You are looking at the standard light cruiser configuration of the Terran United Confederation (UC). The name of the class follows the time honored tradition of naming light cruisers after old Earth cities. This tradition continued even after the UC became the Terran Empire during the later part of the war with Naplia.
The Santa Fe class light cruisers were 200 meters from bow to stern. They were 33 meters tall with a beam of 53 meters.
She sports two Nashier heavy ion drive units and a serjaum jump core.
Armament includes ten 203 mm pulse cannons and eight torpedo tubes.
A pair of anti-missile defense turrets augment the ship’s force shields.
Crew complement is 340 souls.
What does this mean for Takamo Universe players?
Warships of varying classes will have equally varied missions. In a task force, the light cruisers act as a screen for the larger warships in the squadron. In a patrol role, they will serve as the leader or flag of a destroyer squadron. In the anti-stealth ship role, they will act as escorts for convoys and task forces. In the hunter- killer role, they will patrol alone or in concert with other light cruisers and destroyers on the hunt for enemy stealth ships.
In Takamo Universe, bigger will not always be better. There will be specific types of missions for every warship that players build or buy.
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The image is an artist’s rendition of the light cruiser Lisbon on patrol during the Terran screening action in the Corsican Nebula in 2711. The Lisbon failed to return from a lone anti stealth patrol during that operation. She was listed as overdue and presumed lost. Naplian intelligence documents captured during the cybernetic counteroffensives reference an enemy cruiser class vessel engaged by a Naplian frigate squadron in the Clatterfall Star System. The Naplians lost contact with the cruiser in the ort cloud of the system. Salvagers, archaeologists and technology hunters continue to search for signs of the Lisbon.