Phantasm Carrier v. I-B
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Craft: Phantasm Class Special Operations Carrier v. I-B
Combat Abbreviation: SOC-B, PSCOC-B
Mission Profile: Special Operations and Fleet Support
Designer/Manufacturer: Imperial SS Shipyards at Echtabahn
Retail Price: Not available for sale. Produced exclusively for the New Order.
Consumables: 12 months
Cargo Capacity: N/A
Length Over All: 2000 meters
Shield Rating: 4000 SBD
Hull Rating: 3000 RU
Sublight Speed (Cruise): 18 MGLT
Sublight Speed (Flank): 21 MGLT
Sublight Speed (Emergency Full): 28 MGLT
Hyperdrive Motivator (Main): x.8
Hyperdrive Motivator (Backup): x2.9
Weapons:
12 Tractor Beam Projectors
10 Proton Torpedo Clusters (able to launch a variety of warheads)
Hanger Capacity:
6 Squadrons of TIE Series Starfighters
20 Stealth Dropships
10 Sentinel-Class shuttles
80 Grinder-Class Boarding Pods(R&D Coming Soon)
Troop Capacity:
Up to 20,000 troops in overload, between 12000 and 15000 for longer missions.
Additional Equipment:
Wraith Stealth System
Changeling Hologram System
Doppelganger Ion Drive
Periscopic Tactical Sensor Array
Explanations
Wraith Stealth System
The ISB's attempt at being techno savvy in the area of stealth technology; the Wraith is, while not a perfect stealth system, is an excellent leap in the right direction. It incorporates a number of system dampers to prevent energy emissions from leaving the ship along with a double blind cloaking field that while blinding the vessel, makes it completely invisible to the naked eye as well as scanners. This system's cloaking abilities are highly reliant on a bulky hibridium cloaking device, which is unable to be used during hyperspace since they have been revealed to be very unstable if active during travel through hyperspace. This was inadvertently discovered by Admiral Zaarin who tried escaping on a cloaked CR90 Corvette into hyperspace. The results ended the existence of both Zaarin and that vessel when the device ruptured. It also give reason for no weapons besides the 15 tractor beams and 10 warhead launchers, which require less energy to fire than an actual energy weapon.
All emissions that can't be blocked by the cloaking field are fed into the Doppelganger.
Changeling Hologram System
An innovative system designed by some of the New Order's top civilian scientists, under the direction of COMPNOR and the ISB, this system can render a hologram so realistic that it will register on most sensors as real since the projectors focus the image on enough wavelengths that it will even repel light emissions of varying levels, even to the point of scanners except for the highest scanning bands which are only used at very close proximity or during more specific scans. The system has projectors scattered all over the hull, permitting the vessel to assume the shape of certain pre-programmed designs including asteroids of varying makeup as well as space debris and even other ships. With the adequate programming and information, it can even assume the form of enemy vessels, if that vessel is on record and has been view from all angels, which most have been.
Doppelganger Drive System
A system uniquely designed for use on the Phantasm is the Doppelganger Drive. This drive system is designed to make the Phantasm the only vessel currently in existence that can use top notch engines with absolutely no visible emissions. While most stealth ships use engines that dampen their drive output, this system instead causes its drives to generate outputs in the form of radiations natural to space, masking anything that might seem unnatural. Thus, all emission unable to be dampened are instead flooded by natural radiation emissions, causing both to disperse quickly after being released so as to prevent the vessel from being detected through trying to find severe concentrations of natural radiations.
Periscopic Tactical Sensor Array
The Phantasm carries a least two dozen of these small arrays which are raised when the cloaking field is activated. Since a double blinding field is used to ensure absolute invisibility, it is necessary for the ship to still be able to see. Thus the PTSA is raised, giving the vessel a full view around it. However, the ISB is aware that these small protuberances would be easily spotted and thus had them coated in layers of space black non-reflective paint so as to prevent sensors and most forms of light, especially those used by sensors, from reflecting off of them.
Background Information
The original Phantasm Class Special Operations Carriers was probably the most blatant attempt by the ISB to dig its claws even deeper into the Imperial armed forces. Its was designed for use as a base of operations in long term missions and thus carried the necessary food stores and housing for the three wings worth of fighters aboard it. It also carried 15 Stealth Dropships for insertion of ISB Operatives as well as 40 Grinder-class boarding pods for boarding/raiding operations in space. The Phantasm also carried with it 5 Sentinel-class shuttles for other operations.
