The Spacepiress of Chaos
Intent:
- Dedicated Carrier for CIS use
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Model:
- Tho Yor II class Mothership
- Minor
Classification:
- Dedicated Carrier
Width: 525m
Height: 365m
Armament:
- Low
- (10) Turbolaser Cannon Turrets
- (16) Quad Laser Cannons
- High
- (3) Deflector Shield Generators
- (2) Ray Shield Generators
- (2) Particle Shield Generators
- (16) Flak Guns
- (24) Point Defense Laser Cannons
- Extreme
- (11) Squadrons
- Starfighters: (9) Squadrons
- Support Craft: (2) Squadrons
- Low
- Low
- Average
- Class 2 Hyperdrive
- Military Grade Shielding
- Military Grade Communications Array
- Military Grade Sensors Array
- Navicomputer
- Life Support Systems
- Starfighter/Support Vessel Repair Bays
- Escape Pods
- Release the Bees! - The vessel is a dedicated carrier, with the majority of its focus going towards ensuring the greatest room available for the largest amount of starfighters possible.
- Cost-Efficient Design - The Design of the vessel and the means of its construction greatly reduce the cost of producing the vessel.
- Rapid Repair - With standardized parts, simplistic design, and easily produced materials, the Tho Yor II Mothership is easily repaired when it sustains damage. While minor repairs can be done by the crew, major repairs would still require the vessel to arrive at a Shipyard for any extensive repair require. However, repairs to the vessel often clock in at days or weeks, rather than months or years as seen with some other vessels.
- ECM Suite - The Tho Yor II class Mothership contains an Electronic Counter-Measure Suite utilized specifically in scrambling and fooling the sensors of smart weaponry utilized by enemy vessels and starfighters such as guided missiles, heat-seeking rockets, and similar smart weaponry.
- Fragile - Unlike the Attack Vessel; the Tho Yor II Mothership is incapable of standing toe-to-toe and trading blows with heavily armed vessels. Though maintaining high defensive capabilities, its offensive capabilities require that it remain in the middle of a formation or away from heavy fighting, designating it purely as a support vessel rather than a ship-of-the-line warship.
- Super-Structure Design - The vessel's design is separated into two parts; the central, pyramidal structure, and the outer superstructure. A small enough craft, such as a starfighter, has the potential of slipping between the gaps of these two structures and causing damage to the support system which holds the vessel together. This would potentially render the vessel defenseless - as the majority of its weapon systems are located on the superstructure - or potentially cause enough damage to destroy the vessel or leave it dead in the water.
- Starfighter Reliance - Due to its lack of armaments, the Mothership must rely heavily on the starfighter contingent that it carries. If this contingent were to be greatly reduced or otherwise diminished, its capabilities would also see a marked decrease in its usefulness in a fight.
The Tho Yor II Mothership maintains an unchanged design that is the hallmark of the Tho Yor series of vessels. Where it deviates from the other Tho Yor designs is its lack of firepower; rather removing many of its primary weapon systems in favor of providing additional room and logistical space for its Starfighters and Support Craft. Thus we see the vessel's primary drawback; in its focus on operating as a dedicated carrier, it lacks the heavier armaments and sizeable firepower that is fielded by the Tho Yor II Attack Vessel - causing the Mothership to rely heavily on starfighters and other vessels to properly defend itself beyond the limited number of armaments that it carries. As it shares a design that is the hallmark of the Tho Yor series; the Mothership retains the similar outer superstructure that is connected via a series of supporting struts to the primary Pyramidal structure of the vessel in the center. This means that the vessel also retains the possibility that a small enough craft - such as a starfighter - has the potential of slipping between the vessels defenses to target these features.
However, even with the Tho Yor series design's weakness, its simplistic and cost-effective design ensures that these vessels are easily produced, repaired, and fielded. Much like the Attack Vessel, its fairly cheap for even one of the lesser economically well off worlds in the Confederacy to be capable of fielding a handful of the Motherships for their world's defense. As such, the Mothership seems to work well when coupled with supporting Tho Yor Warships and Tho Yor Attack Vessels - be it in a relief capacity with its hanger filled with support craft, a planetary invasion supporting landing Tho Yor Warships, or a fleet engagement.
The Tho Yor II class Mothership openly embraces its weaknesses and more than makes up for them due in part to its high hanger capacity, its easy to produce and repair design, and its capability of supporting vessels and CDF Personnel both planetside and in orbit.
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