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MILITARY STARSHIP UPGRADE PACKAGE
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Intent: To create so modules to modify stock model warships with some after-market upgrades (Totally got the idea from US Navy upgrading)
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Development Thread:
Model: Mk1
Affiliation: Mandalorians, Private Market
Modularity: Yes
Material: Electronics, Starship Components
NON-COMBAT SYSTEMS
Propulsion
Weapons
Overview
The Military Starship Upgrade Package (MSUP) is scaled to fit the size ship each refit is intended for with different classes of MSUP designed for varying sizes of ships. Battlecruisers and the like noted as being exceptionally large, normally designed in small production runs with numerous advanced systems, and thus MSUP’s were not designed to scale to that size and classification of ships.
The idea was to bring older models of ships in line with current technological advancements to provide greater versatility and utility, without increasing the cost of each ship’s production exponentially. That is why, while it could have been possible to upgrade every system to top of the line, instead each system was given a cursory refurbishing to most, installation of modern software, with key systems replaced with different technologies that have become more common place among post-netherworld starships.
Propulsion
The Military Starship Upgrade Package features a powerful Firestorm Isotope-5 Reactor, more reliable and consistent than other reactors. It is far more fuel efficient, using Isotope-5, which isn’t required to be as many tons, increasing the operational duration of the ship, allowing it to go further and longer between refueling and resupply. The Hyperdrive has been upgraded to a standard Class 1.0 with a Backup Class 8.0, standard for many governments these days, ensuring a taskforce is able to move and assault together without having to significantly decrease hyperdrive speed for slow ships or older ships with weaker hyperdrives.
Shielding
MSUP’s include a set of Aegis Shield Receptor Nodes, affixing the nodes to the hull of the ship and wiring to the ship's shield controls, computer systems, and reactor unit. The nodes take up a lot of space, reducing the cargo space of the ship significantly, making it dependent on its other systems to prolong its operational capabilities. Additionally, the receptor is unable to receive donated shields while the ship's shields are active, as this would cause a double short out, disabling both.
Weapons
A simple replacement for existing ships equipped with heavy warhead or assault concussion missile launchers, exchanging them for the more versatile Helliod Missile systems, granting the vessels the ability to fire assault warheads or standard warheads from its launchers.
Miscellaneous
The simplest two system’s included in the MSUP is Programmable paint, allowing a ship to change its identifying markings if preprogrammed to do so, allowing a Hyperion Vessel to change to United Mandalorian Clans very quickly if its mission or command is changed. Its Navigation Computer has been upgraded to allow for the plotting of more accurate courses allowing for fewer hyperspace jumps through dangerous territory, and for the accurate plotting of micro-jumps.
The most prominent feature, following with ArmaTech’s mindset of efficiency, is a Molecular Furnace and Solid Fuel Converter in the belly of the ship. Because of the space conserved using a smaller, Isotope-5 reactor, the ship is able to include these, along with a small amount of construction equipment in one of the cargo holds. The furnace allows the ship to process and recycle its own waste and convert it into ammunition, war material, and repair components for the ship and its complement. This very small Molecular furnace is buried within the bowels of the ship, replacing the need for a trash compactor or waste disposal service. It is of course limited in its capacity to produce, unable to create whole starfighters or tanks through the conveyor and construction systems that operate alongside it, more fit for producing small units of battle droids between engagements, replacement parts for starfighters and minor damage to the ship. Given enough time it could theoretically produce enough material to repair major damages, but it could be years given the size of the furnace and thus major repairs should be done at a repair station. Along this same vein, the ship makes use of a Solid Fuel Converter, designed to convert virtually any matter into power for fuel cells. When the molecular furnace is not in use, waste and trash is rerouted to this system to allow for replenishment of the ship's fuel cells.
Strengths:
Image Source: None
Intent: To create so modules to modify stock model warships with some after-market upgrades (Totally got the idea from US Navy upgrading)
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Development Thread:
- As needed
Model: Mk1
Affiliation: Mandalorians, Private Market
Modularity: Yes
- Sizes (Moded for Frigates to Star Destroyers)
Material: Electronics, Starship Components
NON-COMBAT SYSTEMS
Propulsion
- Firestorm Isotope-5 Reactor
- MH-PU04 Overdrive Engines
- MH-PU07 Maneuvering Thrusters
- MH-PU12 Emergency Vector Thrusters
- Hyperdrive Class 1.0; Backup Hyperdrive Class 8.0
Weapons
- Helliod Missile Launcher Systems (Replace existing Assault Warhead Launchers)
- Precision Navigation Computer
- Solid Fuel Converter
- Molecular Furnace
- Programmable Paint
Overview
The Military Starship Upgrade Package (MSUP) is scaled to fit the size ship each refit is intended for with different classes of MSUP designed for varying sizes of ships. Battlecruisers and the like noted as being exceptionally large, normally designed in small production runs with numerous advanced systems, and thus MSUP’s were not designed to scale to that size and classification of ships.
