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Hammerhead class corvette

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Affiliation: Galactic Alliance
Manufacturer: Galactic Alliance
Model: Hammerhead class corvette
Modularity: Yes. Three variations.
Production: Mass-Produced
Material: Durasteel hull
Classification: Picket Corvette
Length: 160m
Height: 40m
Width: 30m
Armament:

Picket: 8
  • 4 Dual Turbolasers
  • 4 Prow Warhead Launchers
  • 8 Quad lasers
  • 4 Laser Drones
Medical: 2
Transport: 6
  • 4 Dual Turbolasers
  • 4 Prow Warhead Launchers
  • 10 Quad lasers
  • 4 Laser Drones
Defences: 16
  • Standard deflector grid
  • Tough frame
Hangar:
Medical/Transport:
  • 0 Squadrons
Picket:
  • 4 Fighters
Special Features:
Manoeuvrability Rating: 9
Speed Rating: 7 (9 when carrying fighters)
Hyperdrive Class: 1
Strengths:

  • Straight Line Speed: The Hammerhead is equipped with powerful engines and can accelerate quickly. This is useful for getting medical patients out of a hot zone, chasing down pirates, or breaking a blockade
  • Heavy Bombers: The Hammerhead is well suited to dealing with slow attack craft that can shrug off interceptors. Head on it can devastate these vessels with its armaments.
  • Modularity: Whilst the three main variants are fundamentally different, each of them is fairly easy to modify into different configurations to suit different fighters, cargo loads or medical uses.
  • Plucky: The Hammerhead is compact and tough as nails. The hull and frame can take a pounding and could even ram a larger vessel in an extreme situation.
Weaknesses:
  • Poor manoeuvrability: The profile and engine configuration works for straight line speed.
  • Engine failures: Taking out just one of the engines – which present large targets – can seriously hamper the ship’s flight characteristics as it struggles to apply thrust through its centre of mass
Description:

The Alliance constructed these vessels to fulfil the requirement for a multi-role corvette. By utilising one chassis for several types of ships the Alliance was able to make savings in both capital and operational expenditure. Maintenance tasks and repairs are relatively low cost, with a large pools of spares that can be used across all variants.

The primary military variant is for a rapid picket corvette. This vessel houses a few fighters and can carry out patrols of Alliance space or act as a screen in larger engagements. Each vessel typically houses four X-wings that launch from a doors in the mid-section to port or starboard.

The second is a medical barge. With room for hundreds of beds this vessel can land and act as a military hospital or be used to ferry patients back from the front lines whilst continuing care. In military engagement the IFF flags this vessel as a non-combat, medical vessel. It is equipped with minor defences to protect against rogue missiles or enemies that ignore the IFF.

The transport variant is used to haul military equipment or troops between Alliance strongholds. Powerful engines and shields give this vessel a high chance of breaking through blockades, especially when escorted by hyperdrive capable Starfighters.

The drones that accompany the ship are launched from small modules ahead of the engines. Sensor drones are typically used outside of combat to conduct long distance scanning, or during a chase to identify pirate vessels. Repair drones enable the ship to be relatively self-sufficient and conduct minor repairs as long as it has spare parts. The Laser Drones are effective against incoming missiles and also for security when on the ground, essentially acting as guards when a Hammerhead corvette lands to become a medical facility.

Development Thread: No
Intent: Made an old-republic themed corvette for the Alliance.
Who Can Use This: Anyone
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