The Maw

[John Hammond]

The Maw.

Classified: Maximum Priority ; Top Secret - Maw ONLY.

Orders:
Build Prototype Fleet.

Allocate ALL resources immediately - cease development of all other weapons until further notice.

Fleet Composition:


Elite Assault Fleets - June 5th

Epsilon A-1-
001 Arc Hammer
002 DCSHA Command SD
005 Emperor Class SD
060 Heavy Ion Frigates
100 Victory Mk. IV SD
050 Nebulon H Frigates
075 Nebulon B II Frigates
300 Carrack Cruisers
300 Starblaze Lancers
003 TIE Mega Transport Carriers

Elite Support Fleet: May 30th

Epsilon S-1:
001 Arc Hammer
004 Executor Class SD
040 Victory Mk. IV Star Destroyers
040 Victory Mk. III Star Destroyers
050 Nebulon H Frigates
060 Nebulon B-II Frigates
075 Carrack Cruisers
075 Starblaze Lancers
005 TIE Mega Transport Carriers

Epsilon S-2:
001 Arc Hammer
004 Executor Class SD
040 Victory Mk. IV Star Destroyers
040 Victory Mk. III Star Destroyers
050 Nebulon H Frigates
060 Nebulon B-II Frigates
075 Carrack Cruisers
075 Starblaze Lancers
005 TIE Mega Transport Carriers

Anti- Starfighter Batallion: May 25th

Epsilon H -1:
010 Heavy Ion Frigates
040 Mk. IV Victory Class SD
100 Carrack Cruisers
150 Starblaze Lancers
001 TIE Mega Transport

Epsilon H -2:
010 Heavy Ion Frigates
040 Mk. IV Victory Class SD
100 Carrack Cruisers
150 Starblaze Lancers
001 TIE Mega Transport

Epsilon H -3:
010 Heavy Ion Frigates
040 Mk. IV Victory Class SD
100 Carrack Cruisers
150 Starblaze Lancers
001 TIE Mega Transport

Epsilon H -4:
010 Heavy Ion Frigates
040 Mk. IV Victory Class SD
100 Carrack Cruisers
150 Starblaze Lancers
001 TIE Mega Transport

[John Hammond]

"What in the name of the Force is John building this time?" The Heads of all the Departments in the Maw, considered galaxy wide the best in the, well, the entire galaxy in their fields were gathered there, looking at the schematics.

"Need to know, my friends, need to know." Tektor walked into the room, his face serious and composed. "What you need to know is this: This fleet is meant to be unique in the galaxy. It is meant to be the strike force which will drive any Empire to its knees, even a Jedi Empire, if there ever were one."

"But... you're talking absurdities here! You're asking for fully automated anti-starfighter weaponry systems, with a coherent phase capability, as well as friendly-no-friendly action activated software. Sithspawn, this has never been heard of. Coherent re-direction of all the engines in the fleet at once? Multi-bridge control capabilities? And on top of that, you want this fleet to move fast? The supercomputers we're going to have to build to do this are going to be huge, and they are going to take pretty much all the energy in every single spacecraft. They won't even be able to fire!"

Tektor looked at the Head of Programming and Computer Engineering and nodded slowly.

"Triple plating on every ship? Ok, I get that. Unit compartmentalization, I get that too. Deck comparmentalization? You want me to build ships that will be able to have a gaping hole in the middle of them, and still have air within them? That's a lot of armour. On top of that, damage detectors and energy sensors... but coupled with mini-shield generators for power deviation? You're suggesting I build ships that can sense where most of the firepower is being rerouted so they can in turn reroute the shields to cover it? I don't know if I can do it." The Head of Armour and Shield Engineering sat down, shaking slightly.

"You want weaponry upgrades. I can give them to you. That's about the only feasible thing in this whole project." The Head of Weaponry Design smiled, thankful he had been spared the shame of not having an impossible assignment.

"Correct me if I'm wrong, Commander Fyaar, but what the Supreme Commander wants is a fleet that can be controlled from any ship given the right commands and signals. He wants a fleet that can coordinately and equivalently re-direct its firepower, directions and shield strength to converge on an enemy. He also wants to give the ship captains, however, independence to move as they wish, while complying with fleet orders. And he wants an enlarged version of the Force-Field Desensitization Weaponry Systems on board the ship, with retroactive, intro-active and extro-active capabilities? What is he going to do, deprive an entire planet of the Force?" The Head of Strategic Assault Weaponry and Inter-cruiser Strategic-Tactic Interface Relay Systems shook his head in disbelief.

"That is exactly what the Supreme Commander wants you to do." Tektor smiled calmly, watching as tensions grew again.

"It can't be done."

Tektor's smile disappeared, replaced instead with a calm assurance.
"That's why I'm here. To show you that it can be done."

