The Ranger is an outgrouth of the standard Colonial Light Cruiser, built to more exacting requirements. It was designed to be small, fast and agile, and be able to protect the ships in convoy without having to continually rely on fighter escort. In this capacity the ship was best suited to rear line work, however its speed and agility did help serve it well when reacting to threats.
However with all the specialised equipment on board, including the additional sensors and Asp Recon fighters, the ship fufilled another role of intelligence gathering and picket raiding where it would penetrate into the rear areas of the Cylon fleets and attempt to disrupt supply lines or to gather information on convoys for later raids.
The Ranger was drawn and designed by Todd Boyce, the SSD was designed by me and drawn by Sean Driscoll.
The Ranger has two launch tubes (J1.54) for its Asps, which will launch them in direction 1 at speed 12, and a single shuttle bay with a standard shuttle hatch (launching and landing in direction 4).
The shuttle bay is not large enough to accept yachts.
The Ranger has a hyperspeed multiplier of x1.
| A | B | C |
| 6 F.Hull 2 Bridge 2 Lab 1 Sensor 1 Ph.1 2 Ph.3 |
3 C.Hull 2 Ph.3 2 Asps 2 Shuttles |
4 A.Hull 2 cargo 1 Ph.3 2 Battery 2 APR 10 Warp |
| GIF file | |
|---|---|
| Ranger Class Escort SSD | 37k |
| Ship | Crew Units | Brdg Parties | BPV | Move Cost | Size Class | Turn Mode | Explos. Str | F&E Cmd | Ftr Flights | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLE Ranger | 10 | 2 | 38 | 0.50 | 4 | A | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6500 | 2 Asps, SC |
This ship may land on a planet via Powered landings (P2.434).
| Ship | Type | Ftrs | Admin | Bays | Store | DC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranger Class Escort | CLE | 0/2 | 2 | 0/2/1 | - | 2 |
