SERRAN
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To submit the Super Star Destroyer serving as the flagship for Kaalia Pavanos, the Lady of Defiance (Sith Empire’s January SSD).
- Image Source: Rodrigo Magro // Artstation (x)
- Canon Link: n/a
- Permissions: Solarium Glasteel (x)
- Development Dominions: January 2019 Dominions; Barbatos (x), Cantonica (x), Kadavo (x)
- Primary Source: Elidibus (x)
- Manufacturer: Sith-Imperial Corps of Engineers, Aurora Industries, Primo Victorian
- Affiliation: The Sith Empire. Lady
Kaalia Pavanos
- Model: Serran-class
- Production: Unique
- Material:
- Black Enamel Reflec Coating
- Intrepid Ablative Armor [Emergency]
- Archer Advanced Hull Plating System, Reactive Armor
- Durasteel Reinforced Crystalamnium Hull
- Reinforced Crystaplast, latticedDuraplast Hull Liner
- Impervium ReinforcedDurasteel Hull frame
- Tunqstoid Blast Doors,Turadium Blast Shields, Blast Shutters
- Solarium Glasteel Viewports [Primary]
- Glasteel Viewports [Secondary]
- Agrinium, Dallorian Alloy [Key Areas/Critical Components]
- AR-0B Damage Reduction Armor Plating [Key Areas/Critical Components]
- Classification: Dreadnought
- Role(s): Battleship, Carrier, Command Ship
- Length: 10,000 meters
- Width: 5,000 meters
- Height: 3,000 meters
- Armament: Very High
- 36x Longbow Plasma Railguns
- 36x Mars Mass Driver Cannons
- 96x Bellona Mass Driver Cannons
- 96x Atalanta Mass Driver Cannons
- 144x Mogh II Hypervelocity Cannons
- 144x Ruislip Hypervelocity Cannons
- 144x Nagata Plasma Cannons
- 216x Arietis Turbolasers
- 216x Hawkthorne Ion Cannons
- 216x Fornax Long Range Turbolasers
- 288x Ovmar Defensive Missile Systems
- 288x Librae Point Defense Laser Systems
- 192x Anti-Missile Octets
- 192x Rotary Point Defence Cannons
- 192x Rotary Ion Point Defence Cannons
- Defenses: Very High
- Anti-Ion Management
- Anti-Missile Systems
- Electronic Countermeasures
- Gravitational Technology
- Shields and Hull
- Semira Defensive Shield System
- Intrepid Emergency Ablative Hull
- Archer Reactive Hull Plating System
- Redundant Deflector Shield Generators (2), with Shield Boost
- Emergency Brel Light Particle Shield Generator
- Hangar Space: Average - 56 Squadrons
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 36 Squadrons
- Support Craft: 20 Squadrons
- Hangar Allocations:
- Maneuverability Rating: Average
- Speed Rating: Average
- Hyperdrive Class: Average - 2
- Back-Up I: Class 7
- Back-Up II: Class 9
STANDARD FEATURES
- Auxiliary Systems:
- Auxiliary Power Generator Systems
- Auxiliary Power Converter and Control Systems
- Systems Control Center
- Supplemental Power Control Center
- Reserve Power Generator Systems
- Emergency Back-up Power Generator Systems
- Auxiliary Reactor Control Center
- Auxiliary Core Coolant Systems Management
- Auxiliary Shield Power Management Systems
- Emergency Shield Operations and Power Management System
- Emergency Command Operations Center
- Emergency Disengagement Systems
- Emergency Intrepid Hull Deployment Systems
- Emergency Life Support Systems Management
- Emergency Power Capacitor Control Systems
- Escape Pod Control Systems Management
- Automatic Failsafe and Containment Systems Management
- Communication Systems:
- Coordinated Command Integration Encryption Suite
- Encrypted Communications Suite, Short-Range Encrypted Data Network
- Fleet Control Data Exchange Network
- Hyperwave Communications and Encryption Network
- Interfleet, Intrafleet Communications and Encryption Network, and Key Systems
- Long Range Communications Management Systems, Encryption Key Systems
- Standard Communications Management Suite
- Flight Systems:
- Flight Control Navigational Systems Suite
- Primary Flight Controller Management Systems
- Secondary Flight Controller Management Systems
- Propulsion Systems Control Suite
- Sublight Systems Control Suite
- Flight Control Power Conversion Systems
- Hyperlane Navigational Systems
- Galactic Hyperspace Holosuite Systems
- Hyperdrive Power Control Systems
- Jump Point Navigational Control Systems
- Engineering Systems:
- Primary Power Management Control Suite
- Secondary Power Management Control Suite
- Power Conversion Systems Control
- Reactor Core Control System
- Core Coolant Management Suite
- Fail-Safe and Containment Systems
- Reactor Disengagement Systems
- Engineering Control Suite
- Secondary Reactor Control System
- Secondary Core Coolant Management Suite
- Secondary Reactor Disengagement Systems
- Shield Generator Power Management Suite
- Weapons Power Generator Management Suite
- Life Support Systems Management
- Hazard and Damage Control Management Systems
