Dashiell Retrofit™
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION:
Intent: To create a product line of Starcruisers for the use of Crown Dream Lines.
Image Source: Artstation - Robert Bonchune.
Canon Link: N/A.
Permissions: N/A.
Primary Source: Luxury Liner.
PRODUCTION INFORMATION:
Manufacturer: Dashiell Retrofit™.
Affiliation: Crown Dream Lines.
Market Status: Closed-Market.
Model: N/A.
Production: Limited.
Material:
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
Classification: Civilian Transport, Luxury Liner.
Length: 1000 Meters.
Width: 200 Meters.
Height: 250 Meters.
Armament: Low.
- 10x Turbolaser Batteries.
- ECM Countermeasures.
- Escape Pods.
- Support Craft: 1x Light Transport/Shuttle Squadron.
Speed Rating: High.
Hyperdrive: 1.0.
STANDARD FEATURES:
- Passenger Capacity: 3,500.
- Cargo Capacity: 5,000 metric tons.
- Consumables: 1 Year.
- Crew:
- 1 Captain.
- 15 Officers.
- 500 Shipboard Crew.
- 300 Service Droids.
- 150 Security Personnel.
- Bridge and Command Center:
At the ship's heart lies the Bridge and Command Center, the nerve centre of operations. A team of officers and droids monitor the ship's systems, using sophisticated arrays of sensors, navigational tools, and hyperdrive controls to guide the vessel smoothly through the vast expanse of space.
- Security Stations:
Strategically placed Security Stations ensure the safety of all aboard. Equipped with surveillance systems, guard droids, and weapons lockers, these stations are ready to handle any threats, especially in the face of unpredictable space routes.
- Medical Bay:
The Medical Bay is a marvel of modern technology, equipped with bacta tanks and advanced medical droids capable of treating even the most severe injuries. From routine check-ups to emergency surgeries, this state-of-the-art facility ensures the well-being of every passenger.
- Engineering and Hyperdrive Control:
In the Engineering and Hyperdrive Control room, skilled technicians oversee the Starcruiser's power systems, engines, and hyperdrive. Here, the hum of the ship's mighty engines is a constant reminder of the cutting-edge technology propelling the luxury liner through the stars. Droid repair bays and maintenance workstations keep the ship's mechanical workforce in peak condition.
- Astrogation Room:
The Astrogation Room is where the most skilled navigators plot the starcruiser's course, using advanced computers to calculate hyperspace jumps with precision. This room is a hub of activity, as astrogators ensure smooth, efficient travel across the galaxy.
- Cargo Bays:
Spacious Cargo Bays store passengers' belongings and any valuable goods being transported. Whether it's luggage or rare artifacts, these secure bays provide ample room and advanced storage options for anything that needs safekeeping during the voyage.
- Droid Maintenance Bays:
Behind the scenes, the Droid Maintenance Bays hum with activity. Devoted workstations ensure the countless service droids aboard the ship are kept in top condition and ready to assist passengers at a moment's notice.
- Communications Center:
The Communications Center is a hub for secure long-range transmissions. Encrypted holo-terminals allow passengers to stay connected across the galaxy, while private communication stations offer the utmost discretion.
- Docking Bays:
In the ship's Docking Bays, sleek shuttles, starfighters, and private luxury vessels await, ready for excursions or defence. These bays are the lifeblood of the ship's interstellar connectivity, offering passengers a seamless way to embark on adventures or return to their home planets.
- Crew Quarters:
The Crew Quarters may be more functional than lavish, but they are equipped with all the essentials for long-term journeys. These quarters ensure that the hardworking crew can rest and recharge in comfort.
- VIP Workstations:
VIP Workstations provide private, fully-encrypted holo-terminals for the most influential passengers for secure communications and data operations, ensuring their business dealings remain confidential even in the far reaches of space.
Luxury Facilities:
- Spas and Wellness Centers:
The Spas and Wellness Centers offer a haven of tranquillity where passengers can unwind in luxurious relaxation pods or rejuvenate in steaming saunas. Rejuvenation tanks provide deep healing, while droid-assisted massage therapy melts away tension. High-end medical droids offer services like cutting-edge bacta treatments, ensuring guests emerge feeling refreshed and revitalized.
- Entertainment Lounges:
In the Entertainment Lounges, grandeur meets technology with vast, ornate spaces equipped with interactive holo-projectors. These projectors cast stunning holographic concerts, plays, and immersive performances while the lounges resonate with live music from alien bands. Game tables and holographic gambling arenas, like the ever-popular Sabacc, add excitement to the opulent surroundings.
