Iron Giant
CybeResu Heroine
Image Credit: boom
Manufacturer: InterGalactic Solutions
Model: Dark Blade Dreadnought (Modified)
Affiliation: The Kathol Outback
Modularity: Yes (Already Modded)
Production: Unique
Material: Durasteel, Transparisteel, etc...
Classification: Assault Light Star Destroyer
Role: Armed Mobile Home (Originally classified as a "Battlecruiser")
Length: 1,050m
Width: 300m
Height: 600m
Power Core Generator/Reactor: 2x Solar Ionization Reactors
Minimum Crew: 30 CybeResu (Originally: 3,000 human(oid)s. Specialized Navigational and Targeting Systems utilize technology that greatly reduces the need for larger crew by approximately 99%, a necessary need given the size of the occupants)
Optimal Crew: 80 CybeResu (Originally: 8,000 human(oid)s)
Armament:
- One Heavy, Long-Range Hypervelocity Cannon
- Thirty Heavy, Long-Range Turbolaser Cannons (Originally Forty)
- Thirty Five Heavy, Long-Range Ion Cannons (Originally Forty)
- Twenty Heavy Energy Torpedo Projectors (Originally Thirty)
- Sixty Flak Gun Cannons (Originally 80)
- (Total: 45 guns removed for re-purposed space)
- Redundant Heavy Deflector Shield Generators x2
- Reinforced Hull Plating
Non-Combative Attachments:
- Advanced Sensor Array
- Encryption Network
- Escape Pods
- Holonet Transceiver
- Standard Communications Array
- The Standard Detention Cells were re-purposed into Live Food Storage (aquarium hatcheries intended for consumption)
- The Standard Life Support Systems were traded out for, Resu-specific Life Support Systems
- The Standard Navigational systems were totally replaced by a more advanced Navigational system characterized by Liquid Metal Hydrogen connection to Resu Navigator via Biolux Series Organoform Circuitry, with assistance from Calor Series Biocomputers
- The old Standard Targeting Systems were removed entirely, as the Advanced Navitional Systems installed into the ship double as an Advanced Targeting System as well.
Cargo Capacity: 10,000 tons (Cargo space halved from 20,000 for rudimentary hangar)
Consumables: 10 years (Number of years with consumables doubled from five years, with aquariums which replenish consumed prey through specialized hatcheries)
Hangar:
- (Originally N/a) More of a shielded hole in the ship than a hangar, this e-purposed cargo space, only has enough space for a transport shuttle. The rest is dedicated to keeping the likely non-Resu passenger alive and happy for the duration of his/her trip aboard the Iron Blade, with accommodations that were suggested by a human designer (as opposed to a Resu).
Armament Rating: 16
Defense Rating: 16
Speed: 16
Maneuverability: 16
Hyperdrive Rating: 1.0, Backup: 10.0
Strengths:
- Long Range Powerhouse - While lacking approximately a quarter of the original Dark Blade's armaments, it still retains its awesome long range ship busting capabilities.
- Protection in Triplicate - With its reinforced hull plating, and double redundant deflector shields, the amount of damage this ship could potentially absorb is massive... assuming its long range fire hasn't reduced the enemy into slag before then, of course.
- Ionic, E.M.P., and Cyber-warfare Resistance - Due to the nature of the reworked circuitry involving Liquid Metal Hydrogen Technology from the Resu, interfacing with Biolux Series Organoform Circuitry and Calor Series Biocomputers, resistance to Ion, E.M.P., and Cyber-warfare are all but accounted for. Attempting to disable or disorientate this ship through any other means than physically destroying essential components in battle is going to be very difficult for the enemy.
- Processing Powerhouse - Thanks to the superconductive nature of the Liquid Metal Hydrogen Technology, all mental commands from a Resu Navigator travel through the ship approximately at the speed of light through hydrogen. This means that the reaction time between the pilots of the ship, and the ship conducting that command is nearly instantaneous compared to standard navigational or targeting systems.
- Exotic - From the life support, food storage situation, and the components which make up its information and computing network, there is little in the way that is standard on this ship now that it has been modified by the Resu. Because of this, its maintenance costs have sky rocketed in order to ensure their technology is working properly with the foreign ship design, as well that their organic components are well adjusted. If a "circuit" blows out on this ship, it becomes a tenuous, arduous, long, and complicated process of repairing whatever went wrong, if the "repairman" can even find what is wrong.
