Mon Calamari MC8805 Traquia Super Star Defender

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Class Name: MC8805 Traquia-class Super Star Defender; extant ships of the class include the Traquia, the Serial Peacemaker, the Providence, and the Pax Galactica.
Manufacturer: Mon Calamari Shipyards
Production Line: Super Star Defender
Technical Designation: MC8805
Affiliation: Galactic Alliance
Composition: Quadanium hull, titanium-reinforced alusteel structure and secondary hulls, nightshadow anti-sensor coating.

Classification: Star Dreadnought
Role: Command ship, carrier, battleship
Height: 4,820 meters
Width: 7,618 meters
Length: 18,410 meters

Power Core Generator/Reactor: Hypermatter reactors, solar power cells, emergency backup batteries
Hyperdrive Rating: Class 2, backup class 5
Sublight Speed and Maneuverability: 40 MGLT; moderate maneuverability and decent acceleration for a dreadnought.

Crew: 40,000-168,174
Passenger Capacity: 300,000
Cargo Capacity: 250,000 metric tons
Consumables: 6 years

Armament:

• Quad turbolaser cannon turrets: 3,000, fire-linked in groups of 8. The mainstay of the Traquia's arsenal, these turrets are able to effectively and reliably engage anything from a snubfighter to another Star Dreadnought. They are split among the ship's facings, able to engage in pretty much any direction (though it is vulnerable when attacked from behind, as it has fewer turrets covering the stern than other facings).
  
• Double heavy turbolaser cannon turrets: 3,000, fire-linked in groups of 8. These turrets, unlike the smaller turbolasers, are too slow to effectively target and engage fast starfighters. They serve as heavy anti-capital weapons, mounted on the dorsal hull in proton-shielded armored cowls; none of them face aft. Several monitor stations are tied in to each turret, with firing control on top, the targeting level in the middle, and modulation and power feed controls located in floors underneath. Each turret has its own dedicated reactor, enabling the ship to support many more than it normally could.
  
• Proton composite beam cannon turrets: 600 of these, colloquially (though inaccurately) known as "superlasers" line the ship's hull with 300 to each side. They are able to engage targets with a 270-degree fire arc, dedicated anti-capital weapons designed both for punching through enemy dreadnoughts' defenses and for assaulting planetary fortifications with combined, concentrated fire. They have a slow rate of fire, about one shot every six seconds, and like the heavy turbolasers have dedicated reactors to power them.
  
• Assault concussion missile tubes: 250, payload 30 missiles each. Two hundred of these are mounted on the ventral hull, with twenty-five more to each side of the dorsal hull. They are all able to engage targets in front of the ship, with the ventral tubes able to also engage below and to the sides and the dorsal tubes each to their respective sides.
  
• Ion cannon turrets: 2,000, fire-linked in groups of 4. The ion counterparts to the turbolaser turrets, these are mounted to cover all of the ship's facings. They are able to track and engage targets as small as starfighters, making them highly effective for apprehending targets the Fleet wants alive.
  
• Heavy ion cannon turrets: 250. The ion counterparts to the heavy turrets, these are mounted on the dorsal hull. Like the heavy turbolasers, they are incapable of accurately and reliably engaging starfighters but are more designed for fighting enemy warships.
  
• Phylon Transport Q7 tractor beam projectors: 40. These tractor beam projectors are mostly intended for handling allied ships and cargo, including netting in escape pods for rescue.
  
• Point-defense quad laser cannons: 1,500. Though the tracking and targeting computers on the turbolaser turrets are capable of engaging starfighters, the ship's point-defense turrets protect her from incoming fighters, gunboats, projectiles, missiles, torpedoes, and debris.

Defensive Systems:

• Serridge SEAL shielding system: A regenerative system of deflector and ray shields whose ancestry traces back to Home One, the Viscount, and other Mon Calamari designs, the Traquia-class is protected by hundreds of networked, overlapping shield generators with multiple backup redundancy rather than a small group of larger shield generators.
  
• 220-SIG Sensor Jamming Devices: A powerful one-ton jamming system, this is useful as a form of electronic warfare. It severely hinders enemy sensors and targeting computers, as well as blocking enemy communications in the given area. The ship carries dozens of these devices, most effective against fighters and small craft; they are barely useful against capital ships, if at all. Unlike most jammers, the 220-SIG does not interfere with the sensors, targeting computers, and communications of the ship it is installed on.
  
