GTC Cretheus

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GTC Cretheus

Description:

Tech Room Description

The GTC Cretheus is a new light cruiser, designed primarily for escorting convoys and vunerable ships. With 8 dual flak cannons, it is capable of taking care of most fighter or bomber threats. Its two powerful engines allow it to keep up with any transport ship and almost match speeds with heavier fighters. When faced with a capital ship threat however, the Cretheus' only advantage is its small size and speed. Without any beam cannons and only light armor, the Cretheus must rely on heavier cruisers for survival. Cretheus Cruisers are typically in groups of two or three so that their spread of flak can cover more area.

Blue Planet: War in Heaven Tech Description

The Cretheus gunboat, officially a Fast Picket, is a small, cheap, agile escort with dedicated antifighter defenses, limited anti-warship ability, and a tortured design history. The prototype was fielded during the Second Incursion, intended as a cheap, numerous escort platform armed with eight flak guns. But the first prototype was lost during its OpEval period in a classified operation on the fringes of the Capella system, and the findings of the loss investigation pointed to unacceptable vulnerability to hostile beam-armed warships. RNI designers protested that the ship was never meant to operate under such conditions, but lobbying by the Akheton Corporation, which hoped to push a variant Mentu design into the light escort role, managed to block the other prototypes from deployment to Capella where, ironically, they might have saved tens of thousands of lives lost to Shivan bombers. The spaceframe was brought back into consideration during the first wave of the Threat Exigency Initiative, but Morgan Technologies asked for it to be held back until it could be packaged with first new fire control systems, then provisions for their new pulse weapons, then improved flak magazine storage. The design entered mass production two years before the Reunion in a number of variants, but the Akheton Corporation again held back its deployment, and it is only now being cycled into the Sol theater where it is intended as a gunship deterrent and point defense picket.

Credits

• Model by Axem

Performance:

Statistics

Default Statistics

Type	Cruiser
Manufacturer	N/A
Maneuverability	N/A
Max Velocity	50
Max Afterburner Velocity	N/A
Armor	N/A
Hitpoints	7000
Shields	0
Width	60 m
Height	36.3 m
Length	121 m

Blue Planet Statistics

Type	Cruiser
Manufacturer	RNI Systems
Maneuverability	N/A
Max Velocity	50
Max Afterburner Velocity	N/A
Armor	Medium Armor 100
Hitpoints	20,000
Shields	0
Width	60 m
Height	36.3 m
Length	121 m

Armaments

• Turrets

Default Statistics		Blue Planet
Turret Type	Amount	Turret Type	Amount
Standard Flak	8	STerPulse	2
		Heavy Flak	4
		Long Range Flak	2

Veteran Comments

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The Cretheus plays a role in Vassago's Dirge, where it was a powerful yet fragile anti-fighter escort, capable of a quite impressive flak barrage but quickly wiped out by beam armed cruisers. The ship is expected to play a similar role in the second installment of Blue Planet: War in Heaven with a direct counterpart in the UEF, the Custos.

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