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Approved Starship Audacity-class Armored Frigate

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
STANDARD FEATURES
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
STRENGTHS
  • Slave-Rigged — The Audacity-class has a slave circuit system installed which has shaved a significant amount of the labor that would normally be required to operate this ship.
  • Firepower — With a variety of weapon emplacements installed, the Audacity-class was capable of unleashing an impressive amount of firepower. This armored frigate was designed to punch above its weight class and directly challenge other, even larger, capital ships.
  • Focal Shield — When the Audacity-class receives a sustained barrage from a single direction, the Shield Force Multiplier will concentrate the available deflector energy to create a focused, reinforced shield, capable of withstanding an unbelievable amount of incoming fire.
  • Multi-Layered Armor — The Audacity-class has multiple layers of armor which provide this ship a formidable defense, from durable materials like Impervium, which can endure the heavy bolts coming from turbolasers, or Thorilide and the Damage Reduction Armor Component which together can absorb the physical shock of enemy attacks.
  • Regenerative Armor — The composite armor plating that covers every centimeter of this ship includes trace amounts of Vitanium which will cause the armor plating to self-seal breaches caused by any form of kinetic damage.
  • EMP Resistance - The extensive use of Tridurium as an ingredient throughout the ship's armor, alongside the faraday cage components, has insulated the Audacity-class from most phenomena that might cause electrical disturbances, such as ion cannon weaponry.
  • Radiation Resistance — The interior sections of the Audacity-class have been lined with Agrinium which provides the crew an additional layer of protection from the dangerous effects of radiation that can be encountered when a ship loses its shields.
  • Anti-Missiles — The Audacity-class was equipped with a medium-ranged Missile Deactivation Transmitter which provides the armored frigate the ability to deactivate some of the incoming missiles within a ten-kilometer area around the ship.
  • Difficult to Trace — The Audacity-class was equipped with a location scrambler that increases the difficulty of triangulating the location of this ship.
  • Probes — This armored frigate maintains a complement of five Starhunt probe droids, which can be launched to investigate nearby planets.
Significant Weakness
  • Exposed Rear — The Ion Engines of the Audacity-class are exposed and lack armaments to deter enemy harassment from behind which leaves this part of the ship vulnerable to exploitation. If an enemy is able to knock-out a couple of these undefended engines, they could leave this ship stranded in space.
Weaknesses
  • Lopsided Shield — When the Audacity-class is receiving a sustained barrage from a single direction, the Shield Force Multiplier will cause deflector shields to concentrate around that spotting, leaving the other areas of the ship minimally shielded.
  • Irregularity Shield Exploitation — The focal shield being generated by the Shield Force Multiplier requires the enemy to sustain a constant barrage. When an opposing ship fires too infrequently, this prevents the Shield Force Multiplier from activating.
  • Multidirectional Shield Exploitation — When the Audacity-class receives an enemy barrage from multiple directions, the Shield Force Multiplier gets scrabbled, and is unable to create a focal shield. This means Starfighters could work in tandem with a capital ship to collapse the focal shield being generated by the Shield Force Multiplier by hitting the armored frigate from multiple angles.
  • Slave Rigged — Because a significant portion of the Audacity-class has been automated, this ship has increased vulnerability to Slicing.
  • Speed — This Armored Frigate is somewhat slow and not well-designed for fast pursuit engagements.
  • Maneuverability — The Audacity-class is not well-equipped to undertake drastic maneuvers to veer away from fast-moving objects, like asteroids, or suicidal pilots.
  • Minimal Hangars — This armored frigate does not have much hangar space. Because of this, the Audacity-class is unable to field large numbers or starfighters or support craft, which narrows the number of missions it can take on.
  • Minimal Storage — This armored frigate does not have much cargo space. Because of this, the Audacity-class must make frequent stops every two-weeks to resupply. This can limit the capacity of the Audacity-class to serve in missions abroad, far away from its home base.
  • Anti-Missiles, Signal Interference — The Missile Deactivation Transmitter can lose its effectiveness under certain environmental conditions. When the Audacity-class enters a nebula or similar space phenomena, the surrounding radiation and matter can interfere with the transmitter's ability to detect and disable an incoming missile.
  • Defenseless, Probes — The Starhunt probe droids are not equipped with any weaponry and cannot be easily used for offensive purposes.
DESCRIPTION

The Dreadnought-class Heavy Cruiser has been staple ship for sectoral fleets for nearly a millennia. The Dreadnought had served as a platform to cram as many weapons as physical space, and available power systems, would allow. Because of this mindset, the Dreadnought famously could challenge other capital ships beyond it's weight class. However, this classic ship had a couple of significant design flaws. Among the most prominent was the number of crew it required to operate this relatively small ship. Another major source of consternation was how horribly efficient the ship was with its power usage. Seeing an opportunity for some improvement, the Federal Cooperative initiated a refit project. They acquired hundreds of dreadnoughts from the recently-collapsed Core Imperial Confederation, which had produced an obscene number of units that were quickly finding their way into scrapyards with the loss of their operator.

The engineer team at Corellia were given the simple task of rectifying a couple of issues. Chiefly, they were instructed by their higher ups to install a slave circuit, re-partition the interior to reflect the drastic decreases in crew requirements, and figure out a way to improve power expenditures. However, the engineer team would go in a drastically different direction.

The engineer team had access to technology that could significantly reduced the number of crew needed for the Dreadnought-class. They would go over their R&D budget and way beyond their initial parameters to redesign the Dreadnought as a more compact, heavily armored vessel, recycling many components (esp. armaments) from the heaps of dreadnoughts the Federal Cooperative had acquired. The emerging vessel would be drastically smaller than the Dreadnought-class. Due to the reduction in crew requirements, the engineer team were able to shave off two-hundred meters from the new design.

While the department responsible for keeping costs down were displeased, the prototype ship tested well and proved attractive to potential customers. Ultimately, the leadership at the Federal Cooperative would be impressed enough to commission a new series of ships from the team at Corellia, providing them the resources to begin Project Neptulon and Project Selachii.

Due to the drastic changes the design made to what was supposed to be a rudimentary refit - the Federal Cooperative would re-christen the ship from the Dreadnought-class to the Audacity-class, in homage to the audacity of the engineer team responsible.


9-30-2020 - Changed the nickname of the vessel from micronought to pocket dreadnaught.
 
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