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Approved Starship Jaune-Class Battlecruiser

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Suhara Villow

The Crimson Flower
Suhara Villow
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OUT-OF-CHARACTER INFORMATION
  • Intent: To create a Cruiser for the Chantemer Defence Forces and Chantemer People's Liberation Army
  • Image Source: 八八艦隊
  • Canon Link: N/A
  • Permissions: N/A
  • Primary Source: N/A
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
  • Classification: Assault
  • Length: 750 meters
  • Width: 175 (Including Wing Stabilizers)
  • Height: 240 Meters
  • Armament: Very High
  • Defenses: Average
  • Hangar Space: Very Low: 2
  • Hangar Allocations:
    • Starfighter: 1 Squadron
    • Support Craft: 1 Squadron
  • Maneuverability Rating: Average
  • Speed Rating: Very High
  • Hyperdrive: Class 1.0
  • MGLT: 130 MGLT
  • Maximum atmospheric speed: 2,000 kph
  • Crew: 3,000
  • Passengers: 1,000
  • Cargo Space: 20,000 Metric Tons
  • Consumables: 5 Standard Galactic Years
STANDARD FEATURES
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
STRENGTHS
  • Firepower: the amount of weaponry that a Jaune-Class Battlecruiser carries with it is simply staggering. It carries twice the firepower of two Imperial-I Star Destroyers and then some more in its main armament alone, allowing it at times to outgun an entire task force many times its displacement. Its main battery and main striking power is made up of thirty-two Fusion Accelerator Cannons designed to strike at ranges far beyond retaliation range, a single full salvo able to shatter the backbone of cruisers that match its displacement.

    Its complement of dual-purpose secondaries is equally as fearsome, designed to destroy capital ships and deter starfighters in a wall of turbo lasers and flak-fire. Combined with over a thousand missile tubes that can be loaded with point-defense rockets, getting close is a difficult task to say the least.

  • Proton Beam Cannon: Mounted on the bow is a powerful Proton beam cannon. Against frigates and even light cruisers it can penetrate from one end of the ship to the other, leaving them a burning hollowed-out husk. A single blast from it is enough to overwhelm the shields of anything but the heaviest dreadnought and melt through practically most hulls. The cannon possesses the furthest effective range of the Jaune-Class' arsenal, able to strike targets dozens of light minutes away.

    During the Battle of Jan-IV in 899 ABY when pirates attacked Chantemer the leading enemy flagship, an outdated but still potent Imperial-II Star Destroyer, had its shields disabled by successive attacks from ion bombers before a Jaune-Class outflanked its rear to deal the execution blow. A single blast from the Proton Beam Cannon penetrated straight through the engines into the reactor, atomizing the criminal crew and much of the ship.

    The Proton Beam Cannon is surprisingly good in the role of orbital bombardment, not because of its destruction, but its ability to rapidly overwhelm planetary shields. It can also penetrate up to 70 kilometers of crust to destroy deep-set bunkers.

  • Speed: But the Jaune-Class is more than firepower with its powerful engines allowing it to keep pace and chase down even starfighters. At full throttle, it can outspeed a TIE/fo space superiority fighter. Not only can it outrun its opponents, it can outgun them. If the Jaune-Class is ever placed in a situation where it cannot win decisively, its speed allows it to disengage to fight another day.

  • Raider: With its superior hyperdrive and speed as well as its ability to sustain itself for long periods, the Jaune-class functions as the perfect convoy raider. Its speed allows it to chase down even the fastest freighters and bat aside any escorts they might have. It excels at striking at trade lanes, laying down Mass-shadow mines to pull ships out of hyperspace, and keeping them trapped as it pummels them with its guns. If they attempt to escape it keeps them trapped using its prow-mounted Magnite Crystal Tractor Beam Array as it destroys their engines with pin-point precession.

    Typically carrying a squadron of Marines and extra crew it can execute boarding actions to capture these ships to take home as trophies.
WEAKNESSES
  • Astral Horizons exclusive: not to say that Chantemer Astral Horizons is unwilling to sell the Jaune-Class, but because they currently are literally the only one of the few firms in the Galaxy capable of even making it. Not even the famed shipyards at Rothana can come close. Jaun-Class Battlecruisers can only be manufactured at a select few shipyards that despite every attempt to streamline production, can take up to three years to construct. This is due to the Juane Class being such a representation of the unique way of Chantemer naval thinking and relying heavily on Chantemer technology, that nobody but Chantemerians can hope to replicate its design.

  • Starfighter: Keeping with the Chantemerian doctrine of keeping line ships, ships of the line, the Jaune-Class carries a minuscule amount of starcraft. It retains hanger space only for support and transport craft, only having a single squadron of starfighters to serve as scouts and screening craft. This does not mean that the Jaune-Class is vulnerable to starfighter attacks, carrying a massive amount of point defence firepower, but that it lacks the capabilities that having a large starfighter compliment would bring.

  • Big Guns: the durability of the Jaune-Class more or less matches those of other cruisers of its class, meaning that its armor and shielding can more or less endure medium turbo laser fire and most starfighter weaponry. However, the heavy turbo lasers and main guns of larger ships carry the risk of being able to easily penetrate the shielding and armor of the battlecruiser right into its citadel which contains vital systems, such as the reactor and power cell storage.

