Wiped out long ago, approximately sixty-five thousand years before present day, the Valdemarian Imperium was once a power to be reckoned with. Something happened and they disappeared from existence. Some believe it was a quark nova which destroyed their home worlds but it not known for sure what happened. Various other theories have been offered including enemy attacks. No matter what the cause, what were once life supporting worlds are now barren rocks burned clear of life.
The Promethians were already around when the Valdemarian culture flourished but they deny any knowledge of the other race. It is quite possible that this is the case. They are quite far distant and does not appear that the Valdemarian ventured too far out from their twelve inhabited home systems. It is also possible that the Promethians are lying. They are an extremely inscrutable race after all.
What is well known is that the Valdemarians appear to have been elves. Genetic samples have been found and have been tested extensively. No one knows how closely related to the elves of United Worlds Warlock they might be. Some scholars think that those elves are decedents of the Valdemarians while others believe that they came from different places in the megaverse. It does not appear that the Valdemarians used magic. There have been several theories as far as that but none have been satisfactory.
The Valdemarians were technological masters although the powers of the Three Galaxies currently have almost caught up with them. They were incredible in automation with fully automated production facilities. They also had incredibly advanced computers with systems being self aware. They also were masters of gravity with incredibly powerful gravity based drive systems. The only place where they seemed lacking was in areas of medical and they don't seem to have done much in the way of cybernetics. They also built one of the largest vessels even known in the Three Galaxies. This is known as the "Battle Sphere" as is the size of a small moon.
Even though not as well know as the Battle Sphere, it appears that around fifteen hundred Valdemarian Corvettes were built in total. As with most designs, plenty of twisted wreckage has been found but nothing complete. It is possible that one was on far station outside of whatever destroyed the core systems and survived intact. As well, many seem to have been kept in asteroid bases and it is possible an intact hanger could be found. Any of the major powers would spend billions of credits to acquire one of these warships or just simply to keep it out of the hands of others.
This Valdemarian Corvette could have been considered a Human Alliance Ferret class corvette built "large" based on the vessel's weaponry and role. Of course, it appeared to have been around ten times the size of the Human Alliance vessel which was build around sixty-five millenniums later but they still fill a similar role. In many ways, the ship straddles the size classes of destroyer and cruiser in the present military forces of the Three Galaxies. In comparison, the Scimitar patrol ship is around twelve thousand tons. All Valdmarian ship classes appear to be quite large for the roles which they fill. The Corvette seems to have been mostly a sledge hammer for battle and armed with little beyond its missile weaponry. It also appears to have been at least semi-expendable.
Other roles usually performed by destroyer or frigate class vessels seemed to have been performed by the Valdemarian destroyer even though it was the size of a Consortium Cruiser. These included escort duties and customs and boarding roles. The Valdemarian destroyer appears to have been a much less expendable design in general.
The main battery of the corvette is a pair of capital missile batteries. These launchers have a reduced payload compared to those carried on the Valdemarian destroyer with what appears to be four reloads per launcher for a total of around four hundred anti-ship missiles. The Valdemarian military appears to have had all the standard classes of capital missiles including the heavy anti-matter and gravity warheads. As well, they appear to have used X-Ray warheads and decoy missiles.
The ship did appear to mount point defense weaponry in the form of four medium range missile batteries. Payload was half that of the destroyer with around eight hundred missiles total carried. These four missile mounts were augmented by four tachyon dispersion beam mounts which fire a cone of energy to intercept missiles and four point defense gravity slicer beams. There appears to have been no truly long range defensive weaponry. Originally, there was thought that an escort version armed long range missiles instead of cruise missile batteries but there has never been any evidence of this modified type of vessel found.
Valdemarian hardware can be noted by the golden alloy which the hull was made from and this ship is build from the same materials as the other designs operated by their military. It had an advanced self repair system which is fully automated. The ship was also protected by shields which are as powerful as those carried on a Consortium Warshield class cruiser. Between the hull and shields, the vessel can withstand quite incredible damage.
As keeping with its role, it did not appear to have carried any fighters or troops. Weaponry aboard was limited to small arms and equipment for the small crew. Crew appears to have been only a little over two dozen with advanced automation to allow crew reduction to such an extent. Crew comfort was far better than that of the Ferret at least with reasonably large crew quarters although still far from spacious. Electronics were as advanced as anything operated by the Valdemarian military. The ship did have a limited artificial intelligence although fighting abilities are greatly impaired when controlled exclusively by the computer.