- Directed Radiation - In addition to being exotic, many of the circuitry are actually alive. Meaning that high doses of weaponized radiation can really damage the ship's ability to react. This is true, even with the increased radiation protection from a water atmosphere reducing radiation damage, as the Biolux Organo Circuits that branch away from the center are kept in separate environments from that of its occupant, making it vulnerable.
- Dulled Teeth - In order to make room for the exotic components on the ship, as well as general living space, and compartments for food storage... about a quarter of the guns originally found on a Dark Blade have been removed (and salvaged for other purposes in the Outback). This means that while formidable, the Iron Blade has smaller bite than its Dark Blade fore-bearer.
- Pitiful Hangar Space - Having been originally designed without one, it is incredible that the Resu were capable of creating one at all out of re-purposed cargo space. Nonetheless, while it exists, it only has enough room to hold a single transport. There will be no fighters or bombers assisting this ship from its hangar, as such in order to be effective the Iron Blade will require support ships just as its predecessor did.
Description: The Dark Blade Dreadnoughts could only be described as weapons of total war. They were designed, built, and intended for one thing and one thing alone, battle. While many other Ships within the galaxy are designed with a secondary function, such as the Star Destroyers function as an occupation and control ship, the Dark Blades were designed with only war in mind. Their myriad of weapons and their lack of a hangar displayed this function quite well. Housed within the Dark Blades were no troops meant for invasion, no tanks for sieges, and certainly no walkers for prolonged assaults
Inside of its narrow halls and corridors one found only gunners and crewmen ready to serve their function. Hundreds of astromech droids roamed their halls in service as repair droids, while an equal number of crewmembers regulated power output to the dozens of weapon systems upon the Dark Blade Dreadnoughts. The bridge sat in the center of the ship, nestled away safely within mountains of durasteel, being fed information from hundreds of cameras and an advanced sensor array. Every system within the ship was designed and geared for battle, every operation and system within the ship was meant utterly for war.
So it comes as a stroke of irony that when one was captured by the Underground members of the Kathol Outback, and transferred over to the alien refugee, Iron Giant, it was for the explicit purpose of conversion into a home for thousands of displaced aliens known as the Resu. Its narrow halls and corridors widened to fit its new occupants, weapons removed to make space, entire sectors of the ship shifted and redesigned to provide sufficient comfortable space for these aquatic denizens. Whole wards are filled with the exotic fish of its homeworld, outfitted with hatcheries with the specialized task of keeping its food breeding. The entirety of the ship is filled with water, and special filtration units that distill it with hydrogen. Deep within the ship along the revised corridors of this Dark Blade, runs a kind of blood, which makes all ships piloted by the Resu, unique.
The unique circuitry of the entire retrofitted ship, leads to the safely nestled command bridge, turned into a large scale Resu Navigators Suite. These cybernetic aliens become directly connected to all of the ships systems, as if these systems were a direct extension of the various pilots. A single pilot could now replace several hundred gun crews.
So while this Dark Blade had been modified from a dog of war, into a mobile home for Resu Refugees, it still manages to retains much of its past as a highly capable combat vessel given the inherently warlike nature of its new occupants and owners.
Intent: To use a ship marred with the history of titanic warfare against the galaxy, for the express purpose of housing thousands of Resu refugees.
Who Can Use This: The Kathol Outback, Iron Giant, Resu Characters, etc.
Development Thread:
- http://starwarsrp.net/topic/95667-the-times-they-are-a-changin-corellian-league-rebellion-of-corellia/?p=1404314 onward (16 total posts) between [member="Cody Bantam"] and [member="Mara D'Lessio Merrill"] capture the Dark Blade. Ownership was transferred as part of an ooc agreement, between myself and the FO and FA of the Outback.
- Additional If required?
- http://starwarsrp.net/topic/33867-dark-blade-class-dreadnoughts/
- http://starwarsrp.net/topic/96464-gr-105-crusis-armed-transport/
Notes: I looked at the rules concerning development for starships, and I think because this ship is effectively unique from a Dark Blade it needs a 10 post dev at least. But since this is a modification, does it require any additional posts?
Thank you once one of you gets around to reviewing this!
