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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #30 on: 08 April 2015, 16:14:43 »
Tough choice I'd be tempted with both but you're only allowed ONE...

Only one answer in that case, then, since I'm JumpShip of the Month guy. :)

Aquilla class primitive JumpShip TAS Philadelphia

Once thought lost due to misjump in the late 22nd Century, the TAS Philadelphia has once again been spotted plying the 32nd Century space lanes in the Periphery past the Free Worlds League under the command of someone calling themself "Giovanni Blasini".  Facial recognition software, though, indicates that "Blasini" may in fact be the notorious Jayson O'Donoghue, known for dropping a White Shark capital missile on a Word of Blake listening post on Solaris VII in the days leading up to the Jihad, prior to running to the Periphery with his band of mercenaries/gunrunners/Lostech prospectors, O'Donoghue's Mescaleros.  How O'Donoghue could appear to be the same age nearly eight decades after he was last seen in the Inner Sphere is not known.

SO far, the Philadelphia appears to primarily stick to cargo hauling, though rumors abound the ship has been modified with more advanced technology, such as a salvaged Behemoth transit drive replacing the primitive fusion drive, and more modern weaponry replacing the prototype AC/5s of the original Aquilla, though these are unconfirmed.  Additionally, only four small craft have ever been observed flying from the Philadelipha at any given time, giving rise to rumors that the other small craft bays are being used to carry fighters or assault shuttles.  Certainly, if "Giovanni Blasini" does follow the earlier pattern O'Donoghue established for the Mescaleros, anti-piracy and privateering wouldn't be unexpected for the Philadelphia.

(Yes, this is the same TAS Philadelphia that was under attack by the giant hyperspace squids in Interstellar Players 2)

(Actual mods?  Robotic controls, SCL/1s instead of AC/5s, and maybe a small naval comm-scanner suite).
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #31 on: 09 April 2015, 04:12:54 »

The IMV Wandering Profit [LINK] is a converted Tracker-class vessel saved from the breakers while in the middle of it being scrapped. With half of her engines removed, the former SLS Wanderer was saved by the Maersk Interstellar Shipping Corporation on behalf of the youngest scion of the Pillock family, the firm's largest stockholders. Once it relocated to Maersk's private dockyard, the Wandering Profit underwent a conversion to armed escort for the line's fleet of merchant ships. It took two years to make the necessary modifications to defend itself in the wild, wild space of the Periphery. The structural integrity was enhanced so that the hull could be re-skinned with 115 tons of ferro-lamellor armor and the addition of several capital grade weapons including a pair of AR-10 launchers, a pair of Light Naval PPCs and a quartet of Class 55 Naval Lasers. While not an impressive loadout, it should be enough to discourage all but the most desperate of pirates. In addition to the capital weaponry, the Wandering Profit mounts of vast array of secondary weapon to protect the ship from fighters, DropShips and missiles.

The ship managed to survive the breakup of the Maersk Corporation following the Amaris Usurpation and has passed through the hands of many members of the Pillock family until it fell into the hands of the young and cocksure Harvey Pillock. The ship has mysteriously survived the Succession Wars looking much the same as it did when it left the Maersk Dockyards at the beginning of the 28th century. It now plies the space lanes as a mercenary vessel carrying a mixed battalion in the slightly modified Mule-class vessels that it carries on it hardpoints.

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #32 on: 10 April 2015, 04:46:47 »
Well, just found this thread, and while I doubt I'll write a backstory fir her, I think my ship would be a Cameron battlecruiser named Taipo (after my typical posting form).
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #33 on: 10 April 2015, 07:06:27 »
I've always loved Warships and black navy ships.  So I'll give this a try. I'm doing a play on a popular culture character from else where.

Admiral "Wild" Bill Kelso, commanding officer of the recently salvaged and refurbished New Syrtis-Class Carrier, Loose Cannon, originally named El Dorado. Then Captain Kelso, who stumbled *quite literately* on the semi-wrecked WarShip while in pursuit of a Kuritan Squadron of Zeros in Draconis March in the Cholame system.  Forced to give up the pursuit in his vintage Tomahawk Aerospace fighter, he was granted by AFFS reprieved for abandoning his post to pursue the rogue Kurita squadron on his own. 

