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Affiliation: First Order Navy
Manufacturer: Kuat Drive Yards (Original Product)
First Order Corp of Imperial Engineers (BLOCK II Upgrade Package)
Model: Imperial-I Class Star Destroyer [BLOCK II]
Modularity: No
Production: Mass Produced.
Material:
- Quadanium-reinforced Durasteel Hull
- Titanium-reinforced Alusteel truss frame
- Transparisteel Viewports
- Turadium Blast Doors/Shutters
Classification:
- Assault Star Destroyer
- Transport Star Destroyer
Length: 1600m
Height: 268m
Width: 548m
Armament:
Rating 13
- Enforcer-Class Heavy Turbolaser (120 in Dual-Mounts)
- Enforcer-class Heavy Turbolaser (12 in Dual-Mounts)
- Heavy ion cannon turrets (4 In Dual-Mounts)
- Despoiler-class Heavy Turbolaser (8 in Quad-Mounts)
- Medium turbolasers (9 in Triple-Mounts)
- Medium turbolasers (2 in Single-Mounts)
Defenses: 16
- Reinforced Hull
- Advanced Warship Deflector Shields
- EWAR
- HIMS
- Internal Defences (Concealed Auto-Blasters)
Complement:
- 36x TIE/fo space superiority fighter
- 24x TIE/sf space superiority fighter
- 12x Delta-Class XG-5 Star Wing II or TIE/FO-SK "Strike" Bomber
- 20x AT-AT Walkers
- 30x AT-ST OR AT-DP Walkers
- 15x TX-225 GAVw "Occupier" combat assault tank
- 1x IM-455 modular garrison
Special Features:
• KDY Destroyer-I Ion Engines (3)
• Cygnus Spaceworks Gemon-4 Ion Engines (4)
• Advanced Warship Hazard and Damage Control Systems
• Advanced Warship Life Support Systems
• Advanced Warship Navigational Systems
• Sienar-Jamus I-a2b Solar Ionization Reactor
• LeGrange targeting computers
• Upgraded Sensor Array
• KDY ISD-72x shield generator domes
• Advanced Warship Communications Systems
• Advanced Warship Environmental Control Systems
• Phylon Q7 tractor beam projectors
• Advanced Warship Escape Pods
• Advanced Holonet Transceiver and Encryption/Decryption Networks
• Simulation fields
• Internal Defences (Concealed Auto-Blasters)
Manoeuvrability Rating: 15
Speed Rating: 12 (Top Speed 975 K/ph in Atmosphere)
Hyperdrive Class: 2.0
Backup Class 8.0
Minimum Crew: 5,000
Optimum Crew: 18,542 (Including Officers and Crew)
Maximum Crew: 37,085 (Including Officers and Crew)
Passenger(s): 9,700 (Stormtroopers)
Cargo Capacity: 36,000 Metric Tons
Consumables: 2 years
Strengths:
- Multi-role Star Destroyer: The Imperial I-Class Star Destroyer is a versatile vessel that can serve both as a Destroyer and Transport depending on its deployment environment, complement and operational demands. While not as heavily armed as the X-Class Star Destroyers, it also features a significantly larger complement of transport and fighter craft which make it a more suitable alternative for planetary assault when compared to either the Imperial X-Class or Victory X-Class. In its role as a Destroyer, it has a high top speed and is heavily armed enough to take on virtually any belligerent vessel. The Imperial I-Class can also yet go toe-to-toe with modern cruisers and star destroyers thanks to its upgraded armor, shields, truss frame, sensors and armament which while aging is still potent, largely thanks to its devastating Ion Cannon and Turbolaser batteries.
- Cost and Resource Efficient: The Imperial-I Class Destroyer with the BLOCK II upgrade package can be purchased for roughly one-third of the cost for a new Imperial-X Class Star Destroyer. It also requires significantly less Thorilide when compared to newer Star Destroyers reducing the maintenance and upkeep of the vesssel, Thorilide is a key and highly valuable component for the Shock Absorbers in Turbolaser batteries. Making it a superior strategic weapon in a full-scale war where resource management and investment is key. Partially scrapped or damaged Imperial-I Class Destroyer can also be repaired and upgraded quicker than an Imperial-X Class Destroyer can be constructed.
