Ayden Cater
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Affiliation:
- Omega Protectorate
- Baktoid Fleet Industries (Originally)
- Corellian Engineering Corporation (Redesign)
Modularity: None
Production: Minor Production
Material: Durasteel-Titanium Alloy (Hull Plating), Quadanium (Structural Frame), Transparisteel (Viewports)
Classification: Destroyer
Length: 1,000 meters
Width: 400 meters
Height: 300 meters
Armament:
- Two Heavy Javelin Cannons
- Six Heavy Mini-Javelin Cannons
- Five Octuple Turbolaser Cannon Batteries
- Twenty-Five Dual Heavy Ion Cannon Turrets
- Twenty Heavy Energy Torpedo Projectors
- Thirty Cluster Missile Pods
- Forty Light Energy Torpedo Projectors
- Sixty-Five Flak Cannons
- Eighty Quad Laser Cannons
- Twelve Dropships
Cortosis Reactor - Much like the mass produced Watts-class, and the semi-unique Cira-class frigates, the Noble-class Star Defender is equipped with a sophisticated cortosis reactor designed by the people from Valen. This gives the ship incredible power for its various systems.
Maneuverability: 14
Speed Rating: 14
Hyperdrive Class:
- Primary - Class 2
- Secondary - Class 12
Terrible, Terrible Damage - The Noble-class possesses firepower considerably greater than its size would otherwise dictate.
Incredible Durability - As a stable of Corellian ship design, the Noble-class possesses significant durability, allowing it to engage in combat operations even with numerous compromised decks.
Weaknesses:
Weapon Placements - While the Noble-class has powerful weapons, its total emplacements are surprisingly few. Thus, any weapons fire that breaches the Star Defender's defenses run the risk of severely and suddenly reducing the ship's combat effectiveness.
Alignment - Much of the Noble-class' firepower lies with the Javelin cannons. As they are spinal in nature, the ship must turn bodily to line the cannons up to their targets. Thus any ship the cannons cannot hit has a significant combat advantage over the Noble-class, as compared to other heavy capital ships the Noble-class was designed to counter.
Description:
Design on the Noble-class began shortly after the seizing of Baktoid assets. Until then, the only contact the Protectorate had been given with advanced reactors had been the singular reactor from Roche and the two reactors given to them from the people of Valen. With such critical shortages of advanced reactors, the decision was made to simply use them rather than risk damage to the precious pieces of tech. While they were certainly put to good use, the Protectorate had no answer to the Baktoid-developed Watts-class.
With the seizure of Baktoid assets, the Protectorate got ahold of all the Watts-classes it could want. The ship design had been forcibly decommissioned by the Republic following Druckenwell's disaster and the revelation that Baktoid's CEO had utilized a programmed backdoor code. The product then reverted to Baktoid for ownership, and was subsequently taken by the Protectorate.
Now that the supply problem had been eliminated, Corellian Engineering set out to test its own limits with the technology. The result was the Noble-class Star Defender. Named after the aspiration of goodness, the Noble-class was designed to be superior in every regard to the Watts-class.
The primary weapon array for the Noble-class is its numerous Javelin cannons. Armed with two heavy LH-71 Javelin cannons and six heavy LH-39 Mini-Javelin cannons, the ship is capable of brutally tearing through shields to inflict damage directly to a ship's hull rather than wait for the shields to weaken sufficiently. This is the cornerstone to the ship's design of being a destroyer, a capital ship killer. Along with these cannons, the ship possesses five octuple turbolaser batteries to function as the main battery while the hypervelocity cannons are recharging.
Secondary weapons include twenty-five dual heavy ion cannons, thirty cluster missile pods, twenty heavy energy torpedo projectors, and forty light energy torpedo projectors. This powerful and varied weapon suite gives the Noble-class superior capital ship firepower as compared to the Watts and gives it a multitude of options to consider when engaging an enemy ship.
For starfighters, the Noble-class has sixty-five flak cannons and eighty quad laser cannons to ward off all but the most dedicated starfighter assaults.
The ship's reactor is carefully monitored and regulated to ensure that no spikes threaten the integrity of the ship. In the event that the ship's reactor begins to go critical, it can be jettisoned and a secondary reactor can take over to propel the ship to safety. However, this secondary reactor contains -no- connection to the weapons systems and thus cannot be used to power weapons. Its fuel supply is incredibly limited, leaving it as a last resort option to attempt and throw the ship back into friendly space.
A small hanger was eventually added to the underside of the ship, between the forward mandibles. While not large enough to allow the ship to carry any escort craft, it was large enough for the ship to carry several dropships to facilitate transport to other ships, stations, or the surface.
- Advanced Targeting Systems
- Encryption Network
- Escape Pods
- Heavy Deflector Shield Generator
- Holonet Transceiver
- Long-Range Communications Array
- Redundant Standard Shield Generator
- Reinforced Hull Plating
- Standard Detention Cells
- Standard Life Support Systems
- Standard Navigational Systems
- Standard Sensor Array
- Tractor Beam (x12)
- Termination - Seizing of Baktoid assets, including Watts-class
- Watt is in a Name - Reverse-engineering the Watts-class to develop the Noble-class for Protectorate and Republic use (technically ongoing, but the bulk of the tech work has been done.)
- A Little Less Conversation - Discussion with Rave on the needed protocol to regulate advanced reactors
- Cira-class Frigate - Development of the Cira-class was done as a proof-of-concept to develop a ship just like this occurred nearly a year ago, at the conclusion of the Valen conflict.
- From The Ashes A Fire Shall Be Woken - Development of Protectorate shipbuilding facilities in an undisclosed system.
Who Can Use This: Approved members of the Protectorate and Republic military
