Vox populi, vox dei.
Counting splits, that works out at four in favour of option one, five and a half for option two, two and a half for option three.
That was the option I was trying to avoid. Damn you for making me take my own work seriously, I want to goof off too from time to time
I'll start doing the spadework on that, although there are three things worth bearing in mind. Corellian Engineering wanted Black Prince back so they could take a good look at what Mirannon had done to their ship;
Lennart wanted to go there because he knows enough people to stand a fair chance of being able to disappear and hide if things turn nasty;
and the debrief, on the 118th Fleet Incident, Adannan's treacherous leanings, the possible existence of a treasonous cabal, and the involvement with traitors of one of the Empire's greatest magnates, is not going to be conducted by the blue skinned one. It's much more likely to end up in the hands of Lord Darth Vader.
Trying to replace the partially upside down system of the Imperial Sourcebook with something that makes recognisable and intuitive sense, I come out with the equivalence that a Systems Force- up to three line and eight light destroyers- is probably a Rear-Admiral's command, and a Fleet- in this case almost certainly a superiority fleet, cored around six line and twenty- four light destroyers- is a Vice-Admiral's.
Large, but on the galactic scale not particularly significant combat commands. If Mthh'raw'nuruodo is at this level, he has a roving command within Oversector Imperial Centre, and is probably about as popular as a dose of head- swelling space mumps.
He seems to have an extraordinary degree of freedom for someone at that rank, what I suspect is happening is that he's something of an Emperor's pet- and troubleshooter- that Palpatine keeps around to goad and occasionally humiliate the human senior officers.
He will, of course, be fully aware of that and riding it for all it's worth. He has the political momentum behind him- and the political savvy- not to trip up over something like that. Subsequently- after, or during, the Zaarin business?- he is promoted and "exiled" to Oversector Outer. So, yes, things may happen there.
On the Tector class; I reckon they have got real problems. Simply, the fighter and troop complements of a multirole ship are very light for the volume they take up- one of the reasons the razee'd Acclamators can set the speed records they do. Fill that space with reactors, weapon mounts, structural bracing for them both, the deadweight of the ship rises enormously.
A mistake on my part may actually prove useful; an excessively uncritical acceptance of SWTC- where it is speculatively stated that Tectors are a hundred metres longer than the standard Imperator.
What if it requires a major engine rebuild to get them to keep up with the rest of the fleet, and that extra hundred metres really does exist, but is extended ion drives and fantail? We never saw that ship's stern at Endor.
There are at least two potential variants- again, I'm assuming the design process mapped out hundreds of potential options, only a small number of which were actually built. There could be a minimalist Tector, accomplishable by refitting an Imperial class, with the bays plated over, the construction and base emplacement gear gone, and the reactor plant replaced by, I reckon, whatever else works- call it triple Venator reactor modules, for reference.
The engines are rebuilt to run closer to the redline and keep up, and the additional antiship fireower comes from increased energy to the guns allowing for a higher rate of fire from the same number of barrels. 1.2 to 1.3E25W, with additional secondaries as well, giving a potential throw weight- less drives- in the 2867- 3106 teraton range. Modest but meaningful, that enhances the ship's survivability more than anything else. Call that Tector- I.
The version with the extended fantail, the heavy Tector-II, has to be built that way from the keel up, and it's a monster. At least four power plants, and a turret layout that I estimate as lines either side of the superstructure, triple heavy ion aft, then alternating triple-twin-triple-twin, a total of twenty 175- teraton turbolasers to the Imperator-I's twelve. They are probably highly demanding ships to run, and not popular with their engineers- or their commanders, who know that their role is usually to be tied to a flagship.
Black Prince has already stripped most of the base emplacement gear from the nose, the extensions- which prolong the upper surface of the hull out another forty metres and mask the brim trench, needing a revised set of PD mounts- were one of the paper plans, which is why it's possible, the design work's been done already. That would mask the tractors, meaning they'd need to be moved anyway, so why not?
FractalSponge, you've got a turret too many in the superstructure rows. Each echeloned line on the upper surface, one octuple ion turret, one twin 175, two octuple 32's. Bow- one turret right in the eyes of the ship- twin 175- one on the lower edge of the extensions, twin heavy ion, one either side of the bow, octuple 32.
I'll post the already- completed bits for the crossover in a separate thread. It is pure goofing off, I warn you.
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