a ship, nebula star destroyer class

[ciroco]

Okay so I thought I’d give this one another go. I requested something similar once in ye olde days of MSN groups, but it just fell under the “no fleets” thing because it came along with about 4 other ships. Still, Coco could do with a bit bigger ship then his current frigate, so here goes:

The Dullahan

The Dullahan is a Nebula Star Destroyer class warship with a variety of weapons and features. A lot of them are standard to a Nebula class, but some are not. It looks like a Nebula as well, which can easily be found on, you guessed it, wookiepedia.

The following is all standard off of wookieepedia
Length: 1040 meters
Hyperdrive: class 1.0, backup class 10
Armament: Heavy dual turbolasers (40: 10 fore, 10 aft, 10 port, 10 starboard)
Turbolasers (40: 10 fore, 10 aft, 10 port, 10 starboard)
Ion cannons (20: 5 fore, 5 aft, 5 port, 5 starboard)
Assault concussion missile tubes (8, turreted), 30 missiles each
Tractor beam projectors (8: 3 fore, 2 port, 2 starboard, 1 aft)

Complement: 60 starfighters. 20 k-wings, 20 dreamcatchers and 20 soulsnatchers(already have those, they were requested in ye olde days. Dreamcatcher is a fighter based on disabeling and capture, soulsnatcher is a dogfighter equal to roughly an x-wing, K-wing is a very heavy bomber, downside is it is very slow and has no hyperdrive.)
And here we get to the custom stuff.

Tactical hyperdrive unit “Bifrost”: This hyperdrive allows for short, tactical hyperspace jumps in combat.

“Heimdall” control systems: control systems for the Bifrost hyperdrive. Allows for quick and safe short-range hyperspace jumps.

Tactical hydrogen bombs: rather then proton torpedoes, which are essentially nukes, the Dullahan packs tactical H-bombs. These are 50 megatons in destructive force. This is existing technology today. 50 megaton bombs have been detonated, it is estimated that current tech would allow for 100 megaton bombs. I’m requesting half that.

Sensory cloak: the Dullahan can cloak itself from sensors, but this requires all active sensors to be disengaged as these would light up the ship like a Christmas tree.

Heavy sensors: the Dullahan can make very good sensor sweeps of enemy ships and the planet it may be orbiting. It won’t penetrate specially shielded areas, but anything else is scanned with very good resolution.

Custom schematics: though the Dullahan looks like a Star Destroyer with an open and exposed bridge, what appears to be the bridge is in fact the long range communications array. The actual bridge lies in the center of the ship, all information is relayed with cameras which are placed all over the hull. This gives commanders a 360 degree view of the ship while not having any need for easily destroyable windows.

Firewall missile defense: the Dullahan can launch a barrage of tiny explosives when it detects incoming missiles. this creates a wall of explosions which detonate them prematurely. This stops a lot of missiles, but not all of them when used in a barrage. This feature has previously been approved on another ship.

That’s about it. Thanks for reviewing.

Laters.

Coco

[airinvienna]

Transferred.

[Setnos]

The Dullahan
Nebula-Class Star Destroyer
Cruiser

Length: 1040 meters
Shields: 25 hits
Crew: 7,039
Passengers: 1,600
Consumables: 6 months
Cargo: 15,000 tons
Hyperdrive: class x1, backup x10
Armament: Heavy Turbolaser Batterys 4 (20 guns: 5 fore, 5 aft, 5 port, 5 starboard)
Turbolaser Batterys 4 (20 guns: 5 fore, 5 aft, 5 port, 5 starboard)
Ion Cannon Batterys 4(20 guns: 5 fore, 5 aft, 5 port, 5 starboard)
Heavy Concussion Missile Batterys 2(10 guns total, unspecified locations), 30 missiles each
Tractor Beam Battery 2(4 'guns': 2 port, 2 starboard)

Complement: 60 starfighters (any), 12 transports (any)


And here we get to the custom stuff.

“Heimdall” control systems: control systems for the Bifrost hyperdrive. Allows for quick and safe short-range hyperspace jumps.
(um... a hyperdrive move is really a bunch of small jumps to get around asteroids, planets, suns, ect. In essence, if you have a hyperdrive, you have something like this already. The Navi-computer is supposed to plot all of the points before your' first jump.)

Tactical hydrogen bombs: rather then proton torpedoes, which are essentially nukes, the Dullahan packs tactical H-bombs. These are 50 megatons in destructive force. This is existing technology today. 50 megaton bombs have been detonated, it is estimated that current tech would allow for 100 megaton bombs. (a Nebula can not go into the atmosphere... so the bombers would have to use this... beyond that... how many? the weight will count against your' 15,000 ton cargo.)

Sensory cloak: the Dullahan can cloak itself from sensors, but this requires all active sensors to be disengaged as these would light up the ship like a Christmas tree.
(Not a big issue here... as long as you're relatively close to something your' size and the ship sensing you isn't too close... the closer they are, the easier it will be to detect the massive surges of power fueling the cloak.)

