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Pegasus-class Star Destroyer

Pegasus-class Star Destroyer

Name/Type: Pegasus-class Star Destroyer
Designer/Manufacturer: Kashan Defence Industries
Designation: Heavy Cruiser
Crew: 4,783 + 282 Gunner
Length: 1205 meters
Speed: 15 MGLT, 1000 Kph
Hyperdrive: x0.6
Shield Rating: 5870 SBD + 5870 SBD Back-up
Hull Rating: 3285 RU
Weapons: 36 KDI XIV-7 Heavy Turbolaser Batteries, 36 KDI IV-9 Quad Ion Cannons, 36 KDI L-W4.3 Point-Defence Laser Cannons, 20 Starflare Mk II-class Missile Tubes, 12 KDI H7 Tractor Beam Projectors.
Fighter Complement: 48 S9 Deathsaber Mk II-class Starfighters, 24 A3 Nemesis-class Assault Bombers.
Troops: 4560 Kashan Shock Troopers, 32 Sentinel-class Medium Tanks.
Support Craft: 8 Y-4 Raptor-class Transports, 6 T-4a Lambda-class Shuttles, 10 CG-10 Centaur-class Transports, 4 Skipray Blastboats, variable number of Deep Space Probes and Probots (max of 24).
Other: Integrated Kashan Battle Computer, Magnetorian Sweep.

Description: The slender Pegasus-class Star Destroyer is KDI’s ambitious attempt to produce a ship of line for the Kashan Defence Fleet that can hold it’s own against larger ships, such as the Imperator-class, used by other factions. Most ships of this type go for armor and weapons. However, the Pegasus instead goes for armor and increase of speed, and as such, is slightly undergunned as well. That being said, it is faster than most of its opponents, and with long-range weapons, can pound many enemies at range without worrying about a possible counterstrike. Because constructing a ship of this size is rather costly, only one has been produced thus far: the Pegasus, which has been assigned as the Kashan Defence Fleet’s new flagship.

R&D Explanations:

Automation: Automation is still a key necessity as it was with the Seraph. Also, it freed up space to be used for other systems and cargo/passenger space. As such, most systems of the ship have been automated as much as possible without reducing efficiency. Although most of this automation technology was designed by the former CIS Separatist members, the Resolve’s automation has been improved upon since the days of the Clone Wars.

The droid brains that make up most of the automation system have been programmed with data collected from actual crewmembers in the actual jobs that they do, making the ships as effective as if they were run by actual crewmembers. There are several “automation personalities” available for each system of the ship, making them unpredictable to the enemy. For further improved performance and unpredictability, the droid brains have been allowed to learn. The droid brains can be overridden by a command code from the officer in charge of the system that it automates. Thus, the weapon’s officer can override the weapons automation, etc.

In order to protect the droid brains, they are armored with Ultrachrome and Dallorian alloys and are positioned towards the centre of the hull to prevent damage from glancing hits on the vessel. Access to the droid brains themselves is severely restricted and is heavily protected by the ship’s security system, which is discussed below.

While automation certainly has its advantages for the Kashan Fleet, it does have on drawback. Moving and living creatures can help with damage control. Stationary Droid brains aren’t quite as effective to say the least. Thus, the efficiency of the damage control is below average for a ship it’s size

Engines: The Pegasus uses a massive set of typical ion drives like most Imperial and Republic Star Destroyers. However, the engines of the Pegasus are larger proportionally than that of most ships, making it somewhat faster than many star destroyers. As speed is one of the Pegasus’ assets, the engines are not only well-protected, but also have dedicated maintenance and repair crews composed of LE Repair Droids supervised by human mechanics to repair damages and tune the engines for optimal speed.

For maneuvering purposes, the Pegasus does have massive lateral thrusters on the faces of the wedge that are ion drives. These thrusters allow the ship to easily move to side for slide-slip maneuvers as well as allowing the destroyer to move up and down at will. This is complemented by use of the superconducting armor to create magnetic fields that can redirect the ion streams in all matters of angles. As a result, the Pegasus is one of the most maneuverable ships of it’s size.

Hull Construction: The Pegasus uses the next generation of Kashan armor. The frame of the ship is still composed of Ferrocarbon, giving it excellent structural strength, laminated with carbon and Trimantium fibers to increase the frame’s tensile strength. The major innovation of the Pegasus is the addition of Electric Reactive Armor.

Each Ultrachrome plate is made by liquefying the metal with ion fusers and flash-freezing it by the vacuum of space or any number of cooling agents. This quenching process makes the metal abnormally dense than even typical Ultrachrome. (Ultrachrome is an incredibly-dense metal was used in the production of vibroshields and other forms of blades, since it could withstand high temperatures and maintain a razor-sharp edge despite hard usage. When connected to a power supply, ultrachrome became a form of superconductor, absorbing energy and shunting it aside… (CUSWE)). The Ultrachrome is connected to the ship’s power supply, allowing it to absorb energy weapon attacks and transfer that power to reserve power cells of the vessel’s Power System. In the advent of excess energy, the power grid system will automatically vent the excess energy into space as heat until more power storage becomes available. It should be noted that all weapons and other systems that bulge out from the main hull are equally protected as the main hull itself with Ultrachrome plating.

Because warheads are among the gravest threats facing modern-day capital vessels, the Pegasus armor is of the Electric Reactive Armor type. Obviously the ultrachrome plates serve as the conductive plates in the armor whereas an carbon polymer serves as the insulator of the armor. Explanation from Wikipedia:

A new technology of electric reactive armour is in development, where the armour is made up of two or more conductive plates separated by some space or by an insulating material, creating a high-power capacitor. In operation, a high-voltage power source charges the armour. When an incoming body penetrates the plates, it closes the circuit to discharge the capacitor, dumping a great deal of energy into the penetrator, which may vaporize it or even turn it into a plasma, significantly diffusing the attack. It is not public knowledge whether this is supposed to function against both KE-penetrators and shaped charge jets, or only the latter. This technology has not yet been introduced on any operational platform.

