Alasdair Voland
Character
Pera Class "Baby" Carrier
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a standard Imperial carrier with heavy defenses to pair with SDs.
- Image Source: Here you go.
- Canon Link: N/A.
- Permissions: N/A.
- Primary Source: N/A.
- Manufacturer: Bastion Holdings
- Affiliation:
Alasdair Voland
, any Imperial company/faction/character, anyone able to steal it/buy it second hand from the former. - Market Status: Open-Market (most not in Imperial hands or outside the company stolen or resold without authorization).
- Model: Pera Class "Baby" Carrier.
- Production: Minor.
- Material:
- Classification: "Baby" Escort Carrier designed to accompany Star Destroyers.
- Length: 200 meters.
- Width: 100 meters.
- Height: 100 meters.
- Armament: None.
- Defenses: Extreme.
- Hangar Capacity: Extreme-4 Squadrons.
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: Up to 4 total in combination with support craft.
- Support Craft: Up to 4 in total in combination with starfighters
- Single Craft Hangar: Yes.
- Maneuverability Rating: Low
- Speed Rating: Low
- Hyperdrive: Class 2, Class IV Backup.
- All standard features.
- Extremely Advanced ECM Package: This ship boasts extremely advanced electronic countermeasures capable of causing a large amount of problems for the targeting and guidance systems of enemy vessels and missiles. Only the most powerful ECCM packages can counteract their effects.
- Optimized Flight Decks: This ship has optimized flight decks that enable quick retrieval, repair, reloading, and deployment of its strike craft.
- Distributed Advanced Cybersecurity AI: Distributed in various nodes across the entire vessel so that there is no "core" to disable, this ship hosts a powerful advanced cybersecurity AI system capable of dealing with all but the most advanced and quick hacking attempts on the vessel effectively, and giving even the latter a run for its money.
- Heavy Blast Doors: This ship is equipped with a large amount of heavy blast doors that quickly seal in the event of a detected hull breach. This ensures maximum crew survivability in the event that the armor and shields are penetrated.
- Reinforced Bulkheads: This ship features heavily reinforced bulkheads that help the ship to maintain its structural integrity even when severely damaged and all other systems have failed. It helps keep the ship together even when effectively destroyed in combat, allowing for possible recovery and salvage of the vessel later.
- Heavy Armor: This ship features extremely heavy and durable armor layers capable of weathering extensive damage relative to its class.
- Hardened Molecular Shields: The molecular shields of this vessel are extremely tough and have been particularly hardened against ion cannon fire.
- Hardened Subsystems: The subsystems of this ship have been hardened against ion cannon fire, making them resilient against being disabled.
- Automated Repair Crews: A large amount of repair droids reside on this ship, divided into emergency response crews that automatically respond to any damaged areas to attempt to fix them or seal them off to protect the crew.
- Reinforced Primary Operations Center: The bridge of this vessel is heavily reinforced with the highest quality armor and transparisteel available, capable of surviving even multiple direct hits and allowing its command staff to continue the fight.
- Secondary Operations Center: This vessel is equipped with a secondary operations center deep within the center of the vessel, should the first one be taken out of the fight.
- Shielded Cargo Holds: The cargo holds of this vessel are shielded to prevent damage to their contents during battle.
- Shielded Berthings: The crew quarters for visitors and the regular complement of navy and army soldiers are shielded to prevent damage during battle.
- Hard to Kill Escort Carrier: The Pera is a specialized craft meant to do one thing: lug a comparatively large amount of strikecraft around safely and securely and nothing else. It is effectively a giant box meant to accompany Star Destroyers to give them more strikecraft that they might not have room to for natively/repair and maintain those strikecraft in battle while being hard to kill.
- No One's Ever Really Gone: Much like the Bulwark Class series of Star Destroyers, the reinforced bulkheads and heavy blast doors helps to ensure great crew survivability and to maintain the structural integrity of the ship. It can almost always be recovered and pieced back together after being disabled or after battle sans its complete destruction.
- No Armament: The Pera carries no actual armament of its own, being entirely reliant on other capital ships or its own strikecraft to do any form of real damage besides ramming.
- Slow and Bulky for Its Size: It is comparatively slow and bulky for its size as a frigate, handling more like a cruiser, which is why it is suggested to use it in its intended role as a strikecraft box for Star Destroyers and remain near and protected by them. It is not meant to operate independently.
DESCRIPTION
A bit of an antithesis towards the independent carriers and carrier groups that the Volands were previously known for, the Pera class "Baby" Carrier is an Imperial vessel updated to fit modern times and their Space Action Groups. It is meant to operate in coordination with Star Destroyers to provide them with more strikecraft, in exchange for being protected by the larger ship during battle. It is filled with a large amount of strikecraft and extensive defenses to accomplish its goals of providing more starfighter support to the larger vessels, with 4 squadrons expertly fit into its optimized flight decks. It can also serve as an eratz troop carrier, being able to field a large amount of landing craft and up to six companies of infantry and supporting material to deploy if it decides to take a complement of all support craft. Overall, a basic, fairly specialized vessel that does well at its function: getting strikecraft and/or men to a location, protected by larger ships that need more starfighters.
