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Approved Starship Monitor-Class Cruiser (Block II)

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BIG Z1776

Baboon with a MAAWS
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
STANDARD FEATURES
  • Designed as an accompanying cruiser to the Repulse-Class Battleship (Block II), meant to be able to operate alongside these battleships and bear a striking aesthetic and design similarity to these larger ships. This also serves to assist pilots and crews to be able to be easily transferred between these ships and not need a crash-course in operating potentially different systems. Therefore they have almost the same features of a Repulse-Class Battleship (Block II)
  • A tractor beam generator for assisting in fighters and other craft coming in for a landing and for taking over for damaged craft on approach.
  • A pair of tractor beam generators on two sides of the bow for grabbing small craft and other small ships.
  • The bridge is actually in the lower bow of the ship, and has a ray shield protecting it along with a deployable armored screen in case of heavy damage.
  • Heavily-redundant and overlapping fire control sensors and plenty of fire control stations to prevent loss of weapons in the event of damage, and can coordinate a cohesive fire control scheme to protect against a variety of threats.
  • Compartmentalized and ray-shielded ammunition bunkers linked by ammunition elevators and with blow-out channels to space to prevent catastrophic detonation.
  • Strong electronic warfare suite to jam transmissions and interfere with locking scanners from enemy munitions.
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
  • Refitted into the Block II standard by stripping older Block I Monitor-Class ships of their older systems and equipping them with new weapons, new reactors, new fire control systems, new shield generators, new internal security measures, along with additional new crew amenities.
  • Scattered shield generators are built into the hull to reduce their targeting signatures and they are in overlapping positions so that they can shore up weak spots with one another and they share access to one another's coolant systems with multiple pipe networks to assist one another in preventing catastrophic over-heating.
  • Comprehensive and heavily redundant damage control systems with a high emphasis on redundancy and rapid response. All turrets are sectioned-off with heavily-armored cavities protecting the ship itself from a reactor detonation of one of its guns. There are pre-positioned fire-fighting hoses, breathing apparatus lockers, fire-fighting suits for more than half the crew, and every hallway, room, and mechanical component is covered by fire-fighting foam dispensers and there are a large number of ray shields to protect the crew against depressurization. These damage control measures are controlled by damage control centers scattered throughout the ship with overlapping fields of responsibility to increase redundancy.
  • All 11 SBRA-24 Fusion Reactors are interlinked with all systems, and any reactor is able to provide power to any system on the ship, they are scattered all over the ship, predominantly deep within the ship and able to handle the power needs of the ship quite easily.
  • Modular sections of the ship can be easily removed from the hull by a dockyard, allowing rapid and comprehensive major repairs to be conducted, and this system allows for these warships to be constructed quickly in smaller shipyards and for entire sections of ships to be stocked at repair yards.
  • Fire-control sensors for the EM-3000's and J-43's and "Dart" Missiles allow these large number of weapons to engage incoming missiles, proton torpedoes, and fast-moving craft from long-range to short-range in massive blankets of fire.
  • The hangar has been updated with its own specially-dedicated damage control systems to protect the rest of the ship from accidents involving fueled and loaded crafts within the large hangar.
STRENGTHS
  • Very powerful for a cruiser, designed to be able to outrange almost any cruiser other than one with a railgun armament, and with its J-44's a pair of them can match the power of fairly-average Star Destroyer-type designs, and can slug it out with these much larger ships for a time.
  • Extensive damage control and repair capabilities.
  • Fast, designed to be able to outrun capital ships it can't outgun.
  • Tractor beams are strong enough to latch onto smaller ships at long range.
  • Can utilize hyperspace-hopping tactics thanks to having two separate navicomputers and a Class-1 and a Class-2 hyperdrive, it can drop into a system, fire a few volleys, and jump out within mere moments of its arrival.
  • Very powerful and accurate point-defense system, the overall scheme designed to allow very, very few missiles or torpedoes to break through the missile intercepts and flak screen, a number which its shields and armor can handle.
WEAKNESSES
  • Lacks a large on-board marine force, making a concerted boarding attempt rather tenuous for one of these ships to try and ward off.
  • While improved, its shields are still not quite capital-grade, meaning it may be able to punch like a capital warship it can't stand toe-to-toe with one for as long unless it is completely out of range or it is part of a squadron and it is the recipient of split fire, and like any cruiser it is vulnerable to being swatted aside in a full-scale fleet battle against several capital ships.
  • Larger than a lot of cruisers, meaning it requires specialized shipyards of its size to accommodate it in the event of severe damage.
  • Its plethora of reactors can potentially be a real weak spot.
  • Very expensive for a cruiser due to its size and capital-ship grade weapons, which means that if damaged it needs capital-ship repair facilities and resources, a potential game-changer if a large battle goes poorly.
  • For a ship its size it has a small hangar.
DESCRIPTION
The Monitor-Class is the companion ship to the Repulse-Class, and is the most likely ship that is going to be dispatched to a hotspot due to how much cheaper to deploy these are when compared to the much larger Repulse-Class Attack Battleships, especially the more-expensive Block II variants as they are brought online. The fleet's new cruiser force is designed to be capable of augmenting the main battle line's overall firepower with the advent of a much-longer-ranged battle engagement envelope now that the new J-44 turrets are now in service. With these new powerful turrets these ships are extraordinarily-lethal for ships dubbed as cruisers, but their new firepower puts them well-above many star destroyers of old, although they certainly come with the price tag of one.
 
