BIG Z1776
Baboon with a MAAWS
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
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.
- Intent: To create a standard cruiser for the Crossroads Republic
- Image Source: Sourced from the Rokh Battleship of Eve Online
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Monitor-Class Cruiser
- Manufacturer: Crossroads Defense Industries
- Affiliation: Crossroads Republic
- Model: Monitor-Class Cruiser (Block II)
- Production: Limited
- Material:
- Armor: Quadanium Steel, Face-Hardened High-Chromium Durasteel, Titanium, Trimantium, Duraplast
- Structure: Durasteel, Titanium, Duralium-Lanthanide Alloy
- Classification: Cruiser
- Length: 1,000 Meters
- Width: 180 Meters
- Height: 200 Meters
- Crew: ~4,170 Total Personnel
- ~2,800) Crewmen
- ~750) Officers
- ~70) Pilots
- ~550) Marines
- Droids: ~3,400 Droids
- ~200) "Sentry" Combat Droid
- ~800) "Sentinel" Heavy Combat/Security Droid (Shipboard Security Model)
- ~2,400) "Patcher" Damage-Control/Maintenance Droid
- Passengers: 800
- Armament: Very High
- 9) CFCC-11 Fire Control Computers
- 12) J-44 Heavy Electromagnetic Plasma Cannon Turrets
- 54) J-43 Medium Electromagnetic Plasma Cannon Turrets
- 102) EM-3000 Paired Heavy Rotary Laser Cannons Turrets
- 48) "Dart" Surface-to-Air Missile Tubes (90 spare missiles each and arranged in blocks of six)
- 60) "Savage-V" Strike Missile Tubes (70 spare missiles each and arranged in blocks of six)
- 3) Small Tractor Beams
- Internal Weapons:
- 1,200) HOB/F Heavy Repeating Blasters in Deploying Autoturrets (Mounted in walls and in ceilings in the hangar and in the corridors with heavier concentrations around the bridge, the CIC, the reactors, the shield generators, the engine spaces, the ammunition lockers, and the fire control computers)
- Defenses: High
- Hangar Space: Low: 4
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 3 squadrons
- Support Craft: 1 squadron
- Maneuverability Rating: Low
- Speed Rating: High
- Hyperdrive: Yes
- Hyperdrive Class: Class-1.0 (Primary), Class-2.0 (Secondary), Class-10.0 (Emergency)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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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