Centuari Republic Primus Class Variants Tribunal Class War Cruiser The Tribunal was an attempt to build another pocket dreadnought on a Primus hull. It wasn't too successful. Tribunal Class SCS (Rare) Trinarius War Cruiser The Trinarius was another attempt at producing a Primus variant armed with Heavy Arrays. The resulting ship had more in common with the later Quadros class than the Secundus, which is the other known Heavy Array equipped model. This version kept the original Primus' twin arrays, but substituted heavy arrays for the battle lasers. Two ballistic torp launchers were mounted in place of the hangar, as well as two plasma accelerators. Trinarius Class SCS (Rare) Quadros and Quintos Heavy Battlecruisers The Quadros was an attempt to build a dreadnought type of ship on a cruiser sized hull. It was an immensly powerful design, but suffered from a power deficit and was equally expensive. It was armed with eight heavy arrays, four batte lasers, and four plasma accelerators. It also lacked a hangar. The Quintos was the lighter, less power strained type mounting four light plasma accelerators in place of the big ones. Quadros Class SCS (Rare) Quintos Class SCS (Rare) Octen Assault Cruiser The Octen was built to compliment the numerous other Assault Cruiesrs in the fleet. Octen Class SCS (Rare) Primus Praetoriate Battlecruiser The Primus Praetoriate was built by the Centauri to provide a heavy escort for the Centarum when they go on one of their Junkets together. Not many of these ships have been built. Primus Praetoriate Class SCS (Rare) Denisius Class Patrol Tender The Denisius class was built to supplement the Lias class ships converted to Lupa LCV transport and supply. It was built to transport two Lupa class attack boats on its long range patrols, in order to give it extra firepower should they encounter a determined enemy. Not many ships of this type were built, as the collars tended to come under undue stress while transporting LCV's through hyperspace. Denisius Class SCS (Rare) Primus Dominion Class Command Cruiser The Primus Dominion was built as a cheaper alternative to the Primar (Primus Maximus by the more pompous members of the Royal Court) class Command Cruiser. It was built with aft twin arrays to cover the jump drive more effectively, as well as losing one forward twin array, but gaining two ballistic torpedo launchers. This type carried no fighters. Primus Dominion Class SCS (Rare) Quatrus Class Carrier I don't remember the exact fluff text associated with this ship, as it isn't actually my design. I got the specs for it from the B5W Forum site from, well, one of the threads there. It was talking about Centauri Carriers, and modifying an Octurian or Primus to make a good carrier. I lost track of the discussion thread, as I can't seem to find it in either the General Discussions or the Shipyards forums. And it isn't in that "Centauri Carriers" thread, that'd be too easy... If anyone who reads this can find the origin of this ship, I'll give you, well, grief, and may agree to do an SCS or two for you... Quatrus Class Carrier (Uncommon) Centauri Torr Class Attack Cruiser, Todd Class Attack Cruiser, Octus Class Assault Cruiser, Kutas Class Strike Cruiser, and Longinus Class Bombardment Cruiser Torr and Todd Class: House Torr having developed the new heavy array decided to re-arm a number of their Primus battlecruisers with the new weapon to serve as a test bed. After initial tests it proved powerful but short ranged. To get round this sensors were improved and the engine was made more powerful to increase speed. After house Torr was found guilty of plotting against the Emperor these ships were seized and given to house Mollari where they have remained ever since. Octus Class: The Primus model 23(Secundus) was a post construction refit intended to test the effectiveness of the Heavy Array on a Capitol Ship. Following it's deployment it was evaluated, particularly after the destruction of one by B5. The ship was found to be flawed by being too expensive for it's limited armament and infantry component, particularly since all 4 heavy arrays had restricted firing arcs and were located close together in the bow. The HA was, however, judged to be an excellent new weapon. Construction began on a purpose built new hull designed around a larger infantry component and more firepower, while retaining a fighter escort for the assault shuttles. Starting with the standard Primus hull configuration, the port and starboard twin arrays were upgraded to HA w/o any loss of firing arc. The port and starboard battle lasers were removed. The relatively small Plasma Accelerator was chosen as a replacemnent weapon, one each port and starboard with the same 120 firing arcs the BLs had. A Decurion style hangar for 2 boarding pods and 12 assault shuttles was added to each side. The Sentri hangar was retained. This uncommon variant was