Project Virtual Shoal
Tribal-class Littoral Patrol Cruiser (LDC)
Classification: Tribal
Designation: Littoral Patrol Cruiser (LCD-000)
Patent Registry: Galactic Technologies
Patron: Galactic Coalition of Planets
Crew Compliment: 195
Passenger Capacity: 40
Cargo Capacity: 250 Metric Tons
Dimensions-
Keel: 285 Meters
Mast: 45 Meters
Beam: 85 Meters
Armament-
7 Heavy Turbo-Laser Canons
3 Heavy Ion Canons
3 Missile Launchers
5 Torpedo Tubes
5 Point Defense AutoCanons
Embarked Craft
6 Superority Starfighters (10-15m)
2 Tactical Bombers (12-17m)
1 Long-Range Recon Vessle (8-13m)
1 Landing-Type Shuttle (20m)
[INDENT]The Tribal-class Littoral Patrol Cruiser was designed, tested, and constructed by Galactic Technologies under contract to the Galactic Coalition of Planets.[/INDENT]
The Tribal-class Littoral Patrol Cruiser is a mid-range war ship designed to patrol non-hostile, unsecured sectors and maintain a Galactic Coalition presence until they can be relieved or supported by larger vessels. Specifically the Tribal-class cruiser will fill a vital role and fill an exposed gap in the line of ships produced by Galactic Technologies.
The LDC carries a moderate armament and moderate defensive measures adequate to engage moderate resistance. The LDC is best utilized as a perimeter defense vessel and fast-attack war ship. It has powerful engines, which work in tandem with advanced maneuvering thrusters to create an extraordinarily agile ship of the line. Coupled with a well-planned offensive an LDC can effectively engage much larger targets and inflict maximum damage on an opponent. For its size the Tribal-class LDC is an aggressive starship independently or in fleet operations.
The Littoral Patrol Cruiser carries a mixed squadron of light and heavy star-fighters to combat smaller opponents such as freighters and other star-fighters alike. The cruiser also carries a single mid-size shuttle for ship-to-ship and ship-to-planet transport as well as a single long-range reconnaissance vessel. The cruiser has a limited flight deck, which is not designed to accommodate any further vessels; available space is generally occupied by star-fighters on stand by.
The Tribal-class cruiser has a considerable communications network which enables the vessel to remain in contact with any real-time information that can be made available at any given moment. In the role of patrol-cruiser the Tribal-class vessel must be able to contact its point of origin at a moments notice and, to this end, mounts a sizable communications dome on its ventral surface.
The LDC features a mineralized profile and is also coated in layers of ablative hull plating which grant the vessel a low-visibility ranking. It is not a stealth ship but it does boast an advanced anti-detection package.
Galactic Technologies engineered this vessel with combat in mind and, thus; the Tribal line of war ship features a standard machine shop to affect repairs while under way. It’s impressive array of weapons are mounted along the forward angles of its wedge shape indicative of a fast-attack type of starship. The bridge is kept safe from weapons fire, as are its magazines and vital systems, which is typical of Galactic Technologies design ideology.
Machine Shop -
This is not a new technology. The Galactic Coalition is a short-sighted and wasteful regieme that apparantly, does not posses the ability to maintain its ships while underway. This was observed to be "gay" considering that the Imperials have been building standardized warships complete with repair bays for decades. Lance Shipwright, senior project leader, was trained at the Imperial Design Academy and is not "gay".
At the launch of the first ship, Lance was quoted as having said, "The Gay ends here. You bunch of morons."
Recessive Bridge -
This is not a new technology. The Galactic Coalition is not smart. They beleive that a bridge must be exposed to enemy fire. Lance Shipwright and Galactic Technologies are smart. Information is trasmitted from internal and external sources alike to the command bridge which is located amidships.
Abalative Hull Plating -
The next step from Reactive hull plating, and a logical progression in defensive and counter-measures. Galactic Technologies assumes that any smart ship-manufacturer will have come to this conclusion also.
Galactic Technologies knows their ships will be shot at with Ray-Guns. Ray-Guns use cohesive light energy to do damage, which by and large negates reactive armor (which is an excellent repelleant against concussive explosions). Because starships shoot big green and red Ray-Guns Galactic Technologies equips their warships with Ablative armor.
It works like so.
The Ablative Armor undergoes a statechange upon impact, vaporising through endothermic processes which absorb and disperse heat-energies across a wider surface area thus lowering the total effective weapons-damage.
The resulting haze of particalized debris tends to further dissipate any sucessive incoming attacks.
Largely, Ablative Armor responds similarly to explosive force.