Guardian FDV
<font size=4>The Guardian Fleet Defence Vessel</font>
Craft: Guardian Class Fleet Defence Vessel
Combat Abbreviation: GFDV
Mission Profile: Fleet Defence
Designer/Manufacturer: Imperial R&D Department
Retail Price: Not available for sale. Produced exclusively for the New Order.
Consumables: 6 months
Cargo Capacity: 1500 metric tonnes
Length Over All: 600 meters
Sublight Speed (Cruising): 8 MGLT
Sublight Speed (Flank): 10 MGLT
Sublight Speed (Emergency Full): 16 MGLT
Hyperdrive Motivator (Main): x1
Hyperdrive Motivator (Backup): x4
Shield Integrity: 10 500 SBD
Hull Integrity: 800 RU
Weapons:
<ul><li> 10 Quad Laser Batteries (anti-starfighter)</ul>
Hanger Capacity:
<ul><li>1 Squadron TIE Defenders</ul>
Troop Capacity:
<ul><li> None</ul>
Additional Equipment:
<ul><li> Phalanx Anti-missile network
<li> Reactive Shielding
<li> Multi Track Shielding
</ul>
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 Messiah an unprecedented edge in battle.
Background Information
Designed with one mission in mind, the Guardian is the latest addition to the New Order's fleet department. Based on the hull of the Immobilizer 418, the FDV replaces that vessel's gravity well generators with high-output energy shields.
The Guardian incorporates technology devised for the Messiah ACSS to produce an omni-directional energy field to deflect enemy bombardments.
The FDV can generate a shield in front of an advancing fleet of three square kilometres, with an average rating of 10 500 SBD across. The shield area can be changed, directly effecting the strength of the shield (for example, the shield could cover 6km2, but at a strength of only 2665 SBD throughout).
The shield itself is made of hundreds of smaller nets, so that a collapse in one area will not bring down the shield as a whole.
Due to the power demands of the shields, the FDV is lightly armed and carries only one TIE Sqaudron, but this was deemed worthwhile by the Imperial High Command.