Hi.


Based on the Trobrin discussion elsewhere, I was considering what other empire might be able to readily develop similar hulls to those fielded (or proposed) by the Empire - and looking through the SSd book for Omega 5, the answer jumped onto my shoulder like a particularly agile salamander!


The Probr have a history of modularisation, when it comes to constructing their warships - bolting together one, two or three centre hulls and attaching various-sized wings to the sides to create a finished vessel.

Plus, with the threat of Trobrin invasion never far away, it would be useful for the Porbr to find a means of countering the Imperial threat - while saving on the purse-strings, of course (the Probr, like the Gorns, like their ships cheap!).


So, I was thinking of the following three ideas:

Probr Division Control Ship

Deployed at the same time as the Space Control Ship, the DCS was a cruiser-sized vessel designed to allow for the same kind of fighter and gunboat deployment offered in rival Trobrin fleets by their own Division Control Ships.

Take the wings and two outer hulls of the Probr SCS, delete the centre hull, replace the port emergency bridge with a flag bridge, replace the two outermost HEAT launchers with special sensors.

Turn mode B, or C with the wing engines fried.


Probr Revolution-class Stellar Domination Ship

When the Trobrin invasion of Y214 hit the Probr, the deployment of the Imperial SDS was an unwelcome development.

Not only did its superior command facilities permit Imperial fleets to be denser than they had hitherto been, but its additional size and power made it a thorny prospect in and of itself, even without considering the fighters and gunboats at its disposal.

However, a moment of inspiration in the mind of one of the homeworlds' most renowned engineers led to an intriguing proposal. Said engineer suggested that a fourth hull module could be added to the pre-existing SCS design - and further, that the opportunity could be taken to maximize the attritional capability of said warship, by adding the same mech links and repair facilities to the two inner hulls that were already mounted on the SCS's two outer hulls.

The result was the Revolution - a testament to the ingenuity and efficiency of Probr engineers, albeit one which depended relatively heavily on its increased number of attrition units to compete against the more powerful Imperial adversary.

Despite this disrepancy, the Trobrin were displeased to no end when they first engaged a fleet led by the Revolution in battle - livid that a hull displacement they had taken decades to perfect had been copied by the Probr in less than three years...

Again, take the SCS, remove the current middle hull, replace it with two hulls (each based on the closer of the two SCS outer hulls) replace two emergency bridge boxes with flag bridge boxes, and the two innermost HEAT launchers with special sensors.

Turn mode D, or E with the wing engines fried.


Probr Heavy Escort

With the need to guard these larger warship, the Probr sought to make the most out of their smaller hull samples. One example was an escort based on an experimental light cruiser design - featuring two frigate-sized centre hulls attached to a frigate's wings.

Take the frigate escort, add a second centre hull, and give the ship a Turn Mode of B, or C with fried wing engines.


How are these?

By Jim Pennington (Cutlass401) on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 09:31 am: Edit

Would they even be able to attach four hulls together? IIRC they had trouble with tree hulls to make the DN at first. Made it sould like that four hulls would have been impossable.

JBP

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 09:40 am: Edit

Well, by the mid Y210s, the Probr would have new-generation technologies, from X-ships to war cruisers to PFs.

While I'm not suggesting that any X-tech go into the SDS design, perhaps the ability of the Probr corps of engineers to develop newer warships would have improved enough between the era of the first DN and that of this first SDS to make the latter design feasible?

By Scott Tenhoff (Scottt) on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 10:31 am: Edit

I have a design which I will eventually submit to SPP for a Probr CL, basically a Heavy Hull (DD)+Light Hull(FF) welded together over-under.

I had always imagined 2xFF hulls welded together would be a DW.

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 11:12 am: Edit

I wasn't sure about using the term War Destroyer (or War Cruiser, for that matter) for such a hull type, since the issue of what a speed-31 'war' class ship built in Probr space might look like has yet to be established.