Post by Rose on Apr 23, 2007 14:47:05 GMT -5
Shieldship
Basic Information -
Size: 800 meters wide, 400 meters long
Manufacturer: Republic Engineering Corporation
Type: Heat-Resistant Escort Vehicle
Weapon: Turbolaser
Shieldships are custom-designed escort vessels conceived by Lando Calrissian to protect starships traveling close the searing primary of the Athega system. After the Battle of Endor, Calrissian had started a valuable hfredium-mining operation on the sun-seared world of Nkllon. The rays of the sun were so powerful that they burned away the hulls and sensors of vessels that came too close to the mineral-rich world. Lando commissioned the Republic Engineering Corporation to construct the immense umbrella-shaped craft. The shieldship's dish-shaped deflector is 800 meters across, and is lined by thick armor plating honeycombed with coolant chambers. The shadowed side of the shields has huge cooling fins. Trailing from the shield is a 400-meter pylon with a drive tug that provided sublight and hyperdrive thrust. Normally, one of the twelve shieldships would take control of the escorted vessel via slave circuit, and jump into the system. Vessels without slave circuits had to proceed at sublight, a trip that would take about 10 hours. When Grand Admiral Thrawn attacked the mines at Nkllon, his forces attacked Calrissian's shieldship depot, destroying all but one of the ships.