Directorate Officer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a command ship for
Hanaya Enzar
- Image Source: here
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: In-character unique knock-off of the Nightgale-class Battle Carrier
- Manufacturer: CorelliSpace
- Affiliation: New Codru Systems Navy
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: The Paragon
- Production: Unique
- Material: Quadanium steel armor, durasteel hull, typical starship components
- Classification: Battlecruiser
- Length: 4,000 meters
- Width: 700 meters
- Height: 400 meters
- Armament: High
- 120 Quad Turbolaser Batteries
- 120 Borstel NK-7 Ion Cannons
- 120 KDD2005 Twin Turbolaser Batteries
- 160 Concussion Missile Tubes
- 100 AG-2G Quad Laser Cannons
- 100 Point Defense Laser Cannons
- 4 G7-x Gravity Well Projectors
- 20 Phylon Q7 Tractor Beam Projectors
- Defenses: Very High
- Deflector Shield Generator Networks (x2)
- Ion Shield Generator
- Quadanium Steel armor
- Hangar Space: Very High: 34 squadrons
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 30 squadrons
- Support Craft: 4 squadrons
- Maneuverability Rating: Low
- Speed Rating: Average
- Hyperdrive: x1
- Standard Communications Array
- Standard Hyperdrive
- Standard Ion Engines
- Standard Life Support Systems
- Standard Navigational Systems
- Standard Repulsorlift Engines
- Standard Sensor Array
- Standard Targeting Systems
- Bio-hexacrypt-encyrpted Tactical Network with Battle Analysis Computer: As the Paragon often carries large numbers of Asp-class Droid Starfighters, the ship also hosts a very secure tactical network that allows flight controllers and even remote pilots to seemlessly control these automated craft with little worry of slicers and other electronic intruders from gaining access. A battle analysis computer onboard the Paragon allows it to augment the intelligence capabilities of this starfighters, allowing them to more execute coordinated tactics and maneuvers with better timing and greater chances of success.
- Catapult Pressors: The Paragon has enough catapult pressors that half of its starfighters have their own catapult pressor. This means that the Paragon can launch hundreds of starfighters simultaneously and at high speeds in a matter of seconds.
- Slave-Rigged Systems: Thanks to the extensive use of slave circuits and modern computers, the Paragon is highly automated and only needs a relatively small crew to operate.
- Heavy Defenses: The Paragon sports excellent defenses in the form of thick, durable hull plating and redundant overlapping shield systems, which allows it weather beatings from intense enemy fire.
- Large Hangars: As with the source of its inspiration, the Paragon is capable of ferrying in large numbers of starfighters onto the battlefield, making the Paragon very versatile and excellent at force projection for the New Codru Systems Navy.
- Low Maneuverability: The Paragon is a little bit less maneuverable than the average starship of its size, particularly in climbing and diving rates.
- Weak Aft Armament: As with most capital starships with a wedge-shaped design, the Paragon is able to bring almost all of its weapons in a forward fire arc at the cost of having very little weaponry that is able to fire to the rear. This makes the Paragon reliant on its starfighter complement and escorting starships to help fight off attackers from the rear.
Approached by the New Codru Systems Navy to make a powerful flagship for the neutral power, CorelliSpace designed by the Paragon by largely trying to one of the larger battle carriers they had been impressed with: the Nightingale-class Battle Carrier. The resulting Paragon has extremely similar aesthetics and rough capabilities to that warship - It has an exceptional amount of durability and can act as a host to a massive number of starfighters. Yet there are many minor differences between the two ships, largely because CorelliSpace does not have access to the same technologies. Instead, the Paragon uses a larger number of perfectly serviceable but legacy technologies that provide it with power through sheer numbers. As example of this philosophy, none of the Paragon's weapons are exceptionally powerful even for a ship half of its size, but large number of batteries means that it can easily saturate large fleets with sheer volume of fire - ideal for dealing the swarm tactics practiced by many pirates and small powers. With such opponents in mind, the Paragon also has a number of its own gravity well projectors, allowing it trap pirates and others who intrude into sovereign New Codru space.
Last edited:
