Approved Starship Draken-class Artillery Cruiser

[Eugen Aker]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

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  Intent: To create an effective heavy artillery cruiser.
  
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  Image Source: https://www.greybox.com/dreadnought/en/ships/
  
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  Canon Link:
  
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  Restricted Missions:
  
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  Primary Source:
  

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

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  Manufacturer: Kiribian Systems Armory
  
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  Model: Draken-class
  
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  Affiliation: Closed Market
  
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  Production: Limited-Production
  
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  Material: Common Materials
  

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

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  Classification: Artillery Cruiser
  
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  Length: 500m
  
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  Width: 180m
  
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  Height: 220m
  
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  Armament: High (615)
  
  25x Heavy Long Range Incinerator Plasma Railgun (300)
  
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  5x Angon Hypervelocity Cannon (100)
  
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  42x Casper APS Module (42)
  
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  50x Deimos Class II Positron Cannon (12)
  
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  2x Heavy Warhead Launcher (40)
  
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  12x Standard Warhead Launcher (48)
  
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  12x Torrent Plasma Torpedo Launcher (48)
  
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  100x Vespa 40mm Autoripper (25)
  

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Defenses: Average

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  Armor/Shielding
  
  Neutronium-Impregnated Ferrocarbon Compartmentalized Frame
  
  Anti-Concussion Field Generators
  

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Ajax Tier 4 Laminate Spaced Armor

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Standard Shielding


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Boarding

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  CIC Buried Within Superstructure
  
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  Hatchling Maintenance Droids
  
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  Internal Emplacements
  
  Glop Aerosol Dispensers
  
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  Famos Mk II, Vehicle Configuration
  
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  Osmotic Field Generators
  
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  Paralysis Beam Emitters
  

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Tudradium Blast Doors w/ Magnetic Seals


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Cyber Security

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  Cresh Operating System
  
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  Mithril Security Software
  
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  Socketguards
  

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Electronic Protection

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  ECM/ECCM Suite (Subspace, Realspace, Sub-Hyperspace, Hyperspace)
  
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  Hydra Mesh Networking System
  

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EMP/Ion

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  Ajax Armor (Listed Above)
  
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  Biolux Organoform Circuitry (Photonic Circuitry)
  
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  Cap Drains
  
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  Energy Sinks
  

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Hangar: 1 Squadron

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  Standard Boarding/Ground Complement
  
  Mixed Combat Brigade w/ Equipment (~4,000)
  
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  Boarding Craft/Dropships
  
  Imperial Boarding Pods
  
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  Intruz Stealth Dropship
  
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  LAAT
  
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  Spiral Assault Ships
  

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Maneuverability Rating: Average

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Speed Rating: Moderate

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Hyperdrive Class: 1.0

SPECIAL FEATURES

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  Powerplant/Propulsion
  
  Hypermatter Reactor
  
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  Ion Engines
  
  Vernier Ion Thrusters
  

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Inertial Compensators

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Repulsorlits

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Class 1.0 Military Hyperdrive

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  HIMS
  

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Avionics

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  Navigation
  
  Long-Range Sensor Suite
  
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  Electro-Optic Distributed Aperature System (High Resolution Digital Cameras)
  
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  Quantum Radar
  

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Communications

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  Long-Range Comm Suite
  
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  Biocomm
  
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  Comm Descrambler
  
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  Hydra Mesh Network System (See Above)
  
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  Signal Interceptor
  

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Display/Management

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  CRESH OS (See Above)
  
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  Merlin Holographic Display
  
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  Memristor Neural Network/Droid Brain
  

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Miscellaneous

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  Tractor Beams
  
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  Other standard ship things not explicitly mentioned.
  

Strengths:

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  Excellent long-range offensive punch.
  
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  HIMS enabled hyperdrive.
  

Weaknesses:

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  No aft capital guns, making it vulnerable to close range reward attacks by enemy capital ships.
  
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  Small fighter complement.
  

Description:

The Draken (“Dragon”) are a class of artillery cruisers primarily designed for ant-ship combat and orbital bombardment. Their creation came about as result of the Kiribian Spacy repeatedly facing off against enemy Imperial vessels with increasingly tough defensive schemes like multi-layered shielding, sometimes requiring the combined efforts of an entire battlegroup bring down a single vessel.

The idea with the Draken is to soften up target vessels by bombarding them with fire from Incinerator railguns. The incendiary effect of the plasma fired from the Incinerators provides sustained damage to shields over time, the effect stacking with each successful strike. This forces shields to be in constant active use, quickly running them down, and weakpoints are created at all affected areas for easier penetration by other weapons.

Being a fairly fast and agile light cruiser, it can easily outmaneuver its intended targets – large capital ships like cruisers, destroyers, and battlecruisers – exploiting the weakness of the dagger designs so favored by Imperials to limit their exposure to enemy fire while attacking. Having been created to tackle heavy warships with strong defenses, the Draken have little trouble tearing through more venerable support vessels like carriers, or counter “sniping” opposing arty ships.

 

[Ellie Mors]

Hello, I'll be the factory judge reviewing your submission. If you have questions, please feel free to respond to this thread once we are underway.

 

[Ellie Mors]

Affiliation: Closed Market

ECM Drones

Your affiliation does not match the affiliation of the other submission (ECM Drones, which is affiliated with the Galactic Republic, Rebel Alliance, and Silver Sanctum Coalition). You need to remove this or change your affiliation to match one of those three.

Delphus 2 Shield System

This links to a starship submission, not a shield submission. Please correct this or remove it.

Subutai Tactical Analysis System

This alone should necessitate an increase from average defenses to moderate defenses. It allows the ship to formulate advanced and increasingly effective against hostiles in real time, adapting as time passes by.

 

[Eugen Aker]

[member="Darth Ananta"] Fixed the link to the shield system, and I removed the ECM drones and Subutai.

 

[Ellie Mors]

Defenses: Average

From the shield submission:

* Formidable Defense - The system offers heavy triple layer defense for starships

Triple layer shields, noted as heavy, should be much higher than average defenses.

 

[Eugen Aker]

[member="Darth Ananta"] Just switched to standard shielding.

 

[Ellie Mors]

Awesome. Pending Admin Approval. Thanks! [member="Cira"]

 

[Raziel]

[member="Arisa Yune"]

I dont see how:

Tier IV - Super Heavy, Johnny Stormtrooper may be lucky to create a dent after several weeks of work with his E-11. Can tank through sustained hits from most kinds of heavy vehicle weapons, and withstand several hits from most capital grade weapons, but vulnerable to extreme capital weapons likes hypervelocity cannons. Reserved for static fortresses, space stations, and large capital ships like cruisers and destroyers.

Counts as Average?

 

[Eugen Aker]

[member="Raziel"] Yes, that's average for a cruiser and above. Impervious to small arms fire (perhaps aside from some odd exotic weapons like a T7 disruptor), can withstand some direct hits from vehicle and capital grade weapons, but doesn't fare very well against extreme weapons like HVCs, which have become bog standard on new cap ships being rolled out.

 

[Raziel]

Approved.