- Holosuite Power Systems Management
- Tractor / Pressor Beam Power Control Systems
- Reactionary Repulsorshell Power Generator System
- Waste and Hazardous Waste Management Systems
- Primary Shield Generator Power Systems
- Capacitor Control Systems Suite
- Secondary Shield Generator Power Systems
- Dedicated Power Blackout Power Generator
- Secondary Power Conversion Systems Control
- Secondary Engineering Control Suite
- Emergency Fail-Safe and Containment Systems
- Safety Management Suite, Escape Pod Power Reroute Systems
- Tactical and Security Systems
- Redundant Shield Management Systems
- Swarm Targeting and Tracking Sensor Systems, Full Range
- Semira Defensive Systems Management
- Shield Capacitor Power System Management
- Shield Management Systems and Power Conversion
- Shield Booster Management Systems, Tertiary Shield Generator
- Tactical Analysis, Computer-Aided Targeting Systems
- Target Range Finder, Computer Aided Systems
- Automated Target Lead, Lock-On System Management
- Automated Reload and Internal Temperature Check Systems
- Automated Weapons Waste Disposal Systems
- Weapons Control and Munitions Management Systems
- Weapons Waste Containment and Hazard Control Management
- Sensor Systems:
- Multi-Directional Long Range Sensor Arrays
- Navigational Sensor Arrays and Control Suite
- Short-Range Tachyon Sensor Network
- Long Range Gravitational Mass Sensor Suite
- Starship Signature Identifier Scanning Systems, Full Range
- Full Range Hyper-Navigational Sensor System
- Cargo Sweep and Identifier Scanning System, Standard Range
- Full Range Planetary Scanner, Lifesigns Identifier System
- Internal Defense Management:
- Retractable Auto Blasters
- Retractable Turadium Bulkheads
- Retractable Turadium Ventilation Spikes
- Retractable Turadium Blast Barriers, Trilamnium Coated.
- Automated War Droid Emergency Deployment
- Automated Anti-Concussion Field Emergency Deployment
- Advanced Biometric Security Systems
- Advanced Laser Grid, Emergency Deployment Only
- Advanced Mass Sensor Plating and Grid System
- Extensive Security Camera and Motion Detection System
- Extensive Thermal Energy Sensors and Biometric Detection Systems
- Emergency Lock-Down Tram & Lift Systems
- Emergency Pressure Plate and Compact Disposal Systems
- Communications and Sensors:
- Stealth Management Suite
Strengths:
- Stealth: The Serran has the capability to go stealth enabling it to carry out missions at Darth Avacyn’s with some manner of secrecy.
- Presence: The sight of the Serran is certainly a boost of morale for the Sith Armada, encouraging them to continue the fight in the Emperor’s name.
- Exhaust: While the ship may boast a number of stealth systems it is not completely stealthy, and can still be tracked through advanced sensor systems.
- Siaber: A lot of the Serran’s weapons and even some of her components have been built with Siaber/Sianium technology. Leaving the ship at the mercy of these crystals that when unstable can have catastrophic results.
- Target: A ship of this size is definitely a huge target without a doubt it’ll attract a lot of unwanted attention on the battlefield.
- Time: Precious seconds tick away as the Serran emerges out of stealth. This is a perfect chance for opponents to attack while shields and weapons are still powering up, this is when the ship is most vulnerable.
From her sleek exterior to the elegant interior there was no expense spared in the construction of the Serran. The Serran speaks to an older style of shipbuilding while still possessing the modern capabilities of any warship in the Sith Armada. Built and designed by Primo Victorian Shipwright, the Serran was based on Darth Arcanix’s flagship the Elidibus. She would be built at an orbital shipyard surrounding Bastion and would serve as Darth Avacyn’s mobile base of operations.
Speaking to an older style of shipbuilding, the Serran’s interior is a reminder of where Primo Victorian and in part of where Darth Avacyn got her start. Reminiscent of early First Order starships the super star destroyer features expanded corridors, with red carpet floors and light gray paneling. The Serran’s bridge is absent of the typical ‘trench’ that is common among Imperial designs. Instead, are rows of consoles and computers laid out before a massive viewport or viewscreen as it may be referred to.
Near the rear of the bridge in the centermost platform is the command center where the command team, in addition to Darth Avacyn herself can be found. From the bridge are the commander’s ready room, bridge armory, emergency lift to an auxiliary command center, and an auxiliary hangar, a battle meditation chamber.
