Tershin-class patrol corvette

Tershin-class patrol corvette

The Tershin-class patrol corvette was the smallest used by the Royal Navy of the Golden Empire. It was named for the planet Tershin.

Dimensions
Tershin-class corvettes were 120 meters long, 35 meters wide, and 25 meters tall. Most of their internal space was devoted to engines and weapons emplacements, with the leftover room dedicated to crew living quarters. The ship's bridge had room only for five beings, including the captain.

Armament
The Tershin corvette carried two cannons for defense against starfighters or attacking smaller vessels. To quickly overpower smaller craft or provide a fighting chance against other capital ships, it had four standard batteries and one quad turbolaser battery. The corvette's shields and hull strength were commensurate with its size, but not enough to withstand any dedicated fire from other capital ships.

Crew and complement
A fully crewed Tershin corvette had a crew of forty, including officers, with an additional twenty gunners. Some modified corvettes used as system patrol craft carried boarding parties at the expense of living quarters. The corvette had no starfighter squadrons.

Service
The Tershin corvette, like the Iscandar-class frigate, was designed by the Iscali prior to Iscandar and Tershin joining the Golden Empire. The design was slightly tweaked for military use by Royal engineers.

Due to its small size and light armament, the Tershin corvette could catch and overwhelm s, but was woefully underarmed to fight ships of the line. As a result, Tershin corvettes were often used as picket ships and scouts by the Royal Navy. Various local law enforcement agencies and system defense militias, which were not authorized ships of the line, usually had Tershin corvettes as mainstays of their fleets; the Synno Gendarmes had no fewer than six.