My first try

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Lazer Frigate Mk1 class Cruiser    5,150 tons     128 Crew     2029 BP      TCS 103  TH 960  EM 0
9320 km/s    JR 3-50     Armour 5-26     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 1     PPV 18
Maint Life 0.47 Years     MSP 246    AFR 212%    IFR 2.9%    1YR 527    5YR 7904    Max Repair 360 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 5 months    Spare Berths 0   

J5250(3-50) Military Jump Drive     Max Ship Size 5250 tons    Distance 50k km     Squadron Size 3
480 EP Inertial Fusion Drive (2)    Power 480    Fuel Use 62%    Signature 480    Exp 15%
Fuel Capacity 1,500,000 Litres    Range 84.6 billion km   (105 days at full power)

30cm C10 Soft X-ray Laser (2)    Range 384,000km     TS: 9320 km/s     Power 24-10     RM 6    ROF 15        24 24 24 24 24 24 20 18 16 14
Fire Control S02 192-6250 H30 (1)    Max Range: 384,000 km   TS: 6250 km/s     97 95 92 90 87 84 82 79 77 74
5-60 Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor Technology PB-1 (1)     Total Power Output 60    Armour 0    Exp 5%

Active Search Sensor MR64-R100 (1)     GPS 3600     Range 64.8m km    Resolution 100

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

Tell me what you think for this desigh. Fast-response frigate.  Use it for max 1 jump distance.

[Jorgen_CAB]

The design will work and have no immediate problem but a few remarks is in order...

The range of the ship is way too long for what you want such a ship to perform. You also want such a ship to be as fast as possible so you should design an engine with a higher power efficiency. Speed is paramount for such a ship, both for offence and defence.

You also have a repair capacity that is awfully low in comparison with what you need. There is a great risk that a squadron of these ships will loose one due to maintenance problem if you go to the system next door.

I would personally reduce the deployment time to 0.5 month to reduce the crew needed and increase the engineering so you have at least 1 year of maintenance life. Make a more powerful engine, give the ship less fuel and add at least one maximum spinal mounted laser in addition to the two 30cm lasers that you have.

The ship has no protection against missiles and both ASM and AMM will be a huge problem if the enemy use these. I would perhaps either design an escort ship with the same engine carrying gauss cannons (or lases cannons if your research is too poor on gauss technology) or make the ship slightly bigger and include a twin turret gauss defence system.

Remove the search sensor for a smaller resolution "1" sensor, you only need long enough range to engage your enemy and missiles. You must rely on some dedicated scout ship to actually locate the enemy, these are too expensive to use for that.

Those are my main concern about the design.

Oh... and... you can't call the ship "Lazer Frigate Mk1 class Cruiser", it can't be a frigate and a cruiser at the same time... unless you mean that a frigate is a cruise ship such as the old frigates of the past.  

[Black]

Yo could combine the point defence ship with jump engines. Then you could remove jump engine from your laser frigate and use the tonnage for more weapons or armor.

[Jorgen_CAB]

Yes, I forgot to mention the Jump Drive... removing that and build a dedicated Frigate Leader that house all the active defenses would make much more sense. The ships could also be overall much smaller which is good in most respects and cheaper for the same fire-power.

[Theodidactus]

I wholeheartedly endorse your adoption of the "Lazer with a Z" batch of honor. However, to bear that title with true pride, you need to do everything possible to maximize the number of lazers on your ship. Best suggestion: put the jump drive on another (bigger) ship and pack more lazzzzzzzers on this puppy.