Ashlan Remnant
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To take an open market battlecruiser and modify for faction use
- Image Source: Fractalsponge
- Canon Link: Battlecruiser
- Permissions:
- Primary Source: Bellidux Battlecruiser
- Modifications
- Armament increased very high to extreme
- More turbolaser turret types added at expense of null energy batteries
- Barbettes upgraded to super heavy turbolasers
- Point defence cannons replace with obsidian star rotary cannons
- Defence increased very high to extreme
- Improved power distribution to shields and additional overlapping shield emitters
- Speed reduced high to average
- Maneuverability reduced low to very low
- Reactor power reconfigured to direct more energy to weaponry and defensive systems. Engines now running at 90% efficiency, but previous chain reaction risk reduced
- Removed chain reaction risk weakness
- Removed speed reference in advantages
- Changed formatting to standard template formatting
- Added weakness related to its complex specialist systems
- Armament increased very high to extreme
- Modifications
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Kuat Drive Yards with aftermarket conversion by Archangel Manufactorum
- Affiliation: Ashlan Crusade
- market status: Closed Market
- Model: Noble Crusader Class Battlecruiser
- Production: Semi-Unique
- Squadron of four permanently attached to Ashlan grand fleet under command of Isla Draellix
- Maximum of 1 per senior Ashlan Crusade member as personal command ships - authority of Isla Draellix or Cedric Grayson(9 total ships built)
- Avenging Saint - Grand fleet
- Pillar of Retribution - Grand fleet
- Harbinger of Ession
- Empyrean Wrath
- Light of Ruusan
- Paladin's Light
- Divine Purpose - Grand fleet
- Bane of Darkness - Grand fleet
- Justicar of Ashla
- Material:
- Durasteel
- Farium
- Isotope-5
- Kelsh
- Quadranium
- Transparisteel
- Trimantium
- Tunqstoid
- Misc Starship Components
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Battlecruiser
- Length: 4,750 meters
- Width: 2,100 meters
- Height: 800 meters
- Armament: Extreme
- Fusion Accelerator Cannon
- Shield Leech Weapon
- Quad Solar Ionization Cannon Batteries
- Heavy Ion Cannon Batteries
- 10 Octuple Super heavy Turbolaser Barbettes
- Numerous OS-135 Rotating Heavy turbolaser turrets
- Numerous OS-137 Tri-Barrelled Rotary turbolaser turrets
- Numerous OS-136 Rotating point defence laser cannons
- Variable Missile Launcher Batteries
- Defenses: Extreme
- Ablative Armour
- Cap Drains
- Dedicated Energy Receptor Projectors
- Electronic Countermeasures Suite
- Jamming Beams
- Missile Deactivation Transmitters
- Molecular Shielding - multiple decentralised overlapping emitter fields
- Hangar Space: Low (18)
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 14 squadrons
- Support Craft: 4 squadrons
- Maneuverability Rating: Very Low
- Speed Rating: Average
- Hyperdrive Class: 1.0 (Primary) | 8.0 (Backup)
STANDARD FEATURES
The Noble Crusader Class comes fully equipped with the whole standard array of shields, systems and components that are normally associated with vessels of this size and class.
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
- Anti-Ion Emission Tracer
- Crystal Gravfield Trap
- Eradicator Communications Scrambler
- Fixed-Signature Tracker
- Gemcutter
- Grab-field Generators (Floppy Helix Intensifiers)
- Grab-safety
- Holonet Relay
- Holotrace Device
- Hyperspace Tracker
- Hyperwave Inertial Momentum Sustainer
- Hyperwave Transceiver
- Interdiction Field Generators [x3]
- Ion-Scrambler
- Mag-Field Generator
- Nav Computer Route Astrogation Bypass
- Particle-emitters
- Repair Drones
- Sensor Net
- Sensor Scramblers
- Signal Jammers
- Solid Fuel Converter
- Subspace Tight-beam Transmission Core
- Subspace Transceiver
STRENGTHS
War Chief: As the name suggests, the Noble Crusader is a vessel for war. It possesses both strong offensive and defensive capabilities, and is fully equipped to serve as the central hub in any theatre of galactic war
WEAKNESSES
(Even more) Ungainly: And for all the power in those engines, the Noble Crusader is fairly terrible at maneuvering, possessing a turning circle akin to a half-blind, lame ronto.
Complex package: The ship has numerous complex systems making up its whole, this requires experience technicians and only temporary repairs can be made anywhere other than at either Kuat or Archangel ship yards
DESCRIPTION
The Ashlans needed a ship to carry their flag and the Bellidux fit the bill, almost. Its powerful engines were unnecessary and a liability, the consultants at Archangel Manufactorum believed that with assistance of Kuat's Yards, they could divert a portion of that power into combat systems, and so, the Noble Crusader project was established. This was also a learning experience for the Archangel crews, having never built a ship to this scale.
The end result is the Noble Crusader Class, a magnificent combat vessel, maybe they went too far reducing the engine power, leaving it even more ungainly than before, but now it is capable of being the bastion of the faithful that the ambitious Admiral Isla envisaged.
Description from original sub
"A quintessential vessel of war, the Bellidux was envisioned as serving as the centrepiece for overly ambitious sector task forces and large scale fleets. To that end, it has been heavily outfitted with a very high level of defensive and offensive capabilities to allow it to dominate the battlefield through sheer force of presence. Despite being based on updated designs centuries old, the Fusion Accelerator Cannon alone makes for quite the particular decisive factor in many engagements. When paired with batteries upon batteries of heavy solar ionization cannons, turbolasers, ion cannons, null-burst projectors, it definitely becomes a vessel that not even SSDs can afford to overlook.
A veritable mobile fortress, while less maneuverable than initially planned, the Bellidux’s powerful engines nevertheless allow it to keep pace with smaller vessels, making it ideal to operate within tight knit formations. This also allows allied vessels to take full advantage of its disruption capabilities, hampering enemy movements through the use of the onboard interdiction generators, interfering with their communications, and other assorted systems via ECM."
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