Approved Starship Sunderer I - Class Model ENS, Heavy Destroyer

[Credius Nargath]

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STANDARD FEATURES

• Meassurements: LENGTH: 1,500m, WIDTH: 650m, Height: 600m
• Armaments: Very High
  • NZ IEPC.4700 Ionized Electromagnetic Plasma cannon 'Damocles' x2 [Minor]
  • NZ IPC-1 Ion Pulse Canon x10 [MP]
  • Reductor Concussion Cannon x10 [MP]
  • NZ HP1 Turbo Laser Quartet x30 [MP]
  • NZ HP2 Heavy Turbo Laser Twin x20 [MP]
  • FAE/SW-06 "Malmourral" Super Heavy Fusion Plasma Artillery Cannon x4, fixed position [Minor]
  • NZ RTL1 Launcher coupled with FAE/WH-04 Universal Missile Platform Quartet x20 [MP] [MP]
    • NZ RP-1CM Cluster Missile [MP]
    • NZ RP-2SB Short Burst Projectile [MP]
    • NZ RP-3GMIM Guided Mass Incendiary Missile [MP]
  • AFT-14.4000B FLAK Turret x150 [MP]
• Tiber I class modular platform [MP]
  • Replaced NZ F.A.R. Fusion Arc Reactor with 'Yellow Dwarf' Sun Reactor [Minor]
  • Replaced Zeus Mk II with ATHENA DCOS-1L [DIrect Central Operating System] [LP]
  • Replace SS1 and SS2 with NZ SSP-SIXTUS shield system package
  • Add FAE/SW-04 "Chromofly" Light Turbolaser x10 and NZ LC-2A Laser Canon x20 for NZ ARD-1 Mono Type Point Defense System [Minor] [MP] [MP]
  • Additional Seigurium angular plating
  • Tungstoid reinforced Seigurium front battering ram
  • Reinforced Quinta-Polycarbonite Lamellar Compound viewports and bridge-windows
  • Replace Secundary hyperdrive with NZ OS-HD3H Hyperdrive system with 2.0 rating [Minor]
  • Add SLAM
• Hangar Space: Average
  • Starfighters: 6 squadrons
  • Support Craft: 2 squadron
• Speed: Average - High [SLAM Engaged]
• Maneuvrability: Average - low [SLAM Engaged]
• Misc
  
  • FAE/C-02 Tractor Guidance Network [MP]
  • FAE/S-05 ECM Array [MP]
  • FAE/S-06 Reactive Targeting Matrix [MP]
  • FAE/S-07 Offensive Retention System [MP]
  • FAE/S-09 Active Harmonizing System [MP]

ADVANCED SYSTEMS

• Modular Platform: Because it uses the Tiber I modular platform, this ship benefits from the robust build and extremely good defenses this platform provides, with state of the art sensory arrays, shielding and quality plating.
• Multilayered Shielding: With the NZ SSP-SIXTUS shield system package, the Allegiance III-class can boast to have one of the most powerful and multifunctional shield defenses in the galaxy, thanks to a six layered overlapping shield system with a wide variety of resistences.

STRENGTHS

• Robust: Thanks to a serious effort placed in making this ship virtually untouchable by raiders and pirates, it boasts quite an array of defensive systems that allow it to shrug off most laser and kinetic damage types in order to safeguard the cargo and the ship's crew during transportations of goods.
• Breacher: Because of the heavily reinforced and angular plated front end, this ship is capable of using it's stern as a battering ram in order to forcefully breach enemy positions or capital ships, which in combination with the forward located hangars allows for an easy invasion of breached positions.
• Armed to the teeth: Befitting a heavy destroyer, the sunderer-I class boasts an impressive arsenal of weapon systems and an equally impressive number of those, making this the most versatile battering ram possible.
• Highly Automated: This ship has an excellent AI which in its capacity controls the majority of the mundaine functions on the ship, but also assists in charting lanes, setting courses, priming weaponry, raising and directing shielding, etc. This allows for a significantly smaller crew to be necessary to functionally and efficiently operate with this ship.

WEAKNESSES

• Somewhat Sluggish: This ship has the downside of utter weight and bulk, which makes it rather tedious to maneuvre and handle, though once it does get going anything in its path may very well be made of spacedust.
• Highly automated: As much of a boon the high automation of the ship is in general, this also has its obvious and quite important downsides. Mainly that should there be something wrong with the AI, such as its systems being fried or it being forced to reboot in case of direct EMP on its core, the requirement for optimal crew numbers may in reality not be enough considering a whole heap of otherwise automated fuctions must now be manually operated, which may stretch the previously optimal crew thin or even to inoperable reach.

DESCRIPTION
The Sunderer I-class is one of the newest and most important ships within the catalogue of the N&Z Umbrella Corporation, effectively the springboard on the military use of the Tiber I class modular superstructure, which for this purpose has been adjusted and improved upon by additional shielding systems and defensive weaponry. While this standard type Sunderer is to be envisioned as the basic variety and the version which would be used as a basis for more specialized or more limited versions for demanding customers, this version still holds many aces up its sleeves; such as the intricate and powerful multi-layered shielding system and Phantom short range sensory scramblers to make it much harder to take down this vessel nor anticipate its most immediate movements.

The creation of this ship class hails from the desire of the company to slowly, but assuredly replace their aging line up of star destroyers with more modern designs which would showcase the versatility and power that comes with the newest N&Z products. As such it was tyo be expected that the Tiber I-class superstructure would be used as the basis, considering it was built with the express purpose of forming the backbone of the company's entire new range of large vessels within the star destroyer and battlecruiser classes. Further requirements for the design were a extremely sturdy exterior design, which had to be adjusted in order to fully allow for a ramming maneuver which could potentially be used to attack and even cripple much larger or more bulky vessels.

The design is also made rather angular and sharp in nature to act both as an imposing deterrent, but also because it aids with the structure of the multilayered shielding from the NZ SSP-SIXTUS, allowing for an optimization of its capabilities and thus making sure that this ship not only holds tremendous offensive power, but also enough staying power to be capable as the backbone of a large system or even sector fleet, a trustworthy and capable capital ship and a certainly dreadful opponent for any ship unable to penetrate its shielding or too big of a target for this ship to miss.

To seperate the ENS model from the usual Sunderer I-Class, it sports a multitude of improvements and additions to further indicate its more specified role as a ship of the line for the Eternal Empire for which it has been build. Utilizing technology from companies such as the N&Z Umbrella corporation, First Astral Engineering, the HPI Consortium and Vandemar Techwrights all in order to bring forth a superior version of an already bloomingly good design. The angular forward plating and battering ram have been cast from Seigurium rather than Impervium, its electronic loadout now sports a whole list of First Astral Engineering suites and systems to further optimize the ship's automization and the workings of the internal communication, while the reactors have been replaced with Vandemar Techwrights' Yellow Dwarf system to further enhance the lackluster speed and maneuvrability of this ship.

Thanks to the increased compertamentalization of the weapon systems and the electronic and cybernetic loadout having been made more compact, additional room has been created to add more sizeable hangar bays, allowing for a more class-average hangarbay loadout and storage capacity. All in all, what was in fact already a very good ship, has only been improved upon thanks to the cooperative means of these different companies.

 

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Credius Nargath

Nice sub, and very cool ship design!

Approved.