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The '''Centauri battlecruiser''' (given the name '''''Primus''-class''' in ''B5Wars'') is a heavy capital | The '''Centauri battlecruiser''' (given the name '''''Primus''-class''' in ''B5Wars'') is a heavy capital [[warship]] in the [[Centauri]] navy. These ships have superior armament to those of the [[Narn Regime]] and the [[Earth Alliance]], but lag in terms of armor. | ||
==Specifications== | ==Specifications== | ||
Revision as of 20:35, 6 January 2009
The Centauri battlecruiser (given the name Primus-class in B5Wars) is a heavy capital warship in the Centauri navy. These ships have superior armament to those of the Narn Regime and the Earth Alliance, but lag in terms of armor.
Specifications
A Centauri battlecruiser is approximately 250 meters in length and a little over 200 meters wide.[1] As a large capital ship, it has jump engines that can open a vortex into hyperspace.
Centauri battlecruisers have four pulse-cannon turrets mounted on their dorsal surface and four on their ventral surface. The Centauri reportedly fire pulses by preference rather than by technological limitation,[2] so these weapon mounts may also be capable of firing sustained beams. A Centauri battlecruiser was able to produce enough fire from these weapons to overwhelm the interceptor defenses of Babylon 5 while simultaneously firing on a Narn heavy cruiser and a squadron of Starfuries.[3]
A Centauri battlecruiser has a bay in its bow for launching and recovering shuttles. They were never seen to launch starfighters during the series, although secondary sources say they do carry starfighters.
A Centauri battlecruiser can be fitted with a mass driver on its ventral surface. This weapon of mass destruction can fire meteroids gathered near the orbit of a planet onto the planets surface to cause massive damage for a relatively small expenditure of energy.
Notes
- ↑ Centauri battlecruiser at Babtech on the Net.
- ↑ B5 "And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder"
- ↑ B5 "The Fall of Night"