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Approved Starship Starhawk III Bail Organa-class Assault Carrier

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
  • Module Layout
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STANDARD FEATURES
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
STRENGTHS ( 18 Items )
  • Whole Ship
    • Modularity — The Starhawk III is assembled from multiple modules. The command module of the Starhawk III is able to separate and act independently from the rest of the ship under dire circumstances. The command module acting as a 935 meter ship would have the corresponding stats as an independent cruiser: Armament ( Very High ), Defense ( High ), Maneuverability ( Very Low ), Speed ( Low ), and Hangar Capacity ( High ). The magnetic clamps also have a built-in system to resist phenomena that might cause electrical disturbances including ion cannon weaponry.
    • Slave-Rigged — Each module has been equipped with a Aesir slave circuit system to significantly reduce the amount of labor that would be required to operate this ship.
    • Focal Shield — When the Starhawk III receives a sustained barrage from a single direction, the Shield Force Multiplier kicks in, and will concentrate the available deflector shield energy to create a focused, reinforced shield, capable of withstanding an incredible amount of incoming fire.
    • Targeting System Jamming — The Starhawk III has been equipped with a Erebus Jamming Array which can be used to interfere with the targeting systems of opposing ships to try and reduce the accuracy of their long-ranged barrages.
    • Radiation Resistance — The interior sections of the Starhawk III have been lined with agrinium which provides the crew an additional layer of protection from the dangerous effects of radiation that can be encountered when a ship loses its shields.
    • Difficult to Trace — The Starhawk III has been equipped with a location scramblers that increases the difficulty of triangulating the location of this ship.
    • Gravity Well Early Warning — The Starhawk III has been equipped with a gravity well early warning system which allows the ship to identify upcoming interdiction fields that may be coming up along their trajectory. This hardware provdes the crew with anywhere from a few moments to minutes, depending on the circumstances, to make a quick decision on how to proceed next.
    • Probes — The Starhawk III comes equipped with a complement of forty-eight Skyeye Probe Droids which can be launched to investigate nearby systems.
  • Command Module
    • Firepower — The weapon emplacements of the Starhawk III have been heavily concentrated on the forward surface of the command module. Because of this, the Starhawk III is capable of unleashing an impressive amount of firepower on any target that's directly in front of the ship.
    • Point Defense — The command module has been equipped with MAI-1 Defensive Turrets, a close-in-weapon system which were designed to launch neutronium spheres to intercept incoming missiles and other fast-approaching astronomical objects, and with Dakka Point Defense Turrets, which were designed to shoot down starfighters with kinetic rounds.
    • Multi-Layered Armor — The command module has multiple layers of armor which provide this ship a formidable defense, from durable materials like impervium, which can endure the heavy turbolasers, laminanium which can seal some breaches, or thorilide which together can absorb the physical shock of enemy attacks.
    • Medical Ops — The command module has been equipped with a medical center that can provide comprehensive service care to those onboard.
    • Aura-class Projectors
      • Versatile Projectors — The Starhawk III has been equipped with state-of-the art Aura-class projector package, with each platform containing four long-ranged projectors, each individually capable of emitting either a traction or pressor beam that can pull or push on astronomical objects from asteroids to capital ships.
      • Interdiction Disruption — The Aura-class projectors that have been equipped to the Starhawk III are capable of cancelling out the effects of corresponding Gravity Well Projectors of interdictor vessels once the Starhawk III has entered in firing range for it's short-ranged weaponry.
    • EMP Resistance - The extensive use of Tridurium as an ingredient throughout the ship's armor, alongside the faraday cage components, has insulated the command module from most phenomena that might cause electrical disturbances, such as ion cannon weaponry.
  • Command and Carrier Modules
    • Drop Pods — Both the command and carrer modules have been equipped with AT-RD Drop Pods which allows the Starhawk III to rapidly deploy preliminary troops to secure a landing zone.
  • Carrier Module
    • Hangar Capacity — The flight decks and hangar bays of the carrier module greatly increase the capacity of the Starhawk III to carry squadrons of starfighters and support craft.
  • Propulsion Module
    • Speed — The Starhawk III has been equipped with a propulsion module that contains ten ion engines which propel this carrier forward at an impressive speed.
