Bombshell Genius
A Lucrehulk-X in orbit above Naboo
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Affiliation: Open market
Manufacturer: Ringovinda StarYards/Hoersch-Kessel Driveworks, Incorporated
Model: LH-3500 Lucrehulk-X-class bulk freighter
Modularity: Yes: can modify the layout of the internal space for passengers vs. cargo
Production: Minor
Material: Quadanium frame, durasteel hull
Classification: Bulk freighter
Length: 3000m
Height: 914m
Width: 2850m
Armament:
Rating 3 (325/0/175)
8 Toprawa long-range turbolasers (all on the carrier ring in single turrets; 144 turbolaser equivalents)
45 Gatling rapid-fire turbolasers (42 on the carrier ring, 3 on the centrisphere, all on single turrets; 180 turbolaser equivalents)
1 tractor beam (on the centrisphere; 1 turbolaser equivalent)
45 quad lasers (42 on the carrier ring and 3 on the centrisphere)
65 Kaeshana hypervelocity cannons (50 on the carrier ring and 15 on the centrisphere; 130 quad laser equivalents)
Defenses: 13
Hangar: 4 Squadrons
Special Features:
- Tensor field generator
- Castameer tactical display
- Inertial compensator
- Watchtower collision avoidance system
- Ship-wide neural net
- CHX 5.0 acoustic theater
- 3 Zak ion drives
- 12 auxiliary sublight engines
- 22 Sabrina waste heat recovery devices
- 2 Marcia repulsorlift generators
Speed Rating: 19
Hyperdrive Class: 2 (backup class 9)
Strengths:
- Great cargo capacity
- Strong hull
- Weapons can be aimed along any firing arc
- Detachable centrisphere capable of landing on planets
- Very slow and ponderous
- Lightly armed
- If the repulsorlift generators of the centrisphere fail, they must be repaired in orbit
- High maintenance requirements
Consumables: 3 months (normal passenger operation) - 3 years (pure cargo operation)
Cargo capacity: 250 million tons
Passenger capacity: 0 (pure cargo operation) - 600,000 (normal passenger operation) - 2 million (evacuation mode)
Crew: 9,000
Once the pet project of the late Butcher of Korriban, the years preceding its production were spent in a development hell, from which it emerged only six years after the project was first considered. The Lucrehulk-X is a ship which, like its ancestor, is made of two sections, each with its own bridge and CIC, made necessary by the complement of four squadrons of attack craft, used for escort duty: the "carrier ring", which is unable to land on a planet and makes up the bulk of the volume, and the centrisphere, which can land on a planet, despite having a diameter of almost 700 meters. The carrier ring has a gap of about 500 meters in width right in its forward section. In both cases, the space can be reconfigured for a mixture of configurations due to the amovible (and collapsible) bulkheads the hull contains, allowing it to prioritize passengers over cargo or vice-versa. It was redesigned to somewhat smaller dimensions than the original, to fit today's regulatory environment, the but nevertheless retaining a toroidal carrier ring made up of a donut roughly 750m thick. In its cavernous holds, it can hold several million HighCube containers, or well over 2 million passengers in planetary evacuation duties.
The placement of the weapons allow it to cover virtually every arc when under attack by pirates, topside or underside, be it with light hypervelocity cannons used as CIWS, quad lasers, turbolasers. All hardpoints are capable of retracting inwards when not in use. Its weapons layout was designed to minimize its reliance on escorts; nevertheless, a dorsal hangar, located just above the carrier ring's engines, houses four squadrons of attack craft. However it's too lightly armed to be used as an actual warship. With its sheer size come a slow speed and a near-complete lack of maneuverability.
Development Threads:
- The Silver Jedi Come (Dominion of Malachor V + Sith Order rebellion) - Charzon and Jessica take part in a study of the wreckage of the Saak'ak on Elom in the A'drinnamieq mountains: posts # 9, 10, 14, 23, 25, 32, 37, 39, 44, 53, 61, 66, 73, 82, 88, 96, 103, 109, 110, 115, 134, 144; 22 posts)
- Donut-shaped unfinished business (posts #1-13; 13 posts)
- D'oh-nut (10 posts)
Intent: To provide a bulk freighter capable of moving the massive loads required of a galactic economy
Who Can Use This: Tier-6 corporations, major factions
Primary Source: Lucrehulk-class LH-3210 cargo freighter
