The Griffin of Vandemar
Raptor Imperialis-class Cruiser
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a new version of the Eternal Fleet battlecruiser.
- Image Source: Here
- Canon Link: Eternal Fleet warship
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Eternal Fleet battlecruiser
- Manufacturer: Aresian Naval Engineering & Horizon Manufactorum
- Affiliation: The Hegemony
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Raptor Imperialis-class Cruiser
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material:
- Composite Hull
- Plasteel Interior Paneling
- Alusteel Skeleton
- Skuggalegt Stealth Polymer Coating
- Glasteel Viewports
- Faraday Cage Components
- Electronic Components
- Computing Components
- Classification: Heavy Cruiser
- Length: 800 meters
- Width: 435 meters
- Height: 800 meters
- Armament: Very High | Extreme
- Megamasers
- Missile Tubes
- Cruise Missiles
- Hex Missiles [Requires Imperator-level authorisation and genetic confirmation {PC only}]
- Intruder Missiles
- Diamond Boron Missiles
- Proton Torpedoes
- Assault Concussion Missile Tubes
- Tractor Beams
- Boarding Pods
- Defenses: Low | Extreme
- Composite Hull
- Deflector Shields
- Hangar Space: Base: 1
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 1 squadron
- Maneuverability Rating: Very Low | None
- Speed Rating: Extreme | None
- Hyperdrive: Class 0.2
- C-3A Mercury Class Communications Suite
- LS-132 Terra Life Support Systems
- STS-84 Artemis Class Targeting & Sensor System
- Docking Clamps
- Sun Generator
- Fire linked turrets with fast track mountings on each applicable armament
- GEMINI Captain
- Phalanx-Protocol - The Phalanx Protocol is a coordinated formation between five Raptor Imperialis cruisers taking shape of a cross with on in the center and one on each of the prow 'wings' of the centrak ship. Incapable of performing movement, the ships are then able to combine their power by creating a energy field all benefit from. This greatly enhances the ships offensive energy weapon weaponry and deflective shielding.
- Electronic Countermeasures Suite
- G-32 Evasive Armor Plating
- Laser Reflective Armor
- Anti-Ion Emission Tracers
- Shroud
- ABC Scramblers
- AR-0B Damage Reduction Armor Component
- Armament Duplicators
- Magnite Tractor Beam Array
- Animated Metal Sealant
- Speed
- Armament
- No Human Failure
- Formation Protocols
- Slow on the turn
- No Human Component
- Defenses
- Fatal Explosion
- Chain Reaction
The Raptor Imperialis-class is a refurbished Eternal Fleet battlecruiser with an upgraded weaponry but without the advanced cloaking and stealth technology. Mainly recovered from the ancient protocols on the Phalanx, the new generation of ships runs on base routines of the sentient GEMINI Droids, limiting them further than their original brethren. Yet the maintain a high degree of operational independence and minor degrees of personality.
The new ships are meant both as a first line of defense as well as patrol ships and to serve in quick reaction forces. They are quite cheaply produced and with their absence of any organic crew, very easy to man and also expendable. Their primary purpose is to engage an enemy either till the target is destroyed or to stall till actual reinforcements of the Battlefleet arrive.
With their formation protocols, the Raptor Imperialis is capable of taking on much larger ships and delivering devastating attacks on ships, fortifications and planets alike. Though immobile in their Phalanx-stance, the potential damage which their rather simple shields can hold or their weapons can pump out, is manyfold over their individual configuration.
Each ship holds several thousand skytroopers with boarding pods, offering extensive boarding and invasion potential.
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