- Luxury Suites:
The Luxury Suites cater to the galaxy's elite, featuring high-tech furnishings and programmable environmental controls to create the perfect atmosphere. Vast panoramic windows offer breathtaking views of the stars, and private holo screens provide seamless access to communication, entertainment, and galactic news, all at the touch of a button.
- Gourmet Dining Facilities:
Gourmet Dining Facilities take culinary indulgence to new heights, with multiple high-end restaurants serving galactic cuisine crafted by renowned chefs from across the stars. Cantinas and cocktail lounges provide exotic drinks from distant worlds, while refreshment stations are scattered throughout the ship, ensuring a never-ending supply of tantalizing flavours.
- Holo-Theaters:
Step into the Holo-Theaters, where passengers are transported into vivid, full-immersion holo-experiences. Whether exploring the jungles of Felucia, reliving ancient battles, or embarking on a galactic tour, these rooms immerse guests in captivating, lifelike environments.
- Observation Decks:
From the Observation Decks, passengers gaze out through enhanced transparency panels, offering unobstructed views of swirling nebulae, distant star systems, and the mesmerizing streaks of hyperspace. Here, the vastness of the galaxy unfolds in front of their eyes.
- Shopping Centers:
The Shopping Centers offer boutiques brimming with rare treasures from across the galaxy. Whether it's exotic clothing, shimmering jewellery, or advanced technology, these stores showcase unique and valuable items for the discerning traveller.
- Swimming Pools and Fitness Areas:
For the fitness-conscious, the ship boasts Swimming Pools and Fitness Areas, complete with zero-gravity pools where passengers can float weightlessly and gravity-adaptable gymnasiums. Duelling simulations and advanced fitness regimes are available for those looking to challenge themselves in a futuristic setting.
ADVANCED SYSTEMS:Advanced Navigational Systems:
- Astrogation Computers:
The Astrogation Computers aboard the luxury liner starcruiser are marvels of precision and sophistication, seamlessly working alongside the ship's navigation team. These systems calculate hyperspace routes with pinpoint accuracy, ensuring the vessel glides effortlessly through the galaxy. Drawing on real-time astrography charts and galactic hyperspace beacons, they guide the vessel along the safest and most efficient paths, avoiding dangers and ensuring timely arrivals.
- Auto-Pilot:
The Auto-Pilot System is equally impressive, managing routine travel routes and hyperspace jumps with flawless execution. Whether cruising between distant stars or navigating complex spaceports, the autopilot ensures a smooth journey without requiring manual intervention, allowing passengers to relax as they travel in style.
- Luxury Environmental Control Systems:
Thanks to customizable atmosphere controls, each area of the Starcruiser is a marvel of comfort. From private suites to public lounges, passengers can tailor the climate to their preferences, adjusting temperature, humidity, air quality, and even atmospheric composition to recreate the environment of their home planet or craft a new ambience.
- Artificial Gravity Control:
Complementing this, the Artificial Gravity Control system enables the ship to replicate or alter gravity in specific areas. Passengers can enjoy zero-gravity activities in designated zones or relax in gravity settings that match their homeworld, providing entertainment and medical benefits.
- Holonet Communications Systems:
Communication on the Starcruiser is not only fast but ultra-secure. Encrypted Holo-Communications terminals allow passengers to conduct private business or personal conversations with peace of mind. Sophisticated encryption protocols shield communications from prying eyes, ensuring that messages and calls remain confidential, even across vast galactic distances.
- Entertainment Holo-Network:
The Holonet Entertainment Network offers an endless library of immersive entertainment content. Passengers can enjoy full-immersion holo-films, real-time news broadcasts, or even participate in virtual galactic events, all from the comfort of their suite or luxurious lounge.
Defensive Systems:
- Deflector Shields:
The starcruiser is a space fortress protected by powerful Deflector Shields that ward off potential threats. Whether navigating asteroid fields or fending off pirate attacks, these multi-layered shields safeguard the vessel from everything from debris to concentrated laser fire, ensuring passengers' safety during the most treacherous journeys.
- Point Defense Systems:
For added protection, Point Defense Systems are strategically placed across the ship. These automatic laser turrets are designed to neutralize incoming missiles, starfighters, or other projectiles, ensuring any threats are intercepted before they reach the ship.
Entertainment and Simulation Systems:
- Holo-Decks:
High-end, fully immersive holographic environments would allow passengers to engage in lifelike simulations. Whether for recreation, business meetings, or training, these holo-decks could recreate any setting in astonishing detail, from alien worlds to historic events.
