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Posted by Kayle Skolaris on 4 September 2000 10:33 PM

Craft: Arakyd Arms Limited's Triumph-Class Attack Ship
Type: Prototype Anti-Ship Attack Craft
Scale: Capital
Length: 330 meters
Skill: Capital Ship Piloting: Triumph-Class
Crew: 54, Gunners: 28, Skeleton: 36/+20
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 5D+2, Capital Ship Gunnery 6D+2, Capital Ship Piloting: 7D, Capital Ship Shields: 6D, Communications: 5D, Sensors: 5D+2, Starship Gunnery: 5D+2
Cargo Capacity: 50 metric tons
Consumables: 6 months
Cost: Not Available For Sale (Prototype cost 63 trillion credits)
Hyperdrive Multiplier: x.5
Hyperdrive Back-up: x.5
Nav Computer: Yes, with 2 back-ups
Maneuverability: 4D
Space: 10
Atmosphere: 415; 1,200kmh
Hull: 8D
Shields: 6D with 12D of back-up shields
Sensor Stealthing: Active Stealth System imposes a +8D penalty to detect with sensors and renders fire control computers useless. Straight skill rolls to-hit only.
Sensors:
Passive: 100/3D
Scan: 200/4D
Search: 400/5D
Focus: 10/6D
Weapons:
4 Fire-Linked Mega-Turbolasers
Fire Arc: Forward
Crew: 4
Skill: Capital Ship Gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 2-10/25/50
Atmosphere Range: 4-20/50/100km
Damage: 18D

2 Double Heavy Turbolaser Cannons
Fire Arc: 1 Dorsal Turret, 1 Ventral Turret
Crew: 2
Skill: Capital Ship Gunnery
Fire Control: 4D
Space Range: 5-50/75/100
Atmosphere Range: 10-100/150/200km
Damage: 8D

4 Implosion Torpedo Batteries
Fire Arc: 2 Forward, 2 Aft
Crew: 2
Skill: Capital Ship Gunnery
Fire Control: 4D
Space Range: 2-12/30/60
Atmosphere Range: 4-24/60/120km
Damage: Special, causes Dovin Basal creatures to hyper-exert themselves resulting in gravitic implosion. Each Dovin Basal carried inflicts twice its Die Code value in damage on the ship mounting them.
Ammunition: 50 torpedoes per battery

Capsule: Designed in response to the Yuuzhan Vong threat, the Triumph-class attack ship is meant to engage and defeat the Yuuzhan Vong on their own terms. Everything about her is revolutionary, from her hyperdense bi-phase carbide hull to her four immense mega-turbolaser emplacements, the Triumph is a marvel of engineering. Her huge main guns are the largest conventional weapons ever built into a starship. Only the superlasers of the Eclipse and Sovereign-class ships are larger. Their enormous firepower can blow most enemy capital ships out of the sky with only a few shots and easily overwhelm the Yuuzhan Vong's Dovin Basal creatures. Though incredibly powerful, the main guns are relatively short-range weapons and longer-range artillery pieces were deemed necessary for extended range engagements. To this end, the Triumph mounts a pair of heavy double turbolasers in dorsal and ventral turrets. Rounding out her armament is a completely new type of weapon specifically designed to defeat the Dovin Basal creatures. Dubbed 'implosion torpedoes' these projectiles cause a Dovin Basal to hyper-exert itself to the point where the gravity points they create implode catastrophically, damaging the defending ship and killing the organism. The super-tough hull can withstand more punishment than an Imperator-Class Star Destroyer, despite the vessel being only a fraction of the size of a Star Destroyer. Equally impressive are the shielding units, a product of a joint effort between the Mon Calamari and the Bith. The vessel also boasts one of the most effective stealth packages in existence. When active, the stealth systems make detection of the vessel nearly impossible and renders targeting systems useless. Rounding out these impressive abilities is an ultra-high grade sensor package and an incredibly fast hyperdrive and sublight drive system. Many older fighters have trouble keeping pace with the Triumph and few capital ships of any kind can come close to her acceleration rate. The main down side to the ship is the enormous cost of the prototype. Fortunately once the technologies are put into standardized production the price tag is expected to go down significantly.



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Posted by BGKnight44 on 4 September 2000 10:59 PM

Thumbs up

Very nice design and write up Kayle, your usual caliber of work.
I'm sure that will make the Vong a little less aggressive.
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Posted by Lokar on 7 September 2000 01:21 AM

Looks good but why is the hyperdrive backup as powerful as the standard engine.


Posted by Chris Curtis on 7 September 2000 04:49 AM

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I'll be honest, I'm really not sure what I think of the ship. My first reaction to reading the stats was something like, "Holy cow! That's insane!". However, this is undoubtedly due to the fact that I haven't read any of the NJO books and thus really don't know how powerful the Yuuzhan Vong are.

Since you've always posted well-balanced stats in the past, I'll assume that the power level of the ship is justified and not out of proportion to the threat. Still, keeping in mind that I haven't read the NJO series, I do have some comments:

Crew: You list a crew of only 54 for a ship that's 330 meters long. That's about one person every six meters. Seems awfully lonely in there... I'd think the ship (even highly automated), would need at least 100-150 crewmen. Remember, you need bridge crew, engineering, gunners, cooks, system operators, etc. Beyond all those, you really need about three people for every position so that the crew isn't working 24 hours a day. Three rotating shifts is fairly standard.

Maneuverability: 4D?!?!? That seems a wee bit excessive for a 330 meter long ship. That makes this huge capital ship more maneuverable than an A-wing, doesn't it?

Stealth: You say that the active stealthing "renders fire control computers useless. Straight skill rolls to-hit only." I'm guessing that this would have to be fairly specialized toward YV systems. Would it work equally well against normal SW tech? For that matter, would the anti-detection part of the stealth work as well?

Hyperdrive: I have to agree with Lokar on this one. A x0.5 backup??
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Posted by Jedi_Shadow on 7 September 2000 05:28 AM

I'm guessing these are just the prototype's stats. Otherwise, any production runs would number in the quadrillions. A drop in the bucket when it comes to the fathomless credits available to the New Republic.

All I can say is this thing is expensive.
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Posted by wildfire on 7 September 2000 12:43 PM

Very very good I like it! It fits the era right but it way to powerful for any other time period. The backuphyper drive seems to be the only sore point it's the same as the main drive. Why? I agree with Chris about the crew are the minor positions like cook etc filled with droids or what?


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