Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
Image Source: Starliner Axiom, WALL-E
Affiliation: Iron Crown Enterprises, select customers
Manufacturer: Iron Crown Enterprises
Model: Kalytera-class Starliner
Modularity: In general, no. Adaptable hospitality options detailed below, under 'Description.'
Production: Minor
Material: Durasteel hull, transparisteel viewports, condensed-matter composite engine housing for a quiet ride.
Classification: Cruise liner
Length: 980m
Width: 320m
Height: 490m
Armament: 4. The Kalytera-class is outfitted with a comprehensive suite of layered defensive options, including antimissile octets, point-defense lasers, point-defense pressor beams, and so forth. However, it has only a small handful of capital-scale weapons, meant for repelling asteroids and similar tasks.
Defenses: 16. The Kalytera-class can navigate the Unknown Regions in relative safety, with minimal escort.
Hangar:
- Accommodation and refueling options for small personal transports, shuttles, and pleasure craft
- Carries two squadrons of Silk Holdings Rassilon-class starfighters
- Redundant shield generators
- Redundant inertial compensators for reduced collision damage
- QQ-543N/53R cap drains
- Multiple-configuration passenger environments, adaptable to various atmospheric and gravitic profiles
- Observation decks
- Athletic facilities, both public and private
- Omnicompatible docking ports
- Multilayered, honeycombed, resealable hull
- Adaptive, flexible internal anti-decompression fields
- Outstanding library database
- Redundant navigational computer/instrumentation
- Holographic entertainment suites (comparable to Hologram Fun World)
- Comprehensive medical centres and kitchens, with the assets and personnel necessary to tend a multi-species passenger base
- High-security comm suites and cargo storage options available to passengers
- High-quality, non-lethal, low-visibility internal security arrangements (including a complement of GT-F0 anti-boarding droids with facial recognition enabled)
Speed Rating: 14
Hyperdrive Class: 1, backup class 10
Strengths:
- Very good static and internal defenses
- Outstanding adaptability and comfort for wealthy individuals of various species
- Excellent navigational capabilities (e.g. advanced, redundant navicomputers)
- Low offensive capacity and virtually zero anti-capital weapons
- Cannot land without specially designed docks
Although other shipwrights offer more opulent cruise liners, most of these vessels are relatively small and fragile. The Kalytera can house exponentially larger passenger counts in expansive comfort and unmatched security. First Class suites are palatial; Third Class/Steerage tickets are still as comfortable as any lesser ship. Individual First and Second Class suites, and blocks of Third Class/Steerage rooms, can adjust for various atmosphere and gravity requirements. The same goes for the cuisine.
Iron Crown recommends a split crew, half to serve the ship's operational needs and half to accommodate the passengers. The ship's internal geography dovetails with a split-crew arrangement.
In extremis, the Kalytera's residential and recreational areas can be adapted to fit very large numbers of passengers in close confines, comparable to a bulk colony transport. The high-capacity life-support system can compensate for stresses of this order, for a period of weeks or months. In normal circumstances, the Kalytera's consumables and life-support can sustain the liner for up to five years.
Defensive arrangements include a honeycombed, multilayered hull capable of resealing after most breaches, with minimal loss of atmosphere. This system is designed to save compartments from impact or occasional weapons fire; it is not equal to the task of handling sustained anti-capital bombardment.
Three-dimensional Internal Views:
Development Thread: None
Intent: A very nice starliner.
Who Can Use This: Iron Crown Enterprises and select customers.
Primary Source: None
