Angelus-class Heavy Dreadnought
A bit new at this, so . . . here goes nothing. . . (I hope I did this right)Name/Type
Angelus-class Heavy Dreadnought
Designer/Manufacturer
Sanyo Custom Starship Construction Industries, LTD
Designation
Heavy Dreadnought"
Crew
700 naval personnel, pilots, and gunners
Length
1250 meters (?)
Hyperdrive
Class 0.9
Shield Rating
2000 SBD
Hull Rating
4500 RU
Speed
35 MGLT
Shield Strength
Superior to a Nebulon-B Frigate
Inferior to a Victory-class SD
Tractor Beams
14
Reactors
1x Crystallic Fusion Reactor
4x Standard Atlantean Fusion Reactor
1x 0.9 class Hyperdrive linked to an Atlantean Jump Computer
Weapons
Heavy Weapons
3x Heavy Coalescing Particle Beam Emitters
3x Heavy Magnetic Accelerator Cannons (Rail Guns)
1x "Planet-killer" deployable anti-ship weapon
Projectile Weapons
2x twin 16-inch projectile gun mounts
2x twin 10-inch projectile gun mounts
Light Weapons
10x quad laser cannons
25x twin 25mm AAA mounts
5x twin .50 caliber AAA mounts
7x twin 88mm AAA mounts
6x quad Vulcan mounts
14x culminating beam cannons
10x quad light rail gun mounts
Fighter Complement
20 starfighters
Troops
250 Atlantean Marines
Support Craft
2 shuttles
4 Light Transports
Cargo Space
200,000 Metric Tons with us of external racks
The Angelus was designed and built by Dak Sanyo (Ookami Kirayasha), InuYasha Sanyo's younger brother, as InuYasha's flagship, at the Sanyo Industries Dockyard. Using tech given to him by the Atlantean Empire (their home government), Sanyo built a ship capable of acting as a commerce raider and smuggling ship, but with enough speed and firepower to engage larger vessels. Her main reactor is a "Crystallic Fusion Reactor" in which anti-matter is introduced to the process and focused through a crystal matrix. This gives the reactor more power. She also has four Atlantean cutter reactors, which provide her auxiliary power, as well as normal power to her secondary systems and redundant backup functions. She cannot use her energy weapons or heavy rail guns when her main reactor is offline, since the power is needed to maintain her essential systems. Due to this problem, Sanyo deliberately made the Angelus's light weapons projectile based. Although this took up more cargo room, and made the danger of ignition greater, it allows the ship a defensive edge over most larger capital ships. Sanyo also improved the Angelus's maneuverability by installing maneuvering thrusters on her port, starboard, dorsal, and ventral hull. As an added boost in maneuverability, he also made her main engines reversable, enabling the Angelus to turn, almost literally, on a dime. (Remember Hunt for the Red October? Ramius increased the turning ability by reversing his starboard engine)
All weapons on the Angelus are linked to a fire-control AI (dedicated to that particular system), for increased targeting efficiency and accuracy.
(i.e. all light weapons are linked to a point-defense AI, all heavy weapons are linked to a heavy weapons AI, all projectile weapons are linked to a projectile weapons AI, and all of which can be linked to the ship's command AI)
TheAngelus first appears in "Dreams of Success, Dreams of Failure"
by InuYasha Sanyo.
http://therebelfaction.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9552
Comments
#8 5:55am 30/11/06
You'll have to make up your mind one way or the other. If this is a 'storyline' ship, then by and large whatever you want to put on it is up to you, but that relegates you to utilizing the platform only in self-driven or otherwise pre-scripted stories. If you intend to engage other factions with this R&D without the advantage of pre-scripting the story; ie, an old style fleet battle... then you will have to ratify certian aspects of the starship.
This is not an Anime spin where ships like the SDF Macross or whatever get to plunder around the galaxy and mess up other peoples developmental arcs. They can exist as storyline objects, but should not be employed in 'combat' unless agreed upon by all parties.
Just so you are aware.
As stated above; there is no R&D approval process... however; should it come to light that said R&D is causing a conflict in the community it can and will be looked into. That is something to avoid in general.