After large argument and perhaps little too much alcohol...he was promoted (by prompting of Draconis March nobles) to command the ship and name the ship.  Additionally his was assigned a small squadron large dropships aide him in his primary mission to protect the Draconis Combine border.  He secretly wishes ferret out the Kurita squadron that eluded him, though some may call him delusional behind his back.  The Loose Cannon's crew and squadron was staffed with the best, perhaps similarly minded/off kilter-like personnel as Admiral Kelso is. 
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #34 on: 11 April 2015, 02:46:20 »
The Current Fleet (Update):

Sovetskii Soyuz Class Heavy Cruiser BFS Roger Wilco CO:  Captain JKLantern

Mule Class Transport BFDS Magnifico CO:  Commander mikecj

Fox Class Corvette BFS Pointless Venture CO:  Captain Fallen_Raven

Black Lion Class Battle-cruiser BFS Y'all Done Stepped In It CO:  Mayor "Mad Hank" Fitzsimmons [lordbd]

Anna Rosse-class Battle-cruiser BFS Liger/Extinction Event  - CO: Star Commodore Canin Rosse [Dragon Cat]

Davion IIA-class Destroyer IMS/BFS Halcyon CO: Captain Jack "Kasaga" Ryan

McKenna-class Battleship BFS Subtlety CO: Captain William Robert Raphael Leroy-Dietrich [drewbacca]

Tony Manero-class Cruiser BFS Tony Manero - CO: Master Arminas [masterarminas]

Congress-D-class Frigate BFS Delusions of Grandeur - CO: Liam Geist [Liam's Ghost]

Potemkin-class Transport BFS Nightmares of Logistics - CO: Blaine 'Khymerion' Roderick

Aquilla class primitive JumpShip BFS/TAS Philadelphia - CO: Giovanni Blasini/Jayson O'Donoghue

Unique WarShip BFS Bonaparte's BFG - CO: Admiral Natalia Kutuzova-Bonaparte [Shrapnel]

Cameron-class Battle-cruiser BFS Taipo - CO: Lazarus Jaguar

New Syrtis-class Carrier BFS Loose Cannon - CO: Admiral "Wild" Bill Kelso
My three main Alternate Timeline with Thanks fan-fiction threads are in the links below. I'm always open to suggestions or additions to be incorporated so if you feel you wish to add something feel free. There's non-canon units, equipment, people, events, erm... Solar Systems spread throughout so please enjoy

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,20515.0.html - Part 1

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,52013.0.html - Part 2

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,79196.0.html - Part 3

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #35 on: 11 April 2015, 10:45:33 »
The Current Fleet (Update):

Sovetskii Soyuz Class Heavy Cruiser BFS Roger Wilco CO:  Captain JKLantern

Mule Class Transport BFDS Magnifico CO:  Commander mikecj

Fox Class Corvette BFS Pointless Venture CO:  Captain Fallen_Raven

Black Lion Class Battle-cruiser BFS Y'all Done Stepped In It CO:  Mayor "Mad Hank" Fitzsimmons [lordbd]

Anna Rosse-class Battle-cruiser BFS Liger/Extinction Event  - CO: Star Commodore Canin Rosse [Dragon Cat]

Davion IIA-class Destroyer IMS/BFS Halcyon CO: Captain Jack "Kasaga" Ryan

McKenna-class Battleship BFS Subtlety CO: Captain William Robert Raphael Leroy-Dietrich [drewbacca]

Tony Manero-class Cruiser BFS Tony Manero - CO: Master Arminas [masterarminas]

Congress-D-class Frigate BFS Delusions of Grandeur - CO: Liam Geist [Liam's Ghost]

Potemkin-class Transport BFS Nightmares of Logistics - CO: Blaine 'Khymerion' Roderick

Aquilla class primitive JumpShip BFS/TAS Philadelphia - CO: Giovanni Blasini/Jayson O'Donoghue

Unique WarShip BFS Bonaparte's BFG - CO: Admiral Natalia Kutuzova-Bonaparte [Shrapnel]

Cameron-class Battle-cruiser BFS Taipo - CO: Lazarus Jaguar

New Syrtis-class Carrier BFS Loose Cannon - CO: Admiral "Wild" Bill Kelso

I gotta say, I love this fleet, don't you, Star Commodore?   ;D
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #36 on: 11 April 2015, 12:06:05 »
I gotta say, I love this fleet, don't you, Star Commodore?   ;D

No complaints there's almost two separate "squadrons or divisions appearing" an assault one and a support

The Current Fleet (Update):
Assault


Three Battle-cruisers, One Heavy Cruiser, One Destroyer, One Frigate, One "World Destroyer" and One Carrier.

