Enyo Typhos
Control
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: Sub a station.
Image Source: Here.
Canon Link: N/A.
Permissions: Permission for all ArmaTech gear and all other subs made by Laira Darkhold's writer here and here.
Primary Source: N/A.
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Archangel Research and Design.
Affiliation: Archangel Research and Design.
Market Status: Closed-Market
Model: Special Deep Mining Unit 1a
Production: Unique
Material: Matrix Armour, Turadium, Transparisteel, Agrinium, Duraplast, AR-0B Damage Reduction Armor.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Classification: Mobile Military Station, Automated Factory and Mining Facility.
Length: 5,000 metres
Width: 5,000 metres
Height: 500 metres
Armament: Very High
- 1x massive mining laser
- Ra Missile Defence Turrets
- ACS-801 Witch CIWS
- Many Point Defence Laser and Ion Cannon Turrets
- Many quad lasers
- A few turbolasers and ion cannons
- A few ACS-803 Energy Siphon Cannons
- Some fast mount turbolasers
- Heavy Tractor Beam Projectors
- 00D-A Charged Plating Shield System
- Cap Drain & De-Ionizer Modules
- Ablative Armour
- Warhead Countermeasures
- ECM Modules
Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 11 squadrons
- Support Craft: 31 squadrons. Typically hosts a combination of RM-103 Mining Drones and civilian shuttles/freighters.
Speed Rating: Low
Hyperdrive: Yes. 1.0 (Primary). 6.0 (Backup).
STANDARD FEATURES
- All standard features one would expect from a vessel of this size and purpose.
- Molecular Furnace
- Solid Fuel Converters
- Unity Processing Matrix. Essentially acts as a powerful droid brain.
- Comprehensive Sensor Suite.
- Automated Refineries, Foundries etc.
- Ion Scrambler
- Nav Route Bypass
- Ghostwave Transmitter
- Anti-Ion Emissions Tracer
- Hyperdrive Inertial Momentum Sustainer
- The mobile station is a powerful tool that specialises in strip mining and deep core fracking. Its large mining laser is capable of drilling a big hole. Its primary role is to drill large holes which can then be accessed with probes to look for ore. Then it can deploy tractor beams, mining droids, drones etc.
- Heavily armoured and equipped with a variety of defensive weapons, the station can weather a storm and protect itself.
- Theoretically, the big mining laser has military applications, but in practice its effectiveness is highly limited due to a long charge-up period. The mining laser is also quite sluggish. Basically, unless the enemy is already unable to go anywhere or incredibly slow, the mining laser is not a useful weapon in combat. Its use is highly situational. It is used primarily for ground drilling to facilitate resource extraction on a massive scale. Furthermore, while well-defended, the station does not have many capital armaments.
- Big station. This means it's a big target and quite sluggish.
The Special Deep Mining Unit or, as Enyo's posse insists on calling it, the World Grinder, is a vast, mobile station. Due to its manifold armaments, it is classified as a military station. However, its weapons' systems are primarily defensive in nature. It is equipped with an enormous mining laser, but the combat applications of this device are situational at best and not effective in most combat scenarios. Instead the massive laser's primary purpose is ground drilling on a large scale. This facilitates the extraction of mineral resources. Furthermore, the World Grinder is equipped with potent tractor beam projectors.
Its mining laser can drill incredibly large holes, and it can move the minerals via tractor beams, mining drones and so on. Unsurprisingly, it has tons of room for cargo. The Special Deep Mining Unit is like a massive, all-devouring moloch. The station features potent shielding and heavy armour in order to protect it from asteroids, enemy attacks and the like. Thus the station is able to withstand considerable bombardment. However, as can be expected from a station of its size, the World Grinder is slow and sluggish. The station has a round, ring shape with an industrial look. The centre section houses the laser, the ring houses the storage, refineries and other industrial facilities.
The station houses large warehouses, foundries, refineries and other essential facilities to store, process and utilise the extracted minerals. Thus it able to function as a factory vessel. Smelters on board refine the minerals to ingots for easier transport and further use. Moreover, it can dock with and transfer refined materials to bulk freighters. The interior of the station is incredibly Spartan. It has been designed with droids in mind, which has allowed the designers to cut down on unnecessary luxuries and creature comforts.
Due to not having organic crew, all of that space otherwise required for sleeping, eating and entertaining can be better used. The interior of the World Grinder features numerous defences against intruders. In addition to droid guards, there are also ray shields, blast doors and decompression traps. Since droids do not need to breathe, a last resort is to evacuate the air from the entire prison section.
In keeping with Archangel design philosophy, the station has a powerful droid brain. The Unity Processing Matrix uses a modified entechment process that avoids the usual pitfalls associated with entechment, such as keeping unstable organics in a state of constant agony. Instead the organics are killed, then their essence is rendered down and converted into a part of an elaborate computer system. This is not an AI, as it lacks any form of independence. It allows multiple organics to be forged into a single powerful piece of technology. When plugged into a starship or station, as is the case here, the Unity acts as a powerful droid brain. The machine has a superior ability to handle advanced calculations, predictions and tactical situations and can streamline production methods.
