Ayden Cater
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Intent: To flesh out the Protectorate navy in the wake of several invasions
Development Thread: N/A
Manufacturer: Fondor Shipyards
Model: Strike-class Corvette
Affiliation: Omega Protectorate / Omega Pyre
Modularity: None
Production: Mass Produced
Material: Durasteel, Glasteel
Description: The Strike-class Corvette is an ambitious, some would call dangerous, design. Lacking a hyperdrive itself, the Strike-class was designed from the ground up to be ferried into combat zones within the new Kerrigan-class Star Defender. Fighters and other support craft are stored on hydraulic platforms that raise up to a 90° elevation while the ship is in hyperspace, leaving the fighters and other support craft in a "normal" orientation. As the corvette is launched, the platforms lower and magnetic clamps release, allowing them to launch normally.
For the crew of the corvette, the whole experience of traveling inside another capital ship can be nauseating. The Kerrigan's larger mass and stronger artificial gravity overwhelms the corvette's artificial gravity, thus while the corvette is stored in the carrier ship, it's left with a, relatively speaking, rotated axis of gravity. As a result, crew have six weeks in training designed to help them acclimate to the odd orientation they're frequently in. In fact, crew space is cut short due to the need to stock quarters with beds on two different axis in order to facilitate comfortable travel in normal space or while stored in a larger capital ship.
Beyond the unusual method of getting in to a fight, the Strike-class is very standard for a corvette. It has light deflector shields that, while capable of holding against starfighters and bombers, are incapable of standing up to direct capital ship combat, and as such relies primarily on speed to stay in combat operations.
Classification: Support Corvette
Role: Escort, Pocket Carrier
Height: 30 meters
Width: 40 meters
Length: 140 meters
Power Core Generator/Reactor: Ionization Reactor
Hyperdrive Rating: N/A
Minimum Crew: 8
Optimal Crew: 63
Armaments:
- Four Ion Cannons
- Twelve Quad Laser Cannon Turrets
- Eight Flak Cannons
- Twenty-Four OS-G1 Guardians or OS-G2 Knights
- Two Peregrine-class Gunships or Inimica-class Gunships
- Four M32 Agrevant-class Dropships or M47 Illria-class Dropships
- Communications Array
- Encryption Network
- Escape Pods
- Standard Deflector Shield Generator
- Standard Detention Cells
- Standard Life Support Systems
- Standard Navigational Systems
- Standard Sensor Array
- Standard Targeting Systems
- Tractor Beams (x2)
Cargo Capacity: 900 tons
Consumables: Three Months
Sublight Speed and Maneuverability: 4