Shields: The Pegasus carries fairly typical shield systems for any modern warship. As in the Seraph-class, the main innovation is that both the main and back-up shield generator systems are identical. This leads to easier maintenance and improved battle capabilities. All shield generators are located below the Ultrachrome armor plating. Thus, the shields themselves are situation just on top of the hull plating.

Kashan Hyperdrive: The Hyperdrive found on the Pegasus is derived from that of the Seraph-class, which is in turn derived from the Acclamator-class Military Transport. While the design team did not have an actual Acclamator hyperdrive available to them, they did have several engineers and mechanics who worked on them during the Clone Wars. To the best of their abilities, it was reconstructed. Nonetheless, it still was slower than that of the Acclamators. In the end, the hyperdrive’s rating was raised to Acclamator levels by brute force engineering. It was modified to accept more power. In order to prevent the engine from overheating and melting, it was made with Dallorian Alloy and given an advanced cyro-cooling system.

Weapons: Following the Kashan tradition, the Pegasus carries a varied and balanced armament using weapons already developed for other ships with the exception of the ion cannons. Most weapons have special anti-starfighter modes, notably flak bursts, with which to engage enemy starfighters.

KDI XIV-7 Heavy Turbolaser: Yet another specifically developed weapon, the XIV-7 design is actually based on the rare SW-APE rifle manufactured decades ago. Like that weapon, it has the Stysor blaster chamber's prismatic crystal housing and galvern pattern, that boosted the static pulse output from the weapon's actuating module for a higher range. When this is combined with the ion sheathing and particle accelerator technology currently employed on the Seraph-class, the weapon has 150% of the range as a standard heavy turbolaser.

KDI IV-9 Quad Ion Cannon: A weapon based on the legacy of the IV-8, this larger weapon differs in having the ionic firepower that is equivalent to that of a normal turbolaser. It uses the same technology as the XIV-7 Heavy Turbolaser, and as such, has 150% range compared to normal turbolasers. This weapon has the option for flak bursts for use against enemy starfighters and warheads.

KDI L-W4.3 Point-Defence Laser Cannon: The L-W4.3 is the reverse of most KDI weapon technology; instead of working of increased aim, the L-W4.3 is intentionally designed with a very short range. However, it’s bolts are as powerful as those of a heavy laser cannon. In addition, the Dallorian-plated weapon has been fitted with a Merr-Sonn advanced rapid-pulse energy module, giving it a high rate of fire. With it’s small size, the servos have little difficulty in rapidly tracking a fast target, making it an ideal defence against missile attacks.

KDI Starflare-class Missile Tube: The Starflare-class Missile Tube launches hyperspace missiles of the Kashan Fleet. In order to switch warhead types, the Pegasus uses a revolving rack of the warheads. To prevent premature detonation, the warhead changing process takes place behind durasteel blast doors aside from the Ultrachrome Hull plating. Also, each warhead is automatically armed only after it leaves the launching tube.

Carrying Capacity: the Pegasus is optimized for use as space combatant, rather than the role of a mothership like that of the Imperator-line of star destroyers. It carries a typical starfighter complement for it’s size, but only carries half(proportionally wise) of a typical troop and support craft for its size.

Magnetoran Sweep: This Kashan Star Destroyer carries a single powerful magnetoran sweeps, a wide-beam device was used to disrupt targetting computers(CUSWE). Unlike most magnetoran sweeps, this one utilizes the entire hull of the Pegasus to create the electomagnetic field that disrupts and jams enemy weapons and ship subsystems. This system can only be deployed in an arc in front of the Pegasus-class. It is an area-effect weapon, meaning that both friendly and hostile vessels to the ship will be equally effected to it if both are in the area. As such, the Magnetoran Sweep is generally used in the opening of the battle before the two lines of ships usually meet.

Integrated Kashan Battle Computer: The Integrated Kashan Battle Computer is actually multi-purpose network that is connected to every vessel of the Kashan Fleet, whether it is a patrol starfighter or a War Destroyer. The main purpose of the Battle Computer is to intertwine, triangulate, and transmit sensor data collected from each ship.

This allows the ships to instantly gather target acquisition data and triangulate that data. The triangulation process ensures excellent target data, foiling most anti-targetting and sensor-jamming systems.

More importantly, the network can also provide navigational data from each ship along. Each vessel automatically transmits its location to the other vessel and shares navigational data with it as well. This allows the vessels of the Kashan fleet to act as navigation beacons for hyperspace jumps. As such, it is possible for Kashan ships to make instant intra-system micro-jumps to a Kashan vessel with the Battle Computer.

Security: Aside from the typical security monitors, security passes, and checkpoints, the Pegasus uses Ultrachrome for the bulkhead lining of the entire ship. When an intruder is detected, it runs electricity through those linings, which then. Thus, the intruder is fried by the electric current, whether it be a living being or a droid. The power settings of the electricity can be adjusted from a shock that will normally knock a living being unconscious to the highest level, which can start circuits on fire.

Command Facilities: Like the Seraph-class, the Pegasus sports two bridges. The observation bridge, which resembles the typical Imperial bridge tower, for normal operations. A battle bridge, located underneath the observation bridge tower near the core of the ship, for instances in which using the observational bridge would be dangerous to the ship's command crew.