Directorate Officer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a unique version of the Keelkana to flesh out the Directorate fleet
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- Primary Source: Keelkana-class Light Star Defender
- Manufacturer: Lucerne Labs
- Affiliation: Directorate
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Matthew Lucerne
- Production: Unique
- Material: Argentum-series Matrix Armor, Ossis II-series Starship Frame, Biolux series Organoform Circuitry, Calor Series Bio Computers, typical starship components
- Classification: Light Star Destroyer
- Length: 1000 meters
- Width: 380 meters
- Height: 260 meters
- Armament: High
- 10 Turreted Angon II-class Hypervelocity Cannons
- 40 Iris II-class Variable Charge Turbolaser batteries
- 30 Rhongomyniad II-class Mass Driver Cannon batteries
- 16 Aurora Bolt-class Heavy Plasma Energy Torpedo Launchers
- 6 Minelayers
- 10 GravForce-class Tractor Beam Projectors
- 20 Double Rainburst-class Flak Cannons
- 20 Plumbata-class Defense Batteries
- 30 Sentinel II-class Point Defense Emplacements
- Defenses: Extreme
- Hangar Space: Very Low: 3
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 2 squadrons
- Support Craft: 1 squadrons
- Maneuverability Rating: Average (Low during Nimble-5 boost) (High when Gulfstream-class Maneuvering System is engaged)
- Speed Rating: Very High (Extreme during Nimble-5 boost) (High when Gulfstream-class Maneuvering System is engaged)
- Hyperdrive: x1
- Encryption Network
- Escape Pods
- Electronic Security Systems (Pyrowalls, Rapid Repetition Defense Measure programming, EI-9 network security droids)
- Internal Security Systems (Embedded Mantraps, Internal mounted Stormfire Repeater Emplacements, Blast doors, Internal Force Field Generators)
- Oracle II-series Communications Package
- Ossis II-series Starship Frame
- Vitae-class Life Support System
- Can enter the atmosphere and land on planets
- can carry up to 1 Line Regiment and its equipment or other equivalent
- Biolux series organoform circuitry
- Calor series Bio-Computers
- Circino-series Nav Computer
- Gulfstream-class Maneuvering System
- Lacerti-series Starship Automation (High)
- Laulane-series Bridge Architecture (main bridge)
- Magnetohydrodynamic engines
- Metis Sensor Array
- Nimble-5 Ion Engines
- Orontes Sensor Array
- Sawano-series Bridge Architecture (back-up bridge)
- Starlight Scutum-series Shield System
- Torrential Hyperdrive Booster
- 4 Probe / Drone Deployers
- Bulwark: The Matthew Lucerne, like many other mon calamari-designed warships, has multi-layered shielding as well as the unusual Starlight Scutum-series Shield System, which makes it a very durable warship capable of withstanding great punishment.
- Fast: Like other Keelkanas, the Matthew Lucerne has been designed from the ground up to be very fast, having a noticeably higher than normal mass to power ratio, giving it excellent speed that often allows it to run down smaller vessels at sublight speeds.
- Fewer Small Craft: Like other Keelkanas, the Matthew Lucerne dedicates more of its internal mass than normal to engines, leading to a necessary decrease in hangar space.
Named after Lucerne Labs's original founder, the Matthew Lucerne is one of the most eminent warships operated by Lucerne Labs's corporate "security" fleet. Typically assigned to guard the company's large underwater factory complex on Voss, the Matthew Lucerne is unusual in that it has been modified to operate underwater too thanks to the use of a Starlight Scutum-class Shield System to help protect against pressure and aquatic life as well as Magnetohydrodynamic engines to allow it to quietly glide through the watery depths. Other modifications include additional shield generator networks and the replacement of the spectrum lasers with hypervelocity cannons. While the Matthew Lucerne spends much of its time lurking underwater on Voss, it does sometimes appear among other warships within the Directorate fleet, tending to be a sure sign that Lucerne Labs has a personal stake in whatever engagement the star defender finds itself in.
