Mobile Firebases were intended to support large field operations. More resembling modern ringed space stations, their cores were usually battleship or dreadnought hulls, though some were built by hollowing out asteroids.
A few had no hyperspace capability of their own, instead relying on dozens or hundreds of small ships docking with them to create the needed hyperspatial nodes.
It is rumored that near the end of the Great Galactic War, the Dusman employed several with their own mobile stargates attached.
Whatever their construction and however they got there, they would be placed into a strategic location and set up to support operations. Many still exist, though none are mobile anymore, and most are in civilian hands.
Specifications
Base Abbreviation: MF
Tonnage Range: 2M-10M tons
Common Maximum Acceleration: 0 G
Common Endurance: 1,000-2,000 G-hours, F11 sufficient for 5,000 FPH
Common Power: 25-35 single use toroidal fusion plants (25 terawatts each)
Common Shields: 50-75 500/6 gigawatt multiphase generators arranged at all facings
Common Armor: Very Good (multiple 200-megawatt hits or a single 1-gigawatt, resistant to HE warheads, barely useful against nuclear warheads)
Common Armaments:
- Antimissile lasers (100-200, 100-megawatt)
- Particle accelerators (100-200, 1-terawatt)
- Missile launchers (500-1,000, broadside-mounted, magazine-fed, manufactory to replace expended missiles)
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