Building an Empire
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Create a home base for the Zann Consortium and Scarlett Industries.
- Image Source: Original art from this gamepublisher studio.
- Canon Link: X
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Scarlett Industries
- Affiliation: Scarlett Zann, Company Name Scarlett Industries, Faction Name Zann Consortium
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: N/A
- Production: Unique
- Material:
- Ferroceramic
- Durasteel-560B Alloy
- Alusteel/quadranium alloy
- Farium
- Laminasteel
- Various basic ores that make up the asteroid
- Various starship components
- Classification: Space Station
- Length: 1500 Meters
- Width: 900 Meters
- Height: 1100 Meters
- Armament: High
- Quad heavy turbolaser batteries
- Quad Mass Driver Cannons
- Heavy turbolaser batteries
- Ion cannon batteries
- Concussion missile launchers
- Proton torpedo launchers
- Heavy Laser Cannons
- Point-Defense Missile Octets
- Defenses: Very High
- Overlapping 2x deflector shields
- Supported by a VT-Focus array
- Also supported by 2x SE-151 Shield Force Multiplier
- Secondary shields
- Tertiary shields
- Passive countermeasures:
- Electronic countermeasures, including sensor jammers, and sensor disruptors
- Active countermeasures:
- Warhead countermeasures, including chaff, flares and missile deactivators
- Ion/electromagnetic countermeasures, including cap drains, de-ionizers, and an electromagnetic shield
- Tractor beams countermeasures, including shearing planes and tractor beam shrouds
- Durasteel-Quadanium laminated armor all over the station
- 10x powerful tractor beams
- 64x Quad-Point defense laser cannon emplacements scattered over the surface of the asteroid and many points of the built station
- Overlapping 2x deflector shields
- Hangar Space: Very High: 12
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 8 squadrons
- Support Craft: 2 squadrons
- 1 Corvette Size Hanger
- Maneuverability Rating: Very Low
- Speed Rating: None
- Hyperdrive: No
- Life support systems
- Escape pods
- Damage control systems
- Navigational systems
- Flight control and avionics systems
- Inertial dampeners
- Targeting systems
- Detention blocks
- Blastdoors
- Internal security fields
- Docking bays
- Infirmaries
- Distress beacons
- Zann Family Palace
- 5 x Sizeable Enforcer Barracks able to house up to 2,000 each
- Manufacturing facilities with numerous warehouses
- Shipyard production facilities
- Ore refinery
- Research and Development and science labs
- Enforcer and Naval Crew Academies
- Enter the Briar Patch: The largest component of the stations defense is it is located within a massive asteroid cluster. This makes it extremely difficult for larger craft to approach the station.
- External Defenses: The Station depends on 8 large defense platforms, each playing host to Heavy Ion cannon batteries which can easily disable larger ships that make it through the asteroid patch.
- Extra Power to Shields!: Due to much extra space located in the hollowed out asteroid, many extra reactors were built to provide extra power to shields and the manufacturing sites on the station. Going after power nodes can be a good plan, but not when they have 2 reactors to replace the one that was destroyed.
- Nowhere to Hide: Although well placed within an asteroid cluster, the station has little to no movement capabilities, making it a sitting duck if and when the enemy capital ships finally make it through the asteroids.
- Fighters? Where?: Due to a large amount of space given to power reactors and manufacturing plants and shipyards, the hanger space of the station was extremely hindered.
- Little Brother: The station is small compared to others of its type which means smaller space for crew and manufacturing/shipyards. Not to mention it was built within a briar patch of asteroids, making manufacturing and creating any ship larger than a frigate, impossible and housing a fleet or army, another impossibility.
The Station was originally built years prior by Grace Zann, and the main attributes back then were the palace and shipyard. It has grown since then and expanded out from the palace and inward, within the depths of the asteroid it was built upon. When Scarlett Zann took over the Family, she immediately made adjustments to its layout making it more involved in manufacturing and based her company from the location. All components and products made by Scarlett Industries, were made here.
Scarlett also started to build a fleet for her organization and syndicate and knew that she needed proper personnel to operate the ships within the fleet and station, and so the Crew and Enforcer Academies were created to fill that need.
She also knew that after making it a key manufacturing and training site, she had to implement better defenses to protect it. She first stacked it full of shields and reactors, then came the point defense cannons and mass drivers, and finally, the cherry on top you could say, added eight heavy ion cannons on separate asteroids to disable most enemy ships who dared to get near.
In all, the station was created as a home base for the Zann Consortium to expand from.
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