Verne-class Terraformer
Name/Type: Verne-class TerraformerDesigner/Manufacturer: Galactic Coalition / Alliance / Contegorian Confederation
Designation: Mobile Terraforming Platform
Crew: 1,243 + 44 Gunners
Length: 1050 Meters
Speed: 10 MGLT, 1000 Kph
Hyperdrive: x0.6
Shield Rating: 3000 SBD + 3000 SBD Backup
Hull Rating: 1050 RU
Weapons: 10 Plasma Beam Drills, 24 Gyril 72 Quad Autoblaster Batteries, 8 Tractor Beam Projectors.
Fighter Complement: 24 Medium Starfighters or other equivalent.
Troops: 20,000 Terraforming personnel/droids
Support Craft: 12 Medium transports, Various terraforming craft
Special: Terraformer
Description: The Verne-class Terraformer is a culmination of efforts of the Galactic Coalition, Mid Rim Alliance, and Contegorian Confederation to develop a terraforming platform to rehabilitate Glee Anselm and other inhabitable worlds. The base design of the terraformer platform is the Nebula-class Star Destroyer, but aside from the most basic systems of a starship, the two designs are otherwise completely unsimilar. The Galactic Coalition contributed their experience with their Cornucopia project to provide the Verne-class with a variety of machinery that allows the terraformer to produce almost any number of compounds necessary given enough time and raw material. The Mid Rim Alliance contributed their experience and artificial habilitation technology from the highly effective but fragile Reclamator-class Terraformer. Lastly, the Confederation used their knowledge of the World Devastator's molecular furnaces to quickly break down raw materials through the Verne's four processing holds to provide the raw material for the terraforming, as well as any machines and technologies needed to complete the world's terraforming, such as various construction droids, orbital mirrors, weather control stations, Atmosphere-filtration turbines, and so forth as needed for the particular project. The Confederation also provided the plans for the Spaarti cloning cylinders, originally recovered from Genon, which are used to rapidly clone the various lifeforms to populate a planet, ranging from various grasses and small plants to a large herbivores and apex predators. Much of the starship acts as a mobile base for a variety of more specialized terraforming craft, droids and other personnel such as water collection craft, gas miners, mole miners, scouts, and so forth. Verne-class Terraformers can tackle a variety of planetary engineering tasks, such as restoring devastasted worlds like Honoghr and Glee Anselm to their previous states, or turning existing barren moons or rocky planets to almost entirely different worlds filled with new life. Typically, the time needed to complete a terraforming project varies on the complexity of the task and the resources involved. For example, several terraformers could easily convert a small lifeless moon into a water world complete with the beginnings of life in a matter of months, while a single terraformer might take decades trying to completely turn a large rocky world into a Gaia-like paradise.
Technical Descriptions:
Speed: Slow
Engines: The Verne is not a remotely fast craft at sublight speeds, with its sublight engines designed purely for economical propulsion to slowly coast around its target worlds. The hyperdrive is a copy of that found on the Acclamator-class, however, is fairly fast in order to rapidly facilitate the rare craft's travel to other worlds, or to simply allow it to make very quick micro-jumps within the system itself, such as a quick trip to an Oort Cloud to harvest resources.
Shield Rating: Moderately Low
Shields: The Verne-class is not designed as a combat craft and thus utilizes weak and cheap civilian-grade shielding.
Armor: Moderately Low
Armor: The Verne-class is not very heavily armored, but it does incorporate the Confederation's Electric Reactive armor, which makes it somewhat resistant to enemy explosive devices.
Weapons: Low
Weapons: The Verne-class does not sport any capital-grade weaponry, though the plasma drills used to process asteroids can be used to cut up enemy vessels that get too close to. The ship's only dedicated weaponry are several batteries of autoblasters which are used as point defenses against enemy starfighters and warheads, though in practice, the autoblasters are more often used to help break up asteroids and debris for easier processing.
Terraformer: The Verne-class has a multitude of terraforming and manufacturing equipment that allows it some planetary engineering feats. he Galactic Coalition contributed their experience with their Cornucopia project to provide the Verne-class with a variety of machinery that allows the terraformer to produce almost any number of compounds necessary given enough time and raw material. The Mid Rim Alliance contributed their experience and artificial habilitation technology from the highly effective but fragile Reclamator-class Terraformer. Lastly, the Confederation used their knowledge of the World Devastator's molecular furnaces to quickly break down raw materials through the Verne's four processing holds to provide the raw material for the terraforming, as well as any machines and technologies needed to complete the world's terraforming, such as various construction droids, orbital mirrors, weather control stations, Atmosphere-filtration turbines, and so forth as needed for the particular project. The Confederation also provided the plans for the Spaarti cloning cylinders, originally recovered from Genon, which are used to rapidly clone the various lifeforms to populate a planet, ranging from various grasses and small plants to a large herbivores and apex predators. Much of the starship acts as a mobile base for a variety of more specialized terraforming craft, droids and other personnel such as water collection craft, gas miners, mole miners, scouts, and so forth. Verne-class Terraformers can tackle a variety of planetary engineering tasks, such as restoring devastasted worlds like Honoghr and Glee Anselm to their previous states, or turning existing barren moons or rocky planets to almost entirely different worlds filled with new life. Typically, the time needed to complete a terraforming project varies on the complexity of the task and the resources involved. For example, several terraformers could easily convert a small lifeless moon into a water world complete with the beginnings of life in a matter of months, while a single terraformer might take decades trying to completely turn a large rocky world into a Gaia-like paradise.
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