Guardian FDV
<font size=4>The Guardian Fleet Defence Vessel</font>
Craft: Guardian Class Fleet Defence Vessel
Combat Abbreviation: GFDV
Mission Profile: Fleet Defence
Designer/Manufacturer: Imperial R&D Department
Retail Price: Not available for sale. Produced exclusively for the New Order.
Consumables: 6 months
Cargo Capacity: 1500 metric tonnes
Length Over All: 600 meters
Sublight Speed (Cruising): 8 MGLT
Sublight Speed (Flank): 10 MGLT
Sublight Speed (Emergency Full): 16 MGLT
Hyperdrive Motivator (Main): x1
Hyperdrive Motivator (Backup): x4
Shield Integrity: 10 500 SBD
Hull Integrity: 800 RU
Weapons:
<ul><li> 10 Quad Laser Batteries (anti-starfighter)</ul>
Hanger Capacity:
<ul><li>1 Squadron TIE Defenders</ul>
Troop Capacity:
<ul><li> None</ul>
Additional Equipment:
<ul><li> Phalanx Anti-missile network
<li> Reactive Shielding
<li> Multi Track Shielding
</ul>
Explanations
Phalanx Anti-Missile Point Defence Gatling Laser Network
The Phalanx, is made up of a network of small, turreted light blaster cannons. These weapons are very able to pick out missiles and destroy them from long range. The Phalanx System reduces the percentage of successful short-range missile strikes to less than 20%, and long-range attacks to under 5%.
Reactive Shielding
Reactive shielding is a system designed to protect the Messiah from energy weapons. When the vessel’s shields are raised, a special battery bank is charged along with them. Then, when computers detect a substantial bombardment against any section of the vessel, the shield is immediately recharged with stored energy from this bank.
Multi Track Shielding
Multi Track Shielding uses a dedicated targeting computer imbedded in the shielding system to track approaching enemies and calculate approximate damage. The system automatically them distributes shields for maximum damage resistance. Combined with reactive shielding, this system gives the Messiah an unprecedented edge in battle.
Background Information
Designed with one mission in mind, the Guardian is the latest addition to the New Order's fleet department. Based on the hull of the Immobilizer 418, the FDV replaces that vessel's gravity well generators with high-output energy shields.
The Guardian incorporates technology devised for the Messiah ACSS to produce an omni-directional energy field to deflect enemy bombardments.
The FDV can generate a shield in front of an advancing fleet of three square kilometres, with an average rating of 10 500 SBD across. The shield area can be changed, directly effecting the strength of the shield (for example, the shield could cover 6km2, but at a strength of only 2665 SBD throughout).
The shield itself is made of hundreds of smaller nets, so that a collapse in one area will not bring down the shield as a whole.
Due to the power demands of the shields, the FDV is lightly armed and carries only one TIE Sqaudron, but this was deemed worthwhile by the Imperial High Command.
Comments
#10 11:03pm 03/11/03
Good R&D, Drayson.
Approved
#9 6:44pm 31/10/03
I don't count, but the thing that is bad about this is that they can build a ship the same size, with terrible shields, but a huge amounts of weapons, and then have a really, really powerful ship. They don't even need to R&D the thing, they can just put one beside an Aegis II, and you would need more then an ISD to defeat it, you woudl probably need like two ISDs, at least.
#8 4:29am 31/10/03
That's the idea. Hence why it only carries ten anti-starfighter cannons... Even assuming I did decide to defend only this ship, the most damage I could do with the ship's weapons would be almost nothing...
Kas: there is no defined "connection" point between the shields. They flow seamlessly together, to form a grid of energy. There are not lines or seams where the generators split, the energy is simply interwoven. It's like a chainmail effect, all of the particles of energy are woven together to increase strength.
#7 11:52pm 30/10/03
Okay, Drayson. The ship itself is fine, well written and it is reletively original. Kudos to you for that.
But I have one problem. What is to stop you from projecting those 10,500 SBD shields around this ship itself...it is almost like a sneaky way to get high powered shields for one ship. I am not saying this is so but I think it should be used more as a shield ship...projecting a shield network around a fleet, and not an individual vessel.
#6 6:20pm 30/10/03
I would imagine interlinking shields would *reduce* strength, not increase it, the interlink points being the weak spots.
#5 10:33am 30/10/03
<span style="color:red;font-size:xx-large;">APPROVED</span>
#4 7:24am 30/10/03
Yes and no.
The ship has one shield that it projects, but the shape and oritentation of this shield is very flexible. It can, for example, be brought to surrouned a single ISD plus the FDV at once, enclosing both ships in one energy sphere.
But the primary usage of the shield, to project a 3x3 grid shield in front of the fleet, does not seperately protect the FDV. When the shield is deployed outwards, there are no seperate shields around the FDV.
The idea is that no enemy will get past the forward shield wall, so there is minimal risk to the FDV itself.
Oh, the FDV also has the ability to tune its shields with out FDV vessels, putting up one interlinked grid of energy that is 6x6 or larger (depending on the number of ships, obviously).
Do the interlinked shields, overall strength is boosted by roughly 6% for each FDV that joins its shields into the network.
#3 7:15am 30/10/03
What about shield's itself? Does it project shileds for the ship as well as the shield for the fleet?
#2 10:45pm 29/10/03
And like a Dominator...
(I'll read in more detail and post later)
#1 5:57am 29/10/03
Looks perfectly balanced.