Cathul Thuku
Admiral, Therapy Command
A Traquia-class bulk freighter prior to getting the gravity projectors installed
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To provide a modern, elite interdictor carrier
- Image Source: Empyrean
- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: Immobilizer 418 cruiser, Traquia-class bulk freighter
- Manufacturer: Ringovinda StarYards
- Model: Immobilizer 419-class interdictor carrier
- Affiliation: Open-market
- Production: Limited (1 per writer)
- Material: Durasteel hull
- Classification: Elite Interdictor Carrier
- Length: 1500m
- Width: 550m
- Height: 340m
- Armament: Average (600/0/200)
- 12 Toprawa heavy long-range turbolasers (in double turrets; 2 aft, 3 dorsal, 1 ventral; 216 standard turbolaser equivalents)
- 4 Scarif heavy long-range ion cannons (in double turrets; 1 aft, 1 ventral; 72 standard turbolaser equivalents)
- 78 Gatling rapid-fire turbolasers (26 triple turrets: 3 fore, 4 ventral, 3 aft, 4 dorsal, 6 port, 6 starboard; 312 turbolaser equivalents)
- 200 Korriban heavy machineguns (25 forward, 25 aft, 40 port, 40 starboard, 35 ventral, 35 dorsal; 200 point-defense equivalents)
- Defenses: Moderate
- Hangar: 10 Squadrons
- Maneuverability Rating: Low
- Speed Rating: Low
- Hyperdrive Class: 1 (hyperspace) 4 (Otherspace)
- Tensor field generator
- Inertial compensator
- Castameer tactical display
- CHX 5.0 acoustic theater
- 3 Vanderhing linear ion drives
- Ship-wide neural net
- 11 Sabrina waste heat recovery devices
- Cap drains
- Double redundancy deflector shields
- Electronic warfare suite (ECM and ECCM)
- Medical equipment (dozens of bacta tanks, hundred of medical droids)
- Anti-Concussion field generator
- Otherpilot navicomputer
- 4x G7-x gravjectors
- Iron Crown T-2000 "Outrider" Otherdrive - Hyperwavefront Arrythmia Inductor
Strengths:
- Great long-range firepower
- Great point-defense
- Ability to generate interdiction fields at long ranges (standard long-range turbolaser range)
- Ability to wage electronic warfare (albeit not amounting to an EWAR ship)
- Ability to fly in Otherspace on its own accord (e.g. does not need to wait for a hyperdrive malfunction to go to Otherspace)
- Can fly long distances with few jumps (hyperspace or Otherspace)
- Slow, unwieldy (even more so when the gravity field generators are active)
- Awkward firing arcs due to the gravity field generators
- Once gravity field projectors are activated, it starts attracting debris from explosions on or of nearby ships, potentially causing damage
- Exposed gravity field generators: for this reason it is a priority target
- Exposed ventral hangar
- If one attempts to jump an Immobilizer 419 in hyperspace while its gravity field projectors are damaged, it can unwittingly find itself in Otherspace
- If one flies an Immobilizer 419 through Otherspace, reversion to hyperspace can kill the ship if done improperly
- Cannot fight enemy fleets on its own
It also shares common weaknesses with other interdictors: gravity field projectors are exposed, giving enemies a prime target for bombing runs or for smaller ships capable of closing in to fire at them. Also, commanders wishing to use an Immobilizer 419 will have to deploy escorts effectively in order to protect their Immobilizer 419, even more so than with an ordinary carrier, for a myriad of reasons including the ability to wage electronic warfare (ECM and ECCM), as well as the ability to tend to the fleet's injured (albeit not as much as other capital ships in that size category). In addition, slicing the ship's systems is much more difficult due to the defensive redundancies built into the shilp-wide neural net, powered by the waste heat recovery devices. On that ship, due to the high energy expenditure of the gravity well projector, waste heat recovery devices are fitted to them, a marked departure from usual design practices where they are normally fitted to reactors and engines. Also, the CIC comes equipped with a Castameer tactical display, allowing its crew to track hundreds of targets at once, for interdiction or otherwise, while the CHX 5.0 sound systems being installed throughout the ship allows the crew to maintain morale, among other means.
Finally, it should be noted that, if a gravity well projector malfunctions and that an Immobilizer 419 tries to jump to hyperspace with a faulty gravity well projector, there is a possibility that the Immobilizer 419 could find itself in Otherspace, due to the risk of the hyperdrive shorting out while making the jump and this is where the Otherdrive comes in handy: with the Otherdrive one can buy more time for emergency hyperdrive repairs, and also it can be used to smuggle itself around hyperroute surveillance grids, albeit at a cost of speed. The Otherpilot's ability to make use of waypoints in hyperspace or Otherspace flight, Immobilizer 419s can limp back to base over long distances without having to revert to realspace as often as with a conventional navicomputer. For this reason, factions deploying Immobilizer 419s will attempt to deploy their best Star Destroyer pilots on Immobilizer 419s, even though, in realspace combat, the tactical difference an elite Star Destroyer pilot makes is limited.
- Consumables: 1 year
- Crew: 7,500 (skeleton: 3,000)
- Passengers: 2,000
- Cargo: 200,000 tons
