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Approved Starship Immobilizer 420-class interdictor carrier

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Cathul Thuku

Admiral, Therapy Command
Cathul Thuku
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The gravity field projectors are located at the aft edges of the ship

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
  • Manufacturer: Ringovinda StarYards
  • Model: Immobilizer 420-class interdictor carrier
  • Affiliation: Open Market
  • Production: Semi-unique (1 per writer)
  • Material: Durasteel hull and frame
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIAL FEATURES


[*]Navigation:

[*]Defenses:

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Sensors:

Strengths:
  • Great long-range firepower
  • Great point-defense
  • Ability to generate interdiction fields at long ranges (standard long-range turbolaser range)
  • Can land on planets
  • Sensor ability
  • Ability to detect cloaked ships using a crystal gravfield trap
  • Ability to fly in Otherspace on its own accord (i.e. does not need to wait for a hyperdrive malfunction to go to Otherspace)
  • Can fly long distances with few jumps (hyperspace or Otherspace)
Weaknesses:
  • Slow, unwieldy
  • Awkward firing arcs due to the gravity field generators
  • Repulsorlift generator failures must be repaired in orbit
  • Once gravity field projectors are activated, it starts attracting debris from explosions on or of nearby ships, potentially causing hull damage
  • Exposed gravity field generators: for this reason it is a priority target, especially since destroying gravity shield generators can potentially gut the ship
  • Exposed ventral hangar
  • Once the armor takes a hit at a place, another hit at that same place can likely penetrate the hull
  • If one attempts to jump an Immobilizer 420 in hyperspace while its gravity field projectors are damaged, it can unwittingly find itself in Otherspace
  • The frame is rather fragile due to the requirements of having a large hangar capacity alongside four gravity field projectors
  • Otherspace flight can be hazardous due to the potential for Otherspace mass shadows not lining up with hyperspace and realspace mass shadows
Description: Built from the Empyrean-class, and the smallest ship in the next-generation Immobilizer series, the Immobilizer 420 is borne from the recent rise in the use of microjumps, where the numerous microjumps gave trouble to various parties. Due to the constraints of space aboard the ship, thanks to the usage of four gravity well projectors that allow it to project gravity wells at long-range turbolaser ranges, the decision was made to eschew large-caliber projectile weapons, realizing that there was not enough space for their magazines. As such, the ventral hangar is located in front of the gravity projector fields, capable of carrying 4 squadrons on lateral racks, with two more lateral hangars that can also carry two squadrons apiece. Nevertheless, care is taken not to encroach on the firing arcs; even then, despite the array of armaments, the Immobilizer 420 is not intended to be a frontlline combatant. It still carries some serious long-range firepower with 8 heavy long-range guns, with the rapid-fire turbolasers intended for fighting enemies that can fight the Immobilizer 420 at short ranges. Also, the consequences of such limited space are that it can carry a rather limited amount of cargo, as well as a limited number of troops. Also, to maintain hull integrity on that ship, especially with the presence of the gravity field projectors, tensor field generators, inertial compensators and anti-concussion field generators are installed.

It also shares common weaknesses with other interdictors: gravity field projectors are exposed, giving enemies a prime target for bombing runs or for smaller ships capable of closing in to fire at them. Also, commanders wishing to use an Immobilizer 420 will have to deploy escorts effectively in order to protect their Immobilizer 420, even more so than with an ordinary carrier, for a myriad of reasons including the ability to wage electronic warfare (ECM and ECCM), as well as the ability to tend to the fleet's injured (albeit not as much as other capital ships in that size category). In addition, slicing the ship's systems is much more difficult due to the defensive redundancies built into the shilp-wide neural net, powered by the waste heat recovery devices. On that ship, due to the high energy expenditure of the gravity well projector, waste heat recovery devices are fitted to them, a marked departure from usual design practices where they are normally fitted to reactors and engines. Also, the CIC comes equipped with a Castameer tactical display, allowing its crew to track hundreds of targets at once, for interdiction or otherwise, while the CHX 5.0 sound systems being installed throughout the ship allows the crew to maintain morale, among other means.

The Immobilizer 420 is equipped with a myriad of systems designed to detect space mines, such as demolition sensors, which are capable of detecting explosives as well as detonation mechanisms, and a doppraymagno scanner that includes a Doppler sensor array, working in concert with mass detector and other items, such as a crystal gravfield trap, to detect cloaked mines and other hazards of that nature. With the photoamplifier, and the long-range electrophotoreceptor, it can optically resolve items to a greater level of resolution (up to the limits of diffraction). Its sensor suite also enables it to detect hyperspace jumps and reversions thanks to its soliton antenna and radiation sensors, which were used to detect cronau radiation. With the data from the communication monitor being compared to the com-scan, one can also sort out the transmissions data to determine what was important or not, with the target identification network giving the crews inside a precise picture of the battlefield coupled with data from the motion sensor and the thermal detector. Given the collision avoidance system, if any of the sensors detect mines, its crew can attempt to fly out of the way or to shoot down the mine altogether, and possibly find its way back to a location marked with transpond markers, with the universal transceiver package being the standard sensor suite, hooked up to the Castameer tactical display, allowing the crew to display hundreds and maybe thousands of targets at once, with the added processing power of the ship-wide neural net and its redundancies giving some breathing room to the ELINT crew.

Also, after the experience of battle in the Serenno campaign, it as found that the need for reactive armor was pressing, yet explosive reactive armor was ruled out since it was too dangerous to use due to the risk of damaging the gravity well projectors; in addition, limited deployment of interdictors in battlegroups made it so that additional capability can be included that would be worth the decrease in production, namely the addition of two squadrons, NERA and Haruna cap drains.