The vessel itself was manned entirely by ISB agents of varying specialities from piloting and navigation to fighter coordination and engineering. The fighter pilots themselves had all been under ISB observations for over a year before being permitted to fly in one of the Phantasm's fighter squadrons. They also were required to pass a number of COMPNOR and ISB loyalty tests.
Even though it was designed to also function as a attack support vessel in the sense of just how many fighter squads it is capable of carrying since the bulk of its smooth and yet rectangular form was fighter bays, its primary purpose was to function as a mobile base of operations, thus it had no actual weapons on it besides a fair number of warhead launchers to disable ships for boarding operations. The only other weapon systems aboard it were tractor beams which it used during certain situations to prevent vessels and objects form colliding with it, and to prevent the escape of enemy vessels.
Due to its lack of actual offensive capabilities, the original Phantasm was heavily armored and was equipped with an extremely powerful shield array that is only active when its stealth systems are not on due to the fact of the power being drained for either one to function.
During the Divide and Conquor campaign, the Imperial SS got its hands on two Phantasm-class ships. After the attack on Yuri and Li'eston, and the successful defense of the Echtabahn shipyards, Echtabahnian and Imperial SS engineers went to work on the ships, leaving the outer shell and stealth systems intact but moving pretty much everything else. 10 warhead launchers were removed and replaced with two more tractor beams, permitting the ship to use another ship for movement. The fighter bays were cut down to only house six squadrons rather than 18, and most of these would be TIE Phantom II's, to be used for the disabling of a craft to be boarded. Extra dropships were added, and the boarding torpedo capacity was doubled. Troop capacity increased, as did the speed, but the shielding took a major hit, being cut nearly in half. Still, the v. I-B version of the ship would rely on stealth, not armor, to defend her. Cargo capacity also took a hit, as the ship was not likely to be away from Imperial space for more than a year at a time. Short missions would be its forte.
OOC NOTE: This is not a new R&D, simply the updated SS version of the craft. I don't think an R&D test thread will be required, but let me know if you think it necessary. Remember, this isn't a Mk. II, simply a different version of the same craft. A different intended mission profile. Note also that this ship was originally designed by Drayson and the ISB - I must give credit where credit is due. I made a few changes and added the last paragraph.
Combat Abbreviation: SOC-B, PSCOC-B
Mission Profile: Special Operations and Fleet Support
Designer/Manufacturer: Imperial SS Shipyards at Echtabahn
Retail Price: Not available for sale. Produced exclusively for the New Order.
Consumables: 12 months
Cargo Capacity: N/A
Length Over All: 2000 meters
Shield Rating: 4000 SBD
Hull Rating: 3000 RU
Sublight Speed (Cruise): 18 MGLT
Sublight Speed (Flank): 21 MGLT
Sublight Speed (Emergency Full): 28 MGLT
Hyperdrive Motivator (Main): x.8
Hyperdrive Motivator (Backup): x2.9
Weapons:
12 Tractor Beam Projectors
10 Proton Torpedo Clusters (able to launch a variety of warheads)
Hanger Capacity:
6 Squadrons of TIE Series Starfighters
20 Stealth Dropships
10 Sentinel-Class shuttles
80 Grinder-Class Boarding Pods(R&D Coming Soon)
Troop Capacity:
Up to 20,000 troops in overload, between 12000 and 15000 for longer missions.
Additional Equipment:
Wraith Stealth System
Changeling Hologram System
Doppelganger Ion Drive
Periscopic Tactical Sensor Array
Explanations
Wraith Stealth System
The ISB's attempt at being techno savvy in the area of stealth technology; the Wraith is, while not a perfect stealth system, is an excellent leap in the right direction. It incorporates a number of system dampers to prevent energy emissions from leaving the ship along with a double blind cloaking field that while blinding the vessel, makes it completely invisible to the naked eye as well as scanners. This system's cloaking abilities are highly reliant on a bulky hibridium cloaking device, which is unable to be used during hyperspace since they have been revealed to be very unstable if active during travel through hyperspace. This was inadvertently discovered by Admiral Zaarin who tried escaping on a cloaked CR90 Corvette into hyperspace. The results ended the existence of both Zaarin and that vessel when the device ruptured. It also give reason for no weapons besides the 15 tractor beams and 10 warhead launchers, which require less energy to fire than an actual energy weapon.
All emissions that can't be blocked by the cloaking field are fed into the Doppelganger.