  • Cooldown: while the Proton Beam is a devastating weapon, so is its cost to the Jaune-Class. In order to fire it the Jaune-Class must divert nearly all power from its hypermatter-annihilation reactor. This means that the main battery and all secondaries except for its EM-1919 paired repeating laser cannons (since they run on power cells instead of drawing power from the reactor) have to be rendered inert. Even after firing it can take up to half an hour for most systems to return to normal as the ship's reactor struggles to recover from the immense strain placed on it. It is not unusual for reactors to have to be replaced at a high cost after several shots.

  • Charge Up: It takes up to 30 seconds to fully charge up the cannon. During this period the Battlecruiser's shields must lower to the minimum or be destroyed by the sheer magnetic forces being unleashed. This leaves it susceptible to attack and if the cannon's capacitors, lying behind meters of Durasteel, are damaged during its charge-up it will cause a detonation so catastrophic that if it occurred on a planet it would scour the surface of a mega-continent.

    Enemy sensors can very easily detect this charge-up process, making the Battlecruisers a priority target for ships in the theater.
DESCRIPTION

The Jaune-Class Battlecruiser is considered the pinnacle of Chantemer engineering and the finest craft ever laid down by Chantemer Astral Horizons. The Jaune-Class Battlecruiser is designed with a single philosophy in mind: to outrun what it cannot outgun, and outgun what cannot outrun it. Seemingly shunning the Anaxes War College System of ship clarification, the Chantmere Defence Forces considers the Jaune-Class a Battlecruiser to distinguish it from regular cruisers.

The Jaune-Class is considered within CDF doctrine to be a cruiser-killer due to it being able to outrun and outgun anything that shares its displacement. During a battle, it either serves as an anchoring ship for the smaller Azur-Class frigates to shelter under while their guns recharge or to leave the battle line to rapidly and decisively annihilate the enemies' pickett forces before a counter-attack can be mustered against it. Outside a line battle, on the wider scale of a campaign, the Jaune-Class can act independently for long periods where it primarily performs the duty of commerce raiding and disrupting enemy supply lines. It's ability to launch hyperspace-disrupting mines and sheer firepower lends to to an excellent ambusher, ripping vessels out of hyperspace and destroying them before they even knew what happened.

The Jaune-Class Battlecruiser is equipped with a massive arsenal of weapons but its main focus is on its main battery of Fusion Accelerator Cannons. Since heavy turbo lasers dissipated their energy at a faster rate the further they traveled, a mass-accelerator design was derived from schematics recovered by spies infiltrating the Galactic Civil War archives on Coruscant and stealing classified designs. Not much was fundamentally changed about their design apart from basic modernization since even 800 years later they still surpassed much of what the Galaxy had. Due to this, the Jaune-Class Battlecruiser can engage at extreme distances, far outside the range of enemy retaliation, being able to land hits on capital ships up to ten light minutes away while still causing catastrophic damage on hit.

The Proton Beam Cannon stands as one of the defining features of the Jaune-Class, able to annihilate smaller ships at long range. Its design and construction originated with the fear of much larger vessels attacking Chantemer. Its shipyards were unlikely to have the ability to manufacture ships large enough to counter full-on Battlecruisers and Dreadnoughts. Chantermerian skirmish tactics wouldn't even be able to scratch their paint. The Proton Beam Cannon was decided to be the CDF's only hope in such a case to cause enough damage to deter such threats. It was a controversial addition, one demanded by the political ruling party rather than a military committee, and feared to be a sign of feature creep that would derail the entire project. However, once more Chantermere's spies prevailed in a highly classified operation to copy schematics that sped along the developmental progress. While the Proton-Beam cannon has its weaknesses, especially in the charge-up phase, it was justified that these would be negated by any competent captain exploiting the range of the weapon to fire it from a range outside of enemy retaliation.

Guiding this wealth of firepower is the ship's main KR-7770 targeting computer enhanced by an LR-375a Sureshot advanced targeting array combined with the skill of Chantemerian gun crews that allow them to plant seemingly impossible salvos at long range. It is capable of accurate orbital bombardment as well though more designed to destroy concentrated enemy assets (factories, troop formations, centers of command and control) rather than an entire city.

It can carry about a battalion and a half worth of troops alongside their equipment at full surge capacity, making the battlecruiser a good vessel for transporting a rapid-reaction force even if it cannot provide close air support. The Jaune-Class is capable of operating in the atmosphere of planets by deploying its wings and can travel underwater for long periods. This makes ocean worlds the perfect place to lay low and wait for the heat to die down during convoy raiding missions.

The Jaune-Class was first conceived in 812 after General Olan Poutine overthrew the monarchy and established himself as a dictator, beginning a massive rearmament campaign as he sought to expand Chantemer's borders far beyond its system. The Jaune-Class Battlecruiser was envisioned as the main force of power projection, able to strike far beyond the system at any distant target that threatened Chantemer. However, development slowed down in 815 as isolationist ideals overtook the government and the designs were shelved.

In 864, Olan Poutine perished and with him his isolationist ideals. Under his son, Olivier Poutine, development on the Jaune-Class was resumed and the first hull was laid down in 870 with the construction of the first Jaune-Class The Olivier completed by 885. As more Jaune-Classes were launched, the manufacturing process was rapidly streamlined so that instead of taking hundreds of millions of credits and 15 years to construct a single ship they could now be made in a timetable of 3 years at a fraction of the cost.

Despite a turbulent design history, the Jaune-Class remains as the pinnacle of Chantemerian domestic engineering and a demonstration to the forces of the Galaxy that the planet-state is not to be underestimated.
 
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