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Shuklaar Kyrdol

CEO of Breshig War Forge Consolidated
BIG Z1776 BIG Z1776 Interesting and well built ship you have here, just a few issues we're going to need to work through before I can stamp this.
STANDARD FEATURES
Designed as an accompanying cruiser to the Repulse-Class Battleship (Block II), meant to be able to operate alongside these battleships and to, at a glance, fool enemies with the near-identical visual signature of these ships.
For one, the two ships are about one thousand meters difference in length, they likely have considerably different profiles both scanner/scanner wise, as well as visually. As such, please remove this line. It doesn't quite make sense.

  • Lots of fire control sensors and fire control stations prevent loss of weapons in the event of damage, and can coordinate a cohesive fire control scheme to protect against a variety of threats.
Perhaps change the wording from 'lots of' to 'redundant' fire control sensors and stations, rather than lots. That'll likely help clear up what you mean by this.
STRENGTHS
  • Very powerful for a cruiser, able to outrange almost any cruiser other than one with a railgun armament, and with its J-44's a pair of them can match the power of a battleship, and can slug it out with much larger ships.
  • Fast, able to outrun capital ships it can't outgun.
  • Very powerful and accurate point-defense system, very, very few missiles or torpedoes can break through the missile intercepts and flak screen.

Avoid making sweeping statements about the capabilities of other warships/technologies, rather perhaps just speak on the long-ranged firepower of your own ship.

Can utilize hyperspace-hopping tactics.
Elaborate what you mean by this.
WEAKNESSES
  • Lacks a large ground-attack force.
That isn't a weakness for a vessel like this, please remove it.
  • Very expensive for a cruiser due to its size and capital-ship grade weapons.
Weaknesses that don't affect a ship's PVP performance is fine, as long as it's in addition to PVP weaknesses that balance out the ship's strengths.

Tag me once you've solved these issues.
 

BIG Z1776

Baboon with a MAAWS
BIG Z1776 BIG Z1776 Interesting and well built ship you have here, just a few issues we're going to need to work through before I can stamp this.
STANDARD FEATURES

For one, the two ships are about one thousand meters difference in length, they likely have considerably different profiles both scanner/scanner wise, as well as visually. As such, please remove this line. It doesn't quite make sense.


Perhaps change the wording from 'lots of' to 'redundant' fire control sensors and stations, rather than lots. That'll likely help clear up what you mean by this.
STRENGTHS

Avoid making sweeping statements about the capabilities of other warships/technologies, rather perhaps just speak on the long-ranged firepower of your own ship.


Elaborate what you mean by this.
WEAKNESSES

That isn't a weakness for a vessel like this, please remove it.

Weaknesses that don't affect a ship's PVP performance is fine, as long as it's in addition to PVP weaknesses that balance out the ship's strengths.

Tag me once you've solved these issues.

Just to point out the context of some of these points:

The visual signature, I said: "at a glance". It's got the same hull shape, the same engine layout, hangar placement, etc. It's meant, as stated, to be easier on its own crews for cross-training, but it serves an unintentional purpose of sometimes being initially mistaken for its big brother by those who see a group of them together and don't check their scanners. And without anything to provide a size comparison or positional reference it can be easy to mistake the Repulse-Class and the Monitor-Class from a distance in open space. Similar issues occurred IRL such as with the Alaska-Class Large Cruisers and Baltimore-Class Heavy Cruisers being mistaken for battleships of the Iowa, North Carolina, or South Dakota-Class. I figured it worth mentioning.
 

Shuklaar Kyrdol

CEO of Breshig War Forge Consolidated
BIG Z1776 BIG Z1776 Not only does the example not apply because those ships can only really be viewed from the air, or from the land/water, but those ships had a mere 60 foot difference. It doesn't apply, though I appreciate what you were going for.
 
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