- Silhoutte Fear: The Imperial-I and Imperial-X Class Destroyers are incredibly similar in design, a cursory scan or visual analysis from a great distance might lead opposition forces to assume the vessel is an Imperial-X Class Destroyer and so flee in fear rather than risk facing the Destroyer and finding out the lethal way which class the vessel is.
- Ion Cannons: Ion Cannons are devastating weapons against hostile warships, they are frightening efficient albeit short range for space combat and possess the ability to disable the target vessel completely for several minutes by short-circuiting all emergency circuit breakers and electronic systems. It is a little forgotten weapon that is incredibly effective at deterring close-range assaults on the destroyer by other capital ship classes or significantly smaller vessels including cruisers, frigates and corvettes, however like the Turbolasers they are ineffective against fighter craft and a target vessel needs to receive a large concentration of Ion fire before being disabled completely.
Weaknesses:
- Low Manoeuvrability: The Imperial-Class Star Destroyer features low manoeuvrability thanks to its sheer weight and inertia, while it possesses good acceleration and speed the Destroyer struggles to turn tight circles meaning combat is best engaged in at range and preferably where the Destroyers' axis of advance is facing the enemy and the Destroyer is placed at the same height or below the opposition.
- Lack of Aft Weaponry: Weaponry aft of the Bridge and engines is non-existent and renders the Destroyer completely vulnerable from flanking manoeuvres, a severe disadvantage in naval knife fights where small, agile and heavily armed ships can inflict serious damage to the helpless Destroyer.
- Exposed Bridge: BLOCK II upgrades do include a new deflector shield system while retaining the old one providing redundancy, nevertheless. The prominent shield generators and sensor domes make for easy targets and can be destroyed and strip one layer of shields away from the Destroyer as the Domes themselves are not shielded but create a local area-effect around the bridge and aft sections of the ship. Without shields the bridge is vulnerable to being destroyed, the result of which is loss of control for the crew over the Destroyers’ course which will proceed to drift through space, turn uncontrollably or be pulled into the nearest strong gravitational field.
- Omission of Point-Defence: Imperial I-Class Star Destroyers even with the First Order's BLOCK II upgrade still lacks point-defence which renders it vulnerable against fighters, bombers and fast-moving projectiles. For Point-Defence the Imperial I-Class relies on the TIE Wing that berths in the Hanger. In desperate situations, the crew can attempt to turn the Turbolasers and Ion Cannons onto hostile fighters but this is an ineffective tactic against coordinated assaults by trained pilots.
Description: The Imperial I-Class Star Destroyer is an old and venerable design hundreds of years old albeit a potent one at that. At the Empire's height they fielded 25,000 of these vessels and many of them were destroyed, scrapped, lost and/or retired. In the First Order's early history. It continued to field older Imperial I-Class Star Destroyers but their old armament and sensor suites have aged to the point of being rendered obsolete and so the First Order has initiated an upgrade package of old Imperial I-Class Star Destroyer. The Imperial I-Class Star Destroyer [BLOCK II] is an upgrade package applied to the old Imperial I-Class Star Destroyer to bring them to modern standards and provide the First Order with a vessel that is relatively inexpensive to produce and maintain when compared to contemporary designs which feature excessive turbolaser armaments. The Imperial I-Class Star Destroyer with [BLOCK II] upgrades still remains a formidable Star Destroyer with some of the original design flaws with the omission of Point-Defence being Rectified.
Development Thread:
Intent: Create an Imperial Star Destroyer variant with a little more in the way of versatility and to better address the sudden increase of enemies the First Order has through resource efficiency and greater production compared to the Imperial X-Class while keeping the X-Class in service for its superior armament layout.
Who Can Use This: First Order Navy
Reference: Imperial I-Class Star Destroyer
