TNO Thorne Class Dreadnaught
[size=4]The Thorne Dreadnaught[/size]
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Craft: Thorne Class Dreadnaught
Combat Abbreviation: TD
Mission Profile: Combat Support
Designer/Manufacturer: Imperial R&D Department
Retail Price: Not available for sale. Produced exclusively for the New Order.
Consumables: 8 months
Cargo Capacity: 10 000 Metric Tonnes
Length Over All: 600 meters
Sublight Speed (Cruising): 18 MGLT
Sublight Speed (Flank): 24 MGLT
Sublight Speed (Emergency Full): 30 MGLT
Hyperdrive Motivator (Main): x.8
Hyperdrive Motivator (Backup): x2
Shield Integrity: 1500 SBD
Hull Integrity: 1275 RU
Weapons:
- 18 Heavy Turbolaser Batteries
- 12 Proton Torpedo Clusters (Able to launch a variety of warheads)
- None (four docking collars for shuttles located towards rear of ship)
- None
- Multi-track Shielding
Multi Track Shielding
Original R&D Description ([url="http://www.therebelfaction.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2140&highlight=Messiah"]Source[/url])
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 ship an unprecedented edge in battle.
A Better Explanation
Designed to give warships the best possible odds of surviving enemy attacks, Multi Track shields make use of the Empire's Multi-XMAP computer systems and Battle Analysis Computer systems to accurately predict and respond to enemy attacks. By analyzing sensor data as its recieved, the system alters shield angles to offer the best resistance to incoming fire. For example, if fire it detected coming from directly ahead of the vessel, the shields will be angled to deflect, rather than absorb, as much of the damage as possible.
Background Information
Developed by the Imperial Department of Research and Development, the Thorne was to be the Empire's ultimate answer to the Rebellion. The Thorne is a mere 600 meters in length, but she serves only one purpose: the destruction of enemy capital ships, space stations, and other spacefaring devices. Bristling with weapons, boasting an impressive 18 MGLT cruising speed, and a .8x hyperdrive, the Thorne is intended to arrive, launch a flurry of weapons fire at the enemy, and hold them until further help can arrive.
Shaped like a blunt-nosed cone, the Thorne is able to bring all of her weapons emplacements to bare on a single target. With the weapons mounted in increasingly-large rings around the ship, at least one quarter of her guns can be fired against a target in any position (save for directly astern). The engines are mounted in the fear.
Several rings of manouvering jets allow the ship to spin easily on its axis and change direction in mid-flight, making it the most manouverable capital ship of its size in the galaxy. This is especially useful, allowing the ship to spin 180 degrees in a matter of seconds and launch its entire compliment of weapons against any attacker foolish enough to attack from behind.
Carrying no fighters or ground troops, and a light crew compliment, the Thorne relies on other vessels for fighter support and surface missions. That being said, her intended purpose is neither with fighters nor the ground. The lightly shielded Thorne relies on her speed, manouverability, and impressive array of weapons, to deliver a devestating assault upon enemies of the New Order.
Research Time: 25 Days
Start: 08/3
End: 08/24
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Comments
#19 12:14am 07/08/04
It makes sacrafices elsewhere.
#18 12:04am 07/08/04
225 missles?!
That is quite a lot.
#17 9:55pm 06/08/04
It [i]was[/i] a superlaser.
Anyway, I still don't know about the capability to launch 225 missiles every other post from a 600 meter ship.
#16 9:35pm 06/08/04
It was approved, and then vetoed, due to the....ahem....*Kicks Kas in the groin*....Axil Turbolaser because he thought it was a superlaser.
#15 6:30pm 06/08/04
So was this approved before or not? o.O
#14 5:40pm 06/08/04
It had a superlaser on it, which caused issues.
#13 5:19pm 06/08/04
what I ment was, I coulda sworn this was submitted and approved already...
#12 1:02am 06/08/04
That's mostly true. A Proton Torpedo cluster is, as Kraken said, 15 grouped tubes. They are targetted together and fire in incriments of 5, at half-second intervals. So the entire firing takes 1.5 seconds, the idea being that the first one or two (depending on the size of the target) hit shields and collapse them for a split second, allowing the final salvo to impact against the hull.
They are, as stated in the general description, located in rings around the ship.
I designed the ship with weapons numbers in mind. You'll notice if you compare it with the standard Dreadnaught it has more guns, yes. But it also has weaker shields and hull, as well as lacking the Dreadnaught's single sqaudron starfighter capacity. It's similar in design to an Aegis Cruiser - small, fast, and able to deliver a lot of damage.
It was approved twice in more powerful forms than this.
The other issues previously raised with the ship were power demands and some of its non-standard systems, which have both been solved with the removal of the most controversial weapons (the EMPs and Axil Turbolaser).
#11 9:41pm 05/08/04
Not really. Like I said, they aren't like individual tubes, but clustered tubes. A single hit on the cluster could wipe them all out, unlike a single tube in which just the single tube would be destroyed.
#10 9:31pm 05/08/04
Change the Thorne to:
18 Heavy Turbolaser Batteries
225 Proton Torpedo Tubes
And you would be more accurate.
#9 9:11pm 05/08/04
The Aegis II Cruiser, of the same lenght, has:
50 Double Heavy Turbolaser Cannons
50 Heavy Turbolaser Cannons
10 Ion Cannons
20 Concussion Missile Launchers
Whereas the Thorne Has:
18 Heavy Turbolaser Batteries
15 Proton Torpedo Clusters
Granted, the Thorne has more single weapons packed into a single emplacement that the Aegis, but still, the Aegis has a lot more weapons than the Thorne.
#8 9:07pm 05/08/04
I don't have the crew capacity or locations avilable (indeed, I did not R&D the weapon). But, If you are worried about the ship being overpowered, allow me to make a quick comparison.
#7 4:29pm 05/08/04
And where is this located? In the front of the craft?
And what is the crew capacity?
#6 3:54pm 05/08/04
A cluster is just that. A grouping of 15 proton torpedo tubes within a small area. Not really turreted together, but close enough together so that one may describe them as a single weapon.
#5 3:15pm 05/08/04
What's a 'Proton torpedo cluster' ?
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