Sovetskii Soyuz Class Heavy Cruiser BFS Roger Wilco CO:  Captain JKLantern

Cameron-class Battle-cruiser BFS Taipo - CO: Lazarus Jaguar

Black Lion Class Battle-cruiser BFS Y'all Done Stepped In It CO:  Mayor "Mad Hank" Fitzsimmons [lordbd]

Anna Rosse-class Battle-cruiser BFS Liger/Extinction Event  - CO: Star Commodore Canin Rosse [Dragon Cat]

Davion IIA-class Destroyer IMS/BFS Halcyon CO: Captain Jack "Kasaga" Ryan

Congress-D-class Frigate BFS Delusions of Grandeur - CO: Liam Geist [Liam's Ghost]

Unique WarShip BFS Bonaparte's BFG - CO: Admiral Natalia Kutuzova-Bonaparte [Shrapnel]

New Syrtis-class Carrier BFS Loose Cannon - CO: Admiral "Wild" Bill Kelso [Wrangler]

Support

One Battleship (Training ship), One Cruiser, One Corvette, One Troop Cruiser, One "JumpShip" and a DropShip

McKenna-class Battleship BFS Subtlety CO: Captain William Robert Raphael Leroy-Dietrich [drewbacca]

Tony Manero-class Cruiser BFS Tony Manero - CO: Master Arminas [masterarminas]

Fox Class Corvette BFS Pointless Venture CO:  Captain Fallen_Raven

Potemkin-class Troop Cruiser BFS Nightmares of Logistics - CO: Blaine 'Khymerion' Roderick

Mule Class Transport BFDS Magnifico CO:  Commander mikecj

Aquilla class primitive JumpShip BFS/TAS Philadelphia - CO: Giovanni Blasini/Jayson O'Donoghue

All others are accepted (if any ship captain does not think their ship belongs in their assigned squadron... say so  ;)
My three main Alternate Timeline with Thanks fan-fiction threads are in the links below. I'm always open to suggestions or additions to be incorporated so if you feel you wish to add something feel free. There's non-canon units, equipment, people, events, erm... Solar Systems spread throughout so please enjoy

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,20515.0.html - Part 1

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,52013.0.html - Part 2

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,79196.0.html - Part 3

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #37 on: 11 April 2015, 14:01:59 »
When I was first doing this, I was trying to think of one for the Kimagure class, but couldn't come up with something.  Well dammit, I have now, but I am too attached to the Roger Wilco to change it!
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #38 on: 12 April 2015, 02:02:49 »
Thought I would throw in some surveillance capability for the fleet.
The Bug Eye class Named the Lounge Lizard. Captained by the infamous Percy Hickup.
The ship is wanted all over the inner sphere for it's actions.
Known to jump into a system at a pirate point and uses it's electronics to read your mail and steal the juiciest parts.
The mail is then offered back to you for a price, if you cannot afford it is then offered to the tabloids for a reasonable fee.
Some of the biggest scandals in recent times have been started by the Lounge Lizard and believed to be part owned by the Bounty Hunter.
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #39 on: 20 April 2015, 00:34:17 »
The bug eye ship know as the the super station jumps into different syastems and does only one thing. They broadcast what is known as rock and roll. The cap is simply called lord heavy metal and they love to jump into known places that are starit laced and liven things up with some true rock and are backed by by the gods of rock themselves. No one is quite sure who the gods of rock are but they do come up many times in every broadcast.

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #40 on: 20 April 2015, 12:16:09 »
(Because ..... yeah..... I put thought into this :D)

The Potemkin-class Troop Cruiser "Spamalot" is commanded by Star Admiral Graham Terrance Clees (formerly of Clan Jade Falcon). During the war against the Blakists he received special compensation from the Khans to modify his ship into a dedicated fighter carrier. At 18 years of age he was the youngest Star Admiral in all the Clans and his unusual ways of thinking often won him victories in Trials. His twenty-five Dropships were converted into fighter carriers and escorts. Capable of launching over a thousand fighters, they proved deadly against the Blakist SDS's and provided tactical and precision support to mechs on the ground (despite tremendous losses). Now nearly seventy years later his ship is still there on the front lines. He is an adamant Crusader, believing in the conquest of Terra, what he calls "the Holy Grail". He also has an intense dislike of the Federated Suns, citing their stealing of the whole of New Avalon in the early 23rd century and naming it after a holy historic site on ancient Terra. He has also won several trials with the Republic of the Sphere in challenges for possession of several new Dropships. One of these infamous incidents was a political dispute between himself and a "sort of executive fellow of the week" (A Knight-Errant) which ended up in a slugging match in the mud outside Geneva.

(On a side note the Merchant, Laborer, and Technician caste have all requested to have him stripped of command due to the heavy costs in running such a vessel. The amount of spare parts, replacement craft, fuel, and other supplies is equivalent to the costs of maintaining both the Fire Mandrill and Blood Spirit Fleets. Reports also state the fact that several warriors have challenged him to personal combat over the loss of so many of the Toumans pilots.)

