SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Prodono Empire
TYPE: Mobile Command Base
MODEL: Goro Duragal Type-230990
DATE INTRODUCED: 2.30990 GS (270,178 BC)
LENGTH: 87 miles (140 kilometers)
HEIGHT: 19 miles (30 kilometers)
WIDTH: 87 miles (140 kilometers)
MATERIAL: Dense Material (Prodono 9th-Level Carbonium-Molecular Alloy)
POWER PLANT: 8024x Obuch-Ron Type-18798-774936 fusion reactor
OUTPUT: 774,936 megawatts each reactor (6218.1 Terawatts total)
ARMOR TYPE: NONE
ARMOR THICKNESS: NA
DISPLACEMENT: 4,000,000,000 tons
CREW: 32,802,000, plus 176,320,000 in stasis for a total of 209,122,000.
(28,800 Gunners, 4,000,000 Operators, 2.840,000 Officers, 4,000,000 Technicians, 4,000,000 Electricians, 4,000,000 Engineers, 1,562,000 Medical, 4,000,000 Security, 400,000 Science, 8,000,000 Civilian/Domestic, 4,800,000 Pilots (in stasis), 171,520,000 Space marines (in Stasis for dropships)

PROPULSION
             PRIMARY (FASTER THAN LIGHT DRIVE):
             1x Z’Katan-Feul ZF-19700-400TW hyperspace fold drive.
             SPEED: 10 light years per hour

             SECONDARY (SUBLIGHT):
             48x Vrlek-Uph-Kai VUK-35TW electromagnetic drive
             SPEED: 95,000 mph each* (See description for details)

             TERTIARY (COMBAT-SPEED/EMERGENCY ENGINES):
             4800x Gruel-Khan GK-17989-50000 fusion thrusters
             SPEED: 9,500 mph each (7,600,000 mph total from all thrusters in one vector: top, bottom, forward, aft, left, right)

WEAPONS:
             PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
            4800x Xergin-Tah Type-XT-21070 quad ion blaster cannon turrets; Effective Range: 2500 miles; Power Required: 1000 megawatts total (250 each cannon); Power Supply: nuclear battery with clutch; Payload: unlimited; ROF: fires three quad blasts per twenty seconds with a cyclic rate of 9 triple blasts per minute.

             SECONDARY (OFFENSIVE):
             3200x Urgoh-Tah Type-UT-20691 disruptor cannons; Effective Range: 9000 miles; Power Required: 1000 megawatts; Power Supply: nuclear battery with clutch; Payload: unlimited; ROF: 1 blast every twenty seconds with a cyclic rate of 6 blasts per minute.

ELECTRONICS:
              9288x LADAR array with a range of 220,000 miles.
              9288x Laser Radio Communications array with a 1000 AU range.
              40x Hyperspace Communications array with a range of 200 light years.
              9288x Passive EMS array with a range of 1,000,000 miles.
              9288x Active EMS array with a range of 500,000 miles.
              40x Hyperspace Navigation Sensor array with a range of 50 parsecs (163 light years).
              8x Gravitational Control Unit (Antigravity) which acts as a g-compensator.

CARGO BAY:
             (Food Storage)
             480x 410,025-yd3.  All 480 of these bays hold enough food and supplies for the entire battlefactory for one year. Normally these bays are replenished via the botanical gardens of the factory.

             (Mecha and Dropship storage)
             640x 570,000-yd3.  Each of these bays holds 1000 fully armed spacefighters, 500 fully armed battlesuits, and 80 fully loaded dropships (with AGARs, but no crew).

             (Fuel Bladders)
             320x 5,000,000-yd3.  These combined fuel bladders hold enough fuel (liquid deuterium) to power the battlefactory for 3.3 years.  These bladders are tied directly to the fuel production plants that replenish them as needed.  These bladders also store the fuel for newly built warships and can refuel craft, which need fuel as well.

