Valiens Nantaris
Head Admin
Intent: Creating a heavy transport or prison vessel not specifically designed for military engagements.
Development Thread: When Rancor's Fly
Manufacturer: Fondor Shipyards
Model: Bull Rancor-class Heavy Transport / Bull Rancor-class Prison Ship
Affiliation: Omega Pyre
Modularity: Yes
Production: Limited
Material: Titanium-reinforced Alusteel, durasteel alloy, transparisteel
Description: The Bull Rancor-class Heavy Transport was originally designed to be a prison ship for the Omega Protectorate in order to hold prisoners temporarily while shipping them to a facility capable of holding them on a more permanent basis. However, given there was not a large number of these vessels going to be in demand, the idea was nearly scrapped on the ground floor.
Had it not been for one well-paying Omega Protectorate operative in need of a larger starship, the ship never would have been re-designed into more of your larger cargo transport. Of course, the engineers working on this project weren't just going to stop at simple cargo transport, given there were more applications having opened up than just transport of space junk or anything else one could carry around to make some credits. The military applications were seen for this vessel and additional turbolasers were added as was a larger hangar, as were the ship to be used for the ODF it could be purposed for troop transport and be able to protect itself in not-so-heavy engagements.
The purpose had never been for combat, but for attending to other things needing done by the Omega Protectorate. Say one needed to haul a very large shipment of tibanna from Bespin to Fondor to fuel the ships, this ship could do just that given it was the transport variant. Were it the prison variant, it could be a permanent home to the most dangerous criminals within Protectorate limits. Then again, it can also be purchased by any member of the Omega Protectorate for personal use. Should the need for the ship to have a production increase, the Shipyards at Fondor are fully capable of doing something a little more mass produced.
Strengths
- Very large cargo capacity limit.
- Conversion capable (transport to prison ship or vice versa).
- Able to hold it's own in small engagements.
Weaknesses
- Overly large & slow in both space and atmosphere.
- Conversion capable - extremely costly & sacrifices parts of the ship.
--- weapons: turbolasers removed (transport -> prison ship), can't be re-added if converting back.
--- hangar: hangar space removed (transport -> prison ship), can't be re-added to full extent if converting back.
--- shielding: shielding rating goes down w/ conversions.
- Cannot stand against a single star destroyer by itself.
- No significant value on a military scale.
Classification: Heavy Transport / Prison Ship
Role: Transport (passenger, feral animal, cargo, salvage, etc...) / Prison Ship
Height: 125 meters
Width: 300 meters
Length: 900 meters
Power Core Generator/Reactor: Dual-Solar Ionization Reactor Cores
Hyperdrive Rating: 2.5
Minimum Crew: 370
Optimal Crew: 850
Armaments:
- Quad Turbolaser Batteries (10)
- Ion Cannon Turrets (10)
- Turbolaser Batteries (20) (removed if prison ship variant)
- Tractor Beam Projectors (2)
Hangar:
- Shuttles (2)
- OS-G1 "Guardian" Starfighters (12) (removed if prison ship variant)
Non-Combative Attachments:
- Navigation Systems
- Targeting Computers
- Shield Generator
- HoloNet Transceiver/Communications Relay
- tri-pronged Ship-to-Ship dock/securing station
- escape shuttle
Passenger Capacity: 200 / 4,000 (prison ship variant)
Cargo Capacity: 5,000 metric tons / 1,000 metric tons (prison ship variant)
Consumables: 2.5 months / 1 year (prison ship variant)
Sublight Speed and Maneuverability: Class 7 / Class 8 (prison ship variant)