The Monster
Monster
- Intent: To create a specific class of military vessel for civilian evacuations and rescue operations
- Image Source: Gallery
- Canon Link: None
- Permissions: None
- Primary Source: None
- Manufacturer: Freebirds Industries
- Affiliation: Freebirds Industries
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: CR2-1
- Production: Minor
- Material: Phrik-A based hull, Duranium-Alusteel alloy supports and mounts for key pieces of technology, FM-001/FM-002 laminates for armor plating, Phrik-A light skin class armor, Paladin Turbolasers, Deimos Laser Cannons, MLMS Zeus launchers, Eagle Eye FCS, Atin Class Isotope-5A Reactor, FIE-2 Thruster Repulsor Engine combos, Wind-Talker Class Communications Array technologies, Luft Class Life Support System, various necessary parts and pieces for living quarters, spare parts, SIM series missiles (listed below), massive amounts of basic seating and safety restraints for passengers and onboard medical station equipment for a variety of species intended for refugees.
- Classification: Civil Relief/Rescue Cruiser
- Length: 700 meters
- Width: 100 meters
- Height: 100 meters
- Armament: Very Low
- Defenses: High
- Svalinn Class shield generators
- Phrik-A Composite Hull Armor
- Chaff/Flare Launchers
- Hangar Space: Low: 3
- Hangar Allocations:
- Maneuverability Rating: Very High
- Speed Rating: Very High
- Cargo Capacity: Low
- Hyperdrive: Yes
- Hyperdrive Class: 0.5
- Power plant is several Atin Class Isotope-5A reactors, which gives this vessel all the necessary power across all power systems.
- Fire suppression systems across the entirety of the vessel allowing for fires to be handled safely and remotely, without risking naval crews.
- Luft Class Life Support Systems offers the best in class atmospheric management system for the vessel, making it able to support and house various species of all different kinds without needing to utilize environmental suits.
- Remote Weapon Control Stations offering the crew the ability to be able to centralize fire control systems and have back-up stations in case those fail.
- Full medical bay capable of treating and otherwise being able to handle whatever injuries any of the crew might have occur while on missions. This includes a variety of burns, amputations, shrapnel and other wounds.
- Ability to land directly on planets to load up refugees and other non-combatants onto the ship. This is complemented by its hangars, allowing for gunships to spread out and search for more if necessary.
- Internal bays offer the most amount of space possible to receive and hold civilian populations to ensure safety and security. This allows these ships to be able to carry thousands of passengers per vessel.
- Eagle Eye Targeting/FCS allows for this vessel to be exceptionally accurate with the few guns it has. This ensures that it can properly defend itself against light fighter/bomber attacks and a variety of munitions with a more active defense than just relying on shields alone.
- Very fast vessel: This ship is designed to get into bad places quickly, get whoever needs getting and then get out just as quickly. This was put together with recent attacks and wars sprouting up so that people who don't need to be in a combat zone can be evacuated quickly. It doesn't waste any time getting to where it's needed, and then packing up and leaving once it has done what it has to.
- Low Profile: Its weapons loadout and design makes this vessel seem very non-threatening to most standard ships of the line. It was purposefully designed in such a manner to ensure that no ship's captain in their right mind would try to engage these vessels, because to put it simply they are only armed for self defense. This makes these vessel able to get into places other vessels might be denied as their low combat capabilities make them less threatening than other more militarized vessels.
- Pirates beware: This ship's armament however is still quite present, and while it is much lower than any standard cruiser present in most militaries, it is still more than capable of defending itself. Especially in convoys which is where these ships will probably be most, their weapons are suited perfectly for starfighter and munition defense. This allows them to engage defensively and to use their guns to either eliminate smaller pirate squadrons, or hold them off long enough to get away.
- Low offensive capabilities: This ship has quite minimal armaments. This means you aren't going to be using this cruiser as a vessel to be the "tip of the spear" in a major offensive action. They are only designed to defend themselves against pirates and privateers, and to do so in groups.
- Internal capacity: This ship has had everything not essential to operations stripped out of her and repurposed for the sole job of carrying as many civilians in a safe manner as possible. This means that normal cargo capacities, redundant systems and recreational activities normally sported by a seven hundred meter cruiser are not present in this vessel. On top of this a veritable skeleton crew operates the vessel meaning that it is reducing the amount of necessary space and mass dedicated to the ship being a ship, so that it can dedicate it to its intended civilian refugee cargo. And while there are necessary facilities for the amount of civilians that will be present, including medical and basic toiletries, these are not by any means luxurious. Everything aboard the vessel has been made as utilitarian and spartan as possible to ensure the maximum number of lives can be airlifted at once by a single cruiser.
- Needs support vessels: Even with these ships running off of Atin class Isotope-5A reactors, these ships have considerably much lower range than your standard vessel due to consumables. This means that any fleet making long runs needs to have a support ship with necessary consumables on board or your going to have to go to starvation rationing right away for the crew and civilians aboard the vessel. And I don't need to remind you how well that usually goes over with people.
The Aegis class Cruiser was designed to meet a very serious need when the issue presented itself. To date, the Confederacy of Independent Systems has no dedicated vessels to civilian rescue operations, or to mass evacuations. The answer to this problem has been to press other vessels into service for this explicit job, and while it has gotten the job done, men and women at Freebirds Industries couldn't help but notice the massive inefficiency of such actions. These vessels of war may have had capacity as transports, but they lacked the facilities to treat and otherwise deal with a sudden influx of refugees. And more importantly, now that they were carrying civilians they couldn't risk bringing themselves into combat without risking innocent lives, while presenting juicy sitting ducks to the enemy who would more than likely not care about perceived civilian casualties. And so the designers, engineers and technicians at Freebirds Industries came up with the Aegis Cruiser, a purpose built vessel with one thing in mind. To evacuate civilians and provide civil rescue and relief operations to planet populations in need of such. These vessels are not only capable of operating inside a planet's atmosphere, but also landing in environments rated up to 3G. And with powerful engines this vessel is able to take off unassisted in these environments as well, meaning that this ship with a proper escort can essentially worry about itself when it comes to doing its job. This means that the combat vessels can worry about the fighting, while the rescue and relief cruisers can take care of any possible refugees/evacuations happening on planet and keep people as safe as possible. Because while a fighter squadron would take a cheap shot to destroy a Star Destroyer even loaded with refugees, they are significantly less apt to take the same risk for just a simple poorly armed cruiser that's geared to engage them anyways. So don't settle for half measures, your people deserve the best protections you can provide. Use an Aegis next time you need to get people out of a bad situation.
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