Heavy sensors: the Dullahan can make very good sensor sweeps of enemy ships and the planet it may be orbiting. It won’t penetrate specially shielded areas, but anything else is scanned with very good resolution.
(Planets and ships without a shield powered up is fine... inside or underground you MIGHT detect larger numbers. Will not poke through lead, walls treated by sith alchemy, or beskar'gam)

Custom schematics: though the Dullahan looks like a Star Destroyer with an open and exposed bridge, what appears to be the bridge is in fact the long range communications array. The actual bridge lies in the center of the ship, all information is relayed with cameras which are placed all over the hull. This gives commanders a 360 degree view of the ship while not having any need for easily destroyable windows.

Firewall missile defense: the Dullahan can launch a barrage of tiny explosives when it detects incoming missiles. this creates a wall of explosions which detonate them prematurely. This stops a lot of missiles, but not all of them when used in a barrage. This feature has previously been approved on another ship.
(list rules for this if you have them)

[ciroco]

okay, first things first: I LOVE the stamp ;D

in answer to your questions: yeah I didn't really give enough specifications on some bits.

The Heimdall system allows for very quick and, more importantly, accurate short range jumps. These are two things a normal hyperdrive has more problems with (I think anyway). A normal hyperdrive takes time to calculate it's path, as shown by Han Solo in the first or second movie when he tells Luke that jumping into hyperspace isn't like taking a walk in the park, and they have to fight off imperials to give the computer time to calculate the jump. (I am deeply ashamed that I cannot remember whether this was the first or second movie) The Heimdall system is a separate system added to the normal hyperdrive systems and is made specifically for tactical jumps. It immediately begins calculating safe paths to a very large number of destinations in a short distance (short being like one to three light seconds or something) as soon as the Dullahan leaves hyperspace. As the Dullahan moves on sub-light speed it continuously updates these flight paths so that the ship can immediately jump to any destination within 3 light-seconds, rather then needing some time to calculate the jump. Furthermore the Heimdall system is very accurate, so it allows for precise jumps that can bring you near other objects, say within a few hundred meters or so. Obviously I wouldn't be able to bunny hop through asteroid fields or to the back of a ship when I'm facing the front or something, but I could use a short range jump to bring the ship in closer to another large object a lot quicker then it would normally take me with sub-light engines. It simply allows for much better maneuverability on a cruiser. A nice example is the attack on the death star in the third movie: Lando and the fleet dropped out of hyperspace quite a ways away from the Death star and had to move in at sub light speed. The Dullahan would have to drop out at the same distance, but could then use a small tactical jump to get close a lot faster.

As for the H-bombs: the dullahan can indeed NOT enter an atmosphere, it's too big. The H-bombs are meant for ship to ship combat however, not ground based attacks. They're meant to be used pretty much like proton torps, though possibly they'd have a longer range since they're meant for capital ship combat rather then fighter use. The Dullahan would carry about say 30 of these? I'm just taking a stab in the dark here I have no idea what's common on a star destroyer. If you guys think another number is better, let me know.

As for the Firewall defense system, it's pretty much what I already said: it detects incoming missiles (when fired from range, it won't work against a fighter firing a proton torp at point blank range) and launches it's own explosive projectiles at the incoming missile. These projectiles then detonate near the missile and set off it's charge prematurely, causing it to explode before it reaches the ship. This works 100% on lone missiles or small volleys (say like 5 fighters or so firing their missiles at the ship) but will not be able to stop all missiles in a large barrage (say like 50 fighters or a capital ship firing all it's launch tubes in one go). It is obviously utterly useless against turbolasers, mass drivers and other non-explosive projectiles. This was requested in ye olde days though so if you guys feels it needs adaptation, don't hesitate to tell me.

[ivory]

thank you for the clarification and transferred

[ivory]

hey coco sorry for the delay but here it finally goes

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no to the Heimdall, it's a GREAT idea for an engineer to work on... but one of the offsets that make such large ships vulnerable is their need to move in after a hyperspace jump. Wouldn't want a Stardestroyer out-gunning 3-4 others due to its' almost figher-esque maneuverability (jump in, jump to the capitol ship, blast it to bits, jump to the next capitol ship, blast that one to bits, use the firewall to stop the fighters from plugging you ect...).

Firewall is okay, I just wanted a guestimate as to how many explossive could it handle. Lets say it handles 6/10ths of all incoming explossive attacks... so out of every 6 fighters firing PTs 1 gets through and knocks their shields down a peg.

you can carry 16 ready-to-fire, though I am curious about the effectiveness of a hydrogen bomb compared to a nuclear fission powered explosive (the proton torpedo). In opting for the launcher, he looses 50 tons of cargo space, he can carry spare munitions but it will be stored in the cargo bay and have to be loaded manually