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Observer R&D 6: Carrier and support cruiser

[FYI I based the design off of star treks Defiant. It has the basic layout of the star treks Defiant. I had to heavely modify to make space for the system requirments increasing the size of the ship to make room for other systems. I repeat it is only based on the Defiants ship design.]


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Craft: Observer fighter carrier
Type: cruiser
length/Diameter: 270 meters
Crew: 80
Passengers: 20
Cargo Capacity: 100 metric tons
Consumables: 5 years
Decks: 5
Cost: NAFS
Hyperdrive Multiplier: x2
Hyperdrive Backup: x16
Nav Computer: Yes
Engines: (45 MGLT)
Cloak on(No stealth mode)= (35 MGLT)

Stealth mode:
Cloak on= (15 MGLT)
Cloak off= (25 MGLT)
Hull: (450 RU)
Armor: Molecularly bonded armor (additional shielding)
Shields: (900 SBD)
Back up shields: (300 SBD)
Sensors:
Passive: 300,000 km
Scan: 1 lightyear
Search: 17 lightyears
Weapons:
6 Heavy turbo lasers
4 heavy Ion canons
Fire Arcs: Front
Crew: 1
Space Ranges: 10-30 / 100 / 300
Atmospheric Ranges: 20-60 / 200 / 600
Weapons:
12 quad laser turrets
Locations:
6 top
6 Bottom
Fire Arcs: Front, left, right, back
Crew: 1 per quad turret
Weapons:
4 Proton Torpedoe launchers
Locations: Two frontal
Two rear
1 Frontal launcher- Doubles as a probe launcher
Fire Arcs: Front, Back (self guiding)
Crew: 2
Payload: 12 per tube


Shape: disk like
Docking bays: 3
1 in the upper rear decks
(Upper bay holds:
4 Modular fighters
6 modules)

2 in the lowwer frontal decks
(Each of the lowwer bays hold:
1 modular fighter
and three modules)

single bay Designed for:
3 Observer Modules
1 Athersprite 7 fighters.

On board craft:

6 Modular fighters
12 Modules

Speciallizing abilities:
Modular fighter Module system-

Designed for the Modualar Observer fighter. Each of the four docking bays carrys 3 types of fighter modules. The Modules can be interchanged within the ship itself.

Cloaking device: double blind system.
Special systems: Imperial Computer Combat Predictor.




In order to accomadate the need for a long range unit for exploration the Observers looked for a design that would be able to work with the Modular Fighter. Someing that would be able to support it in a versitile manner that would complement the fighter's abilities. They wanted something that was small and fast, and yet, had enough fire power to be an effective combat unit if the situation called for it.

After looking through tall the various ships the engineers came to the Adz class Destroyer. The ship was small and fast. capable of using a skeleton crew with all of it's automated systems and it could carry several fighters. The design fit the system requirements but the retangular design left them wanting more.

The Designers decided to Design their ship like a disk in order to make use of the space a circular design allowed. the first thing that they designed were the engines. A full third of the ship was devoted to those systems. There were the rear most engines and then there were the two side engines. The side engines are so large that they run two thirds of the length of the ship before they end. Additional engine size forced the designers to increase the over all length of the ship to increase the efficiency of the power output. This allows the ship to reach speads simular to the adv destroyer and even slightly surpassing them.

The larger engines also supply much needed power to the ships systems. It is armed with 8 quad lasers (four on top and four on the bottom. One on each corner of the disk like ship.), 4 proton torpedo tubes (two in the front and two in the rear. One of the front ones also doubles as a probe launcher.), and 4 heavy turbo lasers and four heavy ion canons locked in the forward position in the front of the craft. The Ion canons sitting between the 4 Turbo lasers.

The ship's enhanced power allows for strong shields and a molecular bonding process allows for addtional protection to the hull of the ship when shields fail.

An important feature is the layout of the fighter bays. There is no single docking bay instead there are four modular fighter bays. They are designed to each hold one modular fighter and three fighter modules. The modules can be changed inside the ship. Allowing the fighters to change to a given situation. There are two bays in the bottom front of the ship and two bays in the top rear. This feature allows the ship to save space for other systems and get the fighters out in mid combat. becuase at any given point their are two fighter bays that can face away from an attacking ship.

The Observers prefer to avoid a fight if they can. So in order to allow a quiet escape the ship has a cloaking device build into the engineering section. The double-blind system was difficult to adapt to this size of a ship. The power requirments take shields and energy weapons off line only leaving torpedos for use.
Speed is also cut by a full third when the cloak is used. This fact was actually used to their advantage the designers made it so that the system actually emmits less of an ionic trail to increase the stealth capability by decreasing speed and power out put. But the advantage of a cloak out wiegh any problems that are faced.

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Comparable ship:

Adz Class Destroyer

Model: Adz Class Destroyer
Manufacturer: Imperial Shipyards
Designation: Inter-System Patrol/Customs Craft

Length: 150 meters
Crew: 36
Troops: 8
Cargo Capacity: 400 metric tons
Consumables: 6 months
Hyperdrive Multiplier: x0.55
Hyperdrive Backup: x12
Speed: 83 MGLT
Hull: 162 RU
Shields: 600 SBD

Weapons: 3 Quad Laser Cannon and 3 Ion Cannon Batteries.

Onboard Craft: 6 TIE Series Fighters.

This Imperial starship design is used as a patrol ship in many of the outlying regions of the galaxy, and was developed just after the death of Grand Admiral Thrawn. Their primary armament consists of three quad laser cannons and three dual ion cannons. They can achieve 0.55 past lightspeed, and maintained six fighters within their bays.

One of the primary technological advances used in the Adz Class Destroyer is the inclusion of an array of slave circuitry that allows a crew of 24 to handle virtually every system. At 150 meters in length, the Adz Class patrol destroyer require 12 gunners and can transport up to 8 passengers and 4 prisoners in its brig.


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