The "Spamalot" maintains the following TO&E (DATED January 1, 3145)

Potemkin-class Troop Cruiser "Spamalot" Star Admiral Graham Terrance Clees

Conquistador "Blockade Runner" class Dropship "Giant Wooden Badger" Star Commodore John Chapman
Conquistador "Blockade Runner" class Dropship "Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch"
Conquistador "Blockade Runner" class Dropship "A Shrubbery"

Tiamat II Class Pocket Warship "The Black Knight" Star Commodore Frank Young
Tiamat II Class Pocket Warship "Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog"
Tiamat II Class Pocket Warship "Knights who say 'Ni'"
Tiamat II Class Pocket Warship "Tim the Enchanter"

Titan Monitor class Dropship "Castle Anthrax" Star Commodore Zoot Merrell
Titan Monitor class Dropship "Castle Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh"
Titan Monitor class Dropship "Bridge of Death"
Titan Monitor class Dropship "Gorge of Eternal Peril"

Vengeance (Upgrade) class Dropship "Arthur, King of the Britons" Star Commodore Erik McKenna
Vengeance (Upgrade) class Dropship "Sir Bedevere the Wise"
Vengeance (Upgrade) class Dropship "Sir Lancelot the Brave"
Vengeance (Upgrade) class Dropship "Sir Galahad the Pure"
Vengeance (Upgrade) class Dropship "Sir Robin the Not Quite So Brave as Sir Lancelot"
Vengeance (Upgrade) class Dropship "Sir Not Appearing in this Film"

Aesir Assault DropShip "Roger the Shrubber" Star Commodore Michael Johns
Aesir Assault DropShip "Brother Maynard"
Aesir Assault DropShip "Robin's Minstrels"
Aesir Assault DropShip "Dennis"
Aesir Assault DropShip "Clarke Gable"
Aesir Assault DropShip "The Man from Scene 26"
Aesir Assault DropShip "Concord"
Aesir Assault DropShip "English Knights"

(The majority of the fighters carried are assault class designs like Jengiz's, Kirghiz's, and Scythas. )
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #41 on: 28 April 2015, 21:43:57 »
I forgot to add the new additions to the fleet

The Current Fleet (Update):
Assault


Three Battle-cruisers, One Heavy Cruiser, One Destroyer, One Frigate, One "World Destroyer" and One Carrier.

Sovetskii Soyuz Class Heavy Cruiser BFS Roger Wilco CO:  Captain JKLantern

Cameron-class Battle-cruiser BFS Taipo - CO: Lazarus Jaguar

Black Lion Class Battle-cruiser BFS Y'all Done Stepped In It CO:  Mayor "Mad Hank" Fitzsimmons [lordbd]

Anna Rosse-class Battle-cruiser BFS Liger/Extinction Event  - CO: Star Commodore Canin Rosse [Dragon Cat]

Davion IIA-class Destroyer IMS/BFS Halcyon CO: Captain Jack "Kasaga" Ryan

Congress-D-class Frigate BFS Delusions of Grandeur - CO: Liam Geist [Liam's Ghost]

Unique WarShip BFS Bonaparte's BFG - CO: Admiral Natalia Kutuzova-Bonaparte [Shrapnel]

New Syrtis-class Carrier BFS Loose Cannon - CO: Admiral "Wild" Bill Kelso [Wrangler]

Bug Eye-class Surveillance Craft BFS Lounge Lizard - CO: Captain  Percy Hickup [Snakespinner]

Potemkin-class Troop Cruiser (and attached support) BFS Spamalot - CO: Star Admiral Graham Terrance Clees [Tyler Jorgensson]

Support

One Battleship (Training ship), One Cruiser, One Corvette, One Troop Cruiser, One "JumpShip" and a DropShip

McKenna-class Battleship BFS Subtlety CO: Captain William Robert Raphael Leroy-Dietrich [drewbacca]

Tony Manero-class Cruiser BFS Tony Manero - CO: Master Arminas [masterarminas]

Fox Class Corvette BFS Pointless Venture CO:  Captain Fallen_Raven

Potemkin-class Troop Cruiser BFS Nightmares of Logistics - CO: Blaine 'Khymerion' Roderick

Mule Class Transport BFDS Magnifico CO:  Commander mikecj

Aquilla class primitive JumpShip BFS/TAS Philadelphia - CO: Giovanni Blasini/Jayson O'Donoghue

Bug Eye-class Surveillance Craft BFS Space Station - CO: Lord Heavy Metal [ckosacranoid]

