Grand Shepherd Burtch
Fleet Commander For The Nomadic Peoples Coalition
(OOC NOTE: THIS IS A MASS PRODUCTION VARIANT OF THE ORIGINAL VAL KHAAR-CLASS CORVETTE)
Images of Final Design
Images of Final Design
Viken Dobson’s original scetchs
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To make a mass-production corvette for the Elysium Empire Battle-Line Synergy Project
- Image Source: My Own Drawing, assistance by Heath Valhoun. 3D rendered image is a commissioned work by Adamkop.
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: (X) (X)
- Primary Source: Val Khaar-Class Corvette. Also, not really a source, but for reference, some of the architecture was derived from the Makashi class light cruiser.
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Veinstein Labs and Innovations, Katitik Hive Industries, and Mandal-Elysium Arms
- Affiliation: Elysium Empire
- Market Status: Closed-Market (Can be purchased from any of the manufacturers above in the marketplace)
- Model: Val Khaar-B Class Corvette
- Production: Mass Production
- Material: Beskar-Quadanium Laminated layered hull, same laminated materials for firewalling, transparisteel viewports.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: General Purpose Corvette
- Dimensions:
- Length: 200 meters
- Width: 85 meters
- Height: 50 meters
- Marine Contingent:
- 80 troops (X)
- Armament: Average
- 4 Corvette sized high-speed-tracking Turbolazer turrets with overlapping firing arcs.
- 1 forward dorsal
- 1 forward ventral
- 1 aft dorsal
- 1 aft ventral
- 9 double barbet mounted Big Cat Gatling Lazer Cannon turrets, modified for long-sustained fire for screening small-fast-agile strikecraft. Firing arcs overlapping.
- 2 port side, ventral
- 2 port side, dorsal
- 2 starboard side, ventral
- 2 starboard side dorsal
- 1 aft, between the engines
- 2 Mangy Cat Defence Turrets
- 1 port side, forward
- 1 starboard side, forward
- 4 tractor beams
- 2 flanking bothsides of the port side hangar bay entrance
- 2 flanking bothsides of the starboard side hangar bay entrance
- 4 Corvette sized high-speed-tracking Turbolazer turrets with overlapping firing arcs.
- Defences: Average
- Laminated Armoured hull
- Heavy Deflector Shields
- Hangar Space: Average (1 squadron). Hangar is in between two amidships access points and runs through the ship, port-to-starboard and vice versa.
- Hangar Allocations:
- 1 squadron of ST-Class Multirole Fighter (4 ships) (optional)
- Or
- 1 Freestar Transport (optional)
- Or
- Any support vessel squadrons available to the Elysium Empire
- Single Craft Hangar: Yes
- Maneuverability Rating: Average
- Speed Rating: Average
- Hyperdrive: Class 2 | Class 10 back up.
STANDARD FEATURES
- Standard Military Communications Array
- Standard Military Deflector Shield Generator
- Standard Hyperdrive
- Standard Military Ion Engines
- Standard Life Support Systems
- Standard Military Navigational Systems
- Standard Military Repulsorlift Engines
- Standard Military Sensor Array
- Can Enter Atmosphere and Land
- Standard Escape Pods
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
- Highly advanced ECM cyber warfare and malware suites to provide additional support and protection for smaller warships under it’s care.
- Fire control ties directly into the flight control computer for the starfighters that dock in the hangar bay. This allows the point defences and starfighers to exchange support with each other seamlessly when screening enemy fighters or ordinances.
- Advanced heat management systems and power grid to keep up sustainable fire from the double barbet turret-mounted Big Cat Gatling Lazer Cannons.
STRENGTHS
- Wall of lazers. The primary function of the Val Khaar class corvette is to act as a screening vessel against enemy fighters and ordinances using the Big Cat Gatling Lazer Cannons in concert with the 4 ST-Class Multirole Fighters that it carries.
- Well rounded. This ship is designed to be versatile for independent assignments in addition to being valuable in the battle line.
- Single Craft Hangar. Single craft hangar was added to take advantage of the reduced power supply grid from the original design.
WEAKNESSES
- Tiny hangar bay. The hangar bay is simply too small to carry more than 4 small fighters.
- Sweltering heat. During combat, certain parts of the ship’s interior get pretty hot due to the high heat output of the ship’s Big Cat Gatling Lazer Cannon system. The crew that serves in those parts of the ship will complain, but won’t die.
- High maintenance. The laminated hull plates often require a little “TLC” in between naval actions. If it goes too long, it affects the defences of the ship, but it gives the crew something to do on downtime.
DESCRIPTION
This model is a mass production variant of the original Val-Khaar-Class Corvette. The newer model was build with less robust weapons power supply and heat management systems to reduce production costs and increase volume of factory output. While this ship is still well-armed and very versatile, the weapons have a slower cycling time than the minor production variant, which slightly reduces the firepower of this ship. When this was done, it was discovered that some room within the space frame had been freed up, so a single craft hangar was added near the front of the ship on the ventral side.
The overall design is a perfect meld of Veinstein Labs and Innovation designs and MandalArms engineering. MandalArms was able to ditch the static and heat discharge vein systems at the back of the Makashi design and use a mandalorian integrated design which was much more efficient. Even with the more robust power grid to support the weapons systems, both companies were able to work out enough space to add a small hangar to support up to 4 of the ST-Class Multirole Fighters.
For the mass production variant, Katitik Hive Industries introduced more minor design changes that were more accommodating to a higher production output. Things like loosening tolerances where tight fits were not needed, cheaper materials where better engineering could substitute for strength and whatnot. All three companies can now produce mass quantities of this warship.
When two or more of these ships are defending a position in concert, they form an impenetrable wall of lazer fire that small fighters or ordinances cannot pass without serious debilitating losses. The fire control systems are tied right into the hangar flight control systems so that the fighters and gunners can coordinate effectively with overlapping support. The pilots, gunners and flight control officers are all trained accordingly.
Upon the destruction of MandalArms Corporation, Mandal-Elysium Arms took over that particular contract with near perfect replication of results. But because the technology for the MAI-1 Defense Turrets was lost,
Viken Dobson
designed an improved weapon to not only replace the old technology, but make it entirely better. The new Mangy Cat Defence Turrets are faster, more accurate, and more versatile in point defense.Edits February 3 2022:
- Reformatted for ease of reading and aesthetics.
- Changed name of MandalArms to Mandal-Elysium Arms for relevancy
- Added Adamkop commission 3D rendered image
- Replaced 2 MAI-1 defence turrets with 2 Mangy Cat Defence Turrets.
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