Approved Starship GADF War Drake

[Amelia von Sorenn]

GADF WAR DRAKE​

OUT-OF-CHARACTER INFORMATION

Intent

A variant of the Hapan Beta Cruiser for use by the Galactic Alliance Defense Force

Image Source	[HERE]
Permission(s)	Not Applicable
Canon Link(s)	Beta Cruiser
Primary Link(s)	Not Applicable

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Manufacturer	Aether Systems
Affiliation	Galactic Alliance
Model	War Drake
Market-Status	Closed-Market
Production	Minor

Materials

Hull Plating	Internal Structure	Additional
Quadanium Steel	Duralloy	Chromium
Nyix-Alloy	Titanium	Crystasteel
Doonium	Aluminium	Neuranium
Duralium	Laminasteel	Agrocite
Trimantium	Duraplast	Starship Components

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Classification	Fast Attack Corvette
	Light Escort
Length	150 meters
Width	45 meters
Height	35 meters

Rating Specifications

Armaments	Low
Defenses	Very Low
Maneuverability	Very High
Speed	Very High
Hangar Capacity	High - (0) Squadrons
Single Craft Hangar	No
Hyperdrive Rating	Equipped - Class 1

Hangar Compliment

Starfighter Squadrons	Support Squadrons
(0) Squadrons	(0) Squadrons

Armaments and Defenses

(1) Triple Ion Cannon	AR-0B Damage Reduction Component
(2) Dual H9 Turbolaser Cannon Turrets	(1) Missile Deactivation Transmitters
(4) Singular H9 Turbolaser Cannons	(4) Heavy Point Defense Laser Cannons

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND LOGISTICS

Crew Compliment	7 Officers
	10 Gunners
	135 Enlisted Crew
Passenger Capacity	150 Individuals
Cargo Capacity	1,500 metric tons
Consumables	1 Galactic Standard Year

STANDARD FEATURES

General Systems Acceleration Compensator Anti-Shock Fields Astrogation Computer Code Breaker Containment Shield DPU7 Heat Sink BQR-19 Navigational System Damage Control System Escape Pods Internal Security Blast Doors Code Cylinder Readers Klaxon Alarms Walkthrough Identification Scanners Weapon Detectors Ray Shield Generators 57c Holocams Sensor and Communication Systems Com-Scan 5-Node Sensor ANs-9.5 Sensor ANq-51 Sensor Array Telesponder Hyperwave Transmitter Hyperwave Transceiver Broadcast Relay Holotransmitter Holotransceiver Life Support Systems Atmospheric Processor Enviro Filter Climate Control Unit Shielding and Hull Plating Systems Ion Shield Generators Deflector Shield Generators Navigational Deflector System Deflector Plates Heat Dispersion Vents De-icing System Engineering & Hyperdrive Systems Gemon-15 Ion Drives Ter58 Ion Engines Accu-Accelerator 400MGs Stardrive System Warp Vortex Stabilizer

ADVANCED FEATURES

AR-0B Damage Reduction Component Carbon-Durasteel Armor (3) Galaxy Guard Mk VII Radiation Negator Hyperwave Interceptor (4) Phylon Q7 Heavy Tractor Beam

STRENGTHS

Fast Attack Corvette - The GADF War Drake is a vessel that was designed for speed and maneuverability, allowing it to favor rapid hit-and-run tactics over the standard slugging matches of larger ships. Its speed and maneuverability also allow the GADF War Drake to excel in scouting and probing missions where it can enter an area and exit the region just as quickly.

Reconfigurable - Following similar design standardizations as the CR90 Corvette, the GADR War Drake can be easily reconfigured internally in regard to a wide variety of roles that the vessel may be required to undertake. This reconfiguring is often to allow further personnel to be transported or to serve as diplomatic couriers.

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WEAKNESSES

No Hangar Capacity - Being a standard Corvette, the GADF War Drake is incapable of carrying smaller craft of any kind as it lacks hangar capacity or any form of external docking system to carry smaller craft.

Corvette - Though a fast and nimble craft, it should not be forgotten that the GADF is still just a corvette and is ill-suited in a toe-to-toe fight when it comes to larger capital ships.

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DESCRIPTION

The Hapes Consortium is known for its warships, many that have been seen and many still yet to be seen by the Outside Galaxy, the Beta Cruiser falls into the former category. Serving alongside other Hapan Capital Ships during the Battle of Fondor, many of those vessels were destroyed by the firing of the Centerpoint Station, though their design lives on in a new line of successors. Enter the GADF War Drake, a smaller companion built to complement the might of the GADF Battle Dragon and GADF Nova Cruiser. The design of the GADF War Drake was focused on increasing its speed and maneuverability to provide a nimble fast attack craft that could also double as a scouting and reconnaissance vessel to assist larger formations via preventing ambushes or reporting on enemy movements and formations. Due to the size of the vessel, the GADF War Drake is otherwise incapable of supporting smaller craft, this can also be seen in its lack of a single craft hangar or external docking clamps or boarding tubes that other corvettes are known to carry. This, coupled with an armament that is geared more towards capital ships, often requires the GADF War Drake to be accompanied by a starfighter escort to provide assistance against enemy starfighters. Likewise, due to its designation as a Corvette, though equipped with anti-ship armaments, it is still ill-advised to pit the GADF War Drake in a toe-to-toe confrontation with a larger warship unless deployed in greater numbers. Internally the GADF War Drake is influenced by design aspects of the well-known CR90 Corvette, which can be seen in its ability to be easily reconfigured internally as required of its mission role - with the most common reconfiguration being that of a transport or diplomatic courier. As conflict is slowly on the rise once more in the Galaxy, the GADF War Drake is a fine addition to the overall roster of Starships already fielded by the Galactic Alliance Defense Force. Centered around providing a fast-attack craft to further assist its larger compatriots, its use as a reconnaissance craft will prove to be invaluable to the Galactic Alliance. The GADF War Drake carries with it a new heritage as more and more Hapan vessels are refitted and produced for their new allies in the Galactic Alliance.

 

[Ravenfire]

Amelia von Sorenn

Hi there, I will be the judge for this submission.

Currently this ship isn't balanced properly. As the way the templates work, the hanger rating on smaller ships require you to have a base line of the highest hanger rating that has 0 is the hanger rating base and you cannot go below that, thus for example a ship that has a size category between 50m and 100m always has a hanger rating of very high, as it is the highest rating in which the same number always exists as the rating below it. So while average and high also have a 0 space rating for the hanger you have to use the very high rating instead of the average rating because they are all in this case zero. Same goes for the ships between 100m and 200m which your ship falls into, instead the 'base' rating is high because other ratings below it are the exact same number being 0 again.

TLDR; basically if two ratings in hanger have the same number, the template and factory forces you to use the higher rating so that you can't get ratings for nothing. eg a 50 meter ship with a rating of base and very high, have the same number thus you have to take very high otherwise your getting rating points for basically free as you lose nothing between the two ratings and gain 5 points.

 

[Amelia von Sorenn]

Edited

Ravenfire

 

[Ravenfire]

Amelia von Sorenn

Excellent, thank you for understanding and doing that. However you'll need to rebalance your ratings around this, as its now very over powered.

 

[Amelia von Sorenn]

Edited

Ravenfire

 

[Ravenfire]

Amelia von Sorenn

Excellent thank you.

Approved.