Power is generated by a powerful fusion plant. Even though they had anti-matter power plants, they seem to have preferred fusion power with its greater level of safety. They had extremely efficient high density fusion plants which rival, and in many cases exceed, the output of similar mass anti-matter plants used by most of the current governments in their largest designs.
Engines were extremely powerful. The ship mounted a slip stream drive like that of all known Valdemarian designs with a top combat acceleration rivaling that of some fighter designs. It appears to have had a similar acceleration curve to that of a Katana fighter produced by Bushido Industries. Atmospheric speed appears to have been much lower though, approximately that of the speed of sound, although it could land on a planet. Faster than light speed was basically fleet standard with a top speed of around sixteen light years per hour. Of course this is twice as fast as the best current Contra-Grav drives.
Ship design uses modified starship speeds and weapon ranges. See Revised Starship Rules for Phase World for more details.
Model Type: Valdemarian Corvette
Vehicle Type: Destroyer / Frigate
Crew: 25 (Can be run by only the ship's A.I.)
Troops: None
M.D.C. By Location:
| Cruise Missile Batteries (2): | 3,000 each | |
| Medium Range Missile Batteries (4): | 1,200 each | |
| Point Defense Tachyon Dispersion Beams (4): | 500 each | |
| Point Defense Gravity Mounts (4): | 450 each | |
| [1] Bridge: | 5,000 | |
| [2] Main Engines (2, sides of rear of ship): | 6,000 each | |
| [3] Main Body: | 12,000 | |
| [4] Variable Force Field: | 4,000 a side (24,000 Total) |
Notes:
[1] In reality this is how much damage needs to be done for a weapon
to hit the bridge through the ships armor. This ship does not have an auxiliary
bridge. Even if the bridges is destroyed, the ship can still be piloted
from engineering but ship is -3 to dodge and all weapon systems will be
at local control. Weapon hits near the bridge that do not penetrate the
ships integrity can injure crew members on or near the bridge.
[2] Destroying the main engines means that ship F.T.L. propulsion systems
are destroyed and maximum sublight speed is reduced by half.
[3] Depleting the M.D.C. of the main body will put the destroyer out
of commission. All internal systems will shut down, including life support
and internal gravity. The ship itself will be an unsalvageable floating
wreck. If the ship is wrecked, self repair system will stop functioning.
[4] Shields positions can be varied and all could be combined in one
shield. Shields regenerate at the rate of 5% (1,200 M.D.C.) per melee round.
Speed:
Driving on the Ground: Not Possible.
Sublight: Has a special sublight engine that allows the ship
to travel up to 60 percent of the speed of light. Star Ship can accelerate/decelerate
at the rate of 1.4 percent of light per melee. (If the Slip stream generators
are damage, reduce acceleration to 1.1 percent of light per melee.)
Atmospheric Propulsion: Maximum speed is mach one (741.5 mph
/ 1,193.3 kph), can enter an atmosphere and can leave but is not designed
for extended atmospheric use.
Stardrive: Standard CG-Drive: Uses a Gravitonic Drive
system that allows the ship to reach a maximum of 8 light years per hour.
Gravitronic
Slip Stream Drive: Doubles normal faster than light speed to a maximum
of 16 light years per hour.
Maximum Range: Normally Carries enough life support and supplies
for six months of uninterrupted travel for the entire crew complement.
Supplies can be increased to double effective range to one year if needed.
Statistical Data:
Length: 524.93 feet (160.0 meters)
Height: 91.86 feet (28.0 meters)
Width: 104.99 feet (32.0 meters)
Mass/Weight: 22,050 Tons (20,000 metric tons)
Power System: Advanced High Density Fusion, Duration without
refueling of 40 years. Unlike the Valdemarian Battle Sphere, the ship cannot
refuel itself.
Cargo: Cargo holds are scattered about the ship that allows
for carrying up to 440.92 tons (400 metric tons) of cargo in addition to
standard compliment of supplies and ammunition. Each enlisted crew member
has a small locker for personal items and uniforms. Ships officers have
more space for personal items. Most of the ships spaces are take up by
extra ammunition, armor, troops, weapons, engine, and other equipment.
Market Cost: No ships of this design have ever been put on sale
on the market (or probably ever will be). Estimated cost of the vessel
is 5 billion or more credits. Most governments would bankrupt themselves
to get possession of one of these ships or to prevent others from acquiring
one.
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