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Intent: To create a heavy cruiser for the One Sith
Development Thread:
Manufacturer: Taerab Starship Manufacturing
Model: Torment-class Star Destroyer
Affiliation: One Sith
Modularity: Minor
Production: Mass Produced
Material: Durasteel
Description: Designed just before the fall of the Four Hundred Years of Darkness, the ship that would become the Torment-class was birthed by a dying Taerab Starship Manufacturing company. They had been plagued with horrible business and corporate espionage for millennia. It was truly a miracle they had even survived as long as they had. Rather than wallow in obscurity and fold, TSM continued on, and after five years of heavily guarded research and development, they were ready to challenge the likes of Kuat Drive Yards and Sienar Fleet Systems.
Unfortunately, the Gulag Plague struck and the entire market crashed. Most of TSM perished, though a handful of engineers managed to retreat to the Deep Core, under the wings of the One Sith. And there, they waited. Their ambition and thirst for vengeance against those corporate figures who had wronged them twisted the engineers until they served the Sith willingly and eagerly. As part of their work, the One Sith got the plans for the Torment and began to manufacture them for their eventual return to the galaxy. As they remained in the shadows, it was a process that took decades, centuries. But it was well worth it.
The Torment-class is competitive to most modern ships, though in a crude way. The intense radiation, gravimetric distortions, and scarce resources of the Deep Core were the driving forces that kept the One Sith from falling behind the rest of the galaxy in technology, and the Torment-class was updated along with those lessons.
Designed with a likeness to the ancient Harrower-class, the Torment sports a large number of quad laser cannon batteries, though fewer than most other carriers of the same weight. In balance to that, the Torment sports twice as many capital guns as compared to those same ships. Their hangers are equally fitted with necessity. Filled to the brim, the Torment holds three full wings of starfighters and bombers and can release them rapidly thanks to a pair of long hangers. Rapidly retrieving them all is nearly impossible in quick order, but the Sith never did care too much about saving each others lives. Unless it suited them.
Classification: Support Heavy Cruiser
Role: Carrier, Warship
Height: 270 meters
Width: 360 meters
Length: 1,000 meters
Power Core Generator/Reactor: Solar Ionization Reactor
Hyperdrive Rating: Class 1.0 (Backup; Class 10)
Minimum Crew: 175 Sith + 1,300 droids
Optimal Crew: 900 Sith + 6,600 droids
Armaments:
- 10 Turbolaser Batteries
- 5 Ion Cannon Batteries
- 20 Quad Laser Cannon Batteries
- Ninety-Six Sith Starfighters
- Forty-Eight Sith Bombers
- Communications Array
- Encryption Network
- Escape Pods
- Holonet Transceiver
- Standard Deflector Shield Generator
- Standard Detention Cells
- Standard Life Support Systems
- Standard Navigational Systems
- Standard Sensor Array
- Standard Targeting Systems
- Tractor Beams (x8)
Cargo Capacity: 8,000 tons
Consumables: 4 years
Sublight Speed and Maneuverability: 5
