ADM. Reshmar
Directorate Officer Fleet Admiral SJC 3rd Fleet
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Affiliation: MCS, The DIrectorate, Select Mon Calamari Customers with Contract only
Manufacturer: Mon Calamari Shipyards
Model: MCF34 Mantis-class ELINT Frigate (Sha-Shore Variant)
Modularity: None
Production: Limited
Classification: Frigate Carrier
Material:
* Starship Components
* Ferrocarbon Condensed-matter Composite Starship Frame
* Neualuquad Ablative Armor Plating
* MC1010 Delpus4-class Shielding
* MC1003 Tetra-class Targeting/Tracking Arrays
* MC1004 OPAL-class Communication Laser Projectors
* MC1005 Dolfin-class Communications Arrays
* MC1002 Oracle-class Sensor Suite
* Borealis Reactor Cores
* Glasteel View Ports
* (CGT) Crystal Gravfield Trap
* Long Range (EPR) Electro Photo Receptors
* Photoamplifiers
* Doppraymagno Scanners
* Doppler Sensor Array
* Soliton antenna
* Mass-detector
* Transponder Marker Tracker
* Radiation Sensor
* Com-scan
* Universal transceiver package
* Target Identification Network
* Communicator monitor
* Heat detector
* Motion sensor
Length: 400 meters
Width: 175 meters
Height: 110 meters
Armament Rating: 2
* 4 MC-d1001 Tarpon-class Heavy Defense Batteries
Defense: 14
* MC1010 Delphus.4-class Shield Projectors
* Redundant socketguard Protected Systems
* Redundant Cap Drains
* Redundant De-ionizers
Hangar: 3 Squadrons
* 1 Attack Craft Squadron
* 2 Support Craft Squadron
Special Features:
Heavy Shielding
Redundant Hardened Systems
Anti-Slicing Systems
Anti-ion Systems
Advanced Sensors
Maneuverability Rating: 10
Speed Rating: 11
Hyperdrive: Class 1
Strengths:
* Heavy Shielding - The vessel has multiple layers of overlapping redundant shield protection
* Redundant Systems - The vessel has multiple layers of system redundancy
* Anti-slicing - All networks and systems are protected from slicer attacks by Socketguards
* Anti-Ionic Defense - Multiple systems are installed to protect the vessel from ionic based damage.
* Advanced Sensors - the vessel has multiple advanced sensors
Weaknesses:
No Offensive Armament - The Mantis is meant to carry out monitor and detection missions, not for combat.
Cost - the massive redundancy and construction technics make the class very expensive.
Repair - the massive redundancy and construction technics make the class difficult to repair. Vessel must be repaired at a certified MCS drydock.
Description:
The MFG34 Mantis-class is classified as an ELINT or Electromagnetic Intelligence, vessel. This class of vessel often work alone and hidden on the edge of systems monitoring and logging the activity of the system for later analysis.
The primary mission profile of the vessel is covert intelligence-gathering by electronic means. Secondary mission profiles include Fleet support and System Defense where it utilizes its advanced powerful sensors to monitor space for any and all communications and starship traffic.
The Mantis-class has a large Prow mounted ELINT Pod which is used to scan and identify targets and communications covertly. The Pod is a massive antenna like attachment which utilizes several types of sensors to perform an array of tasks from Signal interception to cloaked vessel detection. An array of hundreds of MC1002 Oracle-class Sensor Suites operating in conjunction to scan for contacts. In addition to the multiple Oracle sensors the Mantis utilizes a dual matched array of Doppraymagno Scanners and Doppler Sensor Arrays to detect the changes in spatial resonance as starships pass through it. It does this by monitoring the frequencies given off by various spatial sources such as stars, pulsars, nebulae, and planets, As a ship passes through space its mass affects the signals and frequencies around it which can be detected by the vessels array of dopplar sensing scanners..
Various sensors give the vessel detection at multiple ranges.
Communications - System wide Extreme Range
Radiation Sensor - Long Range
Active Long Range Sensors - Long Range
Dopplar Array Sensors - Standard Range
Passive Sensors - Standard Range
LIDAR Standard Range
Cloak Detection Sensors - Standard Range
Development Thread: Peek-a-BOOM - Vessel of this class is used to hunt cloaked pirate vessel
Intent: To Create an ELINT frigate
Who Can Use This: MCS, The DIrectorate, Select Mon Calamari Customers with Contract only
Primary Source:
Sensor array wiki
Starship Sensor Array wiki
Communications sensors wiki
Signals intelligence
ELINT 1
ELINT 2
Electromagnetic Intelligence
ELINT sensor system
Doppler effect
Guardian-class patrol ship