The idea was to bring older models of ships in line with current technological advancements to provide greater versatility and utility, without increasing the cost of each ship’s production exponentially. That is why, while it could have been possible to upgrade every system to top of the line, instead each system was given a cursory refurbishing to most, installation of modern software, with key systems replaced with different technologies that have become more common place among post-netherworld starships.
Propulsion
The Military Starship Upgrade Package features a powerful Firestorm Isotope-5 Reactor, more reliable and consistent than other reactors. It is far more fuel efficient, using Isotope-5, which isn’t required to be as many tons, increasing the operational duration of the ship, allowing it to go further and longer between refueling and resupply. The Hyperdrive has been upgraded to a standard Class 1.0 with a Backup Class 8.0, standard for many governments these days, ensuring a taskforce is able to move and assault together without having to significantly decrease hyperdrive speed for slow ships or older ships with weaker hyperdrives.
Shielding
MSUP’s include a set of Aegis Shield Receptor Nodes, affixing the nodes to the hull of the ship and wiring to the ship's shield controls, computer systems, and reactor unit. The nodes take up a lot of space, reducing the cargo space of the ship significantly, making it dependent on its other systems to prolong its operational capabilities. Additionally, the receptor is unable to receive donated shields while the ship's shields are active, as this would cause a double short out, disabling both.
Weapons
A simple replacement for existing ships equipped with heavy warhead or assault concussion missile launchers, exchanging them for the more versatile Helliod Missile systems, granting the vessels the ability to fire assault warheads or standard warheads from its launchers.
Miscellaneous
The simplest two system’s included in the MSUP is Programmable paint, allowing a ship to change its identifying markings if preprogrammed to do so, allowing a Hyperion Vessel to change to United Mandalorian Clans very quickly if its mission or command is changed. Its Navigation Computer has been upgraded to allow for the plotting of more accurate courses allowing for fewer hyperspace jumps through dangerous territory, and for the accurate plotting of micro-jumps.
The most prominent feature, following with ArmaTech’s mindset of efficiency, is a Molecular Furnace and Solid Fuel Converter in the belly of the ship. Because of the space conserved using a smaller, Isotope-5 reactor, the ship is able to include these, along with a small amount of construction equipment in one of the cargo holds. The furnace allows the ship to process and recycle its own waste and convert it into ammunition, war material, and repair components for the ship and its complement. This very small Molecular furnace is buried within the bowels of the ship, replacing the need for a trash compactor or waste disposal service. It is of course limited in its capacity to produce, unable to create whole starfighters or tanks through the conveyor and construction systems that operate alongside it, more fit for producing small units of battle droids between engagements, replacement parts for starfighters and minor damage to the ship. Given enough time it could theoretically produce enough material to repair major damages, but it could be years given the size of the furnace and thus major repairs should be done at a repair station. Along this same vein, the ship makes use of a Solid Fuel Converter, designed to convert virtually any matter into power for fuel cells. When the molecular furnace is not in use, waste and trash is rerouted to this system to allow for replenishment of the ship's fuel cells.
Strengths:
- Propulsion Upgrades: Mandal Hypernautics Propulsion suites are already fairly common practice with the Mandalorian navy, however this package includes them, an upgraded Hyperdrive suite, and a Precision Navigation computer allowing for more consistent, faster travel and more advanced combat maneuvers.
- Extended Operation: Using a Molecular Furnace for fabricating repair parts, a fuel efficient reactor, and a solid fuel converter hooked to the ship's waste management systems, the ship is able to be deployed for long periods of time.
- Cargo Reduction: Cargo space on ships that receive the MSUP is limited, normally about 1/3rd of what the stock model is able to carry. A notable change in its ability to carry war material to new locations. Any ship that could carry a Prefabricated Base is no longer able to.
- MH Propulsion Suite
- Precison Navicomputer
- Molecular Furnace Waste Disposal