• Dedicated Energy Receptor Projector: The DERP works by absorbing and blocking incoming long-range sensor pings and transmissions broadcast by enemy ships, rendering the Traquia invisible to most enemy scanners, targeting computers, and incoming missiles.
  Of course, given the sheer size of the thing, visual scanning and manual aim is generally more than sufficient to hit it once the enemy has closed in to closer engagement ranges.
  
• Full-Spectrum Distortion Projector: This component of the Traquia's electronic countermeasures attempts to block all scanners and targeting computers by using broadband transmitters intended to interfere with sensors attempting to target it. While more powerful than the DERP, it is shorter-ranged. Traquias operating in concert with each other and allied ships have a system of exceptions that, while exceptionally difficult to exploit, enable them to communicate and function normally.
  
• Missile Deactivation Transmitter: These transmitters, as their name suggests, are able to detect the guiding frequencies used by enemy missiles and warheads. They are capable of autonomously sending a signal to deactivate the projectiles before damaging the Traquia-class.

Carried Craft:

• Space Superiority Starfighters: 2,160 (30 wings).
  
• Interceptor Starfighters: 1,728 (24 wings).
  
• Bombers: 1,296 (18 wings).
  
• Scouts: 1,296 (18 wings).
  
• Transport Shuttles: dozens
  
• Assault Shuttles: dozens
  
• Dropships: dozens
  
• Prefabricated Garrison Bases: 8
  
• Other: Various small spacecraft including freighters, corvettes, frigates, and other support craft. Much of the Traquia-class's support fleet are deployed out, but by standard procedure the berthings remain open in order to enact quick repairs and evacuations during battle.

Other Systems:

• Ship-Mind: Much of the ship's operations can be taken over by its AI computer core, though the standard protocol is to have them be crewed. The AI only takes over in case of emergencies, but it also runs the networked repair and defense drones and serves as part of the ship's administrative bureaucracy. It is incapable of operating the weapon systems directly, and can only control the drive systems in emergency situations.
  
• Sensor suite: The Traquia-class ship's sensors are adequate, though not spectacular. It has a multi-spectrum sensor suite capable of long-range detection and target resolution, with magnetic and gravimetric sensors being the most remarkable part. The ship also features several multi-spectrum telescopes useful in astronomy as well as long-range target identification.
  
• Repair drones: Thousands of these little droids, all networked to the ship-mind, run about the ship. They not only conduct basic maintenance alongside the organic crew, but also serve as automated damage control teams and rescue workers.
  
• Defense drones: Not yet implemented (will be a separate tech profile entry).
  
• HoloNet transceiver: Like many capital ships, the Traquia-class is equipped with HoloNet transceivers capable of extremely high-density data transmission across the galaxy in seconds rather than years.
  
• Medical bays: The medical bays aboard ships of this class are more akin to full-fledged hospitals, able to receive and treat hundreds of casualties. They are fully outfitted with batch tanks, medical droids, and treatment wards. It is standard procedure for a Traquia-class on patrol to admit civilian patients from less-developed worlds as humanitarian aid.
  
• HIMS: The Hyperwave Inertial Momentum Sustainer technology enables the Traquia-class to counteract an interdiction field. A gravitic anomaly sensor in the system provides the ship's hyperdrive the ability to shut off, preventing damage from sudden realspace reversion upon encountering a gravity well. At the same time, the HIMS can produce a static hyperspace "bubble", sustaining the ship's presence in hyperspace while accumulated forward momentum propelled it along. While the HIMS can only keep the Traquia in hyperspace briefly, it is sufficient to pass through most any interdiction fields.

Description: Very nearly the length of the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer and bulkier, the Traquia-class is designed to the centerpiece of a fleet. They dwarf practically everything in service, an extravagance that dates back to the blank-check spending days of the Imperial Civil War. Layers of interconnected defenses overlap to protect the ship, while her own arsenal is more than adequate to carry out a Base Delta Zero operation in a matter of hours. More than just a huge battleship, however, the Traquia-class is also a mobile supply depot and repair facility for her escort of lesser craft. When fully stocked and outfitted, one ship of this class and her attendant fleet can operate independently for over half a decade. Though ostensibly to serve as a mobile patrol base to secure the Outer Rim Territories and the Imperial border, some have noted that the Traquia-class would also serve as an excellent redoubt in case of the Alliance's fall. They are hugely expensive ships, and there are less than a dozen of the class in existence. In truth, few of them - if any - operate at their maximum capacity, generally having fewer than their maximum number of troops and craft available and thus being forced to rely on the ship-mind AI to cover down.

The exact number of MC8805s, their particular make-ups, and their current missions are a closely-guarded secret.