Approved Starship Mobile Spacedock 6000-class adjustable drydock

[Jessica Med-Beq]

A Mobile Spacedock 6000 fully retracted

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To provide a drydock for larger ships
• Image Source: United Spacedock
• Canon Link: N/A
• Restricted Missions: N/A
• Primary Source:Tiplar-class adjustable drydock

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Ringovinda StarYards
• Model: Mobile Spacedock 6000-class adjustable drydock
• Affiliation: Closed-market
• Production: Limited
• Material: Durasteel hull

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Large Civilian Platform
• Length: 2000m (when fully retracted) - 6000m (when fully extended)
• Width: 2000m (when fully retracted) - 6000m (when fully extended)
• Height: 1000m (when fully retracted) - 3000m (when fully extended)
• Armament: None
• Defenses: Average
• Hangar: 120 Docking Bays, each capable of housing 4 tugs
• Maneuverability Rating: Very Low
• Speed Rating: Very Low
• Hyperdrive Class: 3 (backup class 10)

STANDARD FEATURES

• Living quarters
• Corporation office space
• Holding cells
• Vendors
• Standard station shielding
• Point-defense cannons
• 
  Tensor field generator
  
• 
  Inertial compensator
  
• 
  Castameer tactical display
  
• 
  CHX 5.0 acoustic theater
  
• 
  Ship-wide neural net
  
• 
  18 Sabrina waste heat recovery devices
  
• 
  Cap drains
  
• 
  Ten adjustable braces
  
• 
  G2-GS beamdrills
  
• 
  Lathes
  
• 
  Mills
  
• 
  Welding machines
  
• 
  Hydrospanners
  
• 
  Cranes
  
• 
  External storage pods
  

ADVANCED SYSTEMS

• Redundant power generators
• Advanced long range sensor and communications suites

Strengths:

• 
  Capable of servicing or constructing almost any capital ship so long as the width or the height does not exceed 6000m (can build or service ships longer than 6km but won't fit in its entirety within the drydock)
  
• 
  Due to its adjustability features, can move in space, even though it is slow as molasses
  
• 
  Capable of withstanding fire regardless of how the drydock is configured
  

Weaknesses:

• No armament
• Very slow in realspace
• Somewhat slow in hyperspace

Description: In today's shipbuilding environment, where construction projects greater than 3km in width or height became increasingly common, it was found that, while practical, the Tiplar was simply insufficient to service ships of that size. However, just because something is bigger doesn't mean it can easily be enlarged from an older solution, and hence it took a while for the actual drydock to be built. Once again, it is designed to fit what's being built, with, as is the case with its predecessors, all manners of standard equipment, as well as 120 docking bays for tugs and other support craft to handle the spare parts being processed inside, most of which are lined along the central boom, which also houses living quarters and storage space for both the organic crew and the droids in use. Due to its larger size, the extension and retraction times are obviously longer, and it takes 10 minutes to fully retract or extend the braces around a ship should the need to move the drydock around arise. It is even equipped with a hyperdrive, so that the drydock can be moved from a system to another if necessary. Obviously it is a high-value asset to any party capable of operating one, and the need to defend it is crucial.

Crew: 30,000 organic (10,000 support crew, 5,000 engineers, 15,000 mechanics), 200,000 droids (without storage pods)
Cargo space: 1,000,000 tons (without storage pods)-10,000,000 tons (when all the storage pods are attached)
Consumables: 6 months

Strengths:

• 
  Capable of servicing or constructing almost any capital ship so long as the width or the height does not exceed 3000m (can build or service ships longer than 3km but won't fit in its entirety within the drydock)
  
• 
  Due to its adjustability features, can move in space, even though it is slow as molasses
  
• 
  Capable of withstanding fire regardless of how the drydock is configured
  

Weaknesses:

• Lightly armed
• Very slow in realspace
• Somewhat slow in hyperspace

 

[Ellie Mors]

Approved.