Finally, it should be noted that, if a gravity well projector malfunctions and that an Immobilizer 420 tries to jump to hyperspace with a faulty gravity well projector, there is a possibility that the Immobilizer 420 could find itself in Otherspace, due to the risk of the hyperdrive shorting out while making the jump and this is where the Otherdrive comes in handy: with the Otherdrive one can buy more time for emergency hyperdrive repairs, and also it can be used to smuggle itself around hyperroute surveillance grids, albeit at a cost of speed. The Otherpilot's ability to make use of waypoints in hyperspace or Otherspace flight, Immobilizer 420s can limp back to base over long distances without having to revert to realspace as often as with a conventional navicomputer. For this reason, factions deploying Immobilizer 420s will attempt to deploy their best cruiser pilots on Immobilizer 420s, even though, in realspace combat, the tactical difference an elite cruiser pilot makes is limited. And, while a minor improvement, the addition of the Utai Pilot Seat allows its pilot to eject in combat, as well as to enhance the Force-powers relevant to piloting.

- Consumables: 2 years
- Crew: 5,000 (skeleton: 1,400)
- Passengers: 6,000
- Cargo: 100,000 tons

Modification:
  • Adding a self-sealing hypermatter tank to the special features
Original Section(s):

SPECIAL FEATURES


[*]Navigation:

[*]Defenses:

[*]
Sensors:
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New Section(s):

SPECIAL FEATURES


[*]Navigation:

[*]Defenses:

[*]
Sensors:
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Hailyn

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Cathul Thuku said:
The Immobilizer 420 is equipped with a myriad of systems designed to detect space mines, such as demolition sensors, which are capable of detecting explosives as well as detonation mechanisms, and a doppraymagno scanner that includes a Doppler sensor array, working in concert with mass detector and other items, such as a crystal gravfield trap, to detect cloaked mines and other hazards of that nature.
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Cathul Thuku said:
Ability to detect cloaked ships
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Listing "Ability to detect cloaked ships" does not explain how or why this is the case - there are a myriad of ways to cloak a ship. You have buried the fact that there is a crystal gravfield trap in the middle of a rather wordy description and don't even have it listed in your strengths or special features - if this is how you are detecting cloaked ships, this needs to be explained in extremely basic english in the pertinent areas of the template, not just the description. Hiding information pertinent to the strengths and abilities of a submission and not including them where required (the Strengths section, all strengths must be recorded here) is toeing the line of intentionally misleading factory judges and readers alike. Either state in your special features and strengths that this is accomplished via a crystal gravfield trap or remove it entirely from the description and explain what method is used to detect cloaked ships.

This also puts the defenses of the ship far higher than just Moderate - you're able to detect a vast majority of cloaked ships, which is a massive boon.



Cathul Thuku said:
If one flies an Immobilizer 420 through Otherspace, reversion to hyperspace can kill the ship if done improperly
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This will never come up in RP, remove this.
 

Cathul Thuku

Admiral, Therapy Command
Cathul Thuku
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[member="Irina Volkov"] The Otherdrive sub I used states exactly what "improper reversion to hyperspace" means in the context of Otherspace flight and, frankly, I had re-state it in the relevant sub area as to exactly how it is a weakness: Otherspace mass shadows have no correlation to hyperspace mass shadows, which will come up in any Otherspace RP that involves getting out of Otherspace. Which means that somebody can get out of Otherspace too close to, or even inside, a star, planet, black hole or other object.

To assume that it will not come up in RP either assumes Otherspace navigational charts can be perfectly superimposed on hyperspace navigational charts, or that even if that was not the case, everybody and their dogs that can pilot ships in Otherspace will be able to avoid that particular hazard­. Please let me know if either of those assumptions is correct, and I will then remove that weakness from all three Immobilizers.

As an aside, I could always lower speed and maneuverability and increase defenses because of the presence of a crystal gravfield trap; also I listed the crystal gravfield trap as the mechanism used to detect cloaked ships as an expansion on the strength.
 
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Hailyn

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Cathul Thuku said:
To assume that it will not come up in RP either assumes Otherspace navigational charts can be perfectly superimposed on hyperspace navigational charts, or that even if that was not the case, everybody and their dogs that can pilot ships in Otherspace will be able to avoid that particular hazard­
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There is not enough information in canon to make a decision where it is the case or not. What is known is that we cannot submit locations in Otherspace to the Codex, so this is largely impossible to "map out" in a documented sense.

In regards to the ratings on your ship, either lower the hangar count or decrease the defense rating - I'm fine with an increase on one for a semi-unique production ship over what is acceptable at higher productions, but right now you're more or less at the equivalent of an unique cruiser as displayed in our example list, just with the ratings redistributed.
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Cathul Thuku

Admiral, Therapy Command
Cathul Thuku
Character Bio
[member="Irina Volkov"] Lowered defenses here... and also removed the navigational weakness as it pertains to Otherspace, even though it might have come up precisely because Otherspace is nearly impossible to map out.

However, having large hangars and several gravity field projectors will make the hull integrity suffer somewhat, so that might account for how defenses can stay moderate even with a CGT in place; often writers will, in RP, assume defenses refer only to shields and hull integrity.
 
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Hailyn

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Hailyn
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Cathul Thuku said:
However, having large hangars and several gravity field projectors will make the hull integrity suffer somewhat, so that might account for how defenses can stay moderate even with a CGT in place; often writers will, in RP, assume defenses refer only to shields and hull integrity
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I don't know what this is intended to address - did you lower your defense rating or not?
 
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