Darth Strelok
- Intent: To create a Canon vessel for the open market
- Image Source: https://www.deviantart.com/boskov01/art/Interdictor-Class-Cruiser-802532031
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- Primary Source: Interdictor Class Cruiser
- Manufacturer: Star Forge
- Affiliation: Darth Revan's Sith Empire
- Market Status: Open-Market
- Model:
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Durasteel hull, Cruiser Electronics Gravity Well projector parts
- Classification: Interdictor Cruiser
- Length: 600 meters
- Width: 250 meters (?)
- Height: 160 meters (?)
- Armament: High
Point Defense Laser Cannons (6 arrays)
Tractor Beam Arrays (3)
Gravity Well Projectors (4)
- Defenses: High
Heavy Deflector Shield
- Hangar Space: High (4)
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 4 Squadrons OR Support Craft: 4 Squadrons
- Maneuverability Rating: Very Low
- Speed Rating: Very Low
- Hyperdrive Class: Average | 2.0, Slow / Class 9
- Standard Communications Array
- Standard Deflector Shield Generator
- Standard Hyperdrive, back up class 9 Hyperdrive
- Standard Ion Engines
- Standard Life Support Systems
- Standard Navigational Systems
- Standard Repulsorlift Engines
- Standard Sensor Array
- Can Enter Atmosphere and Land
- War Cruiser whose weapons and shields are equivalent in strength to a Star Destroyer from the era of The Galactic Empire, enabling them to be used in the leveling of a planet
- Powerful Gravity Well Projectors capable of pulling ships much larger than itself out of hyperspace, or being fine tuned to slow down faster moving, smaller ships
- Unusually resilient design requiring less maintenance than normal--lasts unusually long periods being moored in drydocks
- Unusually powerful sensor range, double that of most modern cruisers in its size
- Can field a small army for a battle with appropriate support vehicles
- Can fire it's weapons more frequently due to having less on its hull, freeing up power
- Two Hyperdrives
- Punching above one's weight: The shields and weapons of this Cruiser are unusually powerful for it's size, equivalent in strength to at least that of a Star Destroyer from the Imperial era (Late Venator series to be specific) which has led to ships of similar length or above in the modern era getting a nasty surprise when they engaged one without being aware of what, exactly, they were up against. It's able to do significant damage to modern vessels and last longer than other Cruisers in its size could against firepower from significantly larger ships using Conventional weapons, and has an unusually strong sensor system with twice the range of modern equivalents. It's telling this ship was the model used to destroy Ancient Taris. Modern Cruisers would struggle to match this capability
- Apocalypse Proof: The design was so resilient it's able to last an unusually long time preserved in drydocks and seems to require three times lesser maintenance than most modern Cruisers. Derelicts found adrift that are sufficiently intact usually don't require more than the most basic and relatively limited repairs to essential systems to get running on a bare minimum basis. It's basically designed, from an engineering standpoint, to be idiot-proof...even the most basic hack of a technician can keep it running with limited knowledge and resources
- Proliferation: This design was so prolific during the Jedi Civil war that even the Destruction of the Star Forge couldn't bring an end to it, ending up in countless pirate fleets and minor governments and countless private company fleets, constantly renovated and maintained on the cheap. It's equally likely to encounter an ancient one as it is a reproduction...the design is simply that reliable.
- You shall not pass: Creates powerful Gravity Wells via built in Projectors that can simulate the gravity of a large planet, and pull ships much larger than itself, and some ancient and modern variants can even fine tune it to slow down smaller ships in a small radius of 200 meters around it (Note, it can either pull ships from hyperspace or slow down smaller ships like starfighters around it, not both)
- Dakka: As it has fewer weapons than modern cruisers, it can fire them more often, at twice the speed of most modern equivalents
- Multirole. Equally good for fielding a ground operation, due to modern improvements such as adding actual landing gear, which only a few Ancient variants might occasionally be found with. It's excellent as a command vessels even today and can serve in a jack of all trades role in modern fleets.
- Range Due to its Ancient design, it's cannons have only 3 fourths the range of modern equivalents
- Accuracy: Due to the ancient design it's only half as accurate as modern weapons, relying on spray and pray methods
- Jamming: It's outdated Electronics render it especially vulnerable to modern ECM methods, which can be immensely difficult to counter-act with such obsolete designs
- Ion: It's highly vulnerable to Ion weapons
- Seismic: Modern Seismic Charges can ignore it's shields and devastate it's hull
- I'll pass anywhere I please: It's gravity well projector design is outdated in the extreme, and modern militaries can employ plenty of methods and alternative Technology to fool it's projector sensors, meaning that while it can net a ship, there is no guarantee it will be able to hold it for very long. That said, the technology to escape gravity well projectors can be very difficult to obtain...
- Overheat: Due to its outdated design, it can only keep the projectors on for a few hours before it needs to shut them off for the same amount of time they were on, leading to them being used strategically
- Slug: Slow speed and turns
The source of this Ancient interdictor design is knowledge that is lost to all save the most learned scholars. It's recognizable, certainly, but the most an amateur could often tell you barring the rare exception was that it was a design first employed in one of the earliest major wars between the Jedi and Sith.
First designed by Republic Sienar Systems, Admiral Saul Karath stole one of the only working prototypes of this design when he defected to the Sith. At the time it was an entirely new kind of design allowing for previously unprecedented control of space ways. This Model is the mass production version The Star Forge created (Its computer systems presumably greatly simplified the design given that it does not have the same level of Weaponry that the Prototype stolen by Karath possessed) and it was so powerful and ahead of its time even Mass Produced that after the war ended there were still large surpluses of this vessel that went missing and were never accounted for. While it's interdiction tech would not be truly explored again for a long time, it survived as ancient but active relics or cold derelicts on the outer rim still adrift after some battle it lost and occasionally saw duty by militaries in the clone wars who had acquired one by accident or inheritance, with some in the Republic Grand Army even using ones they happened upon during scouting missions on far flung worlds before the 418 Cruiser was employed . The modern era has seen a resurgence in the design, with enough ancient examples still working even now, and with reproductions easily made... provided one is willing to overlook it's numerous disadvantages and outdated systems...
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