Xandyr
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A powerful ship for Vilin to lead his fleet
- Image Source: Rogue One concept art
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- Manufacturer: Galactic Alliance
- Model: MC60 custom refit
- Affiliation: Villin (GADF)
- Production: Unique
- Material: Durasteel hull
- Classification: Unique Cruiser
- Length: 1000m
- Width: 200m
- Height: 300m
- Armament: Very High
- 10 Long range turbolasers
30 Heavy turbolasers batteries
4 Energy syphon cannons
10 Heavy Warhead Launchers
30 Quad lasers
20 point defence cannons
10 anti-missile octets - Defenses: Extreme
Ablative plating
Cap drain modules
Molecular Shielding
Interlocking redundant deflector shield grid
Automated point defence system - Hangar: 0 Squadrons
- Maneuverability Rating: Low
- Speed Rating: Average
- Hyperdrive Class: 1
Strengths:
- Exceptional defences mean this ship can soak up a lot of damage for its size.
- Close on those destroyers! The Viperous can go toe-to-toe with most destroyers at close range. Powerful engines and shields allow her to close on larger, lumbering vessels and tear into them.
- Fragile tower: like the MC75 cruiser the bridge falls beneath the main body on a long stem. This affords the commanders an exceptional view with sensor data projected onto the view screens. Whilst the main body has good armour the bridge is a prime target once shields are down.
- Kinetic strikes: the outer molecular shielding cannot prevent kinetic strikes. The second layer of shielding can but is powered as a number of separate fields and if one is overwhelmed power cannot be diverted from the others. The most viable tactic to breach this ships significant defences is to use bombers to probe the shield grid, then focus mass driver fire on any detected weaknesses in the overlapping grid.
Summary
The Viperous is a relative mobile heavy hitting cruiser. It has exceptional defences and can go toe to toe with most star destroyers at close range. Molecular Shielding and energy siphon cannons means that she can recover power from her opponent in a broadside battle. The Viperous can outrun most heavy star destroyers as well, allowing the Commander to find a tactical edge.
Internal defences
The Viperous has been hardened against slicing and internal decks outfitted with defence against boarding in mind. Blast doors and ray and particle shields are the initial defence against any direct assault. Whilst the ship had a complement of marines in the event of a boarding action two types of drones are released. This allows the ship to hold a large defence force without dedicating most of the ship to crew quarters for marines. The final line of defence is the segmented artificial gravity generators. Sections of the internal decks can have this turned off, but more importantly increased. The gravity can be temporarily boosted to 8x coruscant normal, enough to render most sentiments unconscious in a short space of time.
Internal scanners include pressure plates, advanced Laser Guards and lifeforms scanners. These systems make a stealth attack exceptionally difficult.
Internal networks are highly segmented and encrypted on the wire at the data and transport level. This makes it very difficult to access internal systems from most dataports, especially critical ones where commands are only accepted from several key locations using asymmetrical encryption making creating a false command from anywhere but life support or the bridge almost impossible. Integrity checking happens on a layer beneath most systems through one way data channels. If a system is compromised the secondary one may detect this and alert the bridge to the threat whereby the system can be restarted or disabled.
External weaponry
The Viperous has a range of weaponry. A small number of long range turbolasers can harass the enemy at range. However, it is the heavy batteries that form the unsubtle yet effective bulk of her damage potential. The siphon cannons have a short range but close in to the enemy this permits the vessel to recover energy from the enemy's shields for her own. Heavy warheads are typically kept for the final volley to finish the enemy.
External Defences
The outer layer of defence is a molecular shield that is incredibly resistant to blaster fire. Inside this is an Interlocking grid of deflector shields. Each part of the grid is powered and created separately. Ablative armour covers key sections of the ship. The Viperous sports a capable range of computer guided quad lasers and point defences. Anti-missile octets can make entire arcs impassable to enemy ordnance.
Command and Control
The bridge is at the base of the lower tower. Wide glasteel windows provide an exceptional view of the battle. Holo projectors turn this into a augmented reality display. In the event of shields being compromised there is an emergency evacuation turbolift.