Minbari Federation Tinashi Class Variants ## Tinashi Class Varaints Naceran Class Attack Frigate (rare) The Naceran Attack Frigate was the precursor to the Shantavi Class. It was the first Minbati attempt to make the Tinashi hull a quick strike ship. It is armed with four molecular disrputers, six fusion cannons, and one EMG. Naceran Class SCS Delaros Class War Cruiser The Delaros is the main ship of the line from 1000 years ago. It has the same hull as the modern Tinashi, but significantly older weapons. It carried three anti-matter cannons, four fusion beams, and two molecular accelerator cannons (new weapon, Minbari version of Railgun). It had no jammer. None survive in this old configuration today. Delaros Class SCS Elos Avaras Class Light Carrier The Elos Avaras was the last war's primary light carrier. It could carry and launch 18 Tishats into battle. It was armed with eight fusion beams and two EPG's. Elos Avaras Class SCS Vorlen Class Advanced Cruiser The Vorlen Class Advanced Cruiser was actually advanced 1000 years ago. It was advanced in that it was built with technology garnered from the mysterious space station Babylon 4. Bablyon 4 was armed with a type of weapons system that the Minbari had never encountered before. Because they were so single-minded when it came to weapons systems, they never developed regular laser or particle based weapons and chose to instead concentrate on Molecular based weapons. Babylon 4 was an EA battle station, armed with enough weaponry to single handedly take on and defend itself from the nastiest ships that plowed the space lanes a thousand years in the future. Because it was Earth Alliance in origin, it was armed with a combination of Laser cannons, Pulse cannons, and particle beams. Valen, the Minbari that was aboard the station when it was found, was a Minbari not born of Minbari, ie, he was born a Human named Jeffery Sinclair, sometime in the 23rd century. He transported the station back in time, accompanied by an alien known as Zathras. He was very secretive about his origins, but was happy to help with the war against the Shadows. He suggested various programs to help with the war. With Valen supervising its construction, the Vorlen was the most advanced Minbari ship at the time, more so than even the new Solando Class Battleship. The Vorlen was armed with six fusion beams, a prototype jammer, three Earth Alliance Heavy Laser Cannons (gifted to them from Valen's own private library of seemingly Vorlon technology), and two EA Medium Pulse cannons. The pulse cannons were later removed do to over complexity (and the Minbari's perfection of the uninterceptable Neutron Laser Cannon). The ships were so long out of commision and forgotten about during the EM war, that no Minbari, even the Grey Council, noticed the striking similarities between the Earth Alliance's weapons and the ancient Minbari weapons of the last Shadow War. Valen had kept the secret of the future war to himself, in order to not change history. The EA symbols all over Babylon 4 were guessed by the Minbari to be some sort of Vorlon insignia, but thier meaning and presence on the station was lost as the centuries progressed. The last Vorlen class cruisers were taken out of service about seven hundred years ago. Vorlen Class SCS