The Tarasque-class battlecruiser was originally designed for use by the Terran Protectorate, but the cost, and the inability to meet the Protectorate's high production requirements kept the ship from receiving a military contract. Instead, the manufacturer, Hashimaru Aerospace Industries, began a limited release edition for corporate paramilitary organizations, planetary militias, and high-end mercenary groups. The ship is highly controversial, as it is the first vessel ever rated as a battlecruiser to be sold on the open market. But many people think the controversy, and public sale is a ruse. There is a persistent rumor that Hashimaru and the Terran Protectorate did reach a top secret agreement to manufacture the ship for use with the Protectorate's special forces units and then gave the company express permission to sell the ship to the public. Why? So that the ships used by the Terran Protectorate's undercover forces could be mistaken for mercenaries, corporate interests and others. The public sale of the vehicles provides Spec Ops ships a reliable cover when operating outside of the protectorate, if the rumor is true. The rumor also claims that the public sale vehicles have reduced armor, weapons power and speed. This would explain why there are more sightings of these ships than seem to be accounted for by Hashimaru's sales. Model: HAI-14 Tarasque Class: Battlecruiser Height: 197 feet (58.6 m) Length: 1,005 feet (306 m) Width: 729 feet (222 m) Sublight Speed: 22% speed of light Maximum FTL Speed: 400C (one light year per 22 hours) Range: 796 light years Crew: 48 Officers, 420 enlisted, 30 marines or security personnel, 18 flight officers Troops or Passengers: 200 max (100 comfortably) Armaments: 1x Gauss Cannon (firing 1,000 lbs. tungsten carbide rounds) 6 x Forward Anti-ship missile launchers 2 x Rear Anti-ship missile launchers 2 x 60 TeV Particle Beam Cannons 4 x Twin-barrel, 10 Petawatt/milisecond solid state laser turrets (5 PT per barrel) 8 x Twin-barrel 60mm Extended Range Ion Defense Turrets Armor: 2 cm multiwalled carbon nanotube mesh over 1-foot thick alumina and titanian carbide chobham armor. Auxillary craft: 6 light or medium fighters (varies with purchaser) or 4 heavy strike fighters. 4 short-range shuttles Avionics: Digital Optical Telescopes, Long-range Mass Detectors, Long-Range Electromagnetic Field Detectors, LADAR, Radar and Infrared Field Surveyors Modeled in DOGA-L3 and Carrara. Textured and rendered in Carrara 7.0. Enjoy, and let me know what you think.