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Approved Starship Venator Commenor-class Freight Carrier

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
STANDARD FEATURES
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
STRENGTHS ( 11 Items )
  • Venator Features
    • Slave-Rigged — The Venator Commenor-class has been equipped with an extensive slave circuit system which has significantly reduced the amount of labor required to operate this large vessel.
    • Storage Space — Given an impressive amount of storage space at the expense of passenger quarters and flight decks; the Venator Commenor-class has been designed to haul a vast amount of cargo from system-to-system.
    • Modular Space — The cargo hold of the Venator Commenor-class has been designed to easily adjusted to match whatever the ship needs to haul.
    • Moderate Point DefenseThe Venator Commenor-class has some weapon emplacements which provide some defense against starfighter harassment and incoming ballistics.
    • Multi-Layered Armor
      • Tough Armor — The carbon-nanofilament armor plating and damage reduction armor component that are holdovers of the days when the Venator Commenor-class was a warship provides the vessel some sturdiness against enemy fire.
      • Radiation Resistance — The interior sections of the Venator-class have been lined with agrinium which provides the crew an additional layer of protection from the dangerous effects of radiation that can be encountered when a ship loses its shields.
    • Backup Bridge — The Venator Commenor-class has two towers, one on starboard which serves as command information center, and one one port which serves as the flight control server. When the starboard tower is taken out of commission, it's sister tower is designed to assume emergency control over some of the ship's functions.
    • Interdiction Warning — The Venator Commenor-class has been equipped with a gravity well early detection system which allows this vessel to detect an approaching gravity well in hyperspace when traveling along well-established hyperlanes. This technology provides the ship with the option to drop-out of hyperspace early.
    • Fast — The Venator Commenor-class is among the faster vessels in its weight bracket. Equipped with twelve ion engines, this vessel can engage in fast travel between systems, or make a run from an incoming attack.
    • Gulfstream — The Venator Commenor-class was equipped with the gulfstream maneuvering system which uses gravitationally-enhanced gyroscopic stabilizers to increase maneuverability at the expense of speed (Maneuverability: Average to High, Speed: High to Average)
    • Microjump — This ship has been equipped with a microjump capacitor which allows the vessel to make a minuscule jump through hyperspace. This technology can be used to travel anywhere from 10,000 km to 1-full parse.
SIGNIFICANT WEAKNESS ( 5 )
  • Exposed Rear — The ion engines of the Venator Commenor-class are exposed and lack any weapon emplacements to deter enemy harassment. This leaves this sensitive part of the ship vulnerable to exploitation. Once half the ship's ion engines have been damaged or destroyed, this ship loses a significant amount of it's speed and maneuverability (Maneuverability: Average to Very Low, Speed: High to Low).
  • Exposed Bridges — Protruding from the main hull of the ship are a pair of towers, which includes the starboard tower which served as the command information center, and the port tower which served as the flight control center. The destruction of either of these bridges could cause devastating harm. The destruction of the former would push the ship’s trajectory out of control with the loss of the ship’s steering, while the latter would remove the ship’s means of coordinating with its complement. The destruction of both would neutralize the vessel.
  • Gravity Well Early Warning Antenna — Protruding from the dorsal section of the Venator Commenor-class, beside each bridge tower, is an alusteel antenna which provides the ship the ability to receive early warning when it’s fast approaching a gravity well, allowing the ship an opportunity to evade capture. A concentrated barrage of turbolaser fire or a well-placed concussive strike could knock out system, denying the Venator Commenor-class this advance system.
  • Repulsor Lifts — Located along the ventral section of the Venator Commenor-class is an arrangement of thirty-six repulsor lifts which have a dish-like appearance. These devices allow the cruiser to remain suspended-in-the-air once it's entered the planet's atmosphere. The repulsor lifts allow this vessel to glide across the sky. Once enough of these have been destroyed ( 9 repulsor lifts ), the Venator Commenor-class will begin to slowly descend down from the sky. At that point the ship will need to either leave the planet's atmosphere or find a location to land. When the enemy has managed to destroy half the repulsor lifts, the ship will lose the ability to leave the planet's atmosphere and will descend too quickly to land - it will need to instead find a place to make a devastating crash.
  • Mistaken Enemy — The appearance of the Venator Commenor-class can be a double edged sword. While refitted for the purpose of transporting cargo from system-to-system, this ship still retains a striking resemblance to a warship. While this can ward-off some small-time pirates, the this could also invite trouble from military forces who mistake this freight carrier for the warship it once was.