The meditation chamber is meant not necessarily for Avacyn but certainly one of Avacyn’s apprentices or perhaps a colleague or two. It is where the Sith may go to better aid the personnel aboard the ship with the use of the Force. There are additional meditation chambers throughout the Serran to create a more effective meditation sphere around the vessel.
Getting to and from various sections of the ship can be done through either lifts or tram. These include freight and emergency lifts and trams, the former designed to help get cargo and equipment around much faster. While the latter is meant strictly for emergency purposes such as ferrying the wounded or hazard control teams. Emergency lifts and trams generally connect sections such as the hangar and the infirmary for example, directly to one another creating an ‘express’ route.
This creates a more efficient method of getting people and equipment to where they need to go. Something especially helpful on a ship that boasts six hundred and forty-four decks split between fourteen sections. Each section holds forty-six decks, the numbering system is an alphanumeric system such as E19 would refer to section E, deck 19.
The Serran is equipped with an enhanced hyperdrive and fast sublight engines, along with several dedicated generators for various systems. There are two back-up hyperdrive systems within the vessel as well, this is to ensure the ship’s mobility in case of emergencies. Neither of the back-up hyperdrive systems are nearly as strong as their counterpart but will suffice. Additional generators and sublight engines are also available on the Serran and work to aid the ship during emergency operations.
Serving as a mobile operations center for the Sith Valkyries the vessel features its own Stave, Feasting Hall and ‘Longhouse.’ The Valkyries are outfitted with living, crafting and training areas in their section of the ship. The Sisters have access to their own hangar allowing them to come and go from the vessel as necessary without disrupting Imperial operations.
A total of fifty-two squadrons are assigned to the ship with forty-two of them being combat-oriented. The other ten squadrons are support craft, which can range from transport and medical to diplomatic and scout ships. Amenities for the Starfighter Corps personnel have been accommodated aboard the Serran. Dormitories, craft maintenance, mess hall, training have been accounted for. Much of this is the same for the Legionnaires who are aboard the vessel as well.
Internal defenses include the retractable bulkheads that keep each of the fourteen sections separated and emergency bulkheads that come down between each section. These can be used to isolate intruders or other unwanted personnel. Retractable blast barriers, automated war droids, and advanced biometric security systems, along with extensive security systems. These and the myriad of other internal defense systems are to slow intruders down allowing time for ship-board Legionnaires to terminate these threats.
Tactical defenses include the Semira Defensive Shield System, which is backed by a redundant deflector shield system with shield boost. The Semira Defensive Shield System at its core is a deflector shield, with the ability to become a molecular shield in that its molecular add-on grants it a ‘temporary’ immunity against plasmatic and ion weapons. The molecular add-on is one of three options in which the shield is able to do. The other two options are siphon which works much in the same way as a shield leech. The last option is the polarization option which allows the system to convert absorbed weapons energy back into its own shield power (strength). Second to this a standard deflector shield with a simple shield boost. At last resort, the emergency shield is the ship’s particle shield generator.
From there the Serran relies heavily on her hull composition which includes the Archer-type reactive hull plating system. The Archer-type reactive hull plating system allows an enemy’s weapons energy to be converted for the ship’s own use. Beneath this hull plating system is a crystalamnium reinforced durasteel hull with a crystaplast and reinforced duraplast latticed hull liner. The Serran’s frame is impervium reinforced durasteel while the viewports are made of solarium glasteel over traditional glasteel for the ship’s viewports. Turadium blast shields and shutters, along with agrinium and dallorian alloys and a damage reduction plating system over key components and critical areas round out the ship’s hull composition.
The Serran’s defenses are not limited to her shield and hull, but also include a number of countermeasures and tactical security systems. Anti-ordnance EM probes chaffs and flares along with a missile deactivation transmitter aid in her capability to defend against missiles. While an anti-ion mesh, cap drains, socket guards and de-ionizer provide the Serran with her anti-ion systems. Sensor jammers include a sensor scrambler, comtech jammer, and long/range sensor jammers and an IFF Confuser to be used when necessary. Lastly, the ship has a reactionary repulsor field generator works on a reactionary basis keeping things such as spatial bodies away from the vessel. It can also work to keep projectiles away from the ship, but this is a secondary role of the generator.
The ship’s advanced systems are split into two categories sensor and stealth. The exception being the Keynes Decoder Terminal System which operates to decode already intercepted encrypted transmissions. The Serran’s advanced sensor package includes the new Blackout Communications Sensor systems which work to disrupt communications on either a planetary or system-wide scale. The system does this temporarily and is meant to aid the Empire during wartime. Rounding out sensors systems are the standard Sith Imperial suite of the Vestige Communications, Hunter Targeting/Tracking, and the Suzerain Sensor Suite.
