Submitted for your approval, the Dominus Astra
The existing 20,000 ton jump-capable flagship, Great Victory, are no longer sufficient for general duties, with the construction of new military transports, and the plans for substantial carrier craft. The Dominus Astra is designed as a generally defensive craft set to lay down point defense, protecting the rest of the fleet and sopping up hits. It must fly with the surveillance craft. The current first fleet is a series of missile cruisers and beam brawlers, with a score of frigates, headed by this flagship. It has only a small missile scanner for covering retreat in case of disaster.
It is armed with a battery of 8 lasers, a few forward missile tubes for firing at range, but it is the 8 quad laser turrets and the missile defense that is of most importance.
It will be tweaked in design to bring it up to 50k tons.
My important question comes in maitenence. The jump drive on this monster is enormous. If that fails, thats a lot of maintenence points. But I realized that I wasn't getting much improvement by adding storage. Am I right in thinking its probably just number skew by the size of the jump drive. If the drive fails 4 times in a year, thats the end of its maintenance points. But thats unlikely, right? Or do I really just have a bucket of bolts that can only be expected to fly for one year?
Secondarily, I threw two damage control units on there, but I'm not really sure what they're actually doing or how that rating is measured.
Dominus Astra class Superdreadnought 49,250 tons 5642 Crew 16618 BP TCS 985 TH 4320 EM 2400
8771 km/s JR 3-50 Armour 10-119 Shields 80-300 Sensors 5/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 95 PPV 288
[b]Annual Failure Rate: 431% IFR: 6% Maint Capacity 9489 MSP Max Repair 2500 MSP Est Time: 0.88 Years[/b]
Flag Bridge Magazine 506
Flagship jump drive 1 Max Ship Size 50000 tons Distance 50k km Squadron Size 3
IC Fusion Drive Standard (54) Power 160 Fuel Use 50% Signature 80 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 2,000,000 Litres Range 146.2 billion km (192 days at full power)
Theta R300/20 Shields (20) Total Fuel Cost 400 Litres per day
25cm C5 Far Ultraviolet Laser (8) Range 192,000km TS: 8771 km/s Power 16-5 RM 5 ROF 20 16 16 16 16 16 13 11 10 8 8
Quad 12cm C5 Far Ultraviolet Laser Turret (8x4) Range 192,000km TS: 15000 km/s Power 16-20 RM 5 ROF 5 4 4 4 4 4 3 2 2 2 2
Beam Fire Control S04 96-3000 (1) Max Range: 192,000 km TS: 3000 km/s 95 90 84 79 74 69 64 58 53 48
Turret Fire Control S04 24-12000 (1) Max Range: 48,000 km TS: 12000 km/s 79 58 38 17 0 0 0 0 0 0
Magnetic Confinement Fusion Reactor Technology PB-1 AR-0 (10) Total Power Output 200 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Ship AMM Launcher 1 (20) Missile Size 1 Rate of Fire 10
Antiship Launcher (size 6) (6) Missile Size 6 Rate of Fire 40
Ship Based Missile Fire Control FC189-R80 (70%) (1) Range 189.3m km Resolution 80
AMM Fire Control 1 (5) Range 18.5m km Resolution 1
AMM Scanner (Small) (1) GPS 72 Range 10.1m km Resolution 1
Thermal Sensor TH1-5 (1) Sensitivity 5 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 5m km
ECCM-3 (8) ECM 20
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes