Cornuelle

Imperial Méxica Navy Astronomer-class light cruiser, IMN CL-341, assigned to detached duty anti-piracy patrols in the Hittite Sector.

Command Crew

Launched from the Teotihuacán Fleet Yards sixteen years ago. The class of Astronomer ships are now being decommissioned and retired from service, sold or parted out. (House of Reeds).

Dorsal cutaway view of an Astronomer-class Imperial Méxica Navy light cruiser:
A: Outer hull.
B: Particle beam pit. Primary and secondary particle beam mounts are located along the hull.
C: Upship maneuvering thruster clusters.
D: Missile racks extend along ‘wing’.
E: Transit-core.
F: Command deck.
G: Port Boat Bay.
H: Secondary hull.
I: Between-hull.
J: Hab core.
K: Engineering deck.
L: Downship maneuvering thruster clusters.
M: Fusion Reactors.
N: Main drive antimatter engines.
O: Hyperdrive coil.

Builder:	Teotihuacán Fleet Yards
Designation:	CL Light Cruiser
Class:	Astronomer
Displacement:	9,000 tons
Ship’s Complement:	300.
Ship’s Complement:	Three squads of Imperial Marines.
Machinery:	Antimatter main drive output divided into six engine nacelles.
	Primary and secondary reactors.
	Main comp connected to other ship systems by triplicated datacores
	G-decking only in place in the primary crew spaces, with nonskid deckplating present at gangways.
Endurance:	Nine months on patrol
Ship’s craft:	Three Varanus-class cargo/combat shuttles.
	One Captain’s Launch.
	A number of engineering work platforms for EVA work.
Sensors:	Equipped with passive sensor and active sensor arrays.
	Six Huehuetl-6B ECM Outrider drones.
Stealth:	Stealth capability enhanced by hull profile, shipskin and interior heat sump.
Armament:	Nine missile racks capable of launching:
	Atlatl-IV anti-ship sprint missiles.
	Hayai Roku missiles.
	Primary and secondary particle beam mounts.</br> Two of the primary beams are mounted on forward nacelles.
	Point-defense equipped with railguns and gatling guns mounted within the shipskin.
Armor:	Shipskin.

The ship symbol is a solar flare or sunburst.

The command deck (or command ring) is located at the heart of the crew spaces in the forward upship section of the main body, surrounded by cargo holds and two belts of reinforced armor.
Secondary control.
The JOQ is on Deck 6, starboard.
The Enlisted mess is on Deck 16.
Engineering is known as the engine ring and is located downship.
A tubecar runs through the transit-core of the ship.
Four corridors (shafts when the ship is under main drive) run from the stern to the fore of the ship.
One shuttle boat bay is aft near the engine ring. The other two boat bays are located further forward: port and starboard.

Assigned to detached duty anti-piracy patrols in the Hittite Sector. Patrol record:
- Four engagements with hostile elements
  - One in the Argentosonae System.
  - Destroyed a large Khaiden starship with three well-placed shipkillers. The Cornuelle took severe structural damage in the affray, but shipboard losses had been light.
  - Three privateer kills (including the Turan in the Ephesus System).
- Five station or planetary disputes settled by force of arms.
Chosen for the role of Elder Warrior in the Xochiyaoyotl – the Flowery War on Jagan.
- Seventy of the crew were killed when the Cornuelle was severely damaged by a flower-box antimatter mine detonation whilst in orbit over Jagan.
- The ship was wrecked.

"In the time of the Sixth Sun" by Thomas Harlan