Cylon Tanker

The tanker is the primary cargo mover for the Cylon Empire. Whilst called a tanker, and while the primary cargo hauled is indeed fuel, the tanker does transport many types of cargoes, including spare parts, dry goods and more. The basic version of the tanker does not have much in the way of a defence, having a single flight of Raiders as its sole means of protection, but the Raider flight does provide a flexible means of protection and can also act in a scouting and limited attack role. Variants on the basic tanker do provide additional pulsar laser turrets, but the tanker is not built for combat and needs an escort in any but the safest environments.

If used around its faults, the tanker is a successful design that has been with the Cylon Starforce for a long time, and it looks like it shall remain with it for a time yet to come.

In all versions, the hanger deck can accommodate an additional shuttle. Cost excludes fighters and shuttles. Cabins are not for crew use, but for the rare occurrences when the ship carries passengers.

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Piloting (Cylon Large Ship)

Streamlined Artifical gravity.
Top air speed is 2,500 mph; Hnd/SR is 0/5.
Crew 15x control, 16x technicians, 20x hanger.

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Armed Tanker

Not so much a variant, but an addition the standard or fighter-less tankers. The armed tanker simply adds a couple of pulsar laser turrets with energy banks for all round defence. These turrets provide minimal defence at most against a determined attacker, but in tightly space convoys, the firepower from several tankers can provide a spirited defence against a lightly armed attacking force.

Replace Central [3] and [4] Cargo with Tertiary battery (two turret 10 MJ particle beams; 1,400 tons cargo). Cost increases by $0.8M and adds 4x gunnery crew.

Fighter-less Tanker

The fighter-less tanker is simply that, a variant that increases the cargo holds of the ship by removing the fighter bays, although the shuttle bay is still present. Mainly used in safe areas as without the fighters, the craft is now totally defenceless, which obviously is not a good idea in a war zone.

Replace Front [2] Hanger bay with Cargo (1,500 tons). Cost drops by $3M. Hanger crew drops to 9.

Fighter-carrier

The fighter carrier removes a lot of the cargo area of the standard tanker and increases the Raider complement. A much liked variant as the additional Raiders provide a much better defence against attackers. In addition, the tanker can act as a small raiding force in its own right (although despite the beefed up defences of the tanker, it is still not a comba weapon on its own). These craft are usually added to normal convoys to provide some escort, and can be seen more frequently on the rim of Cylon space where additional protection is usually required against the marauders and pirates encroaching on Cylon space.

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Piloting (Cylon Large Ship)

Streamlined Artifical gravity.
Top air speed is 2,500 mph; Hnd/SR is 0/5.
Crew 15x control, 4x gunners, 16x technicians, 42x hanger.

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Q-Tanker

The Q-Tanker is a specially designed variant. Externally, it looks exactly like an unarmed tanker, and indeed, it usually travels hidden amongst convoys or lying as bait in remote areas of space looking like an easy target. However, when an attacker gets close, multiple turrets pop out of the hull and the increased Raider force (the Q-Tanker usually carries 2 Raider flights and 1 shuttle) launches to attack the (hopefully) surprised attacked. In addition, the Q-Tanker contains two large pulsar lasers at the front of the craft to make this ship a threat against larger targets, and increased armour and more powerful engines enable the vessel to have a longer life span. These craft are not too common so as to continue to seed doubt in the enemies mind as to whether their target is in fact a normal tanker, but the destruction rate of these ships is high.

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Piloting (Cylon Large Ship)

Streamlined Artifical gravity.
Top air speed is 3,500 mph; Hnd/SR is 0/5.
Crew 15x control, 11x gunners, 16x technicians, 22x hanger.

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