Approved Starship Turhaya-class Freighter

[Ayden Cater]

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Intent: To provide a sturdy transport for Jedi and other Force Users
Development Thread: N/A
Manufacturer: Corellian Engineering Corporation
Model: Turhaya-class Freighter
Affiliation: Jedi / Independent
Modularity: Extensive
Production: Minor Production
Material: Durasteel
Description: The galaxy remains a dangerous place, even after the fall of the Sith. Fighting continues and the threat of war looms ever greater. Jedi and those like them are constantly on the move, putting out galactic brushfires as they appear. However many find themselves without readily available transportation, and those that can find ready transports often find them lacking in certain amenities.

As a former Jedi himself, Ayden understands the needs of a Jedi on the go. To that end, he personally helped design the Turhaya-class freighter with the needs of the Jedi in mind. A number of traits and amenities were core to the design philosophy of the ship. First and foremost is speed; Jedi must get to the four corners of the galaxy and do so with great speed. To that end, the Turhaya has a top-of-the-line hyperdrive and five powerful engines to carry it to the furthest reaches and beyond. An optional hyperspace inertia momentum sustainer even allows the ship to run clear through interdiction fields, making it a formidable blockade runner.

Amongst other amenities, the Turhaya can hollow out one or more of its engine blocks to grant additional amenity space, though this reduces the ship's overall performance (+0.5 to speed for each engine hollowed out, up to 6 for four dummy engines).

A meditation chamber can be installed on request to give Jedi and other Force Users a calming area with which to meditate on their tasks. Although such rooms do not amplify any Force talents as some older meditation chambers might, the design of each chamber can be tailored to each Jedi's specific needs, including botanical gardens, small ponds, or even grassy meadows.

For those who prefer to see events from a distance, a holographic projector allows for teleconferencing as well as video playback of received data streams. This allows the viewer to observe events from across the galaxy in near-real time. As well, the projector is also capable of displaying three dimensional maps of planets, structures, or ships when presented with sufficient data.

Some Jedi prefer to hone martial skills to meditation. For them, the training room is a recommended feature. Such training rooms come standard with training droids, and an assortment of readily available, legal weapons. More expensive versions come with holographic training droids, benches for lightsaber construction, and limited atmospheric and gravimetric training regimes.

The ship comes standard with a cargo hold capable of holding eight hundred tons and a passenger capacity of ninety-six. Cargo space can be sacrificed to add more bunk quarters, or vice versa.

Despite all these amenities, the Turhaya-class is not without flaws. It is not a dedicated combat ship and great care should be taken to keep it out of a fight. It relies heavily on its speed, so any damage that takes the engines out only exponentially increases the danger presented to the ship. It lacks any escort craft and only possess half as many weapons as a military craft of similar size. As well, several of the optional amenities require expensive upkeep to keep functional. However, many would say that the opportunities the ship presents far outweigh its drawbacks.

Classification: Support Corvette
Role: Mobile training ship, armed transport
Height: 17.2 meters
Width: 54.3 meters
Length: 125 meters
Power Core Generator/Reactor: Ionization Reactor
Hyperdrive Rating: Class 1 (Back-up; Class 10)
Minimum Crew: 10 (2 with Automation)
Optimal Crew: 39 (14 with Automation)
Armaments:

• Two Dual Ion Cannon Turrets
• Ten Quad Laser Cannon Turrets

Hangar:

• Two Dropships

Non-Combative Attachments: (Ship's come standard with two optional amenities. Ships with dummy engines can have more.)

• Communications Array (Long-Range Array for Jedi only)
• Crew Automation (Optional)
• Dummy Engine (Optional)
• Emergency Power Cells (Optional)
• Encryption Network (Jedi only)
• Escape Pods
• HIMS (Optional) (Counts as two amenities)
• Holographic Projector (Optional)
• Holonet Transceiver (Optional)
• Meditation Chamber (Optional)
• Standard Deflector Shield Generator
• Standard Detention Cells
• Standard Life Support Systems
• Standard Navigational Systems
• Standard Sensor Array (Optional Advanced Sensor Array for Jedi only)
• Standard Targeting Systems
• Training Room (Optional)

Passenger Capacity: 24 - 240
Cargo Capacity: 400 -1,600 tons
Consumables: Six Months
Sublight Speed and Maneuverability: 4

 

[Domino]

Right-o! Let's get crack'n.

• Title needs to be as a corvette, not freighter.
• Is the increased passenger capability in addition to the cargo hold or a choice between the two when replacing engines?
• I'm uncomfortable with this going from 39 required crew to a minimal of one, at that point it should be near impossible to do anything other than make a rough turn without considerable time and effort put into it for a single person. That and this is a corvette sized ship with no mentioned automation.
• The only solid cannon instance of the HIMS that I can find was on a 400m ship and one 850m, even then then was described as 'brute force' and a 'rough ride.' which is making me extremely leery of approving it on anything under 300m even on a minor production.
• I was also under the impression that the Republic as well as several other factions and private companies already made Jedi/FU specific ships for their people to use which makes me wonder as to what prompted you to make this ship.

[member="Ayden Cater"]

 

[Ayden Cater]

• It's title refers to it as a freighter because that's a fairly standard naming scheme for CEC.
• The currently listed cargo variation reflects the variation found the passenger count. As one goes up, the other goes down. I added a note in the description to reflect this.
• I missed a zero.
• I added the possibility of a HIMS to add to the flavor of the ship potentially being used to shoot through interdiction blockades. To further emphasize the drawbacks of it, I made it so that that putting one on the ship takes up two amenities, requiring any other feature to further reduce the ship's potential combat effectiveness.
• This is marketed towards not just Jedi, but other Force users as well, as part of CEC's expansionary works to extend product use beyond the Protectorate.

[member="Domino"]

 

[Domino]

• It's title refers to it as a freighter because that's a fairly standard naming scheme for CEC.
• I added the possibility of a HIMS to add to the flavor of the ship potentially being used to shoot through interdiction blockades. To further emphasize the drawbacks of it, I made it so that that putting one on the ship takes up two amenities, requiring any other feature to further reduce the ship's potential combat effectiveness.

The ships you linked me are freighters first, or transports.
Does this mean it takes two of the engine slots, because I don't see anything else limiting amenity space in the sub. Might just be the lateness of the day making me derp here.

[member="Ayden Cater"]

 

[Ayden Cater]

[member="Domino"]

 

[Domino]

Right, talked about it on skype, Net just went out again.
Approved pending secondary, apologies for the wait.
[member="Ayden Cater"]

 

[Lief]

Approved.