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Advanced armour is usually used by combat vessels, and includes self repair abilities, a thermal super conductor grid, and the ability to move plates to reinforce areas who's structural integrity is threatened. | Advanced armour is usually used by combat vessels, and includes self repair abilities, a thermal super conductor grid, and the ability to move plates to reinforce areas who's structural integrity is threatened. | ||
'''Composite Armour''' | '''Composite Armour'''<br> | ||
Simple armour made from a composite of alloy and ceramic, usually used only on light civilian space craft. | Simple armour made from a composite of alloy and ceramic, usually used only on light civilian space craft. | ||
'''Hyper Diamond Armour''' | '''Hyper Diamond Armour'''<br> | ||
Made from altered carbon,hyper diamond is as strong as normal diamond and far less brittle, giving it extensive resistance to impact and energy strikes. | Made from altered carbon,hyper diamond is as strong as normal diamond and far less brittle, giving it extensive resistance to impact and energy strikes. | ||
'''Exotic Armour''' | '''Exotic Armour'''<br> | ||
Used exclusively by military craft, exotic armour is incredibly strong and reflective, and has a molecular structure which hardens its self against impacts, providing excellent protection at minimal weight. | Used exclusively by military craft, exotic armour is incredibly strong and reflective, and has a molecular structure which hardens its self against impacts, providing excellent protection at minimal weight. | ||
===Chameleonware=== | ===Chameleonware=== | ||
A development of earlier RAM, Infra-Red cloaking and thermoptic camouflage, Chameleonware acts to block scans, and render a ship invisible to the naked eye, radar, thermal imagining and minimizing it's gravitic and exotic signatures. | |||
=== | Advanced Chameleonware is usually found only on specialized military stealth vehicles, and provides much greater resistance to scans at a much higher cost. | ||
===Defense Aura=== | |||
Also known as a shield, a defense aura is a plane altered space time and virtual matter which serves to scatter or block incoming fire. Most fast cycle arrays general only operate for a short time, blocking incoming strikes then turning off again to save power, however they can operate for a substantial amount of time if needs be, for instance while operating in a high radiation environment or shower of meteors. | |||
===Distributed Arrays=== | ===Distributed Arrays=== | ||
Distributed Arrays are a catch all term for the various electronic systems mounted across a ships hull (for instance sensors and communications) this distributed and holographic arrangement protects the array from damage and allows for much greater fidelity in scanning. Passive scanners, communications and defense aura generators can be mounted in distributed arrays. | |||
==Weapons Systems== | ==Weapons Systems== | ||
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==Support Systems== | ==Support Systems== | ||
=== | ===Active Decoy Launcher=== | ||
===ECM System=== | ===ECM System=== | ||
=== | ===Point Defence System=== | ||
===Sensor Array=== | |||
Sensor Arrays are those types of sensors that cannot be mounted in a distributed network on a ships hull, including very powerful and precise active sensor arrays and exotic sensors: those that pick up FTL particles, space time events and the like. Each sensor array takes up 1 equipment slot. | |||
==Small Craft== | ==Small Craft== | ||
Revision as of 11:48, 7 January 2010
Ship Systems
Surface Features
Armour
Armour is a vital component of any space vehicle, even a civilian one, armour in the Expanse comes in a variety of styles and materials, ranging from simple composite to the exotic, self repairing materials used in military vessels. Despite this, armour is still basically they same as it always has been, hard material you put between vital systems and hostile fire.
Advanced armour is usually used by combat vessels, and includes self repair abilities, a thermal super conductor grid, and the ability to move plates to reinforce areas who's structural integrity is threatened.
Composite Armour
Simple armour made from a composite of alloy and ceramic, usually used only on light civilian space craft.
Hyper Diamond Armour
Made from altered carbon,hyper diamond is as strong as normal diamond and far less brittle, giving it extensive resistance to impact and energy strikes.
Exotic Armour
Used exclusively by military craft, exotic armour is incredibly strong and reflective, and has a molecular structure which hardens its self against impacts, providing excellent protection at minimal weight.
Chameleonware
A development of earlier RAM, Infra-Red cloaking and thermoptic camouflage, Chameleonware acts to block scans, and render a ship invisible to the naked eye, radar, thermal imagining and minimizing it's gravitic and exotic signatures.
Advanced Chameleonware is usually found only on specialized military stealth vehicles, and provides much greater resistance to scans at a much higher cost.
Defense Aura
Also known as a shield, a defense aura is a plane altered space time and virtual matter which serves to scatter or block incoming fire. Most fast cycle arrays general only operate for a short time, blocking incoming strikes then turning off again to save power, however they can operate for a substantial amount of time if needs be, for instance while operating in a high radiation environment or shower of meteors.
Distributed Arrays
Distributed Arrays are a catch all term for the various electronic systems mounted across a ships hull (for instance sensors and communications) this distributed and holographic arrangement protects the array from damage and allows for much greater fidelity in scanning. Passive scanners, communications and defense aura generators can be mounted in distributed arrays.
Weapons Systems
Drone Racks
Hybrid Guns
Particle Beams
Support Systems
Active Decoy Launcher
ECM System
Point Defence System
Sensor Array
Sensor Arrays are those types of sensors that cannot be mounted in a distributed network on a ships hull, including very powerful and precise active sensor arrays and exotic sensors: those that pick up FTL particles, space time events and the like. Each sensor array takes up 1 equipment slot.