Bombshell Genius
A Tiplar unit fully retracted
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To provide an orbital drydock for larger ships
- Image Source: United Spacedock
- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: Sacul-class adjustable drydock
- Manufacturer: Ringovinda StarYards
- Model: Tiplar-class orbital drydock
- Affiliation: Open-Market
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Durasteel
- Classification: Orbital Drydock
- Length: 1000m (when fully retracted) - 3000m (when fully extended)
- Width: 1000m (when fully retracted) - 3000m (when fully extended)
- Height: 500m (when fuly retracted) - 3000m (when fully extended)
- Armament: Very Low
- 20 Gatling rapid-fire turbolasers (in 10 double turrets; 80 turbolaser equivalents)
- 20 tractor beam emplacements (20 turbolaser equivalents)
- 60 Korriban heavy machineguns (60 point-defense emplacements)
- Defenses: Average
- Hangar: 20 squadrons of utility tugs (240 tugs total)
- Maneuverability Rating: Very Low
- Speed Rating: Very Low
- Hyperdrive Class: 3 (backup class 10)
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Tensor field generator
- Inertial compensator
- Castameer tactical display
- CHX 5.0 acoustic theater
- Ship-wide neural net
- 18 Sabrina waste heat recovery devices
- Cap drains
- Ten adjustable braces
- G2-GS beamdrills
- Lathes
- Mills
- Welding machines
- Hydrospanners
- Cranes
- External storage pods
Strengths:
Capable of servicing or constructing almost any capital ship so long as the width or the height does not exceed 3000m (can build or service ships longer than 3km but won't fit in its entirety within the drydock)
Due to its adjustability features, can move in space, even though it is slow as molasses
Capable of withstanding fire regardless of how the drydock is configured
- Lightly armed
- Very slow in realspace
- Somewhat slow in hyperspace
Description:
The Tiplar-class adjustable drydock is an orbital drydock that was born from the realization that several major faction projects involved building ships that were either wider or higher than 2 km. As with its smaller predecessors, it is a drydock designed to fit the ship being built, rather than the other way around as is usually the case with other drydocks. It comes equipped with a complete array of shipyard equipment, including G2-GS beamdrills, lathes, cranes, mills, welding machines, hydrospanners and so much more. The central boom at the top contains the housing quarters for the crew as well as for the engineers and mechanics, and housing space for repair, mechanical and astromech droids. With the electrically-actuated hydraulic technology being mounted on it, ten adjustable braces, each capable of docking twelve tugs on the outer side, can fully extend in three minutes. Also, if a Tiplar drydock comes under attack, the hyperdrive can allow the drydock to escape to friendly space with the ship inside escaping with it.
Crew: 15,000 organic (5,000 support crew, 2,500 engineers, 7,500 mechanics), 100,000 droids (without storage pods)
Cargo space: 300,000 tons (without storage pods)-5,000,000 tons (when all the storage pods are attached)
Consumables: 4 months
