Taidann Assault Carrier

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An Assault Carrier near Nessus Prime

"Where's my fire support? Oh right..."
- General Ironside on the Assault Carrier


The Taidann Assault Carrier, or just the Assault Carrier is a super-heavy capital ship employed in the Blood Gulch Starfleet.

A heavily-armed and armoured behemoth, the Assault Carrier can withstand and deal a lot of damage to enemy strike craft. It employs point defence pulse lasers throughout most of its systems as well as a single Ion Cannon on the side.
While not as powerful as the one mounted on the Ion Frigate, it is on a turret base, making it able to hit enemy strike craft better.

It also has a hyperspace module if it needs to do so, but normally they can dock underneath Stargate Command when preparing to travel.

Three were used during the Second Battle of Chiron. General Ironside had the command of one such vessel to which to command his ground forces with.

Weaknesses

While the carrier looked good and powerful when engaging small fleets, it had problems in both speed and manoeuvrability. While able to deal with most fighter incursions with its computer-guided point defence, it couldn't engage larger vessels such as frigates or destroyers as easily.

It would have to rely on its armour and other ships to make sure it would survive the battle.

Factory

Inside the carrier itself is a massive hangar bay, able to hold hundreds of fighters and strike craft. However, what also is remarkable is the nanolathe construction facility built inside the ship as well, making it able to construct smaller vessels, so long as it had the proper resources.

It couldn't construct other carriers or build anything larger than the hangar, but the carrier could construct a small fleet of capital ships to help offset the weaknesses.

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