- Holo-Game Rooms:
The ship's Holo-Game Rooms further enhance the experience, providing access to advanced holographic games that range from casual activities to full-blown adventure simulations, offering endless fun for passengers of all ages.
Security and Surveillance Systems:
- Bio-scanners:
Security aboard the luxury liner is airtight, starting with Bio-Scanners positioned at key entry points. These sophisticated devices scan passengers' biometric data, including DNA and retina patterns, to verify identities, ensuring only authorized individuals access sensitive areas. They also detect weapons and hazardous materials, providing an additional layer of safety.
- Guard Droid Network:
An advanced Guard Droid Network patrols the ship. These security droids are equipped with various defence mechanisms, from non-lethal deterrents to more robust measures if needed. Linked to a central control room, the droids can respond quickly to incidents, keeping the ship's corridors safe.
- Emergency Lockdown Protocols:
In the case of an emergency, Lockdown Protocols kick into gear, instantly sealing off critical areas with energy shields and activating additional security measures. These protocols protect passengers and the ship from internal or external threats.
Medical Systems:
- Autonomous Medical Droids:
The Starcruiser's medical facilities are state-of-the-art, featuring Autonomous Medical Droids capable of diagnosing and treating various ailments. These droids monitor passengers' vitals in real time and respond to emergencies quickly. If necessary, they can administer bacta treatments or even perform surgeries in the ship's dedicated medical bays.
- Bacta Therapy Tanks:
Including Bacta Therapy Tanks ensures swift recovery for passengers who suffer injuries or illnesses. These tanks, filled with the renowned healing substance, allow passengers to recover rapidly, making medical care onboard as efficient as it is advanced.
- Personalized Health Monitors:
To enhance safety, passengers are outfitted with Personalized Health Monitors. These wearable devices continuously track their health, feeding data directly to the medical bay. Should an anomaly arise, the medical droids are alerted instantly, providing passengers with the highest standard of health care in the galaxy.
Artificial Intelligence and Droid Integration:
- Integrated Ship AI:
At the heart of the ship's systems is an Integrated Ship AI, a powerful artificial intelligence that manages all aspects of the starcruiser's operations. From adjusting the climate to monitoring navigation and security, the AI ensures that everything runs smoothly, interfacing seamlessly with crew and passengers to provide personalized services. Responding to voice commands, the AI caters to individual needs, making every passenger feel like the ship focuses on them alone.
- Service Droid Networks:
Complementing the AI is the Service Droid Network. These droids handle many tasks, from cleaning and maintenance to delivering meals and fulfilling passengers' requests. They are expertly programmed to respond quickly and efficiently, offering personalized concierge services that elevate the onboard experience to a new level of luxury.
Energy and Propulsion Systems:
- Hypermatter Reactor:
An advanced Hypermatter Reactor, a cutting-edge energy source, powers the starcruiser. It supplies the ship's many systems, including life support, shields, and propulsion. Optimized for long voyages, this reactor ensures continuous, uninterrupted power, allowing the ship to journey across the galaxy without issue.
- Advanced Sublight Engines:
For in-system travel, Advanced Sublight Engines provide smooth, quiet propulsion, reducing vibrations and noise for passengers. These engines are designed for efficiency, ensuring that even short-distance travel feels as luxurious as the rest of the starcruiser's offerings.
- Advanced Hyperdrive Systems:
Regarding hyperspace travel, the starcruiser's Advanced Hyperdrive Systems allow it to make precise, fast jumps across the galaxy. These hyperdrives reduce travel time significantly, while backup systems provide redundancy to ensure that the ship remains operational even in the unlikely event of a malfunction.
Life Support and Environmental Sustainability Systems:
- Self-Sustaining Ecosystems:
Sustainability is vital on long voyages, and the starcruiser's Self-Sustaining Ecosystems play a critical role. Advanced recycling systems and atmospheric scrubbers keep air and water fresh and clean, filtering out contaminants and ensuring passengers breathe easy throughout the journey.
- Hydroponic Gardens:
The ship also boasts Hydroponic Gardens, which supply fresh, organic food, contribute to air purification and create a serene, green space for passengers to enjoy. These gardens are a vital part of the starcruiser's self-sufficient ecosystem, offering a refreshing connection to nature even in the depths of space.
- Emergency Oxygen Reserves:
Oxygen Reserves are on hand in emergencies, ready to activate across the ship should an atmospheric failure occur. These reserves ensure that life support remains stable until the issue is resolved.