[John Hammond]

The Maw

Classified: Maximum Priority ; Top Secret - Imperial Admiralty

Dept. of Applied Mathematics
Dept. of Theoretical Physics
Dept. of Logistics and Military Strategy.

ISSUE: Article #39,415 of current year.

Topic:
Assessment of Differentials in Military Force: A Worst-Case Scenario Algorithm.

Abstract:
This article aims to model the outcome of a possible confrontation between the Mandalorians, the Imperial Coalition, and the Black Moon and the Galactic Empire.

Assessment of Differentials in Military Force: A Worst-Case Scenario Algorithm.

Given the current situation of galactic affairs, and the imminent conflict that awaits if a peaceful resolution is not reached, the importance of an assesment of the power differential of the main galactic powers is of great importance.

The Maw currently counts with the only supercomputer in the Empire capable of performing calculations of this magnitude in less than 3 days; as such, we were tasked with the performance of a study that would calculate the outcome of an armed resolution.

Given the fact that stratagem algorithms can only be run over long period of times, and that their development has been impeded by the difficulty of the calculations involved, a simplifying assumption was made that each battle ship would be free to move and reach its position in time to engage a number N of enemy cruisers. The same simplifying assumption was made for the enemy.

Due to the fact that strategic planning factors were ignored due to the speed with which this article was required, a correction factor of +-2 points were added to the loss ratio denominator for flag ships and a correction factor of +-9 points in the loss ratio denominator were used to compensate for a possible fluctuation. These correction factors were considered positive for all calculations (the trivial case of boarding enemy ships was ignored) and this simplified the calculations considerably.

Using the published information on battlecruisers for all factions (starfighters were ignored, as these values may be very inaccurate), the following situation was modelled.

The Galactic Empire engages Mandalorian Empire.
Subsequently,
The Galactic Empire engages Imperial Coalition and Black Moon forces.
Remaining Galactic Empire forces.

Initially, the GE/Mando ratio was calculated to be
4.0 for Capitol Cruisers and Flag ships
9.6 for all smaller cruisers.

The rate of loss of imperial ships, for every mandalorian ship was calculated to be:
3.0 Imperial Capitol Cruisers lost per every Mandalorian Flagship.
9.0 Imperial Cruisers lost per Mandalorian Cruiser.

Subsequent calculations led to a recalculated GE/(BM+IC) ship ratio, modelling a second battle. For simplicity, due to the small size of their armadas in comparison to the Empire, a single ratio was used. Taking into account the devastating losses due to the Mandalorians, we calculated that
5.1 Imperial Ships per Enemy force Ships

Losses for this battle were attenuated, as the strategic factor affecting the denominator in this battle is theorized to be much smaller for battles in which there is a ratio greater than 4 becomes <<1 (Tektor Fyaar: The Strategic Denominator, Just How Important Are Strategic Genii?), and thus a loss ratio of
1 Imp. Ship per Enemy Ship
was recalculated.

After both battles, the Galactic Empire ships remained positive, an indicator that both battles were theoretically won, but with devastating losses.

Initial Values:
Flag: 364
Cruisers: 10,100

Final Values:
Flag: 88
Cruisers: 650

These losses mean that the Imperial Armada would be potentially reduced to 6.61% of its actual size.

In conclusion, even if a worst-case scenario played out, and over 75% of our Command Ships and 93.75% of our battle ships were wiped out or otherwise neutralized, the Galactic Empire would be in a good position to eliminate an Imperial Coalition-Black Moon assault force, and have a sizeable, although much weaker, battle force.

[John Hammond]

OOC:
This study is real. All information was used as posted on the Mandalorian, and IC navy reports; BM forces were estimated at 100 capital cruisers as a correction factor.

[Dan Zorko]

OOC: Can you give me a what's considered a cruiser?

[admin]

Jun 13, 2009 4:27:10 GMT John Hammond said:

OOC:
This study is real. All information was used as posted on the Mandalorian, and IC navy reports; BM forces were estimated at 100 capital cruisers as a correction factor.

Not entirely real, if you read carefully, the Imperial Coalition never had a full list completed. Hell, i never continued with the production topics either. They were purely for me to use, i didn't expect anyone to actually take them seriously.

[John Hammond]

OOC:

Cruiser : <=Mk III SD

If i read carefully, well, that's not my problem. If you read carefully, I used all the stats on the IC board.

Geez, you know, this was just supposed to be a fun, interesting post.

Of course, since we all know that Caedus, Krant, Jalua and Dan are in a United Front.... these hate posts are getting annoying.

[Dan Zorko]

OOC: Hey, I just wanted to know what a cruiser was...

[admin]

OOC: Yea well I'm considering saving the list on my computer and taking it off the forum if it's going to be used when its not completed. Not saying it's your fault, just identifying that those figures i posted weren't finished.