SIGNIFICANT WEAKNESS ( 10 Items )
  • Whole Ship
    • Atmospheric Friction — The Starhawk III does not have the hull integrity or atmospheric friction shielding necessary to descend down a planet's atmosphere. When a Starhawk III does descend, the ship will break apart and scatter across a wide area as a wreckage.
    • Magnetic Clamps — This ship uses magnetic clamps to hold the modules together. These magnetic clamps line where the two modules meet like a seam. There are two rows of clamps that connect each model, a top row, and a bottom row. Once two rows of magnetic clamps have been either destroyed or significantly damaged, the two modules in question will come apart. The Command Module can operate independently from the other modules with its four sublight engines. However, the Starhawk III does not have the hangar capacity or room available to rescue it's complement of starfighters and personnel from the other modules.
  • Command Module
    • Airlocks —The persons responsible for designing the command module left the points of entry between the ship and outer space, unsecured. Meaning someone(s) could sneak onboard the ship from the outside.
    • Sensor Globes — Located on the broadside fins of the command module are matching pairs of sensor globes which feed long-range data directly into the Stawhawk III's weapon systems. When all four globes have been destroyed, the ship loses the ability to use its long-ranged batteries for their intended purpose (Conditionally Decreases Armaments from Average to Very Low when the Starhawk III is far from the enemy). Unless this ship receives outside assistance, the Starhawk III will effectively be short-sighted, only aware of it's most immediate surroundings.
    • Forward Reactor — Located within the hangar bay of the command module toward the very end of the flight deck is a fusion reactor which powers the command module. The fusion reactor is protected by a ray shield. A starfighter could intrude inside and launch a concussive strike to destroy the fusion reactor, causing the command module, and likely, the entire Starhawk III, to implode from the inside-out. Alternatively, there is a control panel outside the ray shield that can be sliced to deactivate the protective barrier. After which a saboteur could set-up charges to destroy the fusion reactor.
    • Shield Force Multiplier — Located along the broadside trenches of the command module are a pair of antennas which emit the Shield Force Multiplier phenomenon. These technological protrusions could be destroyed with anything from a concussive strike to a proton torpedo from a wayward starfighter. However, these antennas perform redundant roles. To take down the focal shield they generate, the enemy would need to destroy both. Their destruction though would drastically decrease the Starhawk III's capacity to withstand enemy fire (Defense: Average to Low).
    • Gravity Well Early Warning Antenna — Protruding from the dorsal fin of the command module is a large antenna structure which operationalizes the gravity well early warning system. This structure is made from alusteel, and unlike the rest of the command module, lacks in armor. A well-placed concussive or strike, or a concentration of turbolaser, could easy destroy the entire antenna structure and the gravity well early warning system with it.
    • Cryoglobe — Protruding from the ventral fin of the command module is a radome structure called the Cryoglobe. This structure serves as the heat sink for the four ion engines attached to the command module. Once this structure has been destroyed through a barrage of turbolaser fire or a well-placed concussive strike, the ship's command will need to deactivate the engines or risk them overheating and exploding. This significantly reduces the speed and maneuverability of the ship (Speed: High to Average, and Maneuverability: Low to Very Low, respectively). If the command module is already separated and acting as an independent ship, this move would completely immobilize it.
  • Carrier and Propulsion Modules
    • Unarmored — Both the carrier and propulsion modules lack sturdy armor. What separates the flight deck crew and engineering from the vacuum of space is merely an alusteel, hull. Because of this, once a starfighter or small freighter has gotten past the ship's shield, they could afflict damage with just their laser cannons alone. Because of these circumstances, it isn't an uncommon sight to see members of the crew wearing space suits as a precaution.
  • Propulsion Module
    • Exposed Rear — The ten ion engines attached to the propulsion module are exposed and unprotected. Because of this the entire module is vulnerable to enemy harassment. If the enemy were to get in position behind the propulsion module and afflict serious damage, this could seriously slowdown the Starhawk III (Speed: High to Low, and Maneuverability: Low to Very Low).
WEAKNESSES ( 18 Items )
  • Whole Ship
