Willard Jamaane
Sharp Dressed Vong
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Remaking and partially chronicling an old ship with a long history.
- Image Source: “Sovereign: Pure” by Vince-T, found at https://www.deviantart.com/vince-t/art/Sovereign-Pure-143661553
- Canon Link: N/A
- Primary Source: Lords of the Fringe Chrysalide-class Battlecruiser
- Manufacturer: Iron Crown Enterprises
- Affiliation: Originally built for the Lords of the Fringe/Fringe Confederation; some ships later used by the One Sith, the Primeval, and the Sith Empire; currently available on a closed-market basis to Major Factions only.
- Model: Chrysalide-class Battlecruiser
- Production: Semi-unique
- Material: Durasteel hull, spaceframe, and armor; glasteel viewports; turadium at key points, including bridge and recessed shield generators.
- Classification: Heavy Battlecruiser
- Length: 4500m
- Width: 1100m
- Height: 600m
- Armament: Extreme (Low vs. aft targets)
4 x Hellbore cannons - 4 x hypervelocity cannon batteries
- 250 x turreted energy torpedo projector batteries (starfighter-grade)
- Heavy quad turbolaser batteries
- Medium turbolaser batteries
- Fastmount heavy turbolasers
- Ion cannon batteries
- 10 x B1-TM3 Antimissile Countermeasures Packages
- Quad laser cannons
- Antimissile octets
- Flak cannons
[*]Defenses: Moderate
- Recessed, armored, redundant deflector shield generators
- Heavy armor
[*]Hangar: High (26 squadrons)
- Often carries a melange of gunships (originally Pandorum or Malos), bombers (originally Detryte or Galaxy), dropships (originally Pyrrhus or Hammer, sometimes substituting Hammer-B light assault craft), and light flak escorts (originally Defensor). Can carry almost 250 such vessels.
[*]Maneuverability Rating: Very Low
[*]Speed Rating: Very Low
[*]Hyperdrive Class: 1, class 10 backup
STANDARD FEATURES
- Standard communications systems
- Standard navigational systems
- Standard life support systems
- Standard sublight engines
- Standard hyperdrive
- Tractor beams
- 2 x gravity well projectors
- Point-defense collision-aversion pressor beams on hangars and bridge
- Detention facilities, including a handful of Universal Energy Cages
- Advanced sensors, including several hundred long-range dedicated energy receptors
- Advanced targeting systems
- Upscaled Ranger transceiver (advanced encrypt/decrypt systems)
- The Chrysalide’s primary weapons are its Hellbore cannons and massed energy torpedo projectors, which have the longest effective range and the highest muzzle velocity (0.2c) of any normal starship weapon. The Chrysalide is effectively a four-thousand-metre sniper rifle crossed with a shotgun.
- The Chrysalide has excellent eyes and ears.
- The Chrysalide carries a formidable escort complement
- The Chrysalide’s shield generators are recessed and heavily armored.
- The Chrysalide has two strong gravity well generators, capable of interdicting hyperspace travel within a radius comparable to the maxiumum range of its own weapons.
- The Chrysalide is sluggish, both slow to accelerate and slow to maneuver.
- The Chrysalide puts far too much emphasis on its ability to rain havoc on enemy fleets from extreme range. Its big guns have tracking speed issues and are of limited utility at shorter range.
- The Chrysalide cannot bring much firepower to bear against rear targets.
- The Chrysalide rarely carries normal starfighters or interceptors, posing obstacles for independent operation.
- The Chrysalide’s recessed, armored shield generators have a low recharge rate, causing difficulties for extended/repeated short-range engagements.
DESCRIPTION
The Lords of the Fringe designed the Chrysalide to combat various threats of the Unknown Regions, primarily the Abominor, Mnggal-Mnggal, the Ssu-Ruuk, the Bando Gora Reavers, the Sorcerers of Rhand, and the Yuuzhan Vong.
The first Chrysalide-class battlecruiser was dubbed the ‘Astral Horizon’ by Grand Admiral Lussk, owner of Lussk Logistics, a much smaller company which played a role in the ship’s design for political reasons. That ship saw distinguished service against the Omega Protectorate and the Galactic Republic. In the Unknown Regions, it almost singlehandedly destroyed a Rhandite fleet, and once saved Zonama Sekot by punching a gigantic hole in a moon-sized Abominor. It wound up in the possession of the Primeval and the One Sith for further adventures, including central participation in putting down a Sith coup attempt. Other Chrysalide-class battlecruisers had similarly strange histories.
These days, Iron Crown only builds new Chrysalides by special request, but a handful of scarred old ships are still running around the Unknown Regions.
A Chrysalide requires a crew of almost 60,000, though it can operate with as few as 7,000. It can carry up to 6,000 passengers (evacuees or troops) and can support all of the above with two full years of consumables -- a necessity in the Unknown Regions.
The Chrysalide is an odd duck. The closest historical equivalent is probably an Imperial Torpedo Sphere. Like a Torpedo Sphere, the Chrysalide is big, slow, and studded with dedicated energy projector sensors. It can apply a mass of precise fire to precise points on stationary targets. Unlike a Torpedo Sphere, the Chrysalide can’t simply kill planetary shields (though it’s been known to bite short-term holes in them on occasion). And unlike a Torpedo Sphere, the Chrysalide uses energy torpedo projectors for more efficient synchronization, not to mention a vastly reduced risk of secondary detonation. It’s also, you know, not a superweapon, so there’s that.
