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GENOM CORPORATION
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Military Arm Vessel Overview: KDY Project 76A (Venator-class) Star Destroyer

Project 76A is the first capital ship project undertaken by the Corporation's Kuat Drive Yards subsidiary since before the War of Corporate Occupation, and represents the first major improvement in the Star Destroyer® line of warships since the Imperator-class Mark IV debuted in 2384.

The Project 76A starship is intended to function primarily as a spacecraft carrier and White Legion transport/headquarters vessel, though, like all products in the Star Destroyer line, it is also expected to hold its own in one-on-one combat against virtually any other starship in known space. Although smaller than its predecessor, its performance improvements and advances in crew automation make it the most capable Star Destroyer yet produced (discounting, of course, the Executioner-class Super™ Star Destroyer, which is in a class by itself).

The first Project 76A starship, GCV Venator, passed space trials and was accepted for active MILARM Fleet service on January 8, 2409. At that point, mass-production approval was issued to KDY by Corporate Headquarters. Since then, four more vessels (now called Venator-class in keeping with galactic convention) have entered service, with five more under construction and a further 15 planned pending FY 2412 budgetary approval. Most are replacing Victory-class Mark V vessels that are being removed from service as part of the ongoing Fleet Modernization Initiative.


GCV Venator, flanked by GCV Implacable (left) and GCV Audacious (right), at the January 2410 Fleet Review

Jane's Fighting Starships

Following is the profile on the Venator class published in the Spring 2410 issue of Jane's Fighting Starships.

Name/Model: Venator class Star Destroyer
Manufacturer: GENOM Kuat Drive Yards
Combat designation: Carrier dreadnaught
Entered service: January 8, 2409

Crew:
Starship operations: 4,450
Air wing: 850
Ground/tactical forces: 1,200

Length: 3,730 ft.
Mass: 1.4 Mt

Power system: 4x KDY R-Mc750 forced singularity reactors
Propulsion system: 4x NL-1270 linear ion thrusters
2x NL-800 linear ion thrusters
2x NL-500 linear ion thrusters
Speed rating: 65 MGLT
Flight control system: KDY RXC-7790 point-impulse reaction control system
Maneuver rating: 9 DPF
Navigation: GENOM Hypercomputing Navcon® N-s8890 computer system
FTL: KDY MP-4085 metaspace transition point generator
Secondary FTL: GENOM H-d1290 motivator drive unit (hyperdrive)
Hyperdrive rating: 1.0

Shields: KDY MultiPhasic™ projected energy shielding system
Shield rating: [CLASSIFIED] (believed to exceed 3,750)
Armor: Proprietary alloy hull
Armor rating: [CLASSIFIED] (believed to exceed 2,500)

ARMAMENT
Fixed armaments:
52x GENOM PDX-1440 sensor-guided point defense blaster emplacements
8x GENOM DBY-827 dual heavy turbolaser turrets
4x PW-909 point phaser arrays
2x CPW-128 strip collimated phaser arrays
Expendable armament: 4x QMt-05 heavy quantum torpedo tubes

AEROSPACE COMPLEMENT
Combat Air Group:
420x light-to-medium starfighter*
36x heavy starfighter/bomber**
Support Air Group: 2x Cygnus Spaceworks Lambda-class shuttle
16x KonGar Ship Works ATR-6 assault transport (2x SSAR variant)

TACTICAL COMPLEMENT
White Legion Mixed Arms Regiment:
1200x Legionnaire
40x GENOM Rothana LAAT/i infantry dropship
24x combat walker†
4x Cygnus Nu-class attack shuttle

* Usually a mix of SFS TIE/a4 Avenger Plus and KSE A3 Nimbus fighters, with one of the ship's two hangar decks configured for TIE launch and recovery, and the other for handling craft with skid landing gear. TIE bays can also be set up to service earlier TIE models, while the Nimbus bays can accommodate other skid-equipped fighters of comparable size to the Nimbus, such as the Cygnus E2 Actis and Dodonna/Blissex RZ-1 Stinger fleet interceptors.

** Customarily the Cygnus Delta AXg-1 Star Wing assault gunboat. Bomber bays can also accommodate the Koensayr BTL Myrmidon series and other similarly-sized craft.

