Laira Darkhold
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AQUILION-CLASS HYPERSPACE ACCELERATOR
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a Hyperspace Cannon/Transit Module
Image Source: Herehttp://www.eveonlineships.com/eve-o...gate (Amarr Region) stations, gates&ids=29626
Canon Link: Hyperspace Cannonhttp://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hyperspace_cannon
Restricted Missions: Not Applicable
Primary Source: Sando-class Hyperwave Accelerator Platformhttp://starwarsrp.net/topic/104837-sando-class-hyperwave-accelerator-platform/
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: ArmaTech Industrieshttp://starwarsrp.net/topic/54447-armatech-industries/
Model: MK1
Modularity:
Production: Limited
Material:
Classification: Space Waypoint
Length: 850 Meters
Width: 5,000 Meters
Height: 5,000 Meters
Armament: None
Defenses: Very High
Optimum Crew: 250
Passenger Capacity: 500
Cargo Capacity: 10,000 Metric Tons
Consumables: 10 Years
Maneuverability Rating: Low
Speed Rating: Low
Hyperdrive Class: 0.5
Backup Hyperdrive Class: None
STANDARD FEATURES
The Aquilion-class Hyperspace Accelerator, featuring updated systems and sensors, standard computer systems and securities, as well as allowing for these to be regularly updated to meet current technological standards.
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
Hyperspace Cannonhttp://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hyperspace_cannon
Strengths:
The Aquilion-class Hyperspace Accelerator is the latest and greatest of ATI’s civilian use transit models. A truly titanic five kilometer wide circular star ship with the appearance of a ring, the Aquilion-class is the largest vessel ever built by the company.
Based off the Theed Hangar Sando-class and the ancient Hyperspace Cannons, the Aquilion is designed to aid in rapid transit from one side of the galaxy to the other. Inside the interior ring there are numerous hyperdrive motivators set into two rings that cycle in opposite directions, consuming enormous quantities of hypermatter in the activation process. After several moments of charge up, the ship fires hundreds of individual horizontal boosters and hyperwave inertial momentum sustainers set into its ring until it achieves the massive amount of energy release needed to fully activate.
Once its systems are activated, the inner ring emits a glow with a massive blueish-white opening resembling a portal appearing inside the rings. Numerous ships activate their hyperdrive safety mechanisms, coordinate their navicomputers with the Aquilion’s own trajectory computers, and then pull into the portal of light, being launched at incredible velocities into Hyperspace. The system is able to remain active long enough to launch an entire convoy of cargo ships or a small taskforce without issue, allowing for whole groups to transverse the galaxy much faster than would normally be possible. Normally the ring is able to remain active long enough to launch one or two heavy battlecruisers (Total roughly 8 Kilometers of ships) or larger numbers of star destroyers, cruisers, and escorts before having to cycle off and go through a lengthy cool down process taking roughly an hour. The size of the ring prevents the largest ships from being able to pass through as only ships that are able to fit through it are able to pass into the portal, normally about four thousand meters across.
When launched into Hyperspace this way, a ship is able to achieve much faster travel speeds equivalent to a Class 0.5 Hyperdrive, however once they divert to real space again, they will need to pass through another Aquilion in order to reattain such speeds. As ships travel, their velocity in hyperspace slowly degrades towards their own Hyperdrive rating with faster hyperdrives able to maintain maximum speed for a much longer period of time.
Any notable turns or maneuvers in Hyperspace will cause turbulence which will reduce the vessel’s speed as it takes those turns, as well as increased drag in high gravity areas such as the Deep Core, in the proximity of well known gravitic disturbances like the Maw, and through Interdiction fields.
These ships are launched in a general direction by the cannon, all those that pass through its acceleration ring with each activation are slaved to arrive along the same route to the same system, however some ship-board Navicomputers are able to handle being redirected without reversion to Realspace while in transit.
Additionally vessels launched in this way are travelling fast enough and with enough stability that they are able to punch through interdiction fields in the system and for a short distance after leaving the Aquilion and able to access hyperspace even if the system they are leaving from is being influenced by artificial gravity wells. Once in hyperspace, ships are able to struggle through some level of interdiction, noticeably less effective than a ship actually equipped with a Hyperwave Inertial Momentum Sustainer. The power requirements to achieve this however is immense, effectively halving the number of vessels able to be accelerated through the cannon at a time.
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a Hyperspace Cannon/Transit Module
Image Source: Herehttp://www.eveonlineships.com/eve-o...gate (Amarr Region) stations, gates&ids=29626
Canon Link: Hyperspace Cannonhttp://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hyperspace_cannon
Restricted Missions: Not Applicable
Primary Source: Sando-class Hyperwave Accelerator Platformhttp://starwarsrp.net/topic/104837-sando-class-hyperwave-accelerator-platform/
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: ArmaTech Industrieshttp://starwarsrp.net/topic/54447-armatech-industries/
Model: MK1
Modularity:
- Aesthetics
Production: Limited
Material:
- Alusteel Hull
- Hyperspace Cannon Components
- Starship Components
Classification: Space Waypoint
Length: 850 Meters
Width: 5,000 Meters
Height: 5,000 Meters
Armament: None
Defenses: Very High
- Military Deflector Shields
- Squadrons (18)
Optimum Crew: 250
Passenger Capacity: 500
Cargo Capacity: 10,000 Metric Tons
Consumables: 10 Years
Maneuverability Rating: Low
Speed Rating: Low
Hyperdrive Class: 0.5
Backup Hyperdrive Class: None
STANDARD FEATURES
The Aquilion-class Hyperspace Accelerator, featuring updated systems and sensors, standard computer systems and securities, as well as allowing for these to be regularly updated to meet current technological standards.