I'm sure there are a couple more to go  ;)
« Last Edit: 29 April 2015, 23:07:46 by Dragon Cat »
My three main Alternate Timeline with Thanks fan-fiction threads are in the links below. I'm always open to suggestions or additions to be incorporated so if you feel you wish to add something feel free. There's non-canon units, equipment, people, events, erm... Solar Systems spread throughout so please enjoy

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,20515.0.html - Part 1

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,52013.0.html - Part 2

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,79196.0.html - Part 3

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #42 on: 28 April 2015, 23:38:00 »
Dart-class Light Cruiser Arkansas Traveler:


The Traveler has been plying the spacelanes for centuries, slipping in and out of known space at irregular intervals.  No one knows where she started.  No Dart was ever constructed under that name, that much is known.  The ship's supposed history begins during the early days of the First Succession War.  A FedSuns-born former SLDF naval officer, recently returned to the nation of his birth, was the first captain we know of.  This man, calling himself Alexander Lionheart, supposedly chanced across the ship in the outskirts of the Kathil system, doing some survey work for the SLDF, but never told anyone until he'd left League service.  He put together a skeleton crew of old SLDF mates, and offered the ship to House Davion as a privateer.  He was promptly issued a letter of marque.  Only a few years later his home world of Tecumseh was invaded by the Capellan Confederation, and he arrived in time to stall the attack just long enough to evacuate his childhood friends and extended family (which amounted to most of the small town of Crenshaw Springs).  The evacuees made a home on the ship, filling out the crew of the WarShip and its entire complement of carrier and attack dropships (and then some!).  From there, the history becomes murkier and much more mundane.  Essentially, the crew continued to ply the spacelanes, shipping cargo and preying on shipping of all the foes of House Davion.  Or foes of anyone else who payed.  Eventually, the already close-knit crew became even more so, such that those who dealt with them in one way or another described them as being akin to "a backwoods town full of inbred hicks".  This isn't entirely false, they'd come from a small town on a sparsely-populated world, and the long decades on the ship had accelerated their tendency to intermarry, such that everyone on the ship was related to everyone else by blood or marriage by the year 2900.  In the intervening years they've moved beyond even that, and are now more commonly described as being "like a cult living on a compound", it just happens that their "compound" is a 680 kiloton warship.  They've also spread out from Davion space, gradually wandering through Marik, Steiner, and Periphery space, mostly staying in the Periphery from the onset of the Third Succession War until the Jihad, since it was easier to hide the fact that they had a sort-of-functional WarShip.  The ship was officially declared its own nation on the day that its population reached 2,500.  This isn't recognized by any powers worth mentioning, but it does allow a certain (extremely thin) veneer of legitimacy when the Lord-Captain issues his own ship a letter of marque so that he can attack whatever new enemies he feels necessary.  All Lord-Captains have been direct descendants of Alexander Lionheart, by the way.  The current captain is know simply as "The 13th Lion" to his family-crew, and formally as V. Ian Lionheart (V for Victor, his mom like the Archon-Prince's name.  He doesn't.).  His most pressing concern aside from business (commerce, raiding, and commerce-raiding) is arranging marriages to make sure that inbreeding is kept to a minimum.  Everybody's cousins, after all.


The Traveler carries 6 dropships: 2 Vengeance-class and 4 Arondight-class Pocket WarShips.  No one knows how these latter ships were acquired, only that they replaced a mix of Avenger- and Achilles-class ships beginning around 3100.  The rumors that they had incriminating pictures of Federated-Boeing executives are entirely unconfirmed.
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #43 on: 29 April 2015, 01:34:49 »
Congress-D-class Frigate BFS Delusions of Grandeur - CO: Liam Geist [Liam's Ghost]

The proper title is Pirate Lord, sir.  :P
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #44 on: 29 April 2015, 23:07:16 »
Welcome to the fleet Arkansas Warrior, Pirate Lord Geist my apologies

The Current Fleet (Update):
Assault


Three Battle-cruisers, One Heavy Cruiser, One Light Cruiser, One Destroyer, One Frigate, One Troop Cruiser, One Surveillance Craft and One Carrier.

