The Farragut Battle Cruiser is the mainstay capital ship of the Federation. Heavily armed with classified weaponry, the Farragut stretches over two kilometers long. The backbone of the Federal Navy, it also forms the central core of Federal Navy Fleets.
The battlecruiser is capable of transporting and operating whole groups of Federal Corvettes, alongside housing multiple F63 Condor squadrons. It cannot be piloted by players.
Design
The official The Art of Elite Dangerous art book describes the Farragut:
"In contrast to the opulence of the Empire’s Majestic Class Interdictor, the Federation’s capital ships are brutal, practical war machines inside and out." [1]
"Airtight doors split the interior into many separate compartments. Grab-handles abound, as do access panels and all the paraphernalia of a military vessel. There would be no mistaking a Federal ship’s interior with an Imperial one."[1]
According to David Braben"There will be no gravity, you'll just float around. Things like magnetic boots will make getting around very easy. These would look like normal shoes with fancy technology that make them stick to the surface." "The Federal ship is a lot more Spartan, a lot more just practical warship essentially." "The Federal ship's central section, with design, one of the design briefs we've had is try to design ships with functions in mind. In the Federal ship it's utility that's important. The reason its got this central corridors is this is where ships come out of their hangars. It's to try and protect the hangars from outside. So the reason they face inward and the ships fly out you know they're already up to speed. That would be very heavily protected potentially with shields around it."[2]
Specifications
Core Dynamics Farragut-Class Battlecruisers represent the cutting edge in military technology. A single FBC can carry several squadrons of Federal Fighters and multiple Federal Corvettes across hundreds of light years without any difficulty. These deep deployment capabilities, coupled with extraordinarily heavy firepower, practically guarantee that a single FBC will completely overpower all but the most well-equipped opponents.[3]
Either a Farragut Battle Cruiser captured by the Empire, or the result of a bug
Notes
The Farragut Battle Cruiser length (2040m) is similar to 6 Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carriers (337 m).[6]
All Farragut Battle Cruisers appear to share the registration tag of FDN-RD5.
The Farragut Battle Cruiser cannot be destroyed by reducing its hull to 0%.[7]
After destroying all of the Faragut's Heat Relays the ship will escape from battle by activating its Frame Shift Drive.[8]
Routing the Farragut awards the player 150,000 CR.
Capital Ships have an exclusion zone. Flying too close to a Capital Ship is considered a threat and will make you a target, even if you are friendly. The Capital Ship will often inform you when you are getting close, telling you to back off.
A Farragut is stationed above Earth in the Sol system, perhaps as a permanent post. It does not maintain an exclusion zone for friendlies.
Federal Navy First Fleet in Newsletter 52
Farragut Drawing
Farragut Drawing 2
Farragut Drawing 3
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ED Ship Size Comparison [CMDR Arithon]
Farragut Battle Cruiser near the surface
Farragut Battle Cruiser battle
Farragut Battle Cruiser FNS Alacrity
FNS Angelos
FNS Bellerophon
FNS Iris
FNS Glory
Farragut Battle Cruiser Blueprint
Corvette and Farragut scale comparison
View from behind the Bridge on top.
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