Runi Verin
Two pounds shy of a bomb.
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a KDY brand carrier for the open market.
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Primary Source: Star Destroyer
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Kuat Drive Yards
Affiliation: Open-Market
Model: Alveare-Class Star Destroyer
Production: Limited
Material: Durasteel, Farium, Kelsh, Quadranium, Transparisteel, Trimantium, Tunqstoid, Isotope-5, Misc Starship components
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Classification: Carrier
Length: 2510 meters
Width: 1150m
Height: 850m
Armament: Low
Quad Turbolaser Batteries
Light Turbolaser Batteries
Ion Cannon Batteries
Defenses: Very High
Hangar Space: Very High
Hangar Allocations:
Starfighters: 18 squadrons
Support Craft: 4 squadrons
Maneuverability Rating: Low
Speed Rating: Average
Hyperdrive Class: Average (1.0)
STANDARD FEATURES
The Alveare-Class comes fully equipped with the whole standard array of shields, systems and components that are normally associated with vessels of this size and class.
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
STRENGTHS
Swarm Tactics: As a dedicated carrier, the Alveare-Class can field up to eighteen combat and four support squadrons in any particular engagement.
Mobile Redoubt: Once all fighters have been deployed, the Alveare-Class can serve as a solid defensive position.
WEAKNESSES
Graceless: With lower maneuverability than your average Star Destroyer, it isn’t the most dignified vessels on the battlefield when it comes to repositioning itself strategically.
Outgunned: With all available priority given to defense, the Alveare-Class isn’t built to rain hellfire or decimate fleets. It leaves that to the fleet it compliments and the squadrons it can field.
DESCRIPTION
Equal parts fortress and heavy carrier, the Alveare-Class Star Destroyer was envisioned to fill the increasing gap that recent KDY products have created by reducing their hangar capacities in favor adopting more focused roles and capabilities. Essentially creating a mobile beehive that can drop into a system, unleash a merry swarm of fighters and fend off any counter attack while it quietly waits for the swarm to finish off its opponents and regroup.
With that in mind, it boasts an almost unreasonably high number of hangars situated across its entire frame, each loaded with either complete squadrons or a fractional breakdown, all ready to launch at a moments notice and from almost any vector required. Heavy redundant shielding, ablative armor and several other layers of heavy defense ensure that it and its prized cargo manage to get both in and out of engagements without too much trouble along the way. That said, all this has been at the unfortunate expense of its own offensive capabilities, possessing just enough to be considered under-gunned while not being completely toothless, however.
It is also kind of unrepentantly ugly, even for Kuat Drive Yards.
