The Black Hand R&D #3
General Statistics
Vessel/Unit Identification: Black Hand Silencer-Class Cruiser
Vessel/Unit Combat Designation: Attack Cruiser
Length 600 Meters
Designer/Manufactuer
Black Hand R&D/ CN-1344 Research Division
Design Team Leader: Jobath Dejoid
Co-Leader: Felanor Dejoid
Consumables: 2.5 Year(s)
Cargo Capacity
-Total: 4000 Metric Tons (M.T)
Crew Complement
Officers 12
Enlisted Crew 400
Passengers 50
Weapons
- 15 Armek-M38 Heavy Pulse Turbolaser Cannons (5 Starboard Wing Mounted Emplacements, 5 Port Wing Mounted Emplacements, 5 Fore Nose Mounted Emplacements)
-15 Taim & Bak KX5 Heavy Quad Supercharged Laser Cannons (5 Fore Nose-Mounted Emplacements, 5 Port Wing-Mounted Emplacement,5 Starboard Wing-Mounted Emplacement)
- 5 Cygnus Spaceworks X3-A Concussion Missle Launchers (3 Fore Nose-Mounted Emplacement, 2 Aft-Mounted Emplacement)
- 5 Kuat Drive Yards Heavy Proton Torpedo Launchers (3 Fore Nose-Mounted Emplacements, 1 Port Wing Mounted Emplacement, 1 Port Mounted Emplacement)
- 1 Phylon Q7 Tractor Beam Projectors (1 Fore Nose-Mounted Emplacement)
Propulsion Systems
- 3 KDY Destroyer-I Emissionless Ion Engines (Main Engines)
- 2 Cygnus Spaceworks Gemon-4 Emissionless Ion Engines (For emergency use)
1 (Main) Nazfar T-3 Hyperdrive Engine (Class 1)
1 (Backup) Nazfar T-1 Hyperdrive Engine (Class 9)
Sublight Speed: 20 MGLT
Atmospheric Speed: 000 KPH
Communications
- SFS Ranger Subspace Transceiver (Range is 100 light-years). It can monitor more than 300 different subspace frequencies simultaneously; by altering frequencies every tenth of a second, the Ranger scans the entire subspace spectrum in less than 3 hours. The powerful com-scan encryption computer can decode most intercepted messages within minutes.
Internal Vessel/Unit Complement
- 12 Attack Fighters (1 Sqaudron)
- 100 Battle Droids/Soldiers
- 15 CAV (Combat Assault Vehicles)
Hull Composition
Titanium Reinforced Alusteel Hull. The heavily shielded, carbonite and durasteel-reinforced dome holds and protects the main reactor. And all the Armek-M38 Heavy Pulse Turbolaser Cannons are protected by 1 Metre of Quadanium Steel Hull Plating each.
Hull Strength: 450 RU
Shield Systems
- 2 Hoerch/Kessel Drive Yards Type One Shield Generators (1 Fore, 1 Aft)
- 1 Nazfar Metalworks SGT-6 Shield Generators (Used as reserve only)
Shield Strength: 800 SBD
Commentary
The Silencer-class was designed to be a contemporary of the Bird of Prey. It is designed
As a main body with two wide-spanning wings and a long elongated “neck” with a cylindrical command center at the end of the ‘neck’. The entire ship is bristling with weapons, and is designed on the principal of “pass fighting”. The ship will make a run at an enemy vessel with all it’s wing and fore mounted weapons emplacements blazing. As it passes the enemy vessel, the ship’s aft mounted weapons will cover the ship’s retreat. So each ‘pass’ does a devastating amount of damage. When used en mass the vessel combined with the cloak-capable Bird of Prey, it is a very effective forward attack vessel.
Build/R&D Times
Research Time – 25 Days
Build Time - 6 days