Editing Royalty

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{{InfoBoxJumpShip
| image =
| Name = ''Royalty'' class JumpShip
| Manufacturer = 
| Use = Combat transport
| Cost = 
| Introduced = [[2695]]
| Tech Base = 
| Mass = 210,000 tons
| Length = 600 meters
| Sail Diameter = 1140 meters
| Fuel = 500 tons (1/ton)
| Burn Rate = 39.52 tons/burn-day
| Top Thrust = 1.0g
| Sail Integrity = 4
| KF Drive Integrity = 5
| LF Battery = No
| Armament = (see article)
| Armor = 100 tons
| DropShip Capacity = 4
| Crew = 32 (+16 pilots)
| Grav Decks = 1
| Escape Pods/Life Boats = ?
| Heat Sinks = 250
| BV (1.0) = 
| BV (2.0) = 
}}

==Description==
The '''''Royalty''''' class of [[JumpShip]]s was a combat transport developed and deployed by the [[Rim Worlds Republic]]. It appears to be an armed civilian JumpShip in the sense of a "Jolly Roger" (as opposed to a [[WarShip]]), sporting above-average firepower, armor and thrust and organic [[aerospace fighter]] support. By the [[thirty-first century]] the class appeared to be extinct.

The ''Royalty'', equipped with a K-F Mark VIII-A drive, is said to be based on the venerable ''[[Invader]]'' class, although it is considerably larger and resembles the ''[[Star Lord (JumpShip class)|Star Lord]]'' class far more judging from its design parameters.

A variation of the ''Star Lord''&#39;s Sunburst M220L station keeping/thrust drive can be installed on the ''Royalty'' as a replacement for the original thrust engine. The thrust rating of the only known ''Royalty'' vessel, modified with Sunburst M220L drive, was given as 1.0g; the original configuration was only said to be capable of providing "over 0.8g" thrust, with excessive fuel consumption above 0.4g.

==Armament==
The original ''Royalty'' class features twin [[Barracuda]] launchers and "several lasers" in the bow, augmented by gun turrets on the sides of the command and engine sections with either a [[Gauss rifle]], an [[SRM-6]] with [[Artemis IV]] and a [[Large Pulse Laser]], or an [[AC/20]], an [[AC/5]], a [[PPC]] and four [[medium laser]]s. Additional weapon and missile defense systems may have existed.

In addition to its four [[Docking Collar]]s, the ''Royalty'' class has "over a dozen" aerospace fighters and small craft. A retrofitted vessel featured 16 [[Small Craft]] cubicles with 4 bay doors, which is presumably the original configuration.

==Canonicity==
All information available about the ''Royalty'' class and the single known vessel of this class, the ''[[Lorelei's Hope]]'' (previously the ''Amaris Star''), was published in [[BattleTechnology#Issue 20|''BattleTechnology'', Issue #20]]. This magazine and its content was considered [[canon]] in its time, but is not among the list of canonical sources anymore. The magazine and the information taken from it must thus be regarded as apocryphal.

==See Also==
* [[:Category: Individual Royalty-class JumpShips]]

==Notes==
*The article about this JumpShip class and the ''Amaris Star''/''Lorelei's Hope'' was written by [[Gerald Hall]], registered here on BTW as [[User:Tekteam26]].
*The ship's stats as described, especially the KF drive core mass in relation to the ship's mass (76.19%), are incompatible with the construction rules: As written, the ship utilizes neither a standard (95%) nor a compact (42.5%) KF drive core but something in between; under current rules, it could be assumed to be a primitive drive core of some sort. The author conceded that he had "fudged" construction rules.
*All technical information known is third-hand information provided by a technician who was in turn given the information from a crew member of the ''Lorelei's Hope''. Any and all technical information regarding the vessel may thus be inaccurate.
*While it is described as a JumpShip in its write-up, the ship's classification as a JumpShip instead of a WarShip is arbitrary because of the drive core and thrust engine.

==Bibliography==
* [[BattleTechnology#Issue 20|''BattleTechnology'', Issue #20]]


[[Category:JumpShip classes]]