Defender Mothership

The Defender Mothership is a fast attack carrier designed to deliver starfighter squadrons and dropships to a battle safely and the design's emphasis on speed allows it to escape an unfavorable battlefield with its precious cargo intact. At a speed of 11 km/sec the ship's designers hailed it as "the Rim's answer to the previously uncatchable Mon Calamari."
==Description==
This is a massive disk of durasteel plating, four hundred meters in circumference and one hundred meters tall. The top of this vessel is a shallow dome cluttered with countless tiny view ports, lit from within. The underside is less rounded, more conical in shape, and in the center a circular hole opens upward into a shielded docking bay, flanked with several tractor beam emitters. Equally spaced around the underside, enormous spherical repulsor-generators just peek their rounded undersides through the heavy armor plating. Around the circumference of the vessel the upper plating and the lower plating meet in a deep trench. Thrusting out from the trench every twenty degrees stands a turbolaser battery. The symmetry of the disc is interrupted only by a rectangular portion of the vessel raised out of the aft. Here cluster the powerful ion engines behind, the columns of shield generators around a raised bridge, and blast doors facing forward on the raised portion below.
==Reputation==
This class of ship is still an unknown factor on the galactic scene. It is too new to have seen much use.
==History==
The Defender Mothership was developed after the obvious strengths of the Republic Navy necessitated a change in tactics among the not only the Black Empire, but also among other belligerent and neutral factions. The Sacree-Avernus Corporation's development of a carrier received low priority until the Black Empire demonstrated the strength of fighter wings during the Battle of Bothawui. 
In an effort to rush the class of ship into production, the project's scientists decided to "borrow" the frame and control systems used in the Guardian Battleship.
The Defender class made its combat debut in the Battle of Alderaan where, under the command of the Tanaab Defense Force, it destroyed a C3 Passenger Liner.
==Upgrades==
The Defender Mothership's bare-bones design leaves plenty of rooms for upgrade, especially its already impressive thruster units and shields. The majority of its available weapons hardpoints are suitable for only Concussion Missile tubes, making an upgraded mothership a potent anti-fighter platform. 
==Shipyards==
Sacree-Avernus shipyards found on Elmoriyah. It can also be pre-ordered from the Sacree-Avernus corporation at a reduced cost.
 
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Category:Capital Ships