#7 2:54am 30/11/06
Yes, the term "planet-killer" is just a term describing the weapon's power. It [I]is[/I] capable of destroying unshielded vessels. If used on a planet, it [I]could[/I] level an area several cities across, but that's it. The [I]Angelus[/I] 's other weapons, with the exception of her particle beams, rail guns, 16-inchers, and 10-inchers, are mostly for point defense and anti-aircraft purposes. And yes, she is a one-off to act as a flagship for my character. His brother destroyed the plans for her after construction was completed, although my character does have a copy, just in case. Thankfully, this is the only ship of her kind.
Oh, and for clarification:
The [I]Angelus[/I] is faster than a Nebulon-B frigate, but slightly slower than a [I]Imperial[/I]-class SD, at least at sublight. At FTL, she can outrun just about anything. Of course, that's what she's designed to do . . . hit and run.
She is almost defenseless when she diverts full power to her heavy guns, but she does have minimal shielding, but her energy weapons go offline, which is why she relies heavily on projectile weapons.
Also, she would be used in Fleet Action battles, but the "planet-killer" would normally be left out. It is used as a last ditch attempt to disable or destroy pursuing ships in order to escape.
#6 1:53am 30/11/06
I assume the planet killer weapon is not actually capable of killing planets but is only termed that way because it is powerful? Weapons may be a bit on the overkill side, but protection and speed look ok. I would put down a rating of about 40 MGLT for sublight.
I take it this is a one off ship meant to act as flagship for this particular character, rather than as a mass-production ship? If so then it should be ok.
#5 1:00am 30/11/06
Would the ship have any shields if all power was in weapons? And you can edit this into the main post. Also, should have mentioned it earlier, but planet-killer device one a 750m ships is going to be a no (unless it is simply a storeline vehicle, not actually engaging other factions).
R&Ds have no approval process, and the R&D document itself can make the ship appear to be uber, so long as it is RPed fairly. I'm just commenting you to try and aid you in designing this (since its your first RP here). Remember that R&Ds are supposed to be used as window dressings, not as ships which are better than canon ships.
#4 10:27pm 29/11/06
Sorry. This should correct some of the errors.
The [I]Angelus[/I] was built to outrun smaller ships, like frigates, but have enough firepower to engage larger ships. She doesn't use an [I]Imperial[/I]-class SD's reactors, but four custom designed reactors. They work by introcuding trace amounts of anti-matter into the reactors, then focusing it through a series of crystals (kinda like a warp reactor in Star Trek . . . kind of). Her Particle Beams draw large amounts of power from these reactors, so much so that some sytems go offline when firing. Usually, she fires her rail guns (need I explain those) [I]before[/I] she fires her particle beams. The incredible density of the tungsten-cobalt slugs punches, combined with their incredible velocity, overload particle shielding, then the Particle Beams are fired at half power. In order to punch through an SD's shield in one shot, the [I]Angelus[/I] must divert all her reactor power to her Particle Beams, leaving her dead in the water for several minutes. She is often used by InuYasha Sanyo as a commerce raider, pouncing on heavily defended convoys, disabling or destroying the escort ships, and quickly seizing cargo ships. She uses her powerful tractor beam emitters to hold ships in place while Sanyo's well trained Marines storm aboard and seize cargo and information. I'm in class right now, so more to follow soon.
#3 5:13pm 29/11/06
The general idea here is "Armor, Weapons and Speed, pick 2". Meaning your ship can excel in 2 and be weak in the third. Or they can be decent (but not excel) at all of them. Fighter carrying capacity somewhat figures into that as well, but not a lot unless it is a dedicated carrier.
#2 4:13pm 29/11/06
So, it's as fast as a fighter, heavily armed enough to cripple a Star Destroyer, and has shields are ten times as powerful as a Star Destroyer.
Right...
#1 4:09pm 29/11/06
You should probably explain all the weapons and how you can punch through shields and hull in single shots since that's a little goddy. Also explain how you get 40 times the power output of an ISDs generators in a smaller ship. No ship at trf has speeds greater than fighters, other than fighters of course. You can be close to a fighter's speed, but only on much smaller cap ships. I don't see how something 750 meters long with all those weapons and mass on it going a speed of a fighter quickly enough to make it count.
I like the design, but it just seems to need more work and more description. If your introducing new technologies its always good to explain them completely so people know what your talking about and know how everything works. Thanx :-).
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