Escort-class Carrier
Name: Escort-class Carrier
Designer/Manufacturer: Kuat Drive Yards
Type: Heavy Carrier
Users: Empire, Various
Length: 500 meters
Crew: 3,485, gunners: 20, Troops: 800
Cargo: 500 metric tons
Speed Rating: (Cruise) 35 MGLT (Max) 55 MGLT
Acceleration: 4 MGLT/sec.
Maneuver: 13 DPF, Roll: 8, Pitch: 2
Power System: (RSD) J28-1 Solar Ionization reactors
Propultion System: 4 (KDY) Boshaa-C'hi Ion Drives
Hyperdrive: (SoroSuub) D-4s Hyperdrive Activator
Flight Control System: (SoroSuub) Wz-4 flight avionics system
Nav Computer: (SFS) Dalin-8s navcom computer system
Sensor Systems: Unknow?
Combat Computer: (SoroSuub) Fx-2.0 Combat Computer
Hull: Hull: Composite Quadanium Steel Titanium Hull (Hull rated at 1,500 RU)
Shield: 2 Forward/Read projecting (KDY) Val3-2 (shield rated at 1,200 SBD)
Weapons:
Starfighter complement : 1 TIE fighter Wing (6 Squadrons)
Other craft: 6 Lambda-Class Shuttles
The lack of hyperspace capability common to the TIE fighter line has proven an occasional embarrassment to the Empire. This was extremely evedint at the Battle of Ton-Falk in which two Imperial Frigates and a Dreadnaught were lost. Imperial High Command determined these capital ships might have been saved with adequate TIE support, and passed a commission on to Kuat Drive Yards to design and build a TIE carrier. The KDY Escort Carrier is the result.
Each Escort Carrier carries an entire TIE wing, with at least one squadron of TIE Interceptors. Extra capacity is often used to carry transports in addition to the TIE fighters. Escort Carriers do not generally involve themselves directly in combat. Though armed, they are not considered offensive weapons and their whole function is to serve the battle from a distance by delivering fighter support. In addition to the hanger wings, each Escort Carriers also has limited field repair facilities.