Turbolasers

[Chaos Maxtor]

So here is a question: what is the minimal size ship (length not class) to have a single turbolaser? Lore (Cannon lore that is) tends to be haphazard when it comes to searching for cannon(weapon) sizes. All opinions wanted: both in lore and for Roleplay, but mostly for roleplay because I just found an old file I want to submit.

Making stuff in RPGs is one of my things, a hobby really. But I was a big D&D player back in the day.

 

[Lok Jorunn]

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If you're going off of the basis of the Anaxes War College System, I'd say any capital ship would be able to wield turbolasers. Since you asked about the minimum, Corvettes would be the min for capital vessels. Most Starfighters and Freighter variants typically don't have a large or powerful enough energy source to be able to power a turbolaser along with other key ship systems, so going with a Corvette-sized vessel and above would be choice when wanting to use turbolasers.

I'd say above 80m in length.

 

[Arrbi Betna]

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Mostly, turbolasers are only on capital ships from Corvette size and up, but there are the rare occasions that you may see one on something smaller. For example, the Kondoru.

 

[Chaos Maxtor]

Arrbi, and anyone else: The capital ship point is a little obvious (I know I am new here, but this isn't my first experience with Star wars beyond the movies. In RPG Terms I started with the d6 system in the early 1990s). I don't mean any offense but I am looking for length for an idealistic length for a ship with a single turbolaser.

Keep 'e, coming!

 

[Ayden Cater]

In general, without substantive development, you'd not expect to find turbolasers on anything much smaller than a corvette. 80 meters is about the line I'd expect.

 

[Cobalt Krell]

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Smallest canon example of a turbolaser-armed ship might be the Millennium Falcon, and I think those are downsized.