Four Armed Goddess
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a battlecarrier for the Grand Fleet of Ashla
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Kuat Drive Yards location with Archangel Manufactorum technicians
- Affiliation: Ashlan Crusade
- market status: Closed Market
- Model: Dragoon Class Battlecarrier
- Production: Semi-Unique
- Squadron of four permanently attached to Ashlan grand fleet under command of Isla Draellix
- Maximum of 1 per senior Ashlan Crusade member - authority of Isla Draellix or Cedric Grayson(12 total ships built)
- Material:
- Durasteel
- Farium
- Isotope-5
- Kelsh
- Quadranium
- Transparisteel
- Trimantium
- Tunqstoid
- Misc Starship Components
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Battlecarrier
- Length: 3,550 meters
- Width: 1400 meters
- Height: 700 meters
- Armament: High
- Quad Solar Ionization Cannon Batteries
- Heavy Ion Cannon Batteries
- 16 Octuple Super heavy Turbolaser Barbettes
- Numerous OS-135 Rotating Heavy turbolaser turrets
- Numerous OS-137 Tri-Barrelled Rotary turbolaser turrets
- Numerous OS-136 Rotating point defence laser cannons
- Variable Missile Launcher Batteries
- Defenses: Extreme
- Ablative Armour
- Cap Drains
- Dedicated Energy Receptor Projectors
- Electronic Countermeasures Suite
- Jamming Beams
- Missile Deactivation Transmitters
- Molecular Shielding - multiple decentralised overlapping emitter fields
- Hangar Space: Extreme (35)
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 28 squadrons
- Support Craft: 7 squadrons
- Maneuverability Rating: Very Low
- Speed Rating: Very Low
- Hyperdrive Class: 1.0 (Primary) | 8.0 (Backup)
STANDARD FEATURES
The Dragoon 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
- Anti-Ion Emission Tracer
- Crystal Gravfield Trap
- Eradicator Communications Scrambler
- Fixed-Signature Tracker
- Gemcutter
- Grab-field Generators (Floppy Helix Intensifiers)
- Grab-safety
- Holonet Relay
- Holotrace Device
- Hyperspace Tracker
- Hyperwave Inertial Momentum Sustainer
- Hyperwave Transceiver
- Interdiction Field Generators [x2]
- Ion-Scrambler
- Mag-Field Generator
- Nav Computer Route Astrogation Bypass
- Particle-emitters
- Repair Drones
- Sensor Net
- Sensor Scramblers
- Signal Jammers
- Solid Fuel Converter
- Subspace Tight-beam Transmission Core
- Subspace Transceiver
STRENGTHS
Space supremacy: The Dragoon is capable of deploying and supporting hundreds of fighters and support craft, allowing the associates fleet to achieve local space superiority
Very tough ship: The fighters would be lost without their carrier to return to, for that reason, along with standard Grand Fleet doctrine, significant investment is made in defensive technology making it a very difficult ship to significantly damage or destroy.
WEAKNESSES
Sluggish handling: The Dragoon is underpowered for a ship of its mass and this makes it very slow and it turns very slowly.
Poor Hangar positioning: in order to maximise the survivability of the ship the potentially vulnerable Hangar bay shields are positioned between the two forward sections of the ship. This can cause some congestion when rapidly launching or recovering craft, slowing the process compared to some equivalent ships.
Complex package: The ship has numerous complex systems making up its whole, this requires experience technicians and only temporary repairs can be made anywhere other than at either Kuat or Archangel ship yards
DESCRIPTION
Wanting a heavy carrier vessel, Isla Draellix approached Archangel Manufactorum. Archangel took the challenge and again utilising Kuat's large scale drive yards, built a fleet of new battlecruisers to join the already built Noble Crusaders.
These ships sacrificed significant firepower and some speed, but none of the formidable defensive tech of the previous battlecruiser. Initially intended to be classed as a fleet carrier, the impressive survivability of the ship made the manufacturer reclassify the ships as battle carriers.
The ships are typically used paired up with a firepower centric battlecruiser such as the Noble Crusader but are perfectly capable of acting as a command ship and anchoring a fleet.
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