LSP MP-12B Mining Platform

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The LSP MP-12B is typical of antebellum era Mining Platforms. Designed for the unglamorous job of finding, mining and processing asteroidal ore bodies for eventual refining and working, these vessels are generally ugly in appearance and downright crude in construction. The MP-12B was LSP's standard TL-12 mining platform, designed for maximum maintainability and ease of obtaining replacement parts. Crew comfort is at a minimum, with most sleeping on bunks, and often hot bunking with the crews of docked Seekers. The ship carries nineteen Prospecting Bubbles to do ore body surveys, plant explosives and basic mineralogy work. To further break up mined ore, and to deter pirates, the ship is equipped with extensive laser batteries. Grapples exist to allow for ten mining seekers to dock, their crews drawing most of their supplies from the Platforms deep pockets.

Mining Platforms were transported to an active mining area by bulk carriers. Once a ship arrived, it usually spent its lifetime insystem, with surplus platforms being broken up for scrap or being sold secondhand to interested parties. The ubiquity of these vessels and their vulnerable computer systems means that potentially thousands of these ships are infected with active Viral strains. With their heavy armament they can be especially deadly to unsuspecting survey and recon crews. Caution is therefore advised when approaching or examining one of these hulls.

(Mining Platform was adapted from stats given in the old Beltstrike Module)

LSP MP-12B Mining Platform

General Data

Displacement: 5000/6000 tons	Hull Armor: 60
Length: 89.25 meters	Volume: 70,000 m³
Price: 542.81 MCr	Target Size: M
Configuration: USL Close	Tech Level: 12
Mass (Loaded/Unloaded): 49805.21 tons/29,437.4

Engineering Data

Power Plant: TL-12 3324 MW Fusion Plant (One Year Duration) (100 MW/Hit)

Jump Performance: 0

Jump Fuel: 0 m³

G-Rating: 1G Heplar (3000 MW/G), No CG Lifters

G-Turns: 80 (375 m³ each)

Maint: 1175

Electronics

Computer: 3 TL-12St (0.4 MW each)

Commo: 4x300,000 km Radio (Range:10, 10 MW), 10x1000 AU Maser (0.6 MW)

Avionics: IGS Positioning, Imaging EMS

Sensors: PEMS 150,000 km Fixed Array (Range:5, 0.2 MW), AEMS 420,000 km (Range:14, 42.5 MW)

ECM/ECCM: None

Controls: 27 Bridge plus 38 Normal

Armament

Offensive 30 120 MJ Laser Turrets (5 MW, 1 Crew each)

Defensive: Sometimes Decoys are fitted.

Master Fire Directors: None

Name	Short	Medium	Long	Extreme
120 MJ Laser Turrets	4:1/9-27	8:1/9-27	16:1/6-19	32:1/3-9

Accommodations

Life Support: Extended (0.7 MW)

Grav Compensation: 3Gs (14 MW)

Crew: 149 (4 Maneuver, 2 Electronic, 30 Gunnery, 38 Enginnering, 12 Maintenance, 40 Mining, 19 Small Craft, 3 Stewards, 1 Medic)

Crew Accommodations: Small Stateroom (Single Occupancy), 34 Small Staterooms (Double Occupancy), 80 Bunks (Varying Occupancy)

Passenger Accomadation: None

Other Facilities: Sickbay, 400 ton Ore Processing Bay

Cargo: 17,895.24 m³ 8 Large Cargo Hatches

Small Craft and Launch Facilities: 16x3 ton Prospecting Bubbles (Docking Ring), 95 ton Shuttle (Docking Ring), 10 ton Lifeboat (Docking Ring), Grapples (USL) for up to 10x100 ton Seekers

Air Locks: 50

Damage Tables

System Damage Tables

 MD:  3H    AG: 7H    OBay: 84H
 PP: 17H   SSR: 2h    Grpl: 14H
 LS: 10H    LT: 1H    AEMS:  2h
ELS:  5H    SB: 1H

Damage Location Table

Location     External     Internal

1            1-4:Ant      1-4 Elec, 5:WPN, 6-20:Hold
2-5                       1-2:Qtrs, 3:WPN, 4-20:Hold
6-9          CH           1-8:Ore Bay, 9-20:Hold
10                        1-2:Qtrs, 3:WPN, 4-20:Hold
11                        1:Qtrs, 2-8:DRing, 9:WPN,
                          10-20:Hold
12-15        CH           1-2:Grpl, 3-20:Hold
16-19                     Hold
20                        1-11:Eng, 12-20:Hold