Approved Starship Castor I - Class, Cruiser Carrier

[Credius Nargath]

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STANDARD FEATURES

• Meassurements:
  • Length: 900m
  • Width: 300m
  • Height: 145m
• Materials:
  • Ersteel 145 Main skeletal structure with Tunqstoïd steel reinforcements
  • Seigurium reinforced Ersteel 145 Hull
  • Seigurium Primary plating
  • Laminasteel Secondary plating with Seigurium reinforcements.
  • Tetra-Polycarbonite Lamellar Compound interior moldings
  • Transparent Tetra-Polycarbonite Lamellar Compound viewports and bridgewindows
  • Carbonite coating
• Armaments: Average
  • NZ LC-2A Laser Canon [MP] x12 twin turret
  • NZ HP1 Turbo Laser [MP] x4 twin turret
  • NZ RTL1 Launcher [MP] Coupled to FAE/WH-04 Universal Missile Platform (MP) x4 quartet
    • NZ RP-1CM Cluster Missile [MP]
    • NZ RP-2SB Short Burst Projectile [MP]
    • NZ RP-3GMIM Guided Mass Incendiary Missile [MP]
  • AFT-14.4000B FLAK Turret [MP] x30 single turret
• Defenses: Very High
  • NZ SSP-SIXTUS/A [Shield System Package][MP]
  • MP-042 "Skjöldr" Energy Shield [MP]
  • NZ ARD-1 Mono Type Point Defense System [Includes AFT-14.4000B FLAK Turret x40] [MP] coupled with FAE/MDW-02 Electro-Active Interception Weapon [MP]
  • Second NZ SS-1 Primera Shield System utilized for the Hangarbay entry points
  • Pink Vapor (MP) dispensers inside the ship.
• Engine & reactor
  • Speed: Low [Average with SLAM active]
  • Maneuvrability: Low [Very low with SLAM active]
  • NZ F.A.R. Fusion Arc Reactor [MP]
  • Hermes LFD 760i [MP] Main engines
  • NZ RAS-1 Missile Propulsion system [MP] Thrusters
  • Repulsorlifts
  • NZ OS-HD3 Hyperdrive system [MP] 0.5 Main
  • NZ OS-HD3 Hyperdrive system [MP] 2.0 backup
  • SLAM
• AI and Electronical loadout:
  • ATHENA DCOS-1M [DIrect Central Operating System] [MP]
  • Proton Mk I Droid Brain [MP] additional RAM, Operating power
  • FAE/S-05 ECM Array [MP]
  • FAE/S-06 Reactive Targeting Matrix (MP)
  • Phase II "Divine Eyes" Sensor and Electronics System [MP]
  • FAE/C-01 Multiphase Tensor Field Element [MP]
  • NZ SAP-2A SSA [Sensor Systems Array] [MP]
  • FAE/C-02 Tractor Guidance Network (MP)
• Hangar Bay: Very High - 6 Squadrons of starfighters and 1 squadron of support craft

ADVANCED SYSTEMS

• NZ T.o.P. 1 Tactical Order Package [MP] To upgrade and enhance the Installed AI's overall performance and to increase the maximum of subroutines and protocols which can be integrated into the AI's central databank and granting a much smoother processing capacity, speed and power.
• FAE/S-09 Active Harmonizing System (MP) To increase the overall competence of the integrated weapons systems and to allow for a much smoother transition between the weapons systems and their repeated use.
• FAE/S-07 Offensive Retention System (MP) To prevent remote deactivation and tampering with weaponry systems by the enemy.

STRENGTHS

• Fully Automated: Loaded out to the gills with a bevy of electronic systems and one of the most highly rated AI systems on the market, this ship is capable of functioning on peak performance with a much lower crewsize than most other ships of its size, allowing for a much larger number of troops to be carried and allowing for a larger fleet with lower personel count.
• Very good allrounder: With an excellent defense, adequate offensive capacity and a very large cargo capacity and starfighter contingent, the Castor I - Class boasts a versatility that is virtually unseen among most mass market carriers within its market class, allowing for it to have multiple roles as a personal capital ship, as the backbone of small fleets or as one of the most reliable back ups in larger fleets.
• Quality to match its quantity: The use of various new and old, wellknown materials chosen for their outstanding reputation within their field or the intent to be loaded out with the best materials possible coupled with the N&Z's known buildquality promises a ship which can take a heavy beating and still would manage to trudge on.

WEAKNESSES

• Fully Automated: When the internal electronics or the AI would be compromised, the low personel count can become a weakness, as when it runs on a skeleton crew, it will not have enough personel to run the ship smoothly and on peak performance, the inability to run every system manually would become a great hassle and something one wouldn't hope to encounter in the heat of battle.
• Exposed Engine exhausts: Though they have been iutfitted with the typically standard heatshields, with the ship's shielding down, these can be a veritable weak point to crippled the ship.

DESCRIPTION
On request of Karl Von Strauss the N&Z started up an internal investigation in concurrence with a market research group within the company into the productlines which would need some attention and which would benefit from both improvement and possible expansion of the line up. One of the first proverbial holes in the line ups that had been discovered during this investigation was the fact that the N&Z seemed to have a gap in regards to providing a military carrier, specifically in the Cruiser battleship class. With the recent launch of the Hammer-I class, it was thus considered a very practical idea to start up a design for a downsizes variety on the Hammer.

Because the Castor project was deemed too small for a Tiber platform, the modularity of the Castor project would be somewhat lower in regards to its larger siblings in the N&Z line up, but would still allow for internally exchangeable parts and adjustments should these be deemed necessary for special variations on the project. The company and its designers carefully looked over the affiliate companies of the N&Z to make sure this ship's load out was both competent and robust, bringing forth a veritable treasure trove of electronics, weaponry systems and defensive placements.

Eventually, when it came to the outward design, the choice was made to go for the tried and tested 'imperial' design rather than the more daring choices made with the aforementioned Hammer, considering the fact that the ship had been sprung into existence after the insistence of one of the N&Z's most prolific and pragmatic boardmembers, the design had been formed to honor the man's own political and aristocratic background.

 

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Credius Nargath

Nicely made!

Approved.