Ki'stra Patrol Class

Designed in EE 001-v for the Neshaten Shukara Navy, the Ki'stra Patrol Class is a purpose built classification of medium warships designed to patrol the borders of Neshaten space, providing both firepower and starfighter support along with the ability to recover and respond quickly to threats. It entered service in EE 002.

General
Class:	Patrol
Nomenclature:	Ne-P1-A1
Type:	Border Patrol
Designer:	She'tanora Creno'lane
Manufacturer:	Shukara Armaments and Manufacturing
Fielded by:	Kingdom of Neshaten
Organizations using:	Kingdom of Neshaten, Shukara Volunteer Navy
Production:	Depend on fleet
Price:	458,000 Rn
Crew
Crew:	21 officers, 371 Enlisted
Emergency Capacity:	991 Hundred People
Dimensions
Length:	550 meters (1,804 Feet)
Width:	247 meters (810 feet)
Height:	104 meters (341 feet)
Decks:	8 (3 meters each)
Propulsion and Range
Sublight Engines:	.200c-.225c
Atmospheric Engines:	587 km/h
Underwater Speed:	48 Knots.
Hyperspace Drive	0.5 ly/m
Note: The Ki'stra Class is capable of both atmospheric underwater flight.
Durability and Maintenance
Service Lifespan:	Intended to last ten years with extensive maintenance
Refit Cycle:	Once every two years
Damage Capacity
See Damage Rating (Version 3) for an explanation of the damage system.
Hull:	32
Shields:	32(Threshold 4)
Internal Compartments
Command	Small Assault Bridge
Damage Control	Damage Control Center
Hallways/Conduits	Standard Hallways, Maintenance Conduit
Crew Cafeteria	Prefab Cafeteria and Lounge
Crew Lounge	Observation Lounge
Living Area	Prefab Crew Deck, Q'abrenal Cabin
Cargo Storage	Main Cargo Hold
Food Storage	Food Storage
Armory Storage	Armory
Medical Bay	Large Medical Center
Science Bay	Small Scientific Research Labs, Astrometrics Lab
Computer Room	Large Computer Room
Shield Room	Shield Control Room
Engineering Bay	Large Engineering Bay
Systems Information
Superstructure	Dishe'trum
Armor Plating	Cynestran, Crynatorium
Reactor	1xLunabaren High-Energy Reactor, 2x Lunebaren Reactors provide back up power.
Computer and Sensor Systems	Cordecon Quantum Computer, Neshaten Scanner Array Suite.
Weapon Systems	Os'hane Combat Systems, Universal Turret Mounts
Life Support Systems	Atmospheric Control Systems
Emergency Support Systems	Emergency Support System, 10x K1-25 Escape Pod.
Landing Gear	Landing Claw for landing equipment.
Propulsion	Class 3 Luxiton Gravitic Engines
Defense Systems	2xTa'tagen Field Generator
FTL	Class 1 Kres'tronova Fold Drive
Weapon Type
Light Turret Mounts
31×1 Mark 1 'Rok'truvance' Anti-fighter Turrets
31×1 Mark 1 Rele’vance Missile Turret
8×4 Streamer Laser Turrets
Medium Battery Mounts
10×1 Broadside Laser Battery
10×1 Broadside Plasma Battery
Beam Blister Mount
12×1 Neyo Shun
Medium Turret Mounts
8×1 Mark 1 Piasuhaya'sokol Anti-starship Turret
Heavy Turret Mounts
3×1 Yaga'moshe Plasma Battery
3×2 Mark 1 Piasuhaya'sokol Anti-starship Turret

The Ki'stra is a large patrol vessel designed by the Navy to help the Neshaten patrol within their territorial borders, because of this, the ship wasn't designed for long term deployment but rather to operate in clusters of twelve ships with supply ship support nearby. The ships five fast engines and armor plating make it equally at home in interception or stand off fights, it broadside cannons can make short work of most vessels smaller than itself.

It has a large number of light turret mounts that allows the ship to take on multiple different uses including altering its mission profile to serve more as a repair vessel, refit, supply, or even to mount systems that improve upon its sensor capabilities. It was also designed to carry at least four squads of fighters in its open-air hanger bay located under along the ships undercarriage, this bay is open on both the front and back and allow starfighters and bombers to easily enter and exist the bay, although this opens up the bay to external attack.

Its two 'wings' are capable of folding up or down, allowing it to change its flight profile during flight. It has two sensor domes and two large shield projectors.

The Ki'stra is a vessel that specializes in the patrolling and enforcing of Neshaten territorial borders. The ships fast engines means it can easily intercept most civilian ships and even some military ships, and its faster than light drives also means it can respond quickly to emergencies.

Perhaps what makes the Ki'stra unique in this role isn't so much its engines or response time, but rather that the ships defenses permit it to last for a good deal of time while waiting for reinforcements.

Because of its purpose, the ship doesn't travel alone but rather as part of a squadron of ten ships, with one ship serving as the command vessel and another serving as a recon vessel. When an emergency presents itself, or when the ships pick up on an unknown sensor contact, the assigned recon ship is sent ahead of the squadron. The rest of the squadron will wait anywhere from thirty seconds to two minutes before initiating a jump to their companion vessel. This is done for several reasons, the first is to ascertain whether or not they are responding to an actual emergency or threat but also to give off a false sense of weakness.

Upon arrival, Ki'stra Class ships launch their fighters to form a defensive perimeter around their mothership.

The Ki'stra was perceived by the Navy a short while after Levia was struck by an asteroid in EE 001, due to the calls by the citizenry to increase the amount of ships patrolling their borders and their space. However, current ship designs at the time weren't actually designed to serve that function, so the navy choose to design a new a class entirely for that purpose - one that could be made utilizing a number of prefabricated components to help ease the time it takes to build; because of this consideration, what would usually take two season to build ended up only taking one or even less depending on the number of workers deployed to build the vessel, this resulted in the birth of the Ki'stra.

Designers made certain that the Ki'stra was both well armored and fast, although its armor rating was sacrificed only a little bit so as to give it a fighting chance against potential hostiles. The ship became the first warship within the Navy to use actual directed energy weapon systems.

The Ki'stra looks like a rather long sword with two wings out the left and right, another wing sticking out the forward undercarriage and five spikes in the rear. It has three large turret mounts, eight medium turret mounts, thirty one light turret mounts, and twelve streamer or directed energy mounts.

As the Ki'stra is equipped for combat and interception duties, its feature set deals with weapons and engines, along with defenses. It has thirty one light turret mounts that are designed to equip either combat or non-combat oriented turrets, all located on the top of the ship. It has twelve blister mounts that are designed to house directed energy based weaponry, these are located on the front of the ship and on the sides. It also has three large and eight medium turrets, it also has ten broadside mounts, five on the port and five on the starboard side of the ships; these particular mounts can either use the laser broadside or plasma broadside cannons.

It also has a forward sensor array that is used to interact and connect with nearby border patrol outposts so that its sensor range is increased to include the range that is around said outposts or even other ships of its class, although this comes at the cost of reduced fidelity. Along with its offensive capability, it has five engines, four small and one large, that help make it a very fast ship and also quite maneuverable.

In keeping with tradition, all ships have a different deck layout when they are built, only certain areas are static.

The ship is designed to carry a full compliment of six squadrons of starfighters and the required equipment to service them. Depending on its mission profile though, it might carry other vehicles. The list below is how much the ship can carry in total.

The version of this ship that can be bought by civilians differs only slightly in that its coloration represents that of the trade family that have bought the ship. Other differences include the removal of its two of its heavy turret slots and four of its DEW slots.