The Griffin of Vandemar
INVICTUS ANTAGONISTES
Fortress of the Legion
"My sons will be going to war clad in artifice armour and wielding exquisite weapons. So their headquarters, their home, must be as formidable, as terrifying. No ship, but a fortress among the stars."
Fortress of the Legion
"My sons will be going to war clad in artifice armour and wielding exquisite weapons. So their headquarters, their home, must be as formidable, as terrifying. No ship, but a fortress among the stars."
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To recreate the headquarters and home of the Grand Legion.
- Image Source: Facebook of Creator, Corridor
- Canon Link: Star Fortress
- Permissions: Helldrive, Storm Generator
- Primary Source: Ramillies-class Star Fort
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Vandemarian Techwrights (form. Macharian Industries Corporation)
- Affiliation: The Hegemony, Sith Order, The Kainate
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Invictus Antagonistes-class Star Fortress
- Production: Unique
- Material:
- Composite Hull
- Plasteel Interior Paneling
- Alusteel Skeleton
- Skuggalegt Stealth Polymer Coating
- Glasteel Viewports
- Faraday Cage Components
- Electronic Components
- Computing Components
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Star Fortress
- Length: 5,000 meters
- Width: 5,000 meters
- Height: 2,700 meters
- Armament: Extreme
- Orbital Autocannons
- Triple Terminus Megamaser Batteries
- Triple Reductor Concussion Cannons
- Dual Heavy Lancer Cannons
- Dual Turbo Plasma Disruptors
- Dual Heavy Ion Cannons
- Missile Tubes
- Cruise Missiles
- Hex Missiles [Requires Imperator-level authorisation and genetic confirmation {PC only}]
- Intruder Missiles
- Diamond Boron Missiles
- Proton Torpedoes
- Assault Concussion Missile Tubes
- Tractor Beams
- Boarding Pods
- Defenses: Extreme
- Point Defense Weaponry
- Multi-Layered Military Grade Shield Systems
- Electronic Countermeasures Suite
- Interior Defense Countermeasures Suite
- Automated Turrets
- Blast Doors
- Sentries and Patrols
- Ray shields, etc.
- Missile Deactivation Transmitters
- Hangar Space: Very High: 42
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 28 squadrons
- Support Craft: 14 squadrons
- Maneuverability Rating: Very Low
- Speed Rating: Very Low
- Hyperdrive: Class 1.0 (Primary), Helldrive
STANDARD FEATURES
- C-3A Mercury Class Communications Suite
- DB-NT-M4 Overseer-pattern Neurocrown
- LS-132 Terra Life Support Systems
- STS-84 Artemis Class Targeting & Sensor System
- Docking Clamps
- 'Yellow Dwarf' Sun Reactors
- Fire linked turrets with fast track mountings on each applicable armament
- Escape pods
A corridor on one of the barracks decks
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
- Control Systems
- Defensive Systems
- Electronic Countermeasures Suite
- G-32 Evasive Armor Plating
- Laser Reflective Armor
- Anti-Ion Emission Tracers
- Shroud
- ABC Scramblers
- AR-0B Damage Reduction Armor Component
- Armament Duplicators
- Magnite Tractor Beam Array
- Animated Metal Sealant
- SE-151 Shield Force Multiplier
- Grappling Mag-Cable Launchers
- Vast Armouries and Maintenence Centers
- Barracks with Classrooms, Drill Squares and Sleeping Quarters
- Extensive Medical Wings
- Archives
- Prison Complex
- Production Systems
- Cloning Facilities for Homo Aurum
- Chemical Churner
- Cryo-Furnace
- Impact Sifter
- Molecular Furnaces
- Prototypers
- Four Drydocks (up to 850m)
- Various Systems
STRENGTHS
- Terror in War - Its offensive and defensive capabilities make the Invictus Antagonistes a serious threat to anyone and anything it is engaged with.
- No Further - Its extensive gravity well systems as well as its own moment sustainers and alternative travel method make it a strategic asset.
- Gears of Warcraft - With both production facilities for arms, droids and the cloning of the Legions as well as four drydocks located on board the ship, it is a mobile facility capable of supplying its own soldiers and warmachines.
- Through Hell - In case of unavailability of hyperspace travel or issues due to gravity wells, the fortress can make use of its Helldrive.
WEAKNESSES
- Starborn - The Star Fortress is due to its size and own systems absolutely not suited to go into lower orbit above planets or the gravity will pull and rip it apart. It is not suited to get into atmospheres at all.
- Behemoth - This space station is capable in many regards, speed and manveuverability do not belong to it.
- Physical Hack - If capable of overcoming the exterior defences and interior securities, activating and destroying EPHEMERIS and its protection would lead to an overall shutdown of major systems of the fortress, making it basically a sitting duck.
- Belly Shot - While on distance the weaponry remains basically a bubble all around, the closer you get to the under part of the fortress and towards its center, the less weapons can shoot there.
DESCRIPTION
Constructed several decades ago by the shipwrights and engineers of the Rim-Guard Order and Eternal Empire, the Invictus Antagonistes would serve as the formers headquarters during the early campaigns, especially against the Bryn'adûl and the Sith Empire. A battle-station with immense firepower and strong defenses, it was a reinforcement to both the Eternal Fleet and later the New Imperial Navy.
But with the Rim-Guard Order taking a more selective role in the Second Great Hyperspace War against the Maw, a massive battlestation was much less required and they relied more heavily upon battlecruisers and cruisers to transfer task forces of their gene-engineered soldiers to aid and support the Stormtroopers and units of the emerging Empire. Eventually abandoning the cause of the Eternal Empire altogether and joining with the Tarkinists of the Empire of Bastion.
With the progressing war and more focus put on development and progression in terms of technology and refinement of the bio-engineering, the Invictus Antagonistes was entirely refurbished and started the production of the new clone troops. Reducing the ceremonial and comfort on board for the more productive and technological interior, nearly the entire inside of the star fortress was restructured.
The finished station was now fully capable of breeding the new generation of the Grand Legion as well as equipping it with arms and armour, all self-sustaining and autarch. The heavy weapon suit as well as advanced defences were upgraded to new standards, furthermore up to date technology for production facilities, gravity well projectors and their countermeasures, a hyperspace tracker and updated administration and control software for the GEMINI and EPHEMERIS were installed.
For the last two decades this was the status of the station. Until it was taken over by the Imperator
Primarion Hiperius
who moved the star fortress into the service of the Kainate. Adding some more exotic technologies such as the alternative Helldrives and Storm Generators to the arsenal, making the starfortress ever more versatile.
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