One of the readers had a question about a Cygnus-class gunstar mentioned in the Minerva-class post.  I had hesitated to put up my specs on it, since I couldn’t remember who had done the model of the ship I based the stats on.  Thankfully, Limerickcot on the Cortex Role Playing Game forum did a write of Cygnus and credited the artist (backstept.)

His version and mine are fairly similar, looks like…

Gunstar Cygnus

Cygnus is a small escort designed to work in conjunction with a battlestar group.  The main role of hte gunstar is force protection — in this case, to protect the lead battlestar by setting up an extended perimeter.  The gunstar is well-armed, but not designed for protracted fights.  The through-beam landing strip is meant only for standard ferrying and victual activities; she carries no fighters.  (Limerickcot’s version is a pre-Cylon War vessel and would have been colony-specific — an idea that I rather like…)

CLASS: Cygnus        TYPE: Assaultstar        SCALE: Spacecraft
LENGTH: 1153′        BEAM: 83.3′    DRAUGHT: 144′
DECKS: 11    CREW: 270 standard, 400 max

AGL: d6   STR: d8   VIT: d8   ALE: d6   INT: d8   WIL: d8
INIT: 2d6   LIFE: 16  SPEED: 6 [SL/JC]   ARMOR: 3 wound, 3 stun

SKILLS:
Heavy Weapons d4, Mechanical Engineering d4, Perception d6, Pilot d4

TRAITS:
Mass-Produced, Past It’s Prime

ARMAMENT:
Medium Skirmish Range Point Defense System: d8W Planetary-scale
22 Capital-range Medium Railguns:  d10W Spacecraft-scale
4 Short Dradis-range Medium Missile Systems:  d12W Spacecraft-Scale

AUXILIARY VEHICLES:
6 raptors, 2 shuttles

(You can find backstept’s work at Sci-Fi Meshes.com.)