Zambrano the Starweird
The Black Prophet of Balagoth
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Affiliation: The Primeval - The Chiloon Rift/The Time Foundry
Manufacturer: The Primeval - The Time Foundry
Model: Superior Electronic Warfare Assault Ship (S.E.W.A.S.)
Modularity: May be Updated to modern armaments at a facility other than the Time Foundry.
Production: Requesting Mass-Produced (in the place of minor production) due to the use of the Time Foundry.
Material: Durasteel, Quadranium, etc.
Classification: Assault
Length: 1000
Width: 400
Height: 350
Armament:
- Point-defense laser cannons (72) (Twelve per ship side)
- Heavy Dual Turbolaser Cannons (20) (Ten forward, ten broadside split)
- Proton torpedo tubes (4) (Two forward, two broadside split)
8 torpedoes each
[*]Assault concussion missile tubes (10) (Eight Forward, two broadside split)
- 4 missiles each
[*]Helix Warhead tubes (5) (All forward)
- 1 Warheads each
[*]Superior Electronic Warfare Module Suits, w/ Droid Starfighter Firewall Theater Networking Capabilities
[*]Tractor beam projectors (6)
Hangar: 3 Droid Squadrons
Special Features:
- Standard Military Grade Shields
- Standard Military Grade Armor
- Standard Military Grade Engines
- Long Ranged Advanced Military Grade Sensor Arrays
- Advanced Military Grade Targeting Systems
- Superior Military Grade Electronic Warfare Systems
Heavy use of Jamming Beams, Full-spectrum distortion projector, Sensor Scramblers, and an EM Field Generator
[*]Superior Military Grade Electronic Warfare Firewall Systems
- Creates a network with friendly Droid Starfighter Squadrons present within a local theatre, to provide electronic firewall systems, but does not directly control them, only preventing them from being hacked. If the Time Rift is destroyed, or otherwise disabled, the droid starfighters it was supporting are then vulnerable to hacking.
Maneuverability: 14, an average speed.
Speed Rating: 17, speed wasn't a huge concern and cuts it close to becoming a handicap for this ship
Hyperdrive Class: 1
Strengths:
- Electronic Warfare: Despite being an Assault class ship with a focus on weapons, it has a significant secondary focus in dishing out and defending against Electronic Warfare. To most ships, it is very formidable, but is far from the most technologically advanced.
- Electronic Defense: With a hefty focus put into defending friendly droid starfighters with a firewall network, the droid driven destroyer is incredibly formidable against hacking and other distortions despite being entirely automated.
- Payload Heavy: Although the main focus of the vessel was reducing hackability and increasing electronic warfare proficiency in the vehicle, the secondary focus of this vessel was to dish out a harrowing array of powerful munitions as opposed to innumerable turbolasers. Heavy turbolasers are still present to a very limited degree, and every section of the ship is moderately protected by starfighters with point defense cannons, but otherwise the ship's main arsenal consists of digital sensor attacks or heavy payload munition rounds. This particular ship even goes a step forward in setting up some of its launch tubes on the broadside to dish out maximum damage in any direction the enemy may be coming at them, rather than strictly forward line of sight.
- Average Mobility: With more focus put into its weaponry and electronic defenses, high speed and and maneuverability weren't huge priorities. Enemy ships that are designed more for than standard or average speeds will run circles around this ship. Given its moderate and standard defenses, this could be crippling.
- Droid Reliance: Despite its defenses and electronic fail safes, the simple fact of the matter is, the ship is entirely automated and droid operated, meaning it is still more vulnerable to being digitally captured than an ordinary ship crewed by organics.
- Finders Keepers: Seeming as these ships are strictly produced within the Chiloon Rift by the Time Foundry, it is entirely possible that a small convoy of these ships can be discovered and claimed by non-Primeval forces, and used against them, before the Primeval can find them and acquire them.
- Electromagnetic Pulses/Ionic Discharges: Given that the entire ship is automated and droid piloted with a heavy focus on electronic warfare and munition guidance systems, any tactics that involve either heavy use of electromagnetic pulses or ion discharges that get past its standard shields, will essentially kill it. There are no living members aboard the ship to repair even minor electrostatic or ionic damage to the ship, meaning those two attack patterns are its most vulnerable weaknesses.
Description: The Time Foundry was produced on the hopes it would be capable of ramping up the production of vessels that wouldn't ordinarily be capable of being produced at the levels the Primeval desired, and given that the foundry could only create droid vessels, they also had to ensure it was adequately equipped to prevent it from being hijacked and any friendly smaller vessels nearby, which is particularly important within the Chiloon Rift where any lost ship is likely never to be seen again. The vessel they had the Foundry produce, under ordinary circumstances, would most likely never exceed a minor production rate particularly due to its use of minorly produced weaponry adopted from the Fringe, and partly because of the niche they chose to fill in producing these vessels.
However, due to the capitalization of an accelerated time bubble within the Chiloon Rift by a approximate factor of five, an ordinarily minor production ship type is now produced in quantities five times greater than what any other ordinary location would be capable of producing. The net effect? Five years of continuous minor production within the Time Foundry, will be squeezed into just one year outside the bubble that the Foundry is contained, giving it the illusion the ship is being massively produced.
This is all short term however, as eventually the Time Foundry will run out of HELIX missiles to distribute, time dilation in it's favour or not. This though, should not be for a long while... at least inside the bubble. Within a few years, it's likely estimated that this ship and it's weaponry will be heavily outdated by the rapid advance of technology following the 400 Year Darkness. The Directory that designed both the ship and the Foundry however, hoped that by the time they became obsolete or lacking in their specialized weaponry due to a lack of distribution, that they will have amassed an enormous armada of these vessels networked and bolstered from any possibility of being hacked, while at the same time utterly disorienting undefended targets, before eliminating them with a surge of ordinance.
They encountered their first field test against the Rebel Alliance in their surprise attack against the Chiloon Rift, who intended to upload a friendly killing ship weapon hijacking virus, and it was these vessels recently produced and found by the Primeval that secured victory for them in firewalling friendly vessels from the viral attack with their networking capabilities. Although they never actually entered the engagement with their ordinance or starfighters.
Development Thread: http://starwarsrp.net/topic/65946-the-sound-of-iron-shot-rebels-and-allies-vs-primeval-and-allies/ (Currently the thread is focused on combat, but I would like to use these in the thread in order to introduce their capabilities. However, it would appear the opposition is no longer incredibly interested in continuing.)
Intent: To create a ship that the Time Foundry Produces, that has the capabilities to moderately protect droid starcraft from being hacked, while also being able to disrupt enemy droid starcraft or just generally wreak havoc on large vessels computer systems.
Who Can Use This: Limited to those who take them from the Chiloon Rift
Primary Source:
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/30108-jahaatir-class-electronic-warfare-frigate/
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/8864-sentinel-class-cruiser
NOTES: I'm a Ship newb, help me out here!
