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Approved Starship Lucrehulk-X-class bulk freighter

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A Lucrehulk-X in orbit above Naboo

Image Source: Wookiepedia
Affiliation: Open market
Manufacturer: Ringovinda StarYards/Hoersch-Kessel Driveworks, Incorporated
Model: LH-3500 Lucrehulk-X-class bulk freighter
Modularity: Yes: can modify the layout of the internal space for passengers vs. cargo
Production: Minor
Material: Quadanium frame, durasteel hull
Classification: Bulk freighter
Length: 3000m
Height: 914m
Width: 2850m
Armament:
Rating 3 (325/0/175)
8 Toprawa long-range turbolasers (all on the carrier ring in single turrets; 144 turbolaser equivalents)
45 Gatling rapid-fire turbolasers (42 on the carrier ring, 3 on the centrisphere, all on single turrets; 180 turbolaser equivalents)
1 tractor beam (on the centrisphere; 1 turbolaser equivalent)
45 quad lasers (42 on the carrier ring and 3 on the centrisphere)
65 Kaeshana hypervelocity cannons (50 on the carrier ring and 15 on the centrisphere; 130 quad laser equivalents)
Defenses: 13
Hangar: 4 Squadrons
Special Features:
Manoeuvrability Rating: 19
Speed Rating: 19
Hyperdrive Class: 2 (backup class 9)
Strengths:
  • Great cargo capacity
  • Strong hull
  • Weapons can be aimed along any firing arc
  • Detachable centrisphere capable of landing on planets
Weaknesses:
  • Very slow and ponderous
  • Lightly armed
  • If the repulsorlift generators of the centrisphere fail, they must be repaired in orbit
  • High maintenance requirements
Description:

Consumables: 3 months (normal passenger operation) - 3 years (pure cargo operation)
Cargo capacity: 250 million tons
Passenger capacity: 0 (pure cargo operation) - 600,000 (normal passenger operation) - 2 million (evacuation mode)
Crew: 9,000

Once the pet project of the late Butcher of Korriban, the years preceding its production were spent in a development hell, from which it emerged only six years after the project was first considered. The Lucrehulk-X is a ship which, like its ancestor, is made of two sections, each with its own bridge and CIC, made necessary by the complement of four squadrons of attack craft, used for escort duty: the "carrier ring", which is unable to land on a planet and makes up the bulk of the volume, and the centrisphere, which can land on a planet, despite having a diameter of almost 700 meters. The carrier ring has a gap of about 500 meters in width right in its forward section. In both cases, the space can be reconfigured for a mixture of configurations due to the amovible (and collapsible) bulkheads the hull contains, allowing it to prioritize passengers over cargo or vice-versa. It was redesigned to somewhat smaller dimensions than the original, to fit today's regulatory environment, the but nevertheless retaining a toroidal carrier ring made up of a donut roughly 750m thick. In its cavernous holds, it can hold several million HighCube containers, or well over 2 million passengers in planetary evacuation duties.

The placement of the weapons allow it to cover virtually every arc when under attack by pirates, topside or underside, be it with light hypervelocity cannons used as CIWS, quad lasers, turbolasers. All hardpoints are capable of retracting inwards when not in use. Its weapons layout was designed to minimize its reliance on escorts; nevertheless, a dorsal hangar, located just above the carrier ring's engines, houses four squadrons of attack craft. However it's too lightly armed to be used as an actual warship. With its sheer size come a slow speed and a near-complete lack of maneuverability.

Development Threads:
45 posts total, 3 writers

Intent: To provide a bulk freighter capable of moving the massive loads required of a galactic economy
Who Can Use This: Tier-6 corporations, major factions
Primary Source: Lucrehulk-class LH-3210 cargo freighter
 
Grand Admiral, First Order Central Command
[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

The rules as they currently stand require dev for ships greater than 2400m to include at least three writers. You've meet the post count, but the relevant posts in the Dominion include only yourself, and the other thread includes only one other writer.

I'm not going to demand that you do new 30 post thread as you've already met that part of the requirement, but I will need to see a thread with an additional writer. I think adding on to the donut thread would work, at least a few posts between three writers.
 
Grand Admiral, First Order Central Command
[member="Jessica Med-Beq"]

Well you have no thread with 3 writers, but at this point you've got over 40 posts of dev on what militarily amounts to a woefully under armed slow Carrier that seems pretty clearly intended as a civilian ship. That satisfies the requirement as far as I'm concerned. In the future please endeavor to make it one thread, especially given that the requirements have been relaxed a bit. Overall I have no further issues here.
 
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