found to have plenty of up close ground support capability while needing no extra escorts while attached to the fleet. Kutas Class: The Covran Scout is one of the best Elint ships currently in space, having 14 EW and +2 initiative. The biggest drawback has been that many races see it as the "first must kill ship" of any Centauri fleet. The Centauri Primus model 25 is designed to provide equivalent fleet EW support with greater survivability. Starting with the standard Centauri hull configuration, the following changes were made. The hangar was removed to allow more EW processing power. The port and starboard BLs were replaced with 1 Ballistic Torpedo on each side and one HA on each side, no change in fring arc from the BLs. The remaining space was used for larger EW antennas. The port and starboard TAs were replaced by Guardian Arrays. After increasing power to EW by 2, the ship had 2 extra power which was used to power a limited version of the Dargan's Chameleon system. The model 25 can mimic any other Capitol Ship. This ship was designed by "Taaris Vaal" on the B5Wars forums sometime last year. I thought the design was unique and had merit, so that's why it's here. The second variant is a variant that Todd Boyce suggested as to make the Torr not as powerful. The other variants are ships suggested later in the same thread by esoclectica (first two) and Reid Hupach (final one). Torr Class Attack Cruiser (Rare) Todd Class Attack Cruiser (Rare) Octus Class Assault Cruiser (Uncommon) Kutas Class Strike Cruiser (Rare) Longinus Class Bombardment Cruiser (Rare) The next one is obviously a joke... Quack Party Cruiser The Centauri are known for being able throw a good party. One of the more celebration-prone houses wanted to carry the party with them where ever they went. They deciced to build a ship that would allow them to do that. Seeing as how the Emperor's Transport was a heavily modified Primus Class, they thought "Why not?" and began converting theirs. The unfortunate side effect of building a bar into a ship is that the captains of such vessels were always a little too liberal with their Barvari, usually causing the ship to fly backwards. The normal reactor also couldn't handle the added power consumption needs of the bar. Now, the bar couldn't (or more to the point, wouldn't) be shut down, so the shipyards designers went about addressing the problems. The bar, along with the reactor to power the bar, is also the most protected "system" aboard the ship. Now, the ship still needed to be combat worthy, but needed to also be the "Party Cruiser" the House wanted. The shipyards took a Primus, and turned it backwards, thus fixing the problem of the drunken Captains (The yard designers happened to be drunk as well...). Now, it wouldn't do to have the jump engine sticking out the front, and there were too many thrusters in front now. The two smaller ones were removed and replaced with ballistic torpedo launchers (which were usually armed with empty bottles of Bravari or other alchoholic beverages), while the jump engine was replaced with a Battle Laser. Four of the twin arrays were upgraded to heavy arrays (just because), while two of the regular battle lasers were removed to make room. The battle lasers were also repositioned to fire in the direction that was now forward. The hangar was now situated aft, but that didn't bother those that crewed the ships. The ships could carry a squadron of fighters, but usually these berths were left open for supply delivery shuttles. What were previously the retro thrusters were upgraded to supply the main thrust. The jump engine was moved to the primary section of the ship. An enlarged reactor was also installed for the added power requirements of the weapons and bar. Note that the bar doesn't have a power icon, as weapons and other systems would be turned off first in order to provide power to the bar. The ship has an initiative modifer of -10 to reflect the poor judgement and relfexes of the inebriated crew. The ship's maneuverability was also affected by the effects on the crew, and turning is a bit of a problem. Rolling, however, has become easier to accomplish, since the crew seems to always think the room is spinning anyways. One of these ships was present at the decommisioning of Babylon 5. The prosession of ships leaving Babylon 5 didn't leave in a hurry because of the station exploding, they were trying to get out of the way of the CRS Pork Chop, the Quack class sent to the ceremony. Names of other Quack class spotted (and avoided) are: Zoot! Zoot!, The Lando, Lando Show, and Bringer of Wheat Thins. (For the game, going along with the above modifciations, the ship, when travelling in a straight line, has to constantly side-slip from one side to the other. If it side-slips into a hex with another ship in it, it rolls to see if it rammed the other ship.) Quack Class SCS (Rare, thank God...)