OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create the standard cruiser for Vandemar.
- Image Source: Steam Workshop
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Acclamator-class, Bucephelus-class
- Manufacturer: Macharian Industries Corporation
- Affiliation: Vandemar
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Vindictus-class Cruiser
- Production: Limited
- Material: Impervium, Alusteel, Suprasteel, Transparisteel, Titanium, Duranium, Agrinium, Tungsten, Frasium, Electrum, Oak wood, Auromidium 7/181
- Classification: Assault Cruiser
- Length: 1,000 meters
- Width: 300 meters
- Height: 340 meters
- Armament: Very High
- Light Orbital autocannons (wings, 60° arcs)
- Triple long range megamasers (dorsal, 270° arcs, turrets)
- Twin long range megamasers (broadside, 100°, turrets)
- Twin long range ion cannons (dorsal, 270° arcs, turrets)
- Quadruple turbolaser barbettes (broadside, 100°, barbettes)
- Proton beam cannons (prow/front, 15°)
- Twin ion cannons (broadside, 100°, turrets)
- Heavy rail-mass-driver cannons (HE, AP) (broadside, 45°, gun-decks)
- Twin point-defense laser cannons (all around)
- Single point defense rotation blasters (all around)
- Assault concussion missile tubes (prow/front)
- Boarding torpedoes (prow and aft broadside)
- Defenses: Very High
- Plating & Materials
- Impervium-Alusteel Armor Plating, sloped layers with turtleback scheme around vital parts like magazines, engines, reactors
- Alusteel-Suprasteel-Impervium Hull
- Titanium-Frasium Frameworks
- Duranium Bulkheads (general)
- Transparisteel Windows
- Duranium-Frasium-Tungsten Reactor Chamber Plating
- Auromidium Bulkheads (Sanctum)
- Multi-layered Shielding, Military-Grade, Heavy Cruiser Rating
- Electronic Countermeasures
- Electronic countermeasures suite
- Communication jammers
- Anti-communication jammers
- Anti-electronic warfare suit
- Encryption system for communication
- Code cylinders for on-board security and access
- Genetical coding for Sanctum entrance
- Automatic firefighting, counter-toxin and vacuum locking
- Damage and hazard control systems
- Primary and secondary life support systems
- Plating & Materials
- Hangar Space: Very Low: 3
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 2 squadrons
- Support Craft: 1 squadrons
- Maneuverability Rating: Average
- Speed Rating: Average
- Hyperdrive: Class 1.0 (Primary), Class 12 (Backup)
- Sensor Phalanx with secondary backup, including hyperwave signal interceptor, dedicated energy receptors, electro photo receptor, life form indicator, radiation sensor, heat pit sensor, military grade
- Navigation Computer
- Crew (Optimum): 15.000 + 1.000 droids + EPHEMERIS
- Crew (Skeletal): 1 + 1.000 droids + EPHEMERIS
- Passengers: 5.000
- Complement (excluding hangars):
- 50.000 battledroids
- 1.000 tanks/walkers/wardroids
- 1.500 artillery pieces
- 5 Stormeagles (not-deployable in space combat)
- Cargo Capacity: 20.000 metric tons
- Consumables: 1 year
- N/A
- Dread all, fear nothing: This heavy cruiser is, like its big brother the Bucephelus-class designed to oppose and fight planetary defences, support ground forces or get the own ground forces where they need to be. Therefore its weapons and defences are build to withstand and deliver heavy damage.
- Invader: The class is designed to overcome planetary defences and carry its troops into battle, it can support invasions with its heavy weaponry and deliver devastating bombardements to either level defences or shoot them right for the taking. It supports a large landing force with tanks and droids.
- Small Family: The Vindictus-class has a very small complement of Starfighters and has no means to achieve air superiority except for with its main weapons. Therefore it needs dedicated carriers to support it in bigger fleeting actions or to provide general screening.
- Spaceborn: The Cruisers of this class are not capable of going lower than into the upper atmosphere of a world, their structure is not designed to be used in gravity.
Macharian Industries built the new line of ships for the Vandemarian Legions in the new boxy and cylindrical design, taking the Bucephelus-class as guidance, the Vindictus-class was meant to operate on its own alongside allied units and support task forces, making the bulk of the ships which deliver the aura of influence of the Vandemarians to the most distant stars.
The ships are equipped with serious weapon systems which would make Star Destroyer jealous, as well as defences which can withstand a string of serious attacks, protecting the valuable cargo. The complement being Shield-Cohorts of Vandemarian Legionnaires or battle-droid cohorts.
Next to being a heavy ship of the line, the ships main purpose is to support ground forces, both towards their landing and from then on, providing heavy long range firepower to strike at surface targets, blow up bunkers, fortifications and even provide AA support with its armament.
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