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
Hyperspace Cannonhttp://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hyperspace_cannon
Strengths:
- Fast-Transit: The main aspect of the Aquilion is the ability to accelerate vessels that are sent to Hyperspace through its Hyperspace Cannon to speeds much faster than they might otherwise be capable of. When it launches a vessel or group of vessels, they utilize its Hyperdrive Rating of 0.5 rather than their own, only using their own systems to adjust their flight paths and decelerate.
- Anti-Interdiction: Due to the sheer power exuded by the Aquilion’s hyperspace cannon, it is able to launch vessels out of and through Interdiction Fields in very close proximity, (while within the same sector) though this does not apply to the Aquilion itself. As a ship travels it will be able to pierce deeper into artificial gravity wells, but will ultimately be forced to revert to realspace regardless.
- Non-Combat: The Aquilion is not armed in anyway, its complement designed to initiate repairs and assist it in transit rather than defensive measures.
- Depreciating Hyperwave Effect: The further away a ship travels, the more likely it is that a ship will be affected by interdiction fields.
- Depreciating Acceleration: As a ship travels, its speed boost granted by the Aquilion reduces until it is equal with the vessel's hyperdrive class or the object drops out of hyperspace. The faster the hyperdrive in question the longer it is able to sustain maximum velocities.
- Towed Array: The massive bulk of the Aquilion and its specialized systems prevents it from having space or power available in order to have its own Hyperdrive installed, forcing it to be towed into place.
The Aquilion-class Hyperspace Accelerator is the latest and greatest of ATI’s civilian use transit models. A truly titanic five kilometer wide circular star ship with the appearance of a ring, the Aquilion-class is the largest vessel ever built by the company.
Based off the Theed Hangar Sando-class and the ancient Hyperspace Cannons, the Aquilion is designed to aid in rapid transit from one side of the galaxy to the other. Inside the interior ring there are numerous hyperdrive motivators set into two rings that cycle in opposite directions, consuming enormous quantities of hypermatter in the activation process. After several moments of charge up, the ship fires hundreds of individual horizontal boosters and hyperwave inertial momentum sustainers set into its ring until it achieves the massive amount of energy release needed to fully activate.
Once its systems are activated, the inner ring emits a glow with a massive blueish-white opening resembling a portal appearing inside the rings. Numerous ships activate their hyperdrive safety mechanisms, coordinate their navicomputers with the Aquilion’s own trajectory computers, and then pull into the portal of light, being launched at incredible velocities into Hyperspace. The system is able to remain active long enough to launch an entire convoy of cargo ships or a small taskforce without issue, allowing for whole groups to transverse the galaxy much faster than would normally be possible. Normally the ring is able to remain active long enough to launch one or two heavy battlecruisers (Total roughly 8 Kilometers of ships) or larger numbers of star destroyers, cruisers, and escorts before having to cycle off and go through a lengthy cool down process taking roughly an hour. The size of the ring prevents the largest ships from being able to pass through as only ships that are able to fit through it are able to pass into the portal, normally about four thousand meters across.
When launched into Hyperspace this way, a ship is able to achieve much faster travel speeds equivalent to a Class 0.5 Hyperdrive, however once they divert to real space again, they will need to pass through another Aquilion in order to reattain such speeds. As ships travel, their velocity in hyperspace slowly degrades towards their own Hyperdrive rating with faster hyperdrives able to maintain maximum speed for a much longer period of time.
Any notable turns or maneuvers in Hyperspace will cause turbulence which will reduce the vessel’s speed as it takes those turns, as well as increased drag in high gravity areas such as the Deep Core, in the proximity of well known gravitic disturbances like the Maw, and through Interdiction fields.
These ships are launched in a general direction by the cannon, all those that pass through its acceleration ring with each activation are slaved to arrive along the same route to the same system, however some ship-board Navicomputers are able to handle being redirected without reversion to Realspace while in transit.
Additionally vessels launched in this way are travelling fast enough and with enough stability that they are able to punch through interdiction fields in the system and for a short distance after leaving the Aquilion and able to access hyperspace even if the system they are leaving from is being influenced by artificial gravity wells. Once in hyperspace, ships are able to struggle through some level of interdiction, noticeably less effective than a ship actually equipped with a Hyperwave Inertial Momentum Sustainer. The power requirements to achieve this however is immense, effectively halving the number of vessels able to be accelerated through the cannon at a time.
Ideally, a cargo ship with a Class 1.0 Hyperdrive, which is still quite good for a civilian craft, would travel more than three times quicker along major Hyperspace routes and be able to arrive much faster than would otherwise be possible. For a military usage, the Aquilion allows a task force to respond from a command base to an issue elsewhere in the galaxy with vastly increased response time. They are intended to be placed in high traffic systems or alongside FLEETCOMM systems to be able to provide the most usage for the system.