    • Modularity — The command module cannot disengage from the carrier module, or any other module it happens to be connected to, if some of the magnetic clamps have been damaged but not entirely destroyed. While the magnetic clamps have a built-in system to resist phenomena that might cause electrical disturbances, the surrounding carrier and propulsion do not. Once these modules' systems have been disabled through EMP weaponry, the magnetic clamps will be unable to disengage.
    • Slave Rigged
      • Slicing— Because each module uses and extensively relies onthe Aesir slave circuit system, the entire ship is vulnerable to slicing.
      • Naval Boarding — Because so many systems have been automated through the Aesir slave circuit system, this ship has become increasingly vulnerable to naval boardings. Between missions, when the Starhawk III isn’t carrying a complement of troops to bring to the next theater of war, a detachment of enemy troops could readily overpower the crew and takeover the ship.
    • Forward Firing Arc — When it comes to the carrier variant, all of the heavy-hitting weapon emplacements of the Starhawk III are located on the forward-facing surface of the command module. Because of this, to bring it's might to bear, the Starhawk III needs to be directly facing its target. This can be challenging due to its lack of maneuverability.
    • Point Defense — The Starhawk III is a large ship with a lot of surface area to cover. While equipped with a point defense system, large swathes of this shield lack the necessary number of fast-moving, rotating turrets, to effectively deter starfighter harassment. This is especially true for the broadsides, which lack weapon emplacements.
    • Erebus Jamming Array
      • Optimal Jamming Range — The the Erebus Jamming Array operates best when the enemy ships are at a far distance. As the enemy draws nearer, the array's effectiveness at misdirecting enemy fire correspondingly decreases.
      • Signal Interference — The Erebus Jamming Array becomes ineffective under certain environmental conditions. When the Trantor-class enters a nebula or similar space phenomena, the surrounding radiation and matter can weaken the array's ability to connect with and mislead enemy targeting systems.
    • Focal Shield
      • Lopsided Shield — When the Starhawk III is receiving a sustained barrage from a single direction, the Shield Force Multiplier will cause deflector shields to concentrate around that spotting, leaving the other areas of the ship minimally shielded.
      • Irregularity Shield Exploitation — The focal shield being generated by the Shield Force Multiplier requires the enemy to sustain a constant barrage. When an opposing ship fires too infrequently, this prevents the Shield Force Multiplier from activating.
      • Multidirectional Shield Exploitation — When the Starhawk III receives an enemy barrage from multiple directions, the Shield Force Multiplier gets scrabbled, and is unable to create a focal shield. This means Starfighters could work in tandem with a capital ship to collapse the focal shield being generated by the Shield Force Multiplier by hitting the armored frigate from multiple angles.
    • Maneuverability — Because the Starhawk III was not designed with maneuverability in mind. Whenever this ship needs to change direction, it requires a wide and protracted turn to change it's ongoing trajectory.
  • Command Module
    • Forward Firing Arc — All of the weapon emplacements on the carrier variant of the Starhawk III are located on the command module. Because of this, to bring it's firepower to bear, the Starhawk needs to have the target in their forward line of sight.
    • Hangar Bays — Whenever the Starhawk III opens its titanium hangar doors, the only thing separating the hangar from the vacuum of space are magnetic shields. These magnetic shields can allow physical objects like shuttles out but on the flip side can also allow concussive strikes to hit the unarmored interior.
    • Aura-Class Projectors
      • Limited Duration — The gravitation field disruption element of the Aura-class projector package requires exhaustive amounts of energy which limits its use in brief bursts.
      • Poor Tracking — While the Aura-class projectors are well-suited for targeting relatively stationary astronomical objects like naval mines or asteroids, unlike conventional tractor systems, they're unable to accurately target smaller craft, even struggling to lock on moving capital ships.
    • Gravity Well Early Warning — The Starhawk III can only use the Gravity Well Early Warning System when traveling along a well-established hyperlane with millennia of astronomical data to pull from (i.e. canon hyperlanes, see link). This technology can only be used when the ship is traveling to systems that are directly situated along a hyperlane pathway.
  • Command and Carrier Modules
    • Drop Tubes — Protruding from the ventral sections of both the command and carrier modules are launch tubes designed to deploy AT-RD Drop Pods. Because they're exposed and unprotected, enemy fire could destroy or damage a number of these tubes. This would slow down the planet side deployment of this ship's forces.
  • Carrier and Propulsion Modules
    • EMP Weapons — Both the Carrier Module and the Propulsion Model lack the means to resist weapons or natural phenomena that cause electrical disturbances.
DESCRIPTION