Note, the Serran also has the Maelstrom Advanced Tracking and Targeting System. The two systems can be used together to help provide more accurate targeting solutions, Or they can be used independently of each other. In addition to this system, the ship’s sensors include a cronau radiation amplifier, gravimetric sensor net, tachyon emitter, and tachyon pulse emitter. These are more or less anti-stealth measures and work to help locate stealth vessels.
The stealth management suite for the Serran includes an anti-radar defense unit, scanner-blocking field, sensor mask, optical shield, photonic emitter, spectral diffuser, signature modulator, electromagnetic shield, gravitic amplitude modulator and finally an anti-ion emissions tracer. Anti radar defense units helps the Serran to undermine radar by cloaking it. This in addition to the scanner-blocking field device helps prevent detection by scanners or radar.
A sensor mask, coupled with the optical and electromagnetic shield helped to distort visual observation of the vessel. The sensor mask specifically making it more difficult for the ship to be found by sensors. While the electromagnetic shield was used to deflect sensors. The photonic emitter in conjunction with the spectral diffuser helped to reduce the Serran’s physical presence. Signature modulator aided the Serran by masking her signature lastly the gravitic amplitude modulator allowed the ship to modulate the gravity around her.
The Serran certainly boasted quite a number of both stealth and defensive features. However, a note on her stealth systems, she could not fire her weapons while stealth. Additionally, she was usually unshielded during this time having only her stealth systems to guard her. Which meant when she came out of stealth there was precious time ticking away as her crews worked to bring shields and weapons online.
Now, there was one last defensive measure that the ship had. Which some may wonder as to who it is an ablative armor can be listed as, ‘emergency-only.’ The Serran had featured the Intrepid-type emergency ablative armor. This armor could be deployed in the event of severe damage, giving the ship a chance to hyperspace jump away from danger. The Intrepid had two key parts, the first of which were the liquid to solid state dispensers, the second were the plates. These plates are beneath the secondary hull and liner, or in the Serran’s case beneath the crystalamnium reinforced durasteel hull.
These were made of reinforced duraplast with myogel on an imprevium-fused doonium plates with a trilamnium alloy underlay. The liquid to solid state dispensers when activated would then fill in the gaps of the ship’s hull as the plates moved to seal themselves over the ship. Together they would form a solid shell around the ship enabling it to withstand a good amount of damage until they were able hyperspace jump away. Now, unfortunately, the duration was quite short, thirty seconds maximum - but the hope was that this would be enough time for whatever ship it was over to get out of danger. Once it has been used, the emergency armor does shatter and break apart from the vessel itself.
Weapon systems aboard the Serran were numerous and included railguns, long-range turbolasers and a lot of cannons. Each weapon had its own strengths and weaknesses but combined they helped to make the Serran a long-range juggernaut in her own right. Boasting some of Primo Victorian’s then newest weapons systems Mars, Bellona and Atalanta mass driver cannons the Serran certainly looked to punish ships in its wake. Each of the aforementioned cannon came with its own ionization field as a workaround for standard deflector shields. Without the ionization field, they certainly posed a threat to vessels who relied heavily on molecular shields alone. These cannons weren’t the only big guns the Serran had, the ship also carried the latest in weaponry from Aurora Industries including the Arietis turbolasers and Hydrus ion cannons.
She also had thirty-six of the mark two, Longbow Plasma Railguns - heavy hitting long-range plasma railguns that focused on dealing damage over time. Hypervelocity cannons were also added to the ship in an effort to help curb enemy starfighter strafing runs. These cannons were able to put out thousands upon thousands of rounds of flak. Combined with the ion cannons, it made attacking the Serran as a fighter pilot a lot harder than it would have been otherwise. The ship also had rotary point defense cannons both traditional laser and ion. Anti-missile octets in combination with the Ovmar Missile Defense System would be another countermeasure against incoming missiles.
Overall, the Serran would be the blend of Primo Victorian, Aurora Industries and Sith Imperial technology of the time. While its aesthetics spoke to what had been considered a bygone era of First Imperial ship design. As it included more ‘comfortable’ amenities that were not normally featured on Imperial ships, such as recreational holosuites fitness facilities, arboretums and even an onboard commissary in which crew could purchase leisure items. A happy and comfortable crew meant a more productive and effective crew during combat operations. Given that officers and crew could be expected to be stationed on the Serran for years at a time, it was important to the Sith Empire that the Imperials were treated well.
Change Log:
- January 20th 2020; General maintenance and clean up due to server migration, adjustments made for new factory standards - swapped ion cannons, added deflector shield generator.
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