Gilamar Skirata
The most important step is always the next one
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a new line of Battlecruiser for the Mandalorian Admiralty
- Image Source: "Star Wars Keldabe Battleship MKII" by Allan Seckora
- Canon Link: Keldabe-Class Battleship
- Primary Source: Type 3 Keldabe-class Battleship
- Manufacturer: MandalMotors
- Affiliation: Closed Market
- Model: Type IV Keldabe-Class Battlecruiser
Production: Limited
- Material:
Honeycombed Mandalorian Steel - Double Layered Mandalorian Steel
- Glassteel
- Doonium
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Destroyer
- Length: 3000 Meters
- Width: 900 Meters
- Height: 1500 Meters
- Armament: Very High
Quad Heavy Turbolasers Batteries - Turbolaser Batteries
- Flex-Tube Missile Launchers
- Turbolaser Turrets
- Heavy Ion Cannons
[*]Defenses: Moderate
- Mandalorian Steel Armor Platting
- Deflector Shields
- Chaff
- Dampner Aerosol Chaff
[*]Hangar: Very Low: 3
[*]Maneuverability Rating: Low
[*]Speed Rating: Moderate
[*]Hyperdrive Class: Average: 1
STANDARD FEATURES
- Battlecruiser Sensor Suite
- Battlecruiser Safety Systems
- Battlecruiser Encrytion Network
- Holonet Reciever
- Escape Pods
- Standard Military Starship Systems
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
- Advanced camera and sensor arrays
- Advanced holodisplays
- Long distance communications array
- All Terrain Rapid Deployment Pods
- Wall of Light: Covered top to bottom in turbolaser cannons and heavy ordinance.
- Combined Arms: Keldabe Type IV battlecruisers could bring a massive amount ground vehicles to a system and single-handedly act as an invasion platform and deploy them from orbit via rapid deployment pods.
- Imperial Design: Exposed bridge tower
- Poor Maneuvering: The Keldabe Type IV had poor manueverability
- No Point Defense: While the the Keldabe Type IV had an impressive array of weapons, it relied on its small starfighter compliment and escorts in battle.
- Atmosphere: The Type IV Keldabe-Class Battlecruiser could not maneuver in atmosphere.
Several kilometers larger than its direct predecessor, it dwarfed the Type 3 Keldabe-Class Battleship. The large space frame was unique but functional. The bow of the massive vessel was shaped like a hatchet, evoking the harsh and aggressive designs of older Mandalorian designs like the Kandosii-Type Dreadnoughts and the Guardian-Class corvettes. The wedge shape housed numerous concussion missile tubes and flex-tube ordinance launchers. Two hangars on the port and starboard hull offered the battlecruiser some flexibility in its fighter compliment while a third hangar placed between the engine housing was typically reserved for advanced starfighters. A large ventral hangar was equipped with docking clamps and powerful tractor beams which were used to capture smaller capital ships like corvettes and small frigates but was also used to house the bulk of the ground assault walkers and dropships. This hangar was connected to the ship's barracks which could house legions of Mandalorians.
The stern of ship ballooned outward into what was essentially a massive gun platform for hundreds of heavy turbolaser and ion cannon emplacements. The hull was a tiered superstructure both the dorsal and ventral portions which allowed a massive range of turbolaser and ion cannon fire. Missile pods dotted structure as well though it lacked the iconic and archaic spinal mass driver cannon.
Needles to say, the crew requirements for this vessel were enormous. A large portion of the embarked crew as a result were droids. Maintenance droids, astromechs, medical droids, and security droids were employed throughout the ship to help supplement. The ship would later remove its Isotope-5 reactor and go on sale generally throughout the galaxy.
