#NEBULA CLASS STAR DESTROYER FULL#

IвЂ™ve been arguing for movement to large high power density designs for high intensity combat on this basis for a long time now. I really like your Nebula mesh, but the concept of operations as a planetary defense sortie destroyer doesnвЂ™t make that much sense to me. If whatever Imperial Remnant faction is only bringing 1 ISD to every 2 defending Nebulas in a siege, then sure, Nebulas can be cost effective, but no Remnant/Warlord faction is stupid enough to attack a fortified position without at least a numerical advantage over the garrison fleet, and if the Imperials are attacking a shielded planetary fortress, theyвЂ™re probably going to be bringing heavier units than ISDs.

#NEBULA CLASS STAR DESTROYER FULL#

In this kind of fight, several Nebulas are useless wrecks, but the Allegiance can just recharge shields, refuel hypermatter, and be back within hours at full capability to perform its blockading/bombardment duties. When the Nebulas have worn down the AllegianceвЂ™s shields to roughly 25%, the heavier ship can go to full evasive maneuvering and either withdraw through friendly vessels or just make a combat microjump away to recharge shielding and perform damage control. In that period of time, the AllegianceвЂ™s shields are still up, and has sustained either no damage or very minor burnthrough. The problem with smaller ships in this sort of scenario of 10 Nebulas darting out from under fixed defenses versus an Allegiance or other cruiser is that the Allegiance can rapidly cause local shield panel overload on a Nebula and destroy it in probably under a minute, assuming relatively even crew skill. I donвЂ™t remember where on the main site this was from, but time-to-kill between capital ships of the same power generation capability is at least 15 minutes, assuming full initial shields and some degree of combat maneuvering. The blockading force in a planetary shield siege should have overall tonnage and power generation superiority by at least a 3:1 margin over the defending garrison fleet. My argument isnвЂ™t that an individual Nebula should be expected to fight a Praetor, but rather that in a siege and sortie scenario, the mechanics of shielding favor larger vessels over similar tonnages of smaller ones. But you absolutely would not expect such ships to be easy to kill with any combination of (relatively) small craft. It starts falling apart with really specialized galactic-scale combat oriented designs like Allegiance onward. In the profound peacetime of post-Ruusan where bleeding edge performance doesnвЂ™t matter as much, probably also true. For a conversion like a Lucrehulk, this is likely to be true. This numbers vs big ship thing holds up with lower power to weight ratios on bigger ships. Not like a Venator individually stands much of a chance vs a combat Lucrehulk either.

Victory-class I can see being used the same way вЂ“ massed fire from many ships with stacked burst firepower to surge bigger shipsвЂ™ defenses and then swarm them. An ISD would probably string out two Nebulas and defeat them in detail over time if given the maneuvering space, but thatвЂ™s why I think Nebulas would be tied to system and strongpoint defenses. But if the NR could field 2 Nebulas to an ISD and for a few minutes at least double the ISDвЂ™s firepower, then thatвЂ™s a win in the right circumstances. Even a single ISD would be screwed almost as badly vs a Praetor. Of course they work better vs ISDs than battlecruisers вЂ“ one wouldnвЂ™t expect a single Nebula to take on a Praetor. Because Nebulas and the like are small with small crews, they can be fielded in big numbers. I think itвЂ™s a conscious bet on numbers vs individual superiority. I think thatвЂ™s a bit tangential to my argument there. IвЂ™d like to see a fractal total redesign of the Bulwark concept, but thatвЂ™s probably not happening anytime soon. Perhaps they didnвЂ™t have enough point-defense to protect against torpedo salvoes, or werenвЂ™t maneuverable enough to keep a Victory in their primary HTL arc. The Bulwark is as ugly as they get, and at 1000m canвЂ™t possibly be an actual Star Battlecruiser, but itвЂ™s interesting nonetheless. The old canon had a fleet of Victory-Is catch and destroy a CIS armada of Bulwark battlecruisers in open space as their first engagement, which is pretty interesting. Victory-I as a positional warfare ship I can buy if we assume the vast majority of CIS capital ships are Munificent/Recusant/Lucrehulk, which either are too small or donвЂ™t have decent enough gun arcs to rapidly kill Victory-Is. Anything like a Praetor-II or larger should have an alpha capable of knocking it out in a matter of moments, and the New Republic had to face a lot of cruisers and dreadnoughts. The Nebula as a planetary defense destroyer concept only really makes sense against destroyer-range opponents.

Nebula class star destroyer