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The problem with planetary defence, is that the instant the defensive fleet is routed and the attacking forces have control of the space around the planet, the defenders are doomed. Heavy planetary bombing, and pretty much limitless ground force reinforcment assures that the only real option to defenders is to surrender shortly.In an effort to change that, Coalition Military Researchers and Engineers have been organizing a standard template system of planetary defences across Coalition space. These defences are designed to give a planetary defence force the ability to fight off invader's capital ships, soldiery, and vehicles.
Depending on the planet, the templates are adjusted as nessecary, but several common factors are always visible.
Such a system designed for Azguard, for example, would consist of fortifying and heavily armouring the mountains which the Azguards reside in with thick plates of armour and crumple-zones around areas excpected to withstand a lot of bombardment. They would be dotted with large turbo-laser cannons for long-range fire, and smaller quad-guns for taking out fighter attacks. Gates would be mechanical, and well guarded, and each mountain level would have a mechanical seal-off system.
On the other hand, such a system on Hephastus, would consist of hidden strong-points deep in the forests, guns mounted on rails or carried to carefully positioned gun-points. There would be under-ground tunnel networks, bunkers, and secured vantage points.
These systems are intended to usually function as a last-line defence for worlds trapped in enemy encirclements. The general hope is that the enemy can be resisted long enough for relief in the form of friendly navies will come, or perhaps it can be used to ward off small enemy forces.
-2 ground-to-space Heavy Turbolaser Cannons
-8 large Turbolaser Cannons
-35 quad-laser turrets
-90 auto-guns situated as nessecary.
-4 lesser strong-points, such as armoured bunkers.
-1 major strong-point, such as a mid-sized fortresse.
The capital city of each planet, or any city of 10,000,000 people, will - instead of the major strong points - be a massive fortresse, surrounded by thick, bombardment resistant walls, shielded, and heavily secured.
Time to construct: 120 days per planet.
Comments
#23 10:25pm 18/04/04
Not quite what I'm trying to put together. I don't want planetary shields, I want to have armoured bunkers and fortresses. And I don't want a half dozen giant guns, I want lots of small guns backed up by some medium sized guns.
It's supposed to give the impression of a fortresse world sort of thing, and lots of shields plus a few big guns doesn't really create that effect.
#22 6:43pm 18/04/04
That about covers it.
#21 6:15pm 18/04/04
We already have that. Although it requires months in build time.
Say, 4 Gencore II Sheilds, a smattering of Is for good measure, half a dozen Planetary Turbolasers and a few planetary ion cannons, you should more than be able to take a chunk out of any fleet that gets sent against you...
#20 6:12pm 18/04/04
Shi'ite, you're right. Ok, I already said the defences should be equipped with a smattering of Turbo Laser cannons, (Those big ones, where a guy could sit in the barrel quite comfortably and have a picnic without sitting in the jello) that could concievably fire back at any ships in orbit shooting down on them.
The idea is to allow me to - from the ground - be able to fight enemy ships that would attack the planet. Since that's a really big weakness in planetary defence it seems.
#19 5:41am 18/04/04
Thank you Jan, we've already covered that.
#18 11:03pm 17/04/04
I think that this would not be effective against space ships bombarding the planet.
#17 4:38pm 17/04/04
[quote] Wow, really? Which ones? I don't doubt you, I just didn't know and I am curious as to which ones so I can look into them.[/quote]
[i]"A single star destroyer is known to have sufficient firepower to reduce the surface of a habitable planet to molten slag. This operation is known by the grim command code "Base Delta Zero". Such was the fate of the planet Dankayo, site of an important Rebel Alliance administrative and intelligence facility in the years between the Battles of Yavin and Hoth, when the star destroyers Avenger, Devastator and Relentless arrived. The atmosphere was lost. The topsoil layers (at least) were vaporised to disassociated atoms and would eventually recondense as a silicate analogue of snowflakes and rain. The remaining surface was left as cratered slag, like the molten face of a newly forming planet."[/i]
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#16 4:06pm 17/04/04
Well, technically a Carrack Cruiser could (see Truce at Bakura), so i wouldn't be surprised if all ships with turbolasers could.
And i've seen so many references to planetary bombardment that i don't quite understand why you think its not a possible/plausable thing...
#15 5:50am 17/04/04
Wow, really? Which ones? I don't doubt you, I just didn't know and I am curious as to which ones so I can look into them.
#14 5:14am 17/04/04
[quote] I don't think there are any ships that could fire on the planet from space[/quote]
Yes there are.
#13 4:54am 17/04/04
Yes it's all surface, and it would only be able to reach things that could reach them. I don't think there are any ships that could fire on the planet from space (Their shots would lose consistancy long before it reached the surface) but my guns could reach a Victory class or other atmosphere-capable ship if it intended to fly in the atmosphere and attack us directly.
#12 4:37am 17/04/04
This is all surface, correct?
#11 4:21am 17/04/04
Although i'm assuming that this PDN would only be able to effecting things on planet or perhaps a few shuttles as they get towards the planets surface. Nothing up in space.
#10 4:02am 17/04/04
How come? Is it the guns? Do they seem too powerful?
To balance that, you could create a very long build-time, and make it so it would have to be built in a construction yard. That way, in the time it would take to build one, we could have built an equal amount of defensive vehicles or "conventional" ground weapons.
The main purpose of this system is to provide a solid defence against naval invasions of planets, how this is carried out and at what cost is quite flexible.
#9 2:33am 17/04/04
I don't like this.
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