The Federal Cooperative would receive a contract in 831 ABY to build a family of warships. This contract came from a consortium of sectoral governments which stretched along the frontiers of the Unknown Regions. Unable to receive the help they desired from the Republic, they pulled their meager resources and approached the Federal Cooperative. Few companies would be interested in undertaking in the project due to the budgetary constraints of these sectoral governments. However, the Federal Cooperative saw an opportunity in the fiscal constraints. The budgetary limits would spur innovation— or that’s the argument the public relations department made to the accounting department, seeing this contract as an opportunity to strengthen the Federal Cooperative’s brand in the frontier.

The Federal Cooperative would draw on expertise from Anaxes and Hodasal to establish the Starhawk Program. Both these worlds had an ancient and proud military tradition, however, in some ways their thinking was too conventional. The initial round of designs came-up with three hull designs, each would perform a different role: 1.) carrier, 2.) battleship, and 3.) medical ship.

The Federal Cooperative was unimpressed with the preliminary results.

The Federal Cooperative would transfer the team responsible for successfully designing the Snapper-class Armored Transport over to the Starhawk Program in 832 ABY. They would push the Starhawk Program in a new direction. They wanted to design a capital ship that could be rapidly adapted to perform different combat roles. To accomplish this, the new designers would successfully push for the Starhawk Program to adopt a modular approach moving forward.

Over the course of the next eight years they would design six modules which could be used to adapt the Starhawk III to the particular mission. Unfortunately, during this time period, the consortium of sectoral governments had broken apart due to in-fighting. Fortunately, though the leadership at the Federal Cooperative were impressed with the results and continued the Starhawk Program.

When they began the Starhawk Program the leadership at the Federal Cooperative initially envisioned supplying arms to sectoral governments on the frontier to deter the dangers of the Unknown Regions. However, in the interim between 831 ABY and 840 ABY, a galaxy-spanning war had ignited and consumed the entire Galaxy.

Unlike some of their other projects the Federal Cooperative would begin production of the new family of warships which they would christen the Starhawk III-class family. Due to the frequent disruptions in their supply lines, the leadership at the Federal Cooperative decided to integrate the chaos of the Galaxy into their production. They would salvage entire scrapped fleets to begin construction of their modules. Taking advantage of the technology that became available with each collapsed regime, they would build a new module.

The first generation of Starhawk III-class ships would be launched in 845 ABY.


Rating Disclaimer — The Starhawk III-class Carrier is currently three points over. I've listed nine weaknesses I considered candidates for a significant weakness to balance the stats.

10-07-2020 — I've added "Gravity Well Early Warning System" to Permissions, Materials, Advanced Systems, Strength, Significant Weakness, Weakness.
 
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Ingenium Ingenium - So, with the three ratings and nine additional weaknesses, I think that's a fair trade-off. However, there's just a point I want to see clarified first.

As magnetic systems, especially the clamps, require power - how would they react when overloaded? Would it be possible to force the ship to separate with a large enough EMP, Ion round, or magpulse warhead?
 

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That's an interesting question.

One of my assumptions was that the magnetic clamps would somehow continue operating while the ship was disabled by EMP weaponry. I had this line under Weaknesses:

"None of the modules can disengaged from the command module if the ship has been disabled by EMP weaponry."
 
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Ingenium Ingenium - That's part of the reason why I wanted to seek some clarification, as it sounds like a traditional magnetic-reinforced clamping system, rather than the powered magnetic plates often seen in SciFi media. Could I ask that this be fleshed out a bit more in corresponding weakness for ease of future reference?
 

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LT-137 LT-137 I've added the following language to the submission:
  • Modularity — The Starhawk III is assembled from multiple modules. The command module of the Starhawk III is able to separate and act independently from the rest of the ship under dire circumstances. The command module acting as a 935 meter ship would have the corresponding stats as an independent cruiser: Armament ( Very High ), Defense ( High ), Maneuverability ( Very Low ), Speed ( Low ), and Hangar Capacity ( High ). The magnetic clamps also have a built-in system to resist phenomena that might cause electrical disturbances including ion cannon weaponry.

  • Modularity — The command module cannot disengage from the carrier module, or any other module it happens to be connected to, if some of the magnetic clamps have been damaged but not entirely destroyed. While the magnetic clamps have a built-in system to resist phenomena that might cause electrical disturbances, the surrounding carrier and propulsion do not. Once these modules' systems have been disabled through EMP weaponry, the magnetic clamps will be unable to disengage.
 
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