Jedireaper
PSN ID > DarkJedireaper
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
Within the pin-pricked darkness of space, hung three wedge shaped Instigator class Star Destroyers, orbiting high above the ice planet of Hoth. The blue-white ice fields of the frozen world glistened in the systems star light, and to any observer that was present on those ships, even at the great distance from the planet, it would be a beautiful sight.
The crew of these ships didn't currently have the time for sight-seeing, and were hard at work preparing the three warships for what ever duties they had been assigned.
The Instigator class was based on the Imperator class of destroyer commenly referred to as the Imperial class due to it's mass productions and wide use during the time of the Empire and it's association. The Imperator was known to have many flaws and defects that should have negated its role as a combat, which had cost the lives of thousands of crew-men over the years. The Instigator class was an attempt by the Galactic Imperial Alliance to counter and indeed remove the flaws of the original design.
After nearly ten years of trial and error design they finally came up with a suitable design plan. Alliance engineers fabricated a Star Destroyer using shield designs by the Mon-Calamari, with the inclusion of secondary shield emitters feeding directly off the reactor on the underside, which allowed for more flexibily in how shields could be used and being able to give greator protection to areas where the shields were initially brought down. In addition they lowered the bridge tower considerably to make it easier to provide uniform shield and hull protection. They removed the shield domes, and added in new shields emitters aft of the bridge where anti-fighter protection was highest, and had greater hull protection. At one point five kilometres long (though the length of the design has varied from one point four to as high as two kilometres in the past), and boasting no-more than eight dorsal barbette heavy guns, one hundred and twenty heavy turbolaser and turbolaser cannons, thirty light-repeating 'anti- fighter' laser batteries, dozens of missile launch tubes, a higher than normal complement of ion cannons entirely dependant on ship-role and design, in addition to improved targeting computers, and more refined engines, the Insitgator was a formidable ship.
On the bridge of one of the Star Destroyers, named the Vassisk's Bane, Admiral Marcell was reading a report that a rather twitchy and nervous tech had just handed him. the Admiral was smiling as he responded calmly, to each point, "remember these are new ships, straight off the line, their shake-downs will always have problems crip up, so if you discovered a systems glitch in the fire suppression system, don't throw a panic. So a few rooms were filled with fire suppression foam, better than an engine exploding. find the root of the problem and fix it." He handed the datapad back to the tech, and sat down in the captains chair as the tech nodded saluted and hurried off.
"New crew," the admiral sighed.
"I know what you mean," captain Inos agreed, "I remember what I was like when I was recruited into the Alliance as a junior officer, I didn't know how my superiors would react to my reports, I always expected the worse."
The Admiral smiled, and glanced over to the ships captain. "You did well enough, look at you now."
The man's smile almost shined as bright as his policed rank cylinders. "My first command..." His voice was filled with pride, as he turned to watch the busy bridge crew getting used to their new ship and their new posts. "Thank you for coming aboard for this inspection, sir."
"Don't mention it, we need some good to happen aften what transpired." The Admiral had been with the Alliance since very near the beginning, hailing from the Emperor's old order, he appreciated how things needed to be changed. "I will be leaving in an hour however, some business with our droid loving friends."
Inos nodded, and smiled. "I see."
Admiral straightened his uniform and leaned forward while giving a small chuckle. "We'll be fine I'm sure."
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