OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: The personal flagship of Ecthelion Aiglos, excavated and repaired within the Eternal Empire´s dockyards.
- Image Source: Source
- Canon Link: Eternal Flagship
- Primary Source: None
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Eternal Empire
- Affiliation: Ecthelion Aiglos
- Model: Bucephelus
Production: Unique
- Material: Frame: Duralium-Duraplast; Hull: Quadranium steel armour, Quadranium-Neuranium (0,00002%)-Rhodium plating; Interior: Terenthium-Desh alloys; Windows: Transparisteel;
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Command Ship
- Length: 3093,5 meters
- Width: 1031 meters
- Height: 495 meters
- Armament: Average
- Defenses: Average
- Hangar: Very High: 21
- Maneuverability Rating: Low
- Speed Rating: Moderate
- Hyperdrive Class: Very Fast: 0.2 | Backup Class: 2
STANDARD FEATURES
- Starship Sensor Package
- Starship Ion Engines
- Starship Hyperdrive
- Starship Shield Generators
- Starship Repulsorlift Engine
- Starship Maneuvering Thrusters
- Starship Communications Package
- Starship Life Support System
- Starship Escape Pods
- Starship Inertial Dampeners
- Starship Medical Bay
- Starship Barracks
- Starship Hangars (6 large, 18 small)
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
- Advanced Communications System: As a flagship, the Flagship-class is equipped with a wide array of communications systems, from short-range tightbeam antennae, to line-of-sight laser communicators and powerful long-range dishes, boosted by highly capable computers. These systems allow the ship to defeat most types of jamming. Additionally the sensors have great capabilities to scan, judge and show terrain, weather and other geographical specifications of a planet.
- Advanced Battle Management System: Intended to function as the flagship of a large fleet, the Invictus features an advanced battle management system which conglomerates and processes battlespace information from the ships in the fleet and displays it on a three-dimensional holographic projection in the Strategium, a pitch on the bridge, allowing the commander improved situational awareness during combat.
- Drop/Boarding pod hangars: The ship features a very large contigent of drop and boarding pods. They are designed to pierce the hulls of enemy ships and to attack the ships from within. Originally designed to carry Skytroopers.
- Skytrooper Bays: The old main infantry of the Eternal Empire of old were Skytroopers, highly developed battle droids, were stationed in thousands on the ships of the Eternal Fleet. They had automated power supply and repair stations on each ship for maintenance of the artificial complement.
- Eternal Fleet director: The Eternal flagships were instruments of control and command for the Eternal Fleet, sub-directors of the Eternal Throne. They had large tactical and strategical computers to analyse and calculate the storm of information which are required to control the Eternal Fleet, it´s reconnaissance probes and skytrooper divisions, it has exceptional cogitators to control masses of AI in war.
- Zakuulan Electronic Countermeasures: The ships of the Eternal Fleet are able to jam and fool most of the ordinary sensors deployed on standard ships of the time. Their Zakuulan-origins make them difficult, but not impossible to recognise and to bypass.
Strengths:
- Surprise!: The Eternal Flagship-class is fast in hyperspace, exceptionally fast. It was designed with the Eternal Fleet warships as example in terms of the hyperdrive capabilities and of course to keep up with them.
- Supreme Flagship: The Flagship-class, as the name indicates, is the perfect vessel for a fleet commander. It´s high military grade calculators are capable of evaluating and processing a massive flow of information.
- Fathership: The ship is a dedicated carrier, sending squadrons of starfighters and assault ships into battle and invasion. As well as boarding and drop pods.
- Controller: The Eternal Fleet was, equally as the Skytrooper army, non-sentient, but AI controlled. The flagship-class has the additional capabilities to control vast masses of droids in a very efficient way, with especially strogn emphasise on warfare.
Weaknesses:
- From the rear: The Eternal-flagship class has very poor ship-to-ship offensive capabilities, it´s weapom systems are purely supportive.
- Paperwork: The ship is not designed as a tank and therefore has low defences compared to equally sized ships.
- Old fellow: The Eternal Fleet is long gone and so is the Eternal Empire. The ship is a relic of another time and while it maintains it´s benefits, it´s technology and design is of forgotten and diminished origin. It requires serious research and investigation to make the ship maintainable.
- Bulky Lady: The flagship-class is not very maneuvreable and needs a good captain to command it in battle to not get destroyed or engaged in a costly fight.
Description:
- MGLT: 75
- Maximum acceleration: 2.500g
- Maximum atmospheric speed: 990 km/h
- Engine units: 3 major, 4 minor ion drives
- Power output: Peak ~ 6.8 x 1025 W
- Complement:
6 squadrons starfighters
- 6 squadron shuttles/bombers
- 9 'squadrons' boarding/drop pods
[*]Crew
- Officers: 2.200
- Enlisted: 9.700
- Passengers: 6.000
- Droid forces: 120.000
[*]Cargo Capacity: 30.000 metric tons
[*]Consumables: 2 years
[*]Communication Systems: HoloNet transciever, Eternal Fleet protocols
The Eternal Fleet flagships were a class of lead-capital-ships designed to command the vast mass of the Eternal Fleet during war. Commissioned by the Eternal Emperor Valkorion, the ships featured a unique shape of their hull and were built on Zakuul, along with their complements.
Serving as royol chariots of the Princes Thexan and Arcann during the raids and as Arcanns flagship during the conquest of the Galaxy, these vehicles were the centre of most fleet operations as well as invasions. They were buil to command the Eternal Fleet and its droid controlled vessels as well as the masses of droid-Skytroopers, the ground units of the Empire. With the Eternal Fleet making up the combat part of the naval power, the flagships were designed as support, control and coordination platforms as well as dedicated carriers of support craft and troops.
The Bucephelus, one of the ships of this class, was participant in a majority of conflicts and was active in the core-worlds after the conquest, commanding a portion of the occupation fleet, never standing still. It´s home base remains lost to the ages, but it´s fate was known to one person. While Arcann was defeated at Asylum, the ship was currently stationed on Alderaan and the rebelling Exarch Aiglos could take charge of it. Leading it to a remote planet and hid it there, with the crew being removed earlier and replaced by droids, which were soon after desintegrated by the Zakuulan commander.
The ship remained on the planet and as the Eternal Empire fell, most of the routes and several systems used by the Eternal Fleet fell into myth and were soon lost. So did the remote moon and its large inhabitant. Only the Exarch knew about it, but he cut most of his bonds with the past when the land of his fathers and duty was defeated.
Since several centuries though, the Exarch is working on getting the ship operational again.
OOC Notes and Source:
In both the
Wookipedia Article as well as the
The Old Republic Article, the Eternal Fleet flagship is referred to as a single ship. But in
The Old Republic Trailer Sacrifice there are shown several of the ships at multiple scenes.
Here.
Here. And
here.
That is the source I take for assuming that there is more than one of them.
