	-Minovsky Craft System -8 electromagnetic launch catapults with steam backups

The Suiseiseki class light cruiser is part of Bryn Shander's Year 00 Rearmament Plan, and is designed to replace the aging Musai Daioh class light cruiser that is now outclassed by Bryn Shander's new frigates and destroyers in all but strike craft compliment. An inital batch of 100 ships has been ordered and are under construction at shipyards throughout Bryn Shander, with the first fifty ships nearing completion.

Though based heavily on the Kusanagi class frigate and Trondheim class destroyer, the Suiseiseki class takes many of it's design features from the Usagi class heavy cruiser and Inverse class dreadnought. Such features include launch catapults for strike craft, symmetrical gun arrangements, and the capability for water landings after atmospheric flight. Unlike the Musai Daioh, which was little more than a heavily armed mobile suit carrier, the Suiseiseki is an excellent gunship, capable of going toe to toe with any ship in the old fleet.

One hundred vessels of the class have entered service with Bryn Shander, and the design has been exported to New Haven.