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Model: Attrition-class Light Star Destroyer
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Modularity: Yes
Production: Minor
Material: Adamithium/Durasteel composite(hull), Duranium(frame)
Description: Attrition-class LSDs are Subach's attempt to provide the New Order with a Light Star Destroyer capable of adequately fulfilling specialty roles as requested by the Admiralty. Instead of developing a truly new design, however, Circe Savan chose to manufacture a design based off the Obscurity, a single-production Attrition-class Star Destroyer. While less produced than the Seinar-made competitor, the Attrition features special additions that its competitor does not have, lookbacks at older Imperial technology once thought to be failures, but now easy to acquire and adapt.
While the design is essentially the same as the earlier prototype vessel, some general improvements are in play. Instead of hypermatter reactors, the Attrition uses twin antimatter reactors, as well as a fusion reactor designed for use as a backup power source. Its hull is comprised of an Adamithium/Durasteel composite, while its frame, to ease production, is made of slightly less durable cast duranium hull sections. Due to the spare fusion reactor, the Attrition fits a backup hyperdrive entirely disconnected from the rest of the ship's power system and linked solely to the fusion reactor in the event that main power were to be damaged or disabled during a battle. More advanced automation from when the prototype was constructed slightly decreases the necessary crew count.
The armament of the Attrition is, however, modestly weaker than that of the prototype. Though there are more advanced weapons, such as mass drivers, energy torpedo launchers, and other powerful ordnance, the quantity of these weapons has noticeably decreased from the Obscurity. Instead of following the 'heavy gun' design, the Attrition focuses on a mixed armament, making it technically less capable against hostiles than comparable Sith ships. Hangar compliment is also less than the Obscurity, as a result of the new reactors and armor, not to mention slightly larger engines than usual. Its direct offensive capability is less than that of its predecessor.
Another downside is the cloaking technology. Still expensive, still difficult to produce, the Attrition utilizes a hibridium-based variant of the Annihilator-class cloaking device. Like the standard generator, it draws all the ship's power to the shields while providing a lack of detection. However, usage of hibridium means the ship is completely double-blind - it can't sense anything outside the "bubble" just like nothing can sense it. This is partially countered through use of the old Computerized Combat Predictor, in order to help the ship navigate through asteroid fields and the like through using the small supercomputer to determine what directions asteroids are coming from and where their fragments will come from. It in no way, however, assists the ship in combat with enemy ships, whether the ship is cloaked or uncloaked. The ship must decloak to adequately engage enemy ships. There is a two second delay between decloaking and the shields being raised, a delay enemy ships can exploit to easily damage the Light Star Destroyer. Attritions are only now coming into proper service with the New Order, and hopefully they will help fill the Light Star Destroyer niche.
However, it was not to be. With the New Order's collapse, the Attrition design had begun to be manufactured by the CIS, along with the Pluton-class battleship, as more advanced vessels for them to use.
Classification: Balanced Light Star Destroyer
Role: Stealth/outlying patrol
Height: 400m
Width: 550m
Length: 1,200m
Power Core Generator/Reactor: 2:1 Matter/Antimatter reactors (2, primary and secondary power), 1 fusion reactor(separate power for secondary backup hyperdrive)
Hyperdrive Rating: Class 1(Primary), Class 10(Secondary), Class 15(Tertiary)
Minimum Crew: 500
Optimal Crew: 6000
Armaments:
- 20 heavy turbolaser batteries
- 15 heavy mass driver batteries
- 10 ion cannon batteries
- 10 heavy energy torpedo launchers
- 20 concussion missile launchers
- 15 quad flak guns
- 15 antimissile octets
- 60 fighters and bombers
- 8 gunships
- 20 dropships
- Communications Array
- Encryption Network
- Escape Pods
- Holonet Transceiver
- Advanced Deflector Shield Generator
- Standard Detention Cells
- Standard Life Support Systems
- Standard Navigational Systems
- Advanced Sensor Array
- Standard Targeting Systems
- Computerized Combat Predictor
- Hibridium cloaking device
- Tractor Beams
Cargo Capacity: 30,000 tons
Consumables: 1.5 years
Sublight Speed and Maneuverability: Class 7
Mod request 27.3.18
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Affiliation:Confederacy of Independent Systems Fringe Confederation, open market
Manufacturer:Subach-Innes Iron Crown/AEI
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Affiliation:Confederacy of Independent Systems Fringe Confederation, open market | Sith Empire
Manufacturer:Subach-Innes Iron Crown/AEI | Defiance Consolidated Multipurpose Manufacturing
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