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==Fleet Carrier, CV== | ==Fleet Carrier, CV== | ||
==='' | ===''Regency''-class Advanced Fleet Carrier=== | ||
With the advent of new gravitic drive combat shuttles, the design of carriers underwent a paradigm shift. While still needing to be able to efficiently handle and maintain large numbers of small craft, the new fleet carrier design needed to be able to throw the fighters clear of its own drive field before they could light their own drives. This could not be done with transporters or tractor beams because the low initial <math>\Delta v</math> would leave the shuttles too vulnerable for enemy fire. So, the ship is build to house a series of linear accelerators, much like over-sized photon torpedo launchers, which blast the combat shuttles clear of the hull on a laterally diverging vector from the mother ship. | With the advent of new gravitic drive combat shuttles, the design of carriers underwent a paradigm shift. While still needing to be able to efficiently handle and maintain large numbers of small craft, the new fleet carrier design needed to be able to throw the fighters clear of its own drive field before they could light their own drives. This could not be done with transporters or tractor beams because the low initial <math>\Delta v</math> would leave the shuttles too vulnerable for enemy fire. So, the ship is build to house a series of linear accelerators, much like over-sized photon torpedo launchers, which blast the combat shuttles clear of the hull on a laterally diverging vector from the mother ship. | ||
* | * [[Regency statistics Mark I]] introduced in 2419. | ||
* [[ | * [[Regency schematic]] | ||
===''Starfall''-class Fleet Carrier=== | ===''Starfall''-class Fleet Carrier=== | ||