Approved Starship Hellmouth-class Battlecruiser - Sith Covenant

[Darth Anathemous]

"Anathemous got the ships, I got the next target."
— Mercy [1]

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: New command ships for TSC, a continuation of the First Conclave story
• Image Source:
  • Render by Impguy101
  • Concept by Overlordofyou
  • Edits by EllieEx
• Canon Link: N\A
• Permissions:
  • Roble Manufacturing notice(Open Market)[X]
  • Locke & Key Mechanics(purchase)
• Primary Source:
  • Starhawk-class Battleship Mk1

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: House of Iron
• Affiliation: The Sith Covenant
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Hellmouth-class Battlecruiser
• Production: Semi Unique - (PCs only)
• Material:
  • Frame - Alusteel
  • Hull - Quadanium steel
  • Engines - Condensed-matter composite
  • View ports - Theadian
  • Interior - Durasteel

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Battlecruiser, Command ship
• Length: 4,000m
• Width: 1,200m
• Height: 280m
• Armament: Very High
  • Broadside - TBL-4 "Perses" Turbolaser(s)
    • x6 per side
  • Wings - TBL-4 "Perses" Turbolaser(s)
    • x6 on the outer wings
    • x3 on the inner wings
    • x2 per frontal wing
  • Topside - x6 Cruise Missile Silos
  • Fore - Aten Solar Cannon main gun
• Defenses: Extreme
  • Laser-reflective Quadanium armor
  • Molecular shielding
    • Double front setting
  • Deflector shield generator
    • Double front setting
  • Standard Shift Shielding
  • Standard Relativistic Shielding
  • Missile deactivation transmitters
• Hangar Space: Base, 5 squadrons
• Hangar Allocations:
  • Starfighters: x2 squadrons
  • Support Craft: x3 squadrons
• Maneuverability Rating: Low
• Speed Rating: Very High
• Hyperdrive: Class 3.0

STANDARD FEATURES

• COMMUNICATIONS
  • Hyperwave transceiver
• MED BAY
  • Medical Droid staff
  • Life support capsules
    • w\Autodocs
  • Bacta tanks
  • Bio-sterilization field
• MAINTENANCE
  • Particle shielding
  • Synthicator
  • Animated metal sealant
  • Self-Constructing Armament Factory
• HANGAR BAY
  • Located on the underside
  • Docking clamps
• DETENTION BLOCK
  • Interrogation chamber
  • Holding cells
• LIVING QUARTERS
  • Flight simulator
• ESCAPE PODS
  • Standard Escape Pods
  • Reaver-class Boarding Pods

ADVANCED SYSTEMS

• NAVIGATION & PROPULSION
  • Netheric-gate Engine
    • Netheric Wayfinder
  • Capital-grade SLAM engines
    • Designed for ramming speed
• SENSOR SUITE
  • VT-Refraction Sensor
  • Sniffers
  • Security cameras
  • Optical transducer panels
• SECURITY SYSTEM
  • Bio-hexacrypted data
• COMMAND BRIDGE
  • "Qabbrat" Meditation chamber
• ADVANCED WEAPONRY
  • Bladed Prow
    • Equipped with heavy duty Magnite-Tractor beam
    • Heavy duty MRS-04D Omvendt Ablative Inertial Damper
    • Separate heavy duty Particle Shielding
      • Reached via Monorail
  • Aten Solar Cannon main gun

STRENGTHS

• ANTI-INTERDICTION - The "Hellmouth" Battlecruisers were named for the nightmarish Nether-rifts they tore open, traveling through the realms of sin to bypass Hyperspace altogether. Interdiction, Stormseeds, Hyperwave detection, there was not a single hyperspace obstacle that could stop a Hellmouth from arriving at it's intended destination, so long as it used the Netheric-gate Engine. With these fiery wounds in reality, a single Hellmouth was enough to ferry entire Covenant fleets through hell and back.
• BLADED PROW - The prow of a Hellmouth was an armored superstructure made from solid Quadanium Steel, save for the narrow Monorail track used to reach the prow's shield generator housing. A combination of heavy Particle Shielding, Ablative Inertial Dampening and Magnite-Tractor Beams built into the armored superstructure allowed the Hellmouth to immobilize enemy capital ships twice it's size and ram them at high speeds with little risk, slicing right through the opposition in close quarters.
• SLOPED ARMOR - Laser-reflective sloped armor allowed Hellmouths to bounce and even rochochet many energy-based projectiles in battle using smooth angles designed to redirect incoming fire away from critical areas of the ship. The underside in particular boasted the flattest slope on the vessel, allowing it's bladed prow to cut smoothly through hostile ships like a knife.

WEAKNESSES

• MANEUVERABILITY - The Hellmouth was designed to move forward and guide fleets through the Netherworld, not complex naval manuevering. Though it could roll, the turn rate of these Battlecruisers was abysmal, and they were better suited to engaging from long range at the back of a fleet or blasting right through an enemy blockade. Hellmouths often traveled with an escort and maintained a defensive fighter screen when able.
• SLOW HYPERDRIVE - The Netheric-gate Engines for which the vessel was named made hyperdrives obselete in the mind of it's creators, but maintained a backup Hyperdrive in case of emergency. The "primary" hyperdrive therefore was cheap, slow, and underperforming.
• SHIELD GENERATORS - A Hellmouth Battlecruiser boasted large Shield Generators, large enough to be identifiable from the exterior. Sphere-like superstructures, two of which were located within the ship's mid-section and one within the armored prow, contained the vessel's massive shield generators which could be focused by bombers and weaponry to damage shields with certain munitions.
• NETHERIC-NAVIGATOR - Netheric-gate Engines required both a Netheric-wayfinder and a specially trained "Netheric-Navigator" to operate, a rare school of Dark Side Adepts, the majority of which were trained by Darth Anathemous herself. Without both a navigator and wayfinder, the engines answered to no one. Furthermore, Netherworld travel using these devices often attracted Nether-spirits and "demons", forcing Sith to protect both Crew and Fleet using Battle Meditation and similar powers, else they'd be possessed by spirits or madness.

(Concept art by Overlordofyou)​

DESCRIPTION
They called them "Hellmouths". great beasts of quadanium and alusteel which ferried Sith fleets through the Netherworld, tearing fiery rifts in their path. They were designed around the Netheric-gate Engine, an invention of the warrior-enchantress, Darth Anathemous, who schemed to aid the Great Hunt and cripple the Jedi by providing the Sith Covenant with unconventional weapons that would demoralize the the Core Worlds.

Countless months of experimentation and meticulous planning resulted in these Battlecruisers, designed to serve as fearsome command ships, shepherding whole fleets through their portals and into the Netherworld, their sole hope of escaping that hellish land and reaching worlds they would despoil. The engines were rare of course, so too were the navigators she trained to use them. In the end these vessels were as much a scheme to expand her influence as they were a boon. Her engines. Her navigators. Her control.

They were a boon however. The prototype, a monster named "Hellmother", proved exceptional at avoiding everything from Interdictors to Stormseeds, turning a fully fledged Stardestroyer into a surprise attacker that could thwart ambush and defenses both.

Ever forward, that was it's design philosophy. Circumnavigating hyperspace anomalies, ramming through enemy lines while spitting boarding pods in it's wake, or guiding Sith through the great firestorm beyond, it didn't matter. They weren't terribly efficient in maneuver warfare, requiring either an enemy to conquer with brute force alone or careful coordination with an escorting fleet, but that was the beauty of it; In all the chaos, a Hellmouth forced Sith to rely on one another.

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[MANIAC]

Darth Anathemous

Amazing sub.

Approved.