OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATIONImage Credit: Wookieepedia
Intent: To set in stone Caalgen's flagship.
Canon Link: N/A
Restricted Missions: N/A
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PRODUCTION INFORMATIONManufacturer: The Galactic Empire
Model: Conqueror-class Star Destroyer (Prototype)
Affiliation: The Core Imperial Confederation, [member="Travis Caalgen"]
Modularity: N/A
Production: Unique
Material: Alusteel Hull with Turadium Internal Reinforcement, Carbon-Nanofilament Armor Plating, Glassteel and Transparisteel where appropriate. Internal AR-03 Damage Reduction Component plating.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONSClassification: Star Destroyer
Role: Prototype Star Destroyer/Mobile Research Base
Length: 1,600 m
Width: 900 m
Height: 400 m
Power Core Generator/Reactor: ISD 6th-Generation Hypermatter Annihilation Reactor
Hyperdrive Rating: 0.75
Minimum Crew: 6,126
Optimal Crew: 24,504
Passenger Capacity: 6,470
Consumables: 4 years
Speed Rating: Average
Manoeuvrability Rating: Low
ARMAMENT
Armament Rating: Extreme
1 x Concave Dish Heavy Composite Proton-Beam Cannon
2 x Octuple-Barbette Heavy Megamaser Batteries
50 x Megamaser Batteries
30 x Heavy Megamaser Batteries
20 x Heavy Ion Cannons
30 x Variable Warhead Launchers (PRO|A.CON|FLE|D.BOR|CLU)
80 x Point Defense Maser Cannons
40 x Flak Cannons
Military-Grade Molecular Shielding
HANGAR: Low
3 x Squadrons of strike craft
2.5 x Squadrons of support craft
STANDARD FEATURES
Standard Sensor Suite (HSI/DER/EPR/AS/LFI)
Standard Encrypted Communications and C4I Suite
Integrated Fleet Command Data Exchange Network
Upgraded Navigation Systems
Ionic Shielding Package
Ion Shields
Cap Drains
Duraplast Plating
Energy Sinks
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Standard Electronics Warfare/Countermeasure Package
Sensor Jammer
220-SIG Tactical Sensor Jamming Device
Electronic Countermeasures
Full-spectrum Distortion Projector
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Internal Defenses
Defensive Autoblasters
Labyrinth Interior with natural chokepoints
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
Strengths:
Fear Will Keep The Local Star Systems In Line - Featuring several dozen megamaser batteries of various size and function, as well as miscellaneous ion cannons and point defence weaponry. The Silencer excels at ship-to-ship combat, being capable of overpowering a handful of frigates at once. It also serves as a perfect tool for coordinated orbital bombardments of celestial bodies, its megamasers able to vaporize buildings. But the primary aspect of the Silencer, as well as other Conqueror-class Star Destroyers, is its proton beam cannon, while incapable of destroying celestial bodies, the proton beam can heavily damage other capital ships with several shots depending on the size of the vessel and intensity of the beam, with cruisers able to be destroyed in a single, full-powered blast.
Fear Of This Star Destroyer - The shielding itself is standard in the terms of capacity and energy/projectile absorption, but this individual ship differs slightly from others in its class in the fact that it has molecular shielding; meaning most weapons fire is absorbed in an effort to shorten the recharging process of the weapon.
Reduced Capacity - In an effort to make room for the concave dish that that proton beam projectors are mounted on, a rather large sliver of the star destroyer's fore section was removed; Along with it a good portion of passenger, cargo, and even starfighter capacity as the primary and attack hangar bays were removed in exchange for the Weapon's inner workings.
Power Hungry - When preparing to fire the axial-mounted laser, the Silencer is at its weakest. The massive array can easily draw power from other systems including but not limited to weapons, shields, and engines; possibly leaving the ship exposed after firing at its full potential.
Firing Rate - The Silencer shares the same firing rate of its proton beam cannon as its ship class: a two minute charging period for a 'single reactor ignition' in which the blast is the equivalent of a very strong hypervelocity gun, up to a 'full power ignition' (technically five reactor ignitions) for a ten minute charging period on par with a nuclear weapon that can vaporize a cruiser. During this time, the crew can acquire a precise lock on the target area, be it a starship or a planetary position to commence bombardment upon.
Aft Weaponry - Always commonplace with Imperial starships; the entirety of the aft section of the starship has been dedicated to the engines and the command tower, with minimal offensive armament present. This can be a crippling weakness combined with its lack of manoeuvrability, whereas an enemy can position itself behind the ship and face minimal retribution.
Low Maneuverability - A feature ships created by both this era's variant of the Galactic Empire, its ancestor, as well as other powers in the Galaxy: The Silencer prototype destroyer has below-average manoeuvrability, slow even compared to ships of the same class.
During the infancy of the Imperial Remnant, the descendants of the Galactic Empire united by then-First Order Admiral Tanomas Graf, the newly-appointed Military Director of Advanced Weapons Research, Travis Caalgen, delved through the amassed Imperial archives in an effort to scour the data for a weapon that could give the Imperials an edge in their oncoming expansion as well as for the War on the horizon. While researching the Death Star, and after realizing that a battle-station of the sort would be an impossibility for the fledging power and their limited fiefdom to construct, he came across a specific Imperial II-class Star Destroyer called the Conqueror. Armed with a smaller version of the Death Star's superlaser, the Conqueror finished its trial run by destroying a small planetoid before being destroyed itself by the Rebel Alliance.
Encouraged both by this revelation and his sense of duty to the Imperial Remnant, Director Caalgen went about to make the Conqueror a reality. The base model itself was easy, constructing a standard star destroyer with much of its fore section missing, with a concave dish marking the centre of the starship. But the difficult part was attempting to build a superlaser with the resources at his disposal. After trial and error, the Weapon was created with enough kyber crystals to produce a capital-busting laser array. Thus the prototype ship was born, the Silencer, which commenced its first test in the Rishi system by eradicating a tibanna gas mining colony in an asteroid field with a single, low powered blast.
Adopted by the Director as the command ship and mobile research headquarters of the Advanced Weapons Research Division, the Silencer would serve as the progenitor of the entire Conqueror-class Star Destroyer line, and as the largest achievement, even after the Empire's super star destroyer, in the man's career.
With the rise of the Core Imperial Confederation, the Silencer has been retrofitted with several new additions to allow it to catch up to more contemporary ships of the same class and size, much to the delight of its captain.NOTE: PCs may decide if the Conqueror blast hits their ships, and may also decide the extent of the damage. I want the weapon to be powerful but fair in RP so people cannot complain about it being overpowered.
