Approved Starship GT-1 Star Destroyer

[Gerarich Thanor]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: A personal flagship for Gerarich Thanor

• Image Source: Link

• Canon Link: Impstar Deuce

• Restricted Missions: None

• Primary Source: None

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: (Mandalorian Empire)

• Model: GT-1 "Betrayal's Karma"

• Affiliation: (Mandalorian Empire)

• Production: Unique

• Material: Durasteel, Silicar, Doonium, Dallorian Alloy, Circuitry, Alusteel, Transparisteel

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Star Destroyer

• Length: 1500 meters

• Width: 650 meters

• Height: 350 meters

• Armament:: Very High

Bow mounted Gravitic Cannon
(24) Octuple-Barbette Heavy Turbolaser Batteries
(40) Long-range Turbolasers
(60) Turbolaser Batteries
(60) Heavy Turbolaser Batteries
(25) Heavy Ion Cannons
(260) Point Defense Laser Cannon
(12; 6 on each side) Flak Cannons
(40) Assault Concussion Missiles
(40) Advanced Proton Torpedo
(10) Heavy Tractor Beams

• Defenses: High

Layered Durasteel/Silicar ablative armor
Molecular Shields
Particle Deflector Shields
Cap Drains
De-Ionizer
Socketguard
Missile Deactivation Transmitters

• Hangar: Average: 5

• Maneuverability Rating: Average

• Speed Rating: Average

• Hyperdrive Class: Average: 2

STANDARD FEATURES

• Comm Wave De-scrambler

• Encryption Module

• Frequency Jammer

• Holonet Transceiver

• Hyperwave Transceiver

• Subspace Transceiver

• (20 Drop Bays; must take 1 minute before each drop) Drop Pods

• Com-scan

• Hyperwave Signal Interceptor

• Life Sign Detector

• Long-range Sensor

• Sensor Dampener

• Targeting Sensor

• Tri-Tracker

• Wide-range Sensor

• Anti-ion Emission Tracer

• Artificial Gravity

• Brig

• Escape Pods

• Inertial Damper

• Infantry Barracks

• Life Support

• Medical Bay

• Navicomputer

ADVANCED SYSTEMS

• HIMS

• Gravity well projector

Strengths:

• Powerful weapons arrays

• Strong shields and armor
• Landing and unloading troops are quick

Weaknesses:

• Primary armament (Gravitiric Cannon) is fixed forward
• Primary weapon (Gravitiric Cannon) has a long recharge
• Engines are a blind spot and guns are unable to defend it at a certain point (usually needs starfighters to protect engines)
• The primary weapon takes 15 minutes to charge up (considered a large amount of time in a space battle). During that 15 minutes, the shields will be drained of their power by 25%. Shields will not be able to refresh and recharge until the weapon is fired.

Description:
Designed by MandalArms R&D to be the personal flagship of Gerarich Thanor, this unique vessel meets all of the experienced naval commander's specifications and is an excellent command vessel. A crew of 4,560 is the minimum needed amount to man the ship, however, 37,750 is the number to run the ship at 100% efficiency.

The cargo capacity is capable of carrying up to 29,500 metric tons and the ship has enough consumables for 5 1/2 years. To avoid paying for costly new ships, the GT-1 Stardestroyer is easily repairable and can also efficiently be expanded or upgraded. The GT-1 is also capable carrying up to 1 legion, about 9,200 soldiers. The ships in the hangar are always switched out constantly before missions, depending on the situation. The ship is also designed to be able to board any size of ships without complexity.

Armed with powerful weapons, strong shields, and thick armor, this destroyer is capable of holding its own in combat against most other ships in its class. Designed as a command ship, it can fulfill a multitude of mission roles, from the front line to landing troops, to boarding enemy craft, to long-range patrols. It covers all the bases without being too mission specialized.

 

[Gir Quee]

Under Review.

 

[Gir Quee]

[member="Gerarich Thanor"], this is about two ratings too high now. Since production is aleady at unique, you can lower ratings from wherever you and/or add significant weaknesses to help balance this out.

 

[Gerarich Thanor]

[member="Gir Quee"]

Edited. I changed Defense from Very High to High and added two new weaknesses.