Sovetskii Soyuz Class Heavy Cruiser BFS Roger Wilco CO:  Captain JKLantern

Dart-class Light Cruiser BFS Arkansas Traveler CO: Lord-Captain V. Ian Lionheart [Arkansas Warrior]

Cameron-class Battle-cruiser BFS Taipo - CO: Lazarus Jaguar

Black Lion Class Battle-cruiser BFS Y'all Done Stepped In It CO:  Mayor "Mad Hank" Fitzsimmons [lordbd]

Anna Rosse-class Battle-cruiser BFS Liger/Extinction Event  - CO: Star Commodore Canin Rosse [Dragon Cat]

Davion IIA-class Destroyer IMS/BFS Halcyon CO: Captain Jack "Kasaga" Ryan

Congress-D-class Frigate BFS Delusions of Grandeur - CO: Pirate Lord Liam Geist [Liam's Ghost]

New Syrtis-class Carrier BFS Loose Cannon - CO: Admiral "Wild" Bill Kelso [Wrangler]

Bug Eye-class Surveillance Craft BFS Lounge Lizard - CO: Captain  Percy Hickup [Snakespinner]

Potemkin-class Troop Cruiser (and attached support) BFS Spamalot - CO: Star Admiral Graham Terrance Clees [Tyler Jorgensson]

Support

One Battleship (Training ship), One Cruiser, One Corvette, One Troop Cruiser, One "JumpShip" Two Surveillance Craft and a Transport DropShip

McKenna-class Battleship BFS Subtlety CO: Captain William Robert Raphael Leroy-Dietrich [drewbacca]

Tony Manero-class Cruiser BFS Tony Manero - CO: Master Arminas [masterarminas]

Fox Class Corvette BFS Pointless Venture CO:  Captain Fallen_Raven

Potemkin-class Troop Cruiser BFS Nightmares of Logistics - CO: Blaine 'Khymerion' Roderick

Mule Class Transport BFDS Magnifico CO:  Commander mikecj

Aquilla class primitive JumpShip BFS/TAS Philadelphia - CO: Giovanni Blasini/Jayson O'Donoghue

Modified Tracker-class Suveillance Craft [i[ BFS/IMV Wandering Profit
CO: Captain Harvey Pillock [Shrapnel]

Bug Eye-class Surveillance Craft BFS Space Station - CO: Lord Heavy Metal [ckosacranoid]

I'm sure there are a couple more to go  ;)
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My three main Alternate Timeline with Thanks fan-fiction threads are in the links below. I'm always open to suggestions or additions to be incorporated so if you feel you wish to add something feel free. There's non-canon units, equipment, people, events, erm... Solar Systems spread throughout so please enjoy

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,20515.0.html - Part 1

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #45 on: 30 April 2015, 02:18:51 »
I've decided to revert back to my original entry, the modified-Tracker, The IMV Wandering Profit captained by Captain Harvey Pillock. The BFG was way too cheesy. And the Profit belongs in the Support Fleet.
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #46 on: 30 April 2015, 02:48:07 »
I've decided to revert back to my original entry, the modified-Tracker, The IMV Wandering Profit captained by Captain Harvey Pillock. The BFG was way too cheesy. And the Profit belongs in the Support Fleet.

I wasn't going to say anything  O0 all changed

I'm sure there are a couple more to go

My three main Alternate Timeline with Thanks fan-fiction threads are in the links below. I'm always open to suggestions or additions to be incorporated so if you feel you wish to add something feel free. There's non-canon units, equipment, people, events, erm... Solar Systems spread throughout so please enjoy

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,20515.0.html - Part 1

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,52013.0.html - Part 2

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,79196.0.html - Part 3

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #47 on: 30 April 2015, 03:49:01 »
I've been doing a lot of AtB MekHQ lately building a unit taking to or through a contract then starting another, in order to build up some NPC units for a pen and paper game I might actually get to run locally sometime. 

One unit has a conquistador class dropship.  Current owner/CPT inherited it from his mother.  She named it the Faded Rose after hearing an ancient song sung by an artist only known as Tanya Tucker.  Song = Delta Dawn.  Oh, yeah, I forgot, the mothers name was Dawn. 
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #48 on: 03 May 2015, 15:19:43 »
The BFS Intermittent Coherence has been plying the spacelanes for centuries, trading and transporting all manner of goods from food stuffs, luxury items, all the way up to the occasional mercenary unit. First found during the First Succession War derelict and out of fuel in a pirate point of a garden world with as it turns out rather nasty fauna. Through all this time, the ship has remained the property of one family, and its captains, including the current one, a Captain Joseph Vo, have been selected from this family.

Ostensibly a Merchant class, the Intermittent Coherence has gained quite a reputation among its more frequent customers for its rather non-standard layout. The dropship collars are laid out slightly differently, which somewhat takes people's attention away from the other irregularities. At least nobody has ever commented on the fact that of the eight struts only three actually connect to Jump Sail. Nor has anybody ever commented on the Sail itself being wider by some 200 meters. Not that anybody would actually go out to measure it.

