Corellia SD
<font size=4>The Corellia Star Defender</font>
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Craft: Corellia Class Star Defender
Combat Abbreviation: CSD
Mission Profile: Combat Command
Designer/Manufacturer: Modifications by Imperial R&D Department
Retail Price: Not available for sale. Modified terrorist warship
Consumables: 4 years
Cargo Capacity: 230 000 metric tonnes
Length Over All: 6250 meters
Sublight Speed (Cruising): 8 MGLT
Sublight Speed (Flank): 12 MGLT
Sublight Speed (Emergency Full): 16 MGLT
Hyperdrive Motivator (Main): x.9
Hyperdrive Motivator (Backup): x3
Shield Integrity: 50 000 SBD (Backup: 20 000 RU)
Hull Integrity: 60 000 RU
Weapons:
<ul><li> 280 Heavy Turbolaser Batteries
<li> 100 Heavy Ion Cannon Batteries
<li> 36 Proton Torpedo Clusters
<li> 18 Tractor Beam Emplacements</ul>
Hanger Capacity:
<ul><li> 8 Squadron TIE Series Starfighters
<li> 10 Skipray Blastboats
<li> 18 Lambda/Sentinel Class Shuttles</ul>
Troop Capacity:
<ul><li> 1000 Fleet Troopers</ul>
Additional Equipment:
<ul><li> Phalanx Anti-missile network
<li> Reactive Shielding
<li> Multi Track Shielding
<li> Secondary Bridge
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Explanations
Phalanx Anti-Missile Point Defence Gatling Laser Network
The Phalanx, is made up of a network of small, turreted light blaster cannons. These weapons are very able to pick out missiles and destroy them from long range. The Phalanx System reduces the percentage of successful short-range missile strikes to less than 20%, and long-range attacks to under 5%.
Reactive Shielding
Reactive shielding is a system designed to protect the Messiah from energy weapons. When the vessel’s shields are raised, a special battery bank is charged along with them. Then, when computers detect a substantial bombardment against any section of the vessel, the shield is immediately recharged with stored energy from this bank.
Multi Track Shielding
Multi Track Shielding uses a dedicated targeting computer imbedded in the shielding system to track approaching enemies and calculate approximate damage. The system automatically them distributes shields for maximum damage resistance. Combined with reactive shielding, this system gives the ship an unprecedented edge in battle.
Proton Torpedo Clusters
A dedicated cluster of Proton Torpedo Launchers, each equipped with its own complete targetting array. Each of the clusters contains fifteen launchers, linked into three banks. When the cluster is fired, there is a second-long delay between each bank. The result is that the first wave of missiles can often create a small gap in the shields, allowing the second and third waves to penetrate and strike hull. The arrangement allows for maximum damage to be sustained from a single cluster firing.
Background Information
Captured from the terrorist forces at the Battle of Corellia, the Viscount Class Star Defender was originally designed as a partnership between Mon Calamari and Corellia.
The captured vessels were built at Mon Calamari, and did not meet the expectations of Imperial engineers - especcially those who had worked previously on the Corellian-built varients.
Imperial designers immediatly went to work on modifying and advancing the captured ships, turning them into compitent weapons for the defence of the Empire.
The end result was the Corellia Class Star Defender, so named for their actions (or lack thereof) during the terrorist attack. Sacraficing much of its cargo space and troop capacity in order to carry more weapons and heavier defences, the new ship has been dubbed a "capital ship killer" by the Admiralty.
Where the terrorist vessel carried nearly 12 000 soldiers for ground-based attacks, the new varient carries only a handful. The facilities neccessary for handling the massive number of additional men were stipped, giving room for more power generation facilities to feed the heavier weapons mounted on the ship.
Similarly, four sqaudrons of starfighters have been removed in order to increase engine capacity, allowing the ship to move only slightly slower than it originally did despite heavier armour plating on all surfaces.
Outwardly, the vessels are no different from other Star Defenders. On the inside, however, they are Imperial war machines, more than capable of each engaging a Mon Calamari varient and emerging the victor.
(OOC Information: This is a modification, to be applied to all captured Viscount Star Defenders. I would therefor suggest either no R&D time, in the manner of the Shroud's "modification", or a 20-day R&D time, since we cannot "build" these ships from scratch.)