Luxury Automation Systems:
- Voice-Activated Suite Controls:
Each luxury suite has voice-activated controls, allowing passengers to adjust their environment easily. Whether altering the lighting, controlling temperature, or selecting entertainment, passengers can make changes without lifting a finger, indulging in the convenience of fully automated luxury.
- Personalized Concierge Systems:
Additionally, Personalized Concierge Systems are accessible through holographic interfaces. These virtual concierges can book spa treatments, schedule activities, or arrange personalized services to ensure every passenger's stay is as enjoyable and carefree as possible.
Advanced Docking and Boarding Systems:
- Automated Docking Systems:
For effortless travel, the Starcruiser features Automated Docking Systems, allowing shuttlecraft and personal yachts to dock smoothly. This automation ensures that embarkation and disembarkation are handled with the same elegance and efficiency passengers expect from the Starcruiser.
- Luxury Boarding Pods:
For VIPs, Luxury Boarding Pods offer a more private, opulent method of boarding and departing the ship. These specialized pods maintain the privacy and comfort of high-profile guests, ensuring that every aspect of their journey is as luxurious as the ship itself.
STRENGTHS:
- State Of the Art Luxury Liner: The Crown Dream Lines Prestige Class Luxury Liner is a masterpiece of engineering and opulence, crafted for those seeking comfort and indulgence during their voyages among the stars. This state-of-the-art starcruiser, designed with no expense spared, offers a blend of cutting-edge technology and timeless elegance. Each aspect of its design prioritizes its passengers' comfort, leisure, and enjoyment, creating an unparalleled travel experience. With its sleek exterior and lavish interiors, this liner is a bold declaration that Crown Dream Lines is the premier choice for those seeking luxury travel and high-class holiday adventures across the galaxy.
- Civilian Starcruiser: The Prestige Class Luxury Liner is a civilian vessel meticulously designed for comfort and leisure, not for combat. While it is equipped with ten turbolaser batteries, these are strictly for defensive purposes, activated only in emergencies to protect passengers. Compared to the firepower of military-grade ships, the Prestige Class is significantly underpowered, its defenses serving more as a precaution than a formidable means of battle. The starcruiser's focus remains on civilian use, with safety features in place but no intention of engaging in conflict.
The Prestige Class Luxury Liner is a bespoke commission from Crown Dream Lines, expertly crafted at the Retrofit Orbital Station above Kesh. This commission marks a pivotal moment for Dashiell Retrofit™, signalling its emergence into the Galactic Market after quietly amassing assets behind the scenes. Although the reasons behind Crown Dream Lines' choice of Dashiell Retrofit™ as the manufacturer of these elite vessels remain unclear, the result speaks for itself. The relatively modest company has clearly poured vast financial resources and manpower into the construction of these luxurious cruisers, showcasing their commitment to excellence and attention to detail in their first major business venture.
This line of luxury passenger liners is a masterpiece of spacefaring elegance, crafted to transport its guests across the galaxy in unmatched comfort and refinement. Built with the finest materials and infused with cutting-edge technology, these vessels combine sleek, aerodynamic exteriors with expansive, opulent interiors. Every detail, from the lavishly furnished lounges to the gourmet dining halls and private staterooms, has been meticulously designed to create an atmosphere of tranquility and indulgence. Panoramic viewports offer sweeping, breathtaking views of the stars, while top-tier recreational facilities and personalized, attentive service elevate the journey to an extraordinary experience of elegance. Though equipped with defensive systems to ensure passenger safety, these liners are conceived primarily as luxurious retreats, catering to those who seek a refined, exclusive escape from the hustle of galactic life.
Out Of Character Info
Intent:
To create a product line of Starcruisers for the use of Crown Dream Lines.
Image Source(s):
Canon Link:
N/A
Permissions:
N/A
Primary Source(s):
Technical Information
Affiliation:
Crown Dream Lines
Model:
N/A
Starship Class:
Cruiser (500-1000m)
Starship Role:
Transport
Modular:
Yes
Material:
Turadium. Quadanium Steel. Durasteel. Alusteel. Transparisteel.
Armaments:
10x Turbolaser Batteries.
Defense Rating:
Average
Speed Rating:
High
Maneuverability Rating::
Low
Energy Resist:
Average
Kinetic Resist:
Average
Radiation Resist:
Average
Minimum Crew:
700
Optimal Crew:
966
Passenger Capacity:
3500
Cargo Capacity:
Large