The eccentricities even extend to the inside, where the corridors are laid out differently. Even the bridge is laid out differently, sporting a helm station with a lot more controls than normal, and an extra pair of consoles that nobody has ever seen manned. And if anybody has noticed that the grav deck is larger by some 35 meters, nobody's complaining. The Merchant after all has been around long enough for quite a few custom jobs to have been made over the centuries.

Yes my friends, the Intermittent Coherence is actually a Tracker class camouflaged with jettisonable panels that allow it to resemble a humble Merchant. Nobody's sure though if the weapons and/or armor are still in standard configuration and they hope to never have to find out.

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #49 on: 03 May 2015, 15:39:39 »
I really really like the BFS Intermittent Coherence!


It has sort of inspired me to a ship of my own... The ex-SLS corvette the Privateer and Mercenary Escort MWS (Mercenary WarShip) Rounding Error


Yes, this ship was ordered, somehow never got around to commissioning and then was lost as a rounding error during the height of the Star League and quietly passed into "free trader" hands where she has been trying to avoid attention ever since, including a prolonged period in orbit of a quiet little Lyran world, paid for by the Planetary Duke which spared her from the Succession Wars


Thoughts on additional details?
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #50 on: 03 May 2015, 16:04:07 »
Class and CO?

Both welcome additions I'll update list later

More ships always welcome
My three main Alternate Timeline with Thanks fan-fiction threads are in the links below. I'm always open to suggestions or additions to be incorporated so if you feel you wish to add something feel free. There's non-canon units, equipment, people, events, erm... Solar Systems spread throughout so please enjoy

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,20515.0.html - Part 1

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,52013.0.html - Part 2

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,79196.0.html - Part 3

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #51 on: 03 May 2015, 16:05:19 »
Class and CO?

Both welcome additions I'll update list later

More ships always welcome


I'll work those out and post once I've thought it through
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #52 on: 03 May 2015, 16:55:45 »
I think that, looking at the timelines, it would need to be a Vincent although I wouldn't want to specify a mark (except as a joke) unless people think the Hegemony and then Star League kept some Vigilants and Bonaventures in service but my reading of Sarna.net suggests not


I need to think of a suitably comedic background and name for the Captain and key crew members but as a Davionist myself, I'm tempted to make him a failed FSN Kamikaze Captain who brought his ship close to an enemy and then opened fire with a broadside instead of ramming! Oh the shame!


Chief Engineer from a Scottish accented world - check
Cute multi-ethnic bridge bunnies - check
Token disabled character - check


The only real question is whether to have a Seven Of Nine-a-like former Manei Domini


Actually, all of the thoughts after the ship type are made up on the fly
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #53 on: 03 May 2015, 17:10:31 »
The Aquilla is a 305-meter-long, 100,000-ton primitive cargo JumpShip.

The Nightwing is a 305-meter-long, 100,000-ton surveillance WarShip that has the highest percentage of mass devoted to weaponry than any other ship in TR3057R, outgunning nearly all corvettes.

Coincidence?  I think not:

http://bg.battletech.com/forums/fan-articles/warship-of-the-week-nightwing-class-surveillance-ship/
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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #54 on: 03 May 2015, 21:40:31 »
Leviathan Class jumpship Two Short
CO, Captain "Mack" Long

Where this ship came from isn't really known. But it has been in longs hands for quite some time. Not often seen in the inner sphere proper until lately. Most of this ships life was out in the deep periphery. And the captain is rumored to have old star league charts annotated with even more system names then were even heard of then. While originally a leviathan, repairs and odd refits have it looking kinda like a monolith with two less docking clamps and some length to it missing. Until you do a double take up close.

Rumors have it that there is a lance of LAMS in the the small craft bays on board. Although they have never been seen in action. However there are a couple of of armed S-7A buses converted to battle taxi's that have been used by the company of vac trained marines on board when some less than honorable dropship captains think that an unflagged jumpship means a free ride. And are supported by a surprising amount of short ranged weapons fire from the jumpship when that happens.

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #55 on: 04 May 2015, 01:41:27 »
While DoctorMonkey sorts out their crew we've got new additions to the fleet, I've created an Intelligence Squadron as well since we've now got a few of those.

If we get more maybe I'll begin to split it further Cruiser units, Troops Transports, Carrier groups etc we'll see

The Current Fleet (Update):
Assault


Three Battle-cruisers, One Heavy Cruiser, One Light Cruiser, One Destroyer, One Frigate, One Troop Cruiser and One Carrier.

