Archer-Class Escort Carrier by Darklorddc

Carrara/RDS • Science Fiction • posted on Oct 22, 2009

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Description

At the start of the first interstellar war, humanity had no dedicated carriers, so there was no way to transport fighters over long-range, except in cargo pods towed by other vessels. These were very vulnerable to attack, clumsy and limited in what fighters they could bring. However, it quickly became apparent that star fighters were where the Terran Protectorate had a clear edge against the enemy. So, the Protectorate decided to update an old seafaring war craft design: the Carrier. Engineers took a heavy duty bulk cargo hauler, designed for heavy upgrading and specialization, added armor, defensive weaponry, and replaced the forward cargo compartments with a sophisticated flight deck. Although light on weapons, the ability to field squadrons of fighters from carrier-based fleets turned the tide of the war. Once the first of the Archers began to see action, the Protectorate racked up victory after victory. That was over 60 years ago, and the design was so successful, and the Protectorate made so many of them, that the ships are still in service and being refitted and refurbished to fight in the new war. Stats Model: CVE Archer-Class Escort Carrier Fleet: Terran Protectorate Height: 188 feet (57.3 m) Length: 920 feet (280.4 m) Width: 490.5 feet (149.5 m) Sublight Speed: 20% light speed Maximum FTL: 1 Light year per day Officers: 52, plus 30 flight officers (pilots) Crew: 720 Troops: 20 marines (security) Passengers: Can carry an additional 200 troops or passengers Armaments 1 x Twin-barreled Heavy Laser Pulse Turret 6 x Long-range anti-ship missile tubes 4 x Twin-barreled Medium Gaus Cannon Turrets Defenses: 2 layers of 6-inch thick Chobham Electromagnetic Reactive plates, separated by shock-absorbing sealant gel (making the armor self sealing for small breaches) over a titanium lattice frame. Combat vessels 12 SF-11 Crossbow Space Superiority Fighters 6 SF-6C Ballista Heavy Strike Fighters Auxillary Vehicles: 4 short-range "Hopper" shuttles. Avionics: Digital Navigational Telescope, Mass Detectors, Spectrographic Light Analysis and Electromagnetic Field Detectors make up the long-range sensors. Short-range sensors include LADAR, Radar, and Infrared Field Surveyors.

Comments (19)

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Faemike55

11:30PM | Thu, 22 October 2009

interesting stats and nice ship! Excellent work

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shadownet

12:07AM | Fri, 23 October 2009

Excellent!

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geirla

12:52AM | Fri, 23 October 2009

Great image! Love the ship and the background. Excellent write-up too.

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SIGMAWORLD

1:45AM | Fri, 23 October 2009

Excellent image!

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tamburro

7:37AM | Fri, 23 October 2009

Excellent!

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flavia49

7:54AM | Fri, 23 October 2009

superb image!!!

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DangerousThing

10:20AM | Fri, 23 October 2009

Nice! The image looked a bit dark to me, but that only heightened the effect of seeing the carrier when I enlarged the picture. This looks like a scary ship if I were on the other side. Great work. I wish you'd open up a store and sell some of your designs.

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Darklorddc

10:24AM | Fri, 23 October 2009

I need to learn how to do true UV painting first, and then I would definitely consider selling some of my ship designs. But the texturing I do in Carrara currently doesn't translate over to other programs.

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zhaanman

10:26AM | Fri, 23 October 2009

Awesome detail and design love the lighting as well! However some of the detail in lost in how dark some of the image is but oh what a look just the same!

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