StarCitizen:Bengal

The Bengal is a fleet carrier spacecraft manufactured by StarCitizen:Roberts Space Industries (RSI) for the StarCitizen:United Empire of Earth Navy (UEEN). Bengal-class carriers carry multiple squadrons of fighters, bombers and support craft, and typically form the nucleus of a UEEN battle fleet or task force group.<ref name="galactapedia">Template:Cite RSI</ref> Their massive armaments and extremely heavy shielding make it nearly impossible for any individual craft to threaten them.<ref>Template:Cite RSI</ref> It is 990 meters in length.<ref>Star Citizen: The Scale of Things to Come on YouTube</ref>

Specifications

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Model

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Acquisition

At CitizenCon 2954, it was revealed that player orgs would be able to construct the Bengal using the StarCitizen:DryDock module on StarCitizen:player space stations.<ref name="citcon2024">Template:Cite RSI</ref> Derelict wrecks might also be found, which will need significant efforts to repair.<ref>"The idea is that we've seeded a couple of them out there in the universe, rendered derelict by a Vanduul (or other) attack. Players can go out there, find them and fix them up. It's basically a conceit to get around the idea that the UEE would never actually let someone have such a ship.", Ask our Community Manager: Ben Lesnick, May 10, 2013

</ref> They will be persistent and will not despawn, thus needing constant crewing attention so as not to be boarded and stolen by others.<ref>10 for the Chairman: Episode 53 (2015.02.16), Star Citizen, Youtube, 17 February 2015</ref>

Development

The initial concept of Bengal is designed by StarCitizen:Ryan Church (Freelance Conceptist) in 2013, and then handed off to a crew of artists (including StarCitizen:Sergio Rosas) at StarCitizen:CGBot.<ref name="jp1">StarCitizen:Ryan Church, StarCitizen:Sergio Rosas, StarCitizen:David Ladyman and StarCitizen:Ben Lesnick, Work in Progress: Bengal Carrier, Jump Point, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 3, 2013-02.</ref> Throughout the coming years, it was only ever displayed in certain promotion videos or development updates. In one particular case, an episode of StarCitizen:Around The Verse was used to display development progress on the ship, showing several interior shots such as ship hangars and flight decks.<ref name="shipshape" /> Throughout time, it has been worked on mostly behind the scenes. The ship was featured in several StarCitizen:Squadron 42 teasers or trailers, confirming that it would need to be developed for an appearance in that game.

Design brief

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Builder	Roberts Space Industries
Length	1,000 meters
Crew (max)	755
Mass (empty)	113,000 tonnes
Focus	Battlegroup fighter and bomber support platform
Range	Unlimited 20+ years
Description	The Bengal-class is the UEE's “tip of the sword.” The iconic Bengal is the most powerful warship available to the UEE Navy and its imposing presence has held off raiders and the Vanduul throughout the outer colonies, allowing humanity to spread unchallenged. Bengals carry multiple squadrons of fighters, bombers and support craft. Their massive armaments and extremely heavy shielding make it nearly impossible for any individual craft to threaten them. Only a combined effort could ever hope to destroy or capture one.

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Cargo Capacity	15000 tonnes
Engines	Classified
Modifiers	10
Max. Class	Antimatter
Main Thrusters	6 x TR10, 4 x TR8, 4 x TR7
Maneuvering Thrusters	16 x TR6

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• 1 x Behring Turret with 4 x 130m “Ship Buster” Railguns
• 18 x ASD Ship to Ship Turrets with dual Ion cannons
• 40 x MaxOx AA Turrets with dual Heavy Duty Laser Cannons
• 16 x K&W Rolling Space Frame (with 21 missiles each)
• 4 x Talon ‘Sweeper’ Mine Dispensers (aft) (Ammunition Types: HE, EMP, Web, Nuclear, Anti-Matter)

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• 14 x Phalanx point defense Laser Gatling
• 36.4” Icarus Armor Plating
• 14 x Phoenix-class Shield Generators
• 6 x HT-2000 Burst Shield Generators (back-up non-sustainable shields) (2 fore, 2 mid, 2 aft)

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Trivia

• Traditionally, Bengal-class carriers are named after big cats.Template:RSIForumComment
• Bengal is the first capital ship shown in StarCitizen:Star Citizen back in the original Kickstarter campaign.<ref>Squadron 42 - Full Cinematic Trailer</ref>
• Seven artists are on board for its construction and development since the time of R&D.<ref name="shipshape">Template:Cite RSI</ref>
• An Idris can be fit in the hangar of the Bengal practically, but can't fly it in.<ref name="shipshape" />
• The main turret of the Bengal is slightly smaller than the Idris.<ref name="shipshape" />
• The interior is around three or four times the size of a Battlefield 4 map.<ref name="shipshape" />
• The Bengal was teased on May 1, 2021 on the Star Citizen Twitter with an image of a Bengal cat inside a backpack carrier.<ref>Star Citizen tweet of Bengal carrier</ref> The ship then appeared during the StarCitizen:2951 Invictus Launch Week as part of the UEE navy fleet flying around the StarCitizen:Stanton system.
• In internal playtesting, players got frustrated traversing the ship. Elevators and a subdeck monorail were added as a solution. It runs from one side of the flight deck to the other. It can be used to transport cargo and personnel.<ref>Squadron 42: Around the Verse - Flight Intelligence on YouTube</ref>
• The Bengal carrier is sometimes nicknamed as the Bagel carrier by the community.
• The Bengal class is also a class of carrier in Wing Commander.<ref>Bengal-class strike carrier, wcpedia</ref><ref>Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts returns to gaming with Star Citizen online game universe, VentureBeat, October 10, 2012</ref>
• A scale model of a Bengal built by StarCitizen:Mangostone is displayed at the CIG offices in Manchester.<ref>"A while ago our team at Mangostone created a series of models for the guys at Cloud Imperium Games. [...]", Laurens Nockels, Sci Fi/Fantasy Scratchbuild and kitbash modeler, Facebook, February 28, 2025</ref>

See also

• [[StarCitizen::Category:UEEN Bengal-class vessels|List of UEEN Bengal-class vessels]]
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• Ship Shape: Bengal Carrier on YouTube Template:Transcript
• Star Citizen: Big Guns of the UEE on YouTube
• Star Citizen: Behind The Big Guns of the UEE on YouTube
• Album of Bengal by Weehamster on Imgur
• StarCitizen:Olympus, a city built out of the remains of a crashed Bengal on StarCitizen:Ashana in the StarCitizen:Nul system

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