WEAKNESSES ( 13 )
  • Light ArmamentsWhile the Venator Commenor-class has some weapon emplacements to discourage starfighters and other smaller craft, this vessel wasn't equipped with the sort of heavy weaponry needed to counterbalance other capital ships. Because of this fact, the Venator Commenor-class frequently needs to try and avoid more serious combat situations.
  • Slave Rigged
    • Slicing— Because a significant portion of the Venator Commenor-class's systems have been fully automated, this ship has gained an increased vulnerability to Slicing.
    • Naval Boarding — One downside with having so many systems fully-automated through a slave circuit system is suddenly there's a lot fewer people around. This leaves the Venator Commenor-class more vulnerable to naval boarding and made it easier for people to stowaway onboard.
  • EMP Weapons — The Venator Commenor-class does not have adequate resistance to weapons or natural phenomena that cause electrical disturbances.
  • Backup Bridge — When the port bridge tower is forced to take control of the ship because the starboard bridge tower has been lost, some of the important functions they lack, include the ability to communicate with the crew of their own weapon emplacements, and the ability to jam the enemy's communications.
  • Motors Control Units — Located on the dorsal section of the Venator Commenor-class, toward the bow-end of the ship, are hangar doors which contain the cargo hold. Along the two-hinged doors of the hangar bay are a series of motor control units that are made-up mostly alusteel and electrical components, which allow the hangar doors to slowly-swing open. A series of concussive strikes, or well-placed explosives, could damage or destroy these motor control units and prevent the ship from either opening or closing the hangar doors. These motor control units are also susceptible to EMP attacks.
  • Broadside Trench — Unlike the surface of the main hull which has been equipped with point defense systems to fend off starfighters, the broadside of the Venator Commenor-class noticeably lack anti-starfighter weapon emplacements. A starfighter could cause damage to the ship with impunity.
  • Ventral Vulnerability — The ventral section of the Venator Commenor-class completely lacks any weapon emplacements to fend off attacks.
  • Hemisphere Firing ArcThe armaments of the Venator Commenor-class are located along the broadsides and the dorsal section of the ship. No weapon emplacements were installed on the ventral section. Because of this fact, when engaged in ship-to-ship combat, the Venator Commenor-class must work to prevent an enemy from getting into a position directly beneath the ship's hull.
  • Hangar Bays — When the Venator Commenor-class launches smaller craft, the titanium blast doors are wide open, and the only thing separating the hangar from the vacuum of space are magnetic shields. These magnetic shields allow physical objects like shuttles and other support craft to leave the hangar bay, but on the flipside, can also let concussion strikes in once the deflector shields are down.
  • Interdiction WarningThe Venator Commenor-class can only use the Gravity Well Early Warning System when traveling along a well-established hyperlane with millennia of astronomical data to pull from (i.e. canon hyperlanes, see link). This technology can only be used when the ship is traveling to systems that are directly situated along a hyperlane pathway.
  • Gulfstream
    • Gravity Flux — When the Gulfstream Maneuvering System is activated creates a signature that is can be easily detected from a great distances by standard sensor systems.
    • Reduced Speed — When the Gulfstream Maneuvering System is activated, the ship decreases in speed to increase its maneuverability.
DESCRIPTION

Following the collapse of the Core Imperial Confederation, many of their former Venator-class attack cruisers had been slated to be scrapped. Seeing an opportunity, the leadership at the Federal Cooperative would buy up the majority of the attack cruisers and relocate them to their deep space shipyards. There they would begin the process of refitting them.

Because the Venator-class was designed to serve as a battlecarrier, the process of refitting the ship was noticeably easier than work on other well-established designers. There were entire levels and vast areas that were vacant – intended to serve as flight decks and storage space, these areas soon became the canvas for the FedCo engineers’ imaginations.

In total the Federal Cooperative would end-up developing five variants from the Venator-class, which would include the following:
  • Venator Commenor-class Freight Carrier
  • Venator Kashyyyk-class Environmental Cruiser
  • Venator Samaria-class Medical Cruiser
  • Venator Kessel-class Interdictor Cruiser
  • Venator Allanteen-class Attack Cruiser
The Federal Cooperative would begin launching the refitted vessels in mid-860 ABY to sectoral governments across the Galaxy.


Rating Disclaimer — The Venator Commenor-class Freight Carrier is currently two points under. I'm alright with this current rating, since this ship is intended to be a stripped-down warship, re-purposed for commercial activity.
 
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