Changeling Hologram System
An innovative system designed by some of the New Order's top civilian scientists, under the direction of COMPNOR and the ISB, this system can render a hologram so realistic that it will register on most sensors as real since the projectors focus the image on enough wavelengths that it will even repel light emissions of varying levels, even to the point of scanners except for the highest scanning bands which are only used at very close proximity or during more specific scans. The system has projectors scattered all over the hull, permitting the vessel to assume the shape of certain pre-programmed designs including asteroids of varying makeup as well as space debris and even other ships. With the adequate programming and information, it can even assume the form of enemy vessels, if that vessel is on record and has been view from all angels, which most have been.
Doppelganger Drive System
A system uniquely designed for use on the Phantasm is the Doppelganger Drive. This drive system is designed to make the Phantasm the only vessel currently in existence that can use top notch engines with absolutely no visible emissions. While most stealth ships use engines that dampen their drive output, this system instead causes its drives to generate outputs in the form of radiations natural to space, masking anything that might seem unnatural. Thus, all emission unable to be dampened are instead flooded by natural radiation emissions, causing both to disperse quickly after being released so as to prevent the vessel from being detected through trying to find severe concentrations of natural radiations.
Periscopic Tactical Sensor Array
The Phantasm carries a least two dozen of these small arrays which are raised when the cloaking field is activated. Since a double blinding field is used to ensure absolute invisibility, it is necessary for the ship to still be able to see. Thus the PTSA is raised, giving the vessel a full view around it. However, the ISB is aware that these small protuberances would be easily spotted and thus had them coated in layers of space black non-reflective paint so as to prevent sensors and most forms of light, especially those used by sensors, from reflecting off of them.
Background Information
The original Phantasm Class Special Operations Carriers was probably the most blatant attempt by the ISB to dig its claws even deeper into the Imperial armed forces. Its was designed for use as a base of operations in long term missions and thus carried the necessary food stores and housing for the three wings worth of fighters aboard it. It also carried 15 Stealth Dropships for insertion of ISB Operatives as well as 40 Grinder-class boarding pods for boarding/raiding operations in space. The Phantasm also carried with it 5 Sentinel-class shuttles for other operations.
The vessel itself was manned entirely by ISB agents of varying specialities from piloting and navigation to fighter coordination and engineering. The fighter pilots themselves had all been under ISB observations for over a year before being permitted to fly in one of the Phantasm's fighter squadrons. They also were required to pass a number of COMPNOR and ISB loyalty tests.
Even though it was designed to also function as a attack support vessel in the sense of just how many fighter squads it is capable of carrying since the bulk of its smooth and yet rectangular form was fighter bays, its primary purpose was to function as a mobile base of operations, thus it had no actual weapons on it besides a fair number of warhead launchers to disable ships for boarding operations. The only other weapon systems aboard it were tractor beams which it used during certain situations to prevent vessels and objects form colliding with it, and to prevent the escape of enemy vessels.
Due to its lack of actual offensive capabilities, the original Phantasm was heavily armored and was equipped with an extremely powerful shield array that is only active when its stealth systems are not on due to the fact of the power being drained for either one to function.
During the Divide and Conquor campaign, the Imperial SS got its hands on two Phantasm-class ships. After the attack on Yuri and Li'eston, and the successful defense of the Echtabahn shipyards, Echtabahnian and Imperial SS engineers went to work on the ships, leaving the outer shell and stealth systems intact but moving pretty much everything else. 10 warhead launchers were removed and replaced with two more tractor beams, permitting the ship to use another ship for movement. The fighter bays were cut down to only house six squadrons rather than 18, and most of these would be TIE Phantom II's, to be used for the disabling of a craft to be boarded. Extra dropships were added, and the boarding torpedo capacity was doubled. Troop capacity increased, as did the speed, but the shielding took a major hit, being cut nearly in half. Still, the v. I-B version of the ship would rely on stealth, not armor, to defend her. Cargo capacity also took a hit, as the ship was not likely to be away from Imperial space for more than a year at a time. Short missions would be its forte.
OOC NOTE: This is not a new R&D, simply the updated SS version of the craft. I don't think an R&D test thread will be required, but let me know if you think it necessary. Remember, this isn't a Mk. II, simply a different version of the same craft. A different intended mission profile. Note also that this ship was originally designed by Drayson and the ISB - I must give credit where credit is due. I made a few changes and added the last paragraph.