 

[Gir Quee]

[member="Gerarich Thanor"], to clarify, significant weaknesses are things that have to balance out a rating strength. To that end, they have to generally be immediately and practically exploited by most opponents ( such as not having shields on a starfighter) or having catastrophic results if exploited by a cunning opponent (like a thermal exhaust port on the Death Star). I'm not sure that if the added weaknesses meet those areas, but we might be able to work them into something that does.

Engines are not as protected

Engines typically are a weak point in any design from an armoring perspective (it's hard to armor an exhaust nozzle). So this sounds pretty typical to me for many starships. For this to really be something that balances out, they could be described as being entirely exposed or without any armor and/or light shielding on the whole engine block.

Primary weapon is capable of overcharging and destroying the ship

This isn't something that is open for an opposing writer to exploit, because you as the writer will be deciding when it gets to that of overcharging, and even then, if it will destroy the ship. This isn't to say that you may not roleplay it fairly and destroy the ship with this weakness, but I unfortunately have to judge to the lowest common denominator, which is to say that I have not seen people actually put this into practice with their subs.

Possible alternatives to this may be that activating the gravity cannon deactivates some other important system of the ship when it's in use because of its power draw (like its shields).

 

[Gerarich Thanor]

[member="Gir Quee"]

Edited, I hope the changes are to your liking. I have one question, if I chose to increase the hangar one level up, what changes would be needed to balance the ship?

 

[Gir Quee]

Primary weapon decreases shields by 25%

Does this primary weapon just mean the Gravitric Cannon? Or are we talking about other weapons as well?

if I chose to increase the hangar one level up, what changes would be needed to balance the ship?

Another rating would have to be lowered or significant weakness would have to be added.

 

[Gerarich Thanor]

[member="Gir Quee"]

The primary weapon is the Gravitric weapon, every use of it decreases the shields power by 25%.

No other edits have been made, I decided to keep the hangar the same.

 

[Gir Quee]

The primary weapon is the Gravitric weapon

I'd make it clear somewhere within the submission then that the primary weapon is the Gravitric cannon.

every use of it decreases the shields power by 25%.

For how long? Just when it's firing? Is there a certain amount of time it takes for the shields to regain their full power?

In general, the more explicit the detail, the easier it will be for me to pass this (or provide guidance to getting it passed).

 

[Gerarich Thanor]

[member="Gir Quee"]

Edited.

The primary weapon takes 15 minutes to charge up (considered a large amount of time in a space battle). During that 15 minutes, the shields will be drained of their power by 25%. Shields will not be able to refresh and recharge until the weapon is fired.

 

[Gir Quee]

[member="Gerarich Thanor"], sounds solid. If you'll put that in the submission itself then (it looks like it says five minutes for part of it currently within the submission itself?).

Affiliation: Gerarich Thanor (Mandalorian Empire)

If you'll remove your character's name from this as well. While it makes sense that only your character will be using it, technically the Mandalorian Empire is the one that solely owns this ship because of its size.

 

[Gerarich Thanor]

[member="Gir Quee"]

Edited.

The submission did say 5 minutes earlier, but I wanted to balance it more and just added 10 more minutes.

 

[Gir Quee]

[member="Gerarich Thanor"], this looks good to me. I'm currently waiting on Mandal Arms to formally have "starships" added to its operations so that they can build this. Once that's done, we'll be all set.

 

[Gerarich Thanor]

[member="Gir Quee"]

Just wondering, am I allowed to give a ship a name or is it too late?

 

[Gir Quee]

[member="Gerarich Thanor"], you can still edit in a name right now, since I haven't set it to pending approval.

 

[Hailyn]

[member=Gerarich Thanor]
What is the status of this submission?

 

[Gerarich Thanor]

[member="Lily Kuhn"]

The ship is just awaiting its manufacturer, MandalArms, to finish adding a new operation.

 

[Gerarich Thanor]

[member="Gir Quee"]

Time has been passing for a long time so I switched manufacturers to the Mandalorian Empire.

 

[Gir Quee]

Awesome. Pending Secondary Approval. Thanks! [member="Jamie Pyne"]

 

[Hailyn]

Approved.