Battletech - Bagration Class Transport Cruiser

Bagration Class Transport Cruiser

Length – 775 meters
Displacement – 770,000 tons
Crew Complement - 393

As the Great Debate between the Crusader and Warden Clans picked up within the Homeworlds, Clan Jade Falcon’s Khan, Ackerly Hazen was determined that when, not if, they returned to the Inner Sphere, that the Falcons would be leading the way towards Terra.  Although the Falcon’s were one of the most powerful Clans, and a leading light of the Crusader movement, they still did not know what they would be facing when they returned to the Inner Sphere.

There was every chance that the Inner Sphere had collapsed into chaos as much as the Bandit Lords of the ‘Great Houses’ managing to hold things together and continue to exist.  Either way, they would not surrender their power willingly and would need to be fought. 

To do this, large quantities of Warriors and their Mechs as well as Elementals and OmniFighters would need to be transported to the Inner Sphere in the march on Terra, and here the Falcons had a problem.  Whilst they had large numbers of JumpShips, if the Inner Sphere’s powers had survived, then it was likely that the Clans would face hostile WarShips.  If this was the case, then the Falcon’s extensive fleet of Cruisers would be needed to engage hostile ships, not carry troops.  Experience from Operation Klondike and historical evidence from the Amaris War and the Reunification War showed that JumpShips were vulnerable to hostile fighters and terrifyingly exposed when faced with hostile WarShips.  Unwilling to risk losing troops in space Khan Hazen ordered her Scientists and Technicians to design a WarShip that could perform the role of transport and troop carrier without resorting to building something on the scale of the titanic Potemkin class assault ships.

In 3001 the design was completed and presented to the Khans for approval.  At 770,000 tons the design was slightly larger than the Aegis class vessels common to the Falcon Naval Reserve and they could fit into the same slips as the cruisers for repairs.  Although the design featured only one Grav-Deck it was a very long one, filling out a large portion of the ships interior, much like the layout of the Potemkin class.  This allowed the maximum space to be used for any troops carried aboard the 10 DropShips that could be carried aboard the new transport cruiser.


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