† The standard GENOM-KDY All-Terrain Armored Transport Mk IV can be accommodated, but is being phased out of fleet service. By 2412, all legions are expected to have completed the transition to the new airmobile Rothana All-Terrain Tactical Enforcer. Vertical bay space conserved by the AT-TEs will be used to accommodate the airmobile walkers' accompanying LAAT/c dropships.

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1. "RE: GCID: Project 76A"
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   Very nice. I love the prequel movie ship designs, and am happy to see them appear. Think you can find a way to use the Republic cruisers? Maybe Freespacers, or something?

I think the one thing that bothers me most visually about Eps. 1,2, and 3 is the fact that the vehicles are prettier than Eps. 4,5, and 6. The Republic cruisers, the Jedi starfighters of both styles, the ARCs, the LAATs...the AT-TE isn't as cool looking as an AT-AT, but the lower slung design is inherently more stable. Clone armor has a better aestetic than Stormtrooper, although the skull-like look of the 'trooper has an intimidation factor. The colors used for the clones makes them much sharper, though. In general, the whole prequel arc is just visually prettier, like the whole galaxy backslides after the changeover to empire. TIEs after ARCs? WTF, George?

-D-

"...and the whole ship is just one big blage. With a grapping window. Why do the words 'warp core breach' come to mind?"
"Because if any of the fine technicians in this room grapp up, we are going to light up like a supernova. This sucker shouldn't even come near a planet, much less be sitting in Newport News. But I try to downplay that..."

Vorpal Blade, by John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor


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2. "RE: GCID: Project 76A"
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   >In general, the whole prequel arc is
>just visually prettier, like the whole galaxy backslides after the
>changeover to empire.

Well, partly I think that's by design. The Republic is supposed to be a more colorful, vibrant, interesting-looking place than the Empire; that's one of the things that makes the rise of the Imperial era feel tragic. The Empire's a cold, bleak, unfeeling place - not the sort of place where military starships have colorful insignia and soldiers' uniforms have little touches of style and flair that give them character. It's a deliberate irony, I think, that the clone troopers have more visible esprit de corps and human feeling than their more conventionally recruited successors, the stormtroopers.

From an out-of-story standpoint, it can't really be helped either - Episodes I-III were made much later, of course, with more sophisticated tools, in many cases by more experienced artists. All the art design, all the gear, from starships to the clone troopers' blaster carbines, evolved from the stuff designed for Episodes IV-VI, and it shows, even if, in-continuity, the opposite is the case.

This is why, in UF, most of that stuff is in fact the newer model. For instance, it's mentioned somewhere - The Vastru Encounter, I think - that the DC-15 (the clone trooper blaster carbine) is in the process of replacing the older, less reliable, markedly less accurate E-11 (the one carried by stormtroopers in the original trilogy). Similarly, we see in this article that the Nimbus (aka the V-wing) is GENOM's newest-model light fighter, having evolved from the TIE Avenger.

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3. "RE: GCID: Project 76A"
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   >This is why, in UF, most of that stuff is in fact the newer model.
>For instance, it's mentioned somewhere - The Vastru Encounter,
>I think - that the DC-15 (the clone trooper blaster carbine) is in the
>process of replacing the older, less reliable, markedly less accurate
>E-11 (the one carried by stormtroopers in the original trilogy).

I think that had partly to do with the fact that the clones' donor was a talented bounty hunter and the stormtroopers were conscripts mostly from the poorer worlds, but I'll go with your answer for now.

-D-

"...and the whole ship is just one big blage. With a grapping window. Why do the words 'warp core breach' come to mind?"
"Because if any of the fine technicians in this room grapp up, we are going to light up like a supernova. This sucker shouldn't even come near a planet, much less be sitting in Newport News. But I try to downplay that..."

Vorpal Blade, by John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor


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4. "RE: GCID: Project 76A"
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   Even before the prequels though there were definite hints that the Empire was only a shadow of the former Republic -- look at the way that C3PO and R2D2 are treated as hi-tech artifacts for instance, or the insistance on working on super-weapons in preference to improving the existing slightly shody technology. Even Vader's personal fighter looks like a relic from a more advanced age.


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