Sovetskii Soyuz Class Heavy Cruiser BFS Roger Wilco CO:  Captain JKLantern

Dart-class Light Cruiser BFS Arkansas Traveler CO: Lord-Captain V. Ian Lionheart [Arkansas Warrior]

Cameron-class Battle-cruiser BFS Taipo - CO: Lazarus Jaguar

Black Lion Class Battle-cruiser BFS Y'all Done Stepped In It CO:  Mayor "Mad Hank" Fitzsimmons [lordbd]

Anna Rosse-class Battle-cruiser BFS Liger/Extinction Event  - CO: Star Commodore Canin Rosse [Dragon Cat]

Davion IIA-class Destroyer IMS/BFS Halcyon CO: Captain Jack "Kasaga" Ryan

Congress-D-class Frigate BFS Delusions of Grandeur - CO: Pirate Lord Liam Geist [Liam's Ghost]

New Syrtis-class Carrier BFS Loose Cannon - CO: Admiral "Wild" Bill Kelso [Wrangler]

Potemkin-class Troop Cruiser (and attached support) BFS Spamalot - CO: Star Admiral Graham Terrance Clees [Tyler Jorgensson]

Support

One Battleship (Training ship), One Cruiser, One Corvette, One Troop Cruiser, Two JumpShip, Two Surveillance Craft and a Transport DropShip

McKenna-class Battleship BFS Subtlety CO: Captain William Robert Raphael Leroy-Dietrich [drewbacca]

Tony Manero-class Cruiser BFS Tony Manero - CO: Master Arminas [masterarminas]

Fox Class Corvette BFS Pointless Venture CO:  Captain Fallen_Raven

Potemkin-class Troop Cruiser BFS Nightmares of Logistics - CO: Blaine 'Khymerion' Roderick

Mule Class Transport BFDS Magnifico CO:  Commander mikecj

Aquilla class primitive JumpShip BFS/TAS Philadelphia - CO: Giovanni Blasini/Jayson O'Donoghue

Leviathan Class jumpship Two Short CO, Captain "Mack" Long [Bartholomew bartholomew]

Intelligence Gathering

Four Intelligence Craft

Modified Tracker-class Surveillance Craft BFS/IMV Wandering Profit CO: Captain Harvey Pillock [Shrapnel]

Bug Eye-class Surveillance Craft BFS Space Station - CO: Lord Heavy Metal [ckosacranoid]

Bug Eye-class Surveillance Craft BFS Lounge Lizard - CO: Captain  Percy Hickup [Snakespinner]

Tracker-class Surveillance Craft BFS Intermittent Coherence CO:Captain Joseph Vo  [Intermittent Coherence]

Now I'm sure this forum can provide more ships to the fleet I know there's more wannabe captains ready to join the cause.

All additions welcome - one WarShip, JumpShip or DropShip and a CO fluff optional
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My three main Alternate Timeline with Thanks fan-fiction threads are in the links below. I'm always open to suggestions or additions to be incorporated so if you feel you wish to add something feel free. There's non-canon units, equipment, people, events, erm... Solar Systems spread throughout so please enjoy

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,20515.0.html - Part 1

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,52013.0.html - Part 2

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,79196.0.html - Part 3

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #56 on: 04 May 2015, 03:06:47 »
I need to think of a suitably comedic background and name for the Captain and key crew members but as a Davionist myself, I'm tempted to make him a failed FSN Kamikaze Captain who brought his ship close to an enemy and then opened fire with a broadside instead of ramming! Oh the shame!

Put him in as hailing from Defiancein the FedSuns. Or more precisely, a mining colony on its moon, Iowa.

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Re: The Battletech Forums Fleet
« Reply #57 on: 10 May 2015, 23:16:14 »
   Specter Precenter XI Valefor (or The Governor) as she prefers to call herself commanded the most secret vessel in the Word of Blake fleet, the WoBS Carrion Swarm, now known as The 40 Man Hogger Raid - an Enterprise II class carrier built after the WoB seized Terra.  By replaceing all of the pulse lasers with SCL/3s, adding 21 drop collars, and 6,000 double heat sinks, the Word of Blake created a vessel designed to rival a Thera battle group.  Unfortunately for the WoB, Precener Valefor took this shining jewel of technology and disappeared with it after suffering from a burst of elctro-feedback from a mech taser hit while cross-training on battle armor operations.
 
  Her love of ancient Terran television and video games appears to be showing as she began referring to her Tau Zombie bodyguards as "Biters" and screaming "40 man Hogger Raid forming in Stormwind" before every jump.  Her crew puts up with her eccentric behavior as she continues to follow the last orders they knew of, which is to conduct destabilizing attacks against targets in the Inner Sphere.  Her favorite tactic is to jump into a system at a close pirate point and toss a few multi-megaton nuclear warheads at a nearby planet while laughing hysterically and shouting "Nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure."
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