Approved Starship Shockwave-class Missile Cruiser

[Taeli Raaf]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To submit a missile cruiser for Aurora Industries to sell
• Image Source: https://www.deviantart.com/mallacore/art/Missile-Ship-Part-1-20674893
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Aurora Industries
• Affiliation: Aurora Industries, Individuals and Factions that have purchased it
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Shockwave-class Missile Cruiser
• Production: Minor-production
• Material:
  • Neutronium-Enhanced Durasteel (Hull Plating)
  • Turadium (Secondary Hull Plating)
  • Dallorian Alloy (Hull Coating)
  • Desh-Terenthium Alloy (Inner Skeleton)
  • Transparisteel (Viewport)

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Missile Assault Cruiser
• Length: 1,000 meters
• Width: 300 meters
• Height: 260 meters
• Armament: Very High
  • Sixteen (16) Heavy AI-T "Salamand" Turbolaser Batteries (Ten on top, eight on bottom)
  • Sixteen (16) Heavy AI-MD "Gnoma" Mass Driver Batteries (Four on top, four on port side, four on starboard side, four on bottom)
  • Eighty (80) Variable Warhead Launchers (Thirty on port side, thirty on starboard side, twenty on bottom)
    • Ten Missiles for each launcher, cargo capacity for 400 missiles (bottom port and starboard decks)
  • Ten (10) Heavy Assault Concussion Missile Launchers (top launchers)
    • Four Missiles for launcher, cargo capacity for 40 missiles (stored in launcher revolver style)
  • Thirty (30) 360 Degree Rotation Dual AI-PD "Sylphi" Point Defense Turrets (Evenly distributed across the hull)
  • Thirty-two (32) 360 Degree Rotation Quad AI-LC "Leamonde" Laser Cannon Turrets (Evenly distributed across the hull)
  • Thirty-two (32) 360 Degree Rotation Quad AI-FG "Leshach" Flak Gun Turrets (Evenly distributed across the hull)
• Defenses: High
  • Triple-layered Armored Neutronium-enhanced Hull Plating with a secondary single-layered Turadium Hull underneath
    • Special focus was placed on the missile cargo holds for armor plating
  • Dual-Layered Military-Grade Deflector Shield System
  • Dual-Layered Military-Grade Ion Shielding System
• Hangar Space: Low
  • Four Squadrons
• Hangar Allocations:
  • Starfighters: 3 squadrons
  • Support Craft: 1 squadron
• Maneuverability Rating: Average
  • 60 DPF
• Speed Rating: Low
  • 60 MGLT
• Hyperdrive: Yes - Class 1.0
  • A-EX 400 Shiftdrive

STANDARD FEATURES

• Life Support Systems
  • Standard, Military-Grade
  • Ten Escape Pods
• Other Shield Systems
  • Atmospheric Friction Shield
  • Rad-Dampening Shielding
  • Relativistic Shield
  • Shift Shield
• Communication and Sensor Array
  • Advanced and Encrypted Communications Array
  • Advanced Sensors Array
• Power Generator
  • Cruiser-scaled Aetherstar Reactor
• Navicomputer and Guidance Systems
  • Standard, Military-Grade
• Crew Compliment
  • Four Thousand Two Hundred Crewmembers
  • Nine Hundred Security or Military Troopers
  • Thirty-six Fighter Pilots
  • Twelve Support Craft Pilots
  • Twenty Officers
    • Ranking Officer - Commander
• Cargo Capacity
  • Galactic Standard Years' worth of supplies
  • External Docking Rings
• Security Systems
  • Blast Doors
  • Evo QuantumGuard Socketguards
  • Internal Ray Shield Emitters
  • Klaxon Alarm/Warning System
  • Other Standard Security Systems

ADVANCED SYSTEMS

• Engine Systems
  • Three Aurora Crest Drives
• Targeting Systems
  • Maelstrom Advanced Targeting and Tracking System
• Countermeasures
  • Missile Deactivators
  • Sensor Jammer
  • Chaff Launcher

STRENGTHS

• The Shockwave is designed for maximum long-range devastation with its extensive armament of missile launchers, turbolasers, and mass drivers. With eighty standard variable warhead launchers able to field most conventional missiles and torpedoes and ten heavy assault concussion missile launchers, the ship can hang back behind a battleline and wreak havoc on the enemy.
• The Shockwave is also equipped with extensive defenses, with multiple layers of armored hull plating and multiple layers of shielding. This allows the ship to have enhanced durability when engaged in combat, just to be sure the explosive cargoes it carries don't ignite on the crew. The ship also fields a wide net of defensive weapon emplacements to keep enemy fighters and ordinance off of it.
• A Maelstrom is equipped to the ship to help the gunnery crews with target locks for their missiles and keeping track of enemy forces that might be a threat to the ship.

WEAKNESSES

• If enemy fire is able to breach the defenses around the missile cargo holds, the entire ship is likely to go up in a massive explosion.
• Utilizing the versatility of its weapon systems can result in a few issues with examples being overheating with the Leamondes and Salamands and ammunition concerns with the Gnoma Mass Drivers when switching between their firing modes too quickly.
• Due to its role as being a missile cruiser, the crew and officers need to keep careful track of their missiles as they can easily run out of missiles after a few heavy barrages.
• The crystal matrix that acts as the heart of the Maelstrom system, if damaged, will immediately kill the system and it will be unusable until a new one is installed.

DESCRIPTION

The seventh warship to be designed for Aurora Industries' Phase III modernization program, the Shockwave-class Missile Cruiser is a new line of ship for the company that is designed to unleash heavy missile barrages from behind a battleline to inflict horrific damage on enemy starships. Taking lessons from the ancient Victory-class Star Destroyer, the primary weapon systems of the Shockwave are its eighty variable warhead missile launchers and the ten heavy assault concussion missile launchers that allows a commander to unleash heavy barrages of missiles that can deal heavy damage and overwhelm enemy defenses and formations. The ship is also equipped with several batteries of Aurora Industries' turbolasers and mass drivers for more conventional ship combat if the crew is forced to engage in such.

The defenses of the ship include multiple layers of armored hull plating, with a special focus around where the missiles in the ship are stored, and multiple layers of shielding. Several extra ray shield emitters are included in the missile cargo holds to try and at least mitigate possible explosions there if an enemy attack hit it, although the engineers of the design team know that it might not be enough. A Maelstrom targeting system was also included to allow better tracking of enemy fighters and ordinance and for targeting enemy ships and formations for attack.

 

[Listib Hibin]

So many missiles, so little time.

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Taeli Raaf