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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a standard light anti-ship cruisers for the Imperium
- Image Source:
- Canon Link: NA
- Restricted Missions: NA
- Primary Source:
- Manufacturer: CIS, Tytheish Royal Armory & The Mechanicum
- Model: Imperium Of Tythe
- Affiliation: The Imperium of Tythe
- Production: Unique
- Availability: Closed Market
- Material:
-Composite Armor [Trimantium and Duranium plating] coated with absorptional
-Durasteel Hull
-Electrical Components
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Battleship
- Length: 2500m
- Width: 350m
- Height: 625m (command town) 350 (main body)
- Armament: Low
-6xXI7 Turbolaser (three on top two on bottom)
-10x Tractor beams
-8 Deck/Flak Cannons(Broad Side mounted)
-12 Proton torpedo tubes
-200 Point Defense Laser Cannons
- Defenses: Very High
-Heavy Trimantium and Duranium plating
-Absorbital coating on armor and hull
- Hangar: 22 (264 fighters max) Extreme
- Maneuverability Rating: Low
- Speed Rating: Low
- Hyperdrive Class: 2 Average
- Max Crew: 50000
- Min Crew: 3000
- Passengers: 20000
- Cargo Space: 600 tonnes
STANDARD FEATURES
Com Scanner
Standard Escape Pods
Artificial Gravity Generators
Soliton Antenna
Sienar Systems Augmentor
Hyperdrive Activator
Rectenna
8xCapital Class Ion Engines
ADVANCED FEATURES
Non
Strengths:
- Fighter Base: The Empress class battleship is more in the right a carrier then a front line warship, able to pack in a huge amount of fighters to carry off into battle. On each side of the ship there being groups 8 hanger bay structures where fighters are stored, each able to hold around 8 fighter each.
- Built to Last: As per most Imperium ship defense and armor is the main priority, the Empress class being one of the most if not hardened hull ships ever made, boasting defensive armor and shielding that is almost as impressive as it's carrying capacity.
- Straight Punch: Similar to the smaller cruisers that carry a 'lance' batter the Empress comes equipped with a total of 4, put together at the prow to make a formidable literal gun ship. This gives it the ability to do a whole tonne of damage to a singular target of it's choice.
- Lack or Attack: For a ship of it's size the Empress class, aside from it's prow arms, is very lacking in the form of ship to ship weapons. This makes is a sizable target for any ship that manages to flank it and tank any hits from the small battery of deck cannons on the side to ward away escort ships.
- Turtle Power: The immense size and carrying capacity does not bode well for the Empress class speed and maneuverability, the entire ship being kind of slow and sluggish to move around. In a nut shell it is not a ship you want to be repositioning all the time least take forever to do anything.
History of Development: If there is one thing a Monarch needs it is a massive battle ship more or less named after them from which to ride into battle and destroy an enemy fleet. Over all that is what the not ironically named Empress Class Battle Ship does, though not with shear fire power but with overwhelming air superiority, the ability to tank 90% of incoming shots from enemy fleets and the ability to snipe troublesome craft from a system away. It may not be the most traditional or standard practice but one thing is for certain, the Empress Class Battleship has that shock and awe effect most craft of it's size has and is not something you want to mess with during a battle.
Development was an event that took many moths to even plan, the size of the ship and very odd design stretching the limits of the CIS design team. This persisted even with help from the cultist members of the Mechanicum and the Tythish engineers who had been making ships of similar design for a while. The justification of such a ship and the initial proposal was for it to be a representation of Tythish strength to the galaxy in how far the once barren waste land planet had progressed. That and to provide a boot to the CIS naval forces in what ever battle they may need a super career battleship for.
Plans were to have the ship crewed by expertly trained Tythish born/immigrated/refugee citizens looking to repay the CIS for taking them in a providing a new home. This being a factor that also helped limit cost as the crew was more or less provided out of the monarch poket unlike most ship which required a hand piked, academy trained crew, and those are always expensive. The only catch, the ship can only be commanded by the ruling Emperor/Empress of Tythe or one of their most trusted nobles, such being (at this time) Chikako Liona herself.
Operational Use:
As a super carrier the Empress Class mainly stays in the middle of battle fleet formations, using it's array of fighters to deal damage to ship far away. This ability is increased by the shear among of fighters it can carry along with the 4 heavy artillery lasers on the front, each one able to cripple a light frigate, all of them shooting at once able to do way more damage.
Such does give it minor anti-ship capabilities along with the small broad side flak cannons, able to take on small escorts. Over all the Empress class is a ship that more or less needs some sort of cruiser defense to be able to work a peak performance and when it does it does it well.