Approved Starship Palace of Justice

[Janick Beauchamp]

The Palace of Justice

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To provide a supercarrier for the ORC
• Image Source: DeviantArt
• Canon Link: N/A
• Restricted Missions: N/A
• Primary Source: Oxen-class bulk freighter

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Ringovinda StarYards
• Model: Palace of Justice-class supercarrier
• Affiliation: Outer Rim Coalition
• Production: Unique
• Material: Quadanium hull, durasteel frame

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Cargo ship
• Length: 4000m
• Width: 1800m
• Height: 700m
• Armament: High (3000/50/600)
• 24 Toprawa long-range turbolasers (8 triple turrets, 4 topside, 4 underside; 432 turbolaser equivalents)
• 18 Scarif heavy long-range ion cannons (6 triple turrets, 3 topside, 3 underside; 324 standard turbolaser equivalents)
• 194 Gatling rapid-fire turbolasers (97 double turrets, 30 port, 30 starboard, 12 topside, 12 underside, 7 fore, 6 aft; 776 turbolaser equivalents)
• 82 Browning rapid-fire ion cannons (41 double turrets, 12 port, 12 starboard, 5 topside, 5 underside, 4 fore, 3 aft; 328 turbolaser equivalents)
• 8 Kami 88mm hypervelocity cannons (4 topside, 4 underside; 80 turbolaser equivalents)
• 4 Sardun heavy long-range hypervelocity cannons (2 topside, 2 underside; 400 turbolaser equivalents)
• 12 Galidraan heavy hypervelocity cannons (6 topside, 6 underside; 600 turbolaser equivalents)
• 6 heavy tractor beams (60 turbolaser equivalents)
• 50 heavy energy torpedo launchers (50 heavy missile launcher equivalents)
• 480 Ventooine electromagnetic plasma machineguns (100 topside, 100 underside, 100 port, 100 starboard, 40 fore, 40 aft; 480 point-defense equivalents)
• 30 Finalizer point-defense missile banks (120 point-defense weapon equivalents)
• Defenses: High
• Hangar: Extreme (34 Squadrons)
• Maneuverability Rating: Very low
• Speed Rating: Very low
• Hyperdrive Class: 1

STANDARD FEATURES

• Non-combative attachments:
  Inertial compensator
• ​CHX 5.0 acoustic theater
• Ship-wide neural net
• 7 Zak ion drives
• 22 Sabrina waste heat recovery devices
• 2 Marcia repulsorlift generators (centrisphere-mounted)
• Medical equipment (bacta tanks, medical droids)
• Electronic warfare suite (ECM and ECCM)

[*]Navigation:

• Castameer tactical display
• Watchtower collision avoidance system

[*]
Defenses:

• Redundant deflector shields
• Tensor field generator
• 
  Anti-Concussion field generator
  
• 
  Kreelan explosive reactive armor
  

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• 
  Haruna regenerative cap drains
  
• 
  Griet self-sealing hypermatter tank
  
• 
  Otherpilot navicomputer
  
• 
  HIMS
  

Strengths:

• Great point-defense
• Great long-range firepower
• Shields can recharge quickly if EMPs or ion weaponry are used against it
• Ability to penetrate interdiction fields

Weaknesses:

• Large target from topside or underside
• Very slow and ponderous
• Target: Because of its purpose, losing the Palace of Justice in battle can likely result in the loss of fleet-wide coordination
• Rapid-fire turbolasers can only be effectively fired within half a standard turbolaser range
• Rapid-fire ion cannons can drain the shields if fired too often

Description: With the ORC finding itself without a class of supercarrier, unlike the neighboring factions, the ORC decided to order an Oxen-class bulk freighter for use as a supercarrier. It was quickly found that the extra reactor drain caused by the weapons and the HIMS made the ship slower, and, in addition, the weight of outfitting weapons, explosive-reactive armor and also a quadranium hull made the ship much slower than the original Oxen-class chassis but, at that size, it was considered an acceptable compromise, especially while sacrificing some of the cargo and passenger space for the ability to house all those combat systems and 34 squadrons in the main port and starboard hangars. As usual with ships that size, great care is made to ensure that the Palace of Justice's firepower, both regular-range and long-range, can be distributed along nearly every arc, made easier with the relatively boxy, somewhat curved, topside and underside of the ship. Thanks to its regenerative cap drains, it can absorb ion/EMP fire directed at it.

In addition, the consequences of losing the Palace of Justice in battle can be severe: it can spell command-and-control trouble for the ORC in the theater the Palace of Justice is posted in, and loss of coordination can ensue in that case. Of course, a supercarrier will never be seen operating without some escort elements, so in a battle where the Palace of Justice is deployed, It will be usually be perceived as a really big battle to actually get the ORC to deploy it on a battlefield, or a situation where power projection is key, but most of the time, the Palace of Justice will be patrolling internal ORC space.

Consumables: 3 years
Cargo capacity: 25 million tons
Passenger capacity: 150,000
Crew: 40,000

 

[Travis Caalgen]

Under Review.

 

[Travis Caalgen]

Target: Because of its purpose, the supercarrier will almost always be a priority objective of almost any enemy commander since losing a Lucrehulk-X in battle can result in the loss of fleet-wide coordination

This weakness if speculative, you can't just say 'people will almost always target it' because it depends on something that doesn't involve the ship itself.

Also, this isn't a Lucrehulk-X.

 

[Janick Beauchamp]

[member="Travis Caalgen"] What's uncontroversial about that weakness is that losing the Palace of Justice in battle will likely result in the loss of fleet-wide coordination.

With that said, edits made.

 

[Travis Caalgen]

[member="Janick Beauchamp"]

It's not that a fleet loses coordination, it's the fact that you decided to base the weakness on the ship 'almost always' being a target.

Regardless, pending approval.

 

[Travis Caalgen]

Awesome. Pending Secondary Approval. Thanks! [member="Jamie Pyne"]

 

[Jamie Pyne]

Approved.