Ts'usugi Ships
Listed below are the systems and ship specifications used by the Ts'usugi Empire to protect their borders and assets, keep their people and allies safe, and expand into new territory.
Dark Matter Reactor System: The principal power source for all craft equipped with a Dark Matter Drive. A Dark Matter Reactor houses a collection of Dark Matter proportional to the craft that it powers, and the reactor captures the emitted Dark Energy the matter produces. Manipulation of a gravity field within the reactor increases the amount of energy produced, allowing for sufficient energy to power the Dark Matter Drive. This system of energy production is incredibly efficient, despite the fact that any craft with a Dark Matter Drive are all but incapable of achieving Warp 9 velocities. Dark Matter Reactors produce energy that is not inherently compatible with outsider technology. Any outsider systems would need to be adapted to specifically function on the power grid of a Dark Matter Drive craft, or be powered separately.
Dark Matter Drive: The system of propulsion that allows Ts’usugi craft to breach the Warp barrier. Dark Matter Drives are nacelle based, with larger military craft being able to retract their nacelles within their hull to defend them against damage. Unlike Starfleet warp technology, which seems to violently thrust ships into subspace to achieve warp travel, Dark Matter Drives are more like a precision blade, creating precise vibrations that allow for a smooth transition into warp, and amazing control over velocity. These gentle ripples are difficult to detect while the craft is entering or leaving ‘Warp’. Unique among dark matter drives is the ability to ‘stop’, waiting in the depths of the layered sub-reality that is subspace at zero relative velocity. This still requires a powered drive, and any loss of power to the Dark Matter drive will result in the craft being violently expelled into real space, if they are fortunate. The unfortunate ones are lost forever in the infinite sea of subspace. Dark Matter Drives cannot achieve Warp 9 velocities and can only achieve Warp 8 velocity for a period of only several hours before the drive must power down.
Blink Drive: Ts’usugi craft that do not have a Dark Matter system will instead have a Blink System, which was the dominant form of transit before the invention of the Dark Matter system. Blink Drives can propel the craft using it to roughly 85% of the speed of light for fractions of a second. Combined with the Inertial Nullifier technology, this allows for rapid movement and heading changes. The total amount of distance traveled is roughly a quarter of a million miles (250,000 miles) in a blink of an eye, hence the technology’s name. The Blink Drive is powered by Muon capacitors, which must recharge after each use. Blink Shuttles generally power these capacitors on the move, while Blink Fighters are launched from their fighter bays with fully charged capacitors. Activating the Blink Drive will potentially break any sensor or weapon lock on the craft, but will force the craft itself to re-acquire any such lock it had as well.
Heavy Muon Reactor: The power source on all Blink Drive powered craft. This system uses heavy particle decay to produce power, and heavy Muon fuel is easy to come by. Craft using Heavy Muon Reactors generally have six to eight fuel cells installed on launch, and the cells are easily replaced by trained technicians.
Inertial Nullifier: The next advancement in Inertial Dampening technology, the Inertial Nullifier all but cancels the prospects of inertia. This technology allows the Blink Drive to function without obliterating the pilot and crew, and allows the Blink craft to adjust its heading during its usage of the Blink Drive.
Charged Pulse Cannon: The primary weapon system of the Ts’usugi consists of charged particle bursts in an energy corona, propelled at high speeds. These weapons are rated as identical to standard Federation Phaser technology in both Ship scale and Personal scale instances, and the same care and concern should be afforded to them as one would a phaser. Fighters are equipped with scaled down variants of the Charged Pulse Cannon. The packet cohesion is sufficient to enter an atmosphere from space with little to no loss of energy, making the Charged Pulse Cannon an ideal weapon for planetary bombardment. The fighter scaled variant of this weapon cannot be used for planetary bombardment.
Powered Torpedo: The Ts’usugi Powered Torpedo is the standard payload delivery system for ship to ship combat. It meets all the standard qualifications of any Federation torpedo. Unlike the Federation, though, the Ts’usugi have only a single class of warhead for their torpedoes, having phased out the previous warhead designs as their new ones come into production. Also similar to Federation Torpedoes, the Ts’usugi Powered Torpedo is designed to be used in space or in an atmosphere, allowing it to be used for planetary bombardment.
Negatron Warhead: The standard warhead for all Ts’usugi torpedoes is an anti-matter warhead composed of a negatron mass suspended in a magnetic containment field. Similar in all respects to a Federation Quantum Torpedo in terms of destructive capacity and explosive yield. Similarly, a Negatron Warhead’s yield can be decreased manually, though to increase it beyond its listed yield either additional antimatter must be added to the warhead or modifications to the warhead itself must be made.
Hunter-Seeker Missile: Ts’usugi fighter missile system. Each missile is equipped with a micro-antimatter warhead and a guidance system that is attracted to the active power signature of the target craft. Advanced IFF systems make it all but impossible for the missile to accidentally target a Ts’usugi craft designated as Friendly.
Layered Shields: Presumably copied or inspired by the Dalacari defensive systems, utilizing multiple shield projectors of identical harmonics and repelling magnetic polarity, Layered Shields operate at a higher output, but that output is divided more or less evenly between two layers of protective energy. Only the largest Ts'usugi craft have reactors large enough to output the power needed to maintain Layered Shields.
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