Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
Image Source: Here. Indispensable-class is the large ship on the left.
Affiliation: Select customers
Manufacturer: Theed Palace Space Vessel Engineering Corps
Model: Indispensable-class Corporate Flagship
Modularity: 60% of hull space can be switched out for any combination of refining/processing, manufacturing, sales floor, office space, etc., as detailed below.
Production: Limited
Material: Mirror-polished durasteel hull, glasteel viewports
Classification: Non-Combat Command Carrier/Transport
Length: 1500m
Width: 400m
Height: 300m
Armament: The Indispensable-class is a non-combat vessel, an elite transport. Its weapons capabilities are solely based on deterrence. Its armament rating is 7, with a heavy bias toward defensive weapons. Like the Colo-class frigate, the Indispensable's defensive loadout includes layered coverage from CIWS, antimissile octets, short-range anti-boarding null-burst projectors, point-defense missiles, and quad lasers.
Hangar:
- 2 squadrons of Naboo starfighters (such as the N-5), or as provided by the customer.
- 1 squadron of Naboo bombers (such as the Virtue), or as provided by the customer.
- Comprehensive docking/hangar capability, focusing on the ability to support (refuel, repair, clean, etc.) a varying but substantial number of corporate shuttles and light freighters. This capacity can be expanded with the modular areas.
Special Features:
- Silk Holdings Silkworm Hypertransit Package
- Silk Holdings QQ-543N/53R Cap Drains
- Stygium cloak (applies only to some or all of the internal holds/hangars, as detailed below)
- Modular holds (as detailed below)
- Comprehensive high-security communications package
- ArmaTech Aegis Shield Receptor Nodes
- All normal starship systems, including good but not excellent deflector shields
Maneuverability: 16
Speed Rating: 16
Hyperdrive Class: 0.5, backup Class 10, from Silkworm Hypertransit Package; range 150,000ly
Strengths:
- A Silkworm Hypertransit Package with a long-range fuel supply allows the Indispensable to cross the galaxy without dropping out of hyperspace, at extreme speed.
- Low-publicity stygium cloaking capabilities (which apply only to internal hangars and cargo holds) permit the Indispensable to appear as if it is carrying no cargo, even to sensitive or close-range scans.
- High modularity: 60% of internal space can be reconfigured for various corporate purposes, from ore processing to office space.
- Comprehensive cap drain coverage gives the Indispensable high resistance to EMP and ion weaponry.
- Low armament rating (7).
- Very few anti-capital weapons, over and above the low armament rating.
Description: The Indispensable-class Corporate Flagship can serve as a refining ship, factory ship, mobile office building, sales floor, business function venue, customer entertainment vessel, R&D facility, product shipping hub, and basically anything else related to your corporation, whatever that corporation may be. A full sixty percent of its internal structure is modular, allowing it to fill some or all of these roles, in varying proportion. And any corporation rated at Tier Three or above can own and operate one, despite this ship being the size of a Star Destroyer.
Though this is not publicized outside of client lists, for obvious reasons, and non-disclosure agreements apply, the Indispensable-class has the ability to cloak the contents of its cargo bays in an emergency. As a result, the Indispensable can pass as carrying no cargo, even to close-range customs scans. The ship's mass, modular variability, and metallic content are such that gravitic and magnetic sensors are unable to determine the difference. The cloak is single-blind stygium-based. It can be applied to some or all of the holds/hangars/internal spaces. The manual recommends applying it only to some, and only in emergency, as a fully empty Indispensable would be unusual in most circumstances, and meta-class sensors are always a threat.
Although the Indispensable has merely decent shields for a vessel of its size, it boasts ArmaTech Aegis shield receptor nodes. These allow specially outfitted escorts to donate shield strength to the Indispensable in an emergency. The vessel's survivability takes another boost from a web of Silk Holdings cap drains, giving it respectable resistance against EMP and ion weapons. Obviously this resistance is not enough to shrug off a full-scale ion bombardment, but is more than enough to shrug off some shots during an escape.
Development Thread:
- Stygium buying expedition (10 posts)
Who Can Use This: Select customers, mainly corporations of Tier 3 and above. As noted in the template, only Major Factions may own multiple ships which use the Carrier template. However, one is often enough.
Primary Source: A line on defensive coverage and loadout was taken from my Colo-class Frigate submission.
