Cathul Thuku
Admiral, Therapy Command
A comet passing by an Immobilizer 421; the gravity field projectors are located aft
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To provide a modern, elite interdictor carrier
- Image Source: Failheap Challenge
- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: Immobilizer 418 cruiser, Madeen-class bulk freighter
- Manufacturer: Ringovinda StarYards
- Model: Immobilizer 421-class interdictor carrier
- Affiliation: Open-market
- Production: Semi-unique (1 per writer)
- Material: Alusteel hull
- Classification: Interdictor Supercarrier
- Length: 2500m
- Width: 970m
- Height: 650m
- Armament: Average (1400/0/550)
- 24 Toprawa heavy long-range turbolasers (in triple turrets; 2 aft, 3 dorsal, 3 ventral; 432 standard turbolaser equivalents)
- 15 Scarif heavy long-range ion cannons (in triple turrets; 1 aft, 2 ventral, 2 dorsal; 270 standard turbolaser equivalents)
- 174 Gatling rapid-fire turbolasers (58 triple turrets: 8 fore, 9 ventral, 8 aft, 9 dorsal, 12 port, 12 starboard; 696 turbolaser equivalents)
- 2 tractor beams (2 turbolaser equivalents)
- 550 Ventooine electromagnetic plasma machineguns (25 forward, 25 aft, 40 port, 40 starboard, 35 ventral, 35 dorsal; 550 point-defense equivalents)
- Defenses: Moderate
- Hangar: 16 Squadrons
- Maneuverability Rating: Very low
- Speed Rating: Very low
- Hyperdrive Class: 1 (hyperspace) 4 (Otherspace)
- Non-combative attachments:
Inertial compensator - CHX 5.0 acoustic theater
- Ship-wide neural net
- Medical equipment (bacta tanks, medical droids)
- Electronic warfare suite (ECM and ECCM)
- 2 Zak ion drives
- 13 Sabrina waste heat recovery devices
- 6 Vanderhing linear ion drives
- Griet self-sealing hypermatter tanks
[*]Navigation:
[*]Defenses:
- Tensor field generator
Anti-Concussion field generator
Haruna regenerative cap drains
4x G7-x gravjectors
Mario NERA
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Sensors:
Demolition sensors
Crystal gravfield trap
Long Range (EPR) Electro Photo Receptors
Photoamplifiers
Doppraymagno Scanners
Doppler Sensor Array
Soliton antenna
Mass-detector
Transponder Marker Tracker
Radiation Sensor
Com-scan
Universal transceiver package
Target Identification Network
Communicator monitor
Heat detector
Motion sensor
Strengths:
- Great long-range firepower
- Great point-defense
- Ability to generate interdiction fields at long ranges (standard long-range turbolaser range)
- Sensor ability
- Ability to detect cloaked ships using a crystal gravfield trap
- The pilot can eject in combat
- 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)
- Slow, unwieldy (even more so when the gravity field generators are active)
- Awkward firing arcs due to the gravity field generators
- Once gravity field projectors are activated, it starts attracting debris from explosions on or of nearby ships, potentially causing damage
- Exposed gravity field generators: for this reason it is a priority target, especially since destroying gravity field 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 421 in hyperspace while its gravity field projectors are damaged, it can unwittingly find itself in Otherspace
- Fragile frame: the requirements of placing four gravity well projectors as well as a large hangar capacity place heavy constraints on the ship's frame that have the effect of limiting the amount of damage it can take
- Otherspace flight can be hazardous due to the potential for Otherspace mass shadows not lining up with hyperspace and realspace mass shadows
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 421 will have to deploy escorts effectively in order to protect their Immobilizer 421, 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 421 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 421 tries to jump to hyperspace with a faulty gravity well projector, there is a possibility that the Immobilizer 421 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 421s 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 421s will attempt to deploy their best battlecruiser pilots on Immobilizer 421s, even though, in realspace combat, the tactical difference an elite battlecruiser 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: 1 year
Cargo capacity: 3 million tons
Passenger capacity: 25,000
Crew: 17,500
Modification:
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- Adding a self-sealing hypermatter tank to the special features
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