HANGAR BAY:
             (Small Mecha Hangars)
             3200x 90,000-yd3.  Each bay holds 500 battlesuits (15 tons each) and 1000 spacefighters (15 tons each).

             (Dropship Mecha)
             1600x 4,800,000-yd3.  Each bay holds 800 fully loaded (and crewed) dropships.

             (Shipyards)
          32x 4,275,000,000-yd3.  Each shipyard is capable of holding up to 1,068,750,000 tons of spacecraft.  Typically a fleet of 28,027 Raul-Zhem Kai class pickets (15,000 tons each), 11,200 V’lor Benai class escorts/battlefrigates (25,000 tons each), 5600 Quev-Leah class attackships (50,000 tons each), 154 Lurveth Throm class cruiser/battleship (250,000 tons each), 84 Jhor-Kiel class planetary assault ships (300,000 tons each), and 8 Newel Xergis class dreadnaughts (500,000 tons each).

SPECIAL SYSTEMS:
             176,320,000x Stasis Chambers; Range: NA; Effect: Each chamber allows one individual to remain in suspended animation for an indefinite period so long as the stasis chamber has electrical power provided to it.

             5,467,000x Escape Pods; Range: 72,960 miles; Effect: Each escape pod holds six individuals; can fly at a speed of Mach 2 for up to two days; has a food supply to provide six persons with one month of food.

             9,600,000x Clone Chambers; Effect: Each clone chamber is able to create a 1-year-old baby clone in 6 months.

             320x Fuel Production Plants; Effect: Each fuel production plant produces 1,000,000 yd3 of liquid deuterium per hour.

Description/Overview:
         The Goro Duragal Type-230990 mobile command base was the first of the Prodono Empire's style of space station colonies after the reconsolidation of the Republic into the Empire.  However, it was also the crowning achievement of the Prodono Republic as it was designed during the Republic even though it was not built. Like nearly all of their previous mobile stations, the Goro Duragal was a massive structure.  The Goro Duragal was intended to allow for the projection of large-scale fleets of warships within a designated sector of space within the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds. While the volume of spacecraft this mobile command base could construct was enormous by Earth standards, it was actually considered moderate during the late Prodono Republic and early Imperial era.
         The Goro Duragal required mammoth amounts of power for it to operate and perform its functions. Thus, the command base was fitted with 8024 Obuch-Ron Type-18798-774936 fusion reactors, each capable of putting out 774,936 megawatts of power. These reactors were located all over the base, spread mostly in the main "disk" structure, and running around the central "mushroom" in a ring.  These reactor clusters powered the fusion thrusters and fuel production plants of the ship but where also used as omni-route reactors that could reroute their power to any systems as needed, thus the crew of the mobile command base could maintain power to vital systems if some of the reactors were damaged/destroyed.
         The Goro Duragal was mobile, thus it had drive engines that allowed it to move throughout the galaxy and subsequently star-systems.  For interstellar flight, the Goro Duragal was equipped with one Z’Katan-Feul ZF-18897-400TW hyperspace fold drive.  This 400-terawatt (400,000,000,000 megawatt) drive was capable of producing an equivalent speed in hyperspace of 10 light-years per hour in real space, which allowed the Goro Duragal to travel to any part of Prodono-controlled space within a reasonable amount of time.
         The sublight engines of the mobile battlefactory consisted of eight clusters of six Vrlek-Uph-Kai VUK-35TW electromagnetic drives each. The EMD system was chosen over a photon particle drive type engine because EMDs were omnidirectional, and thus all forty-eight drives could be used to push the space station in any one direction at speeds of up to 4,560,000 mph.  However, this was rarely done due to the massive g-forces that could cause severe damage to any ships carried within the shipyards located in the hollow space inside the mobile command base.  The common practice when moving one of these huge structures was for one or two engine clusters to be used to propel the vessel to its destination at full speed, then two or more engine clusters were used to decelerate the massive structure slowly, thereby nullifying the effects of g-force on the craft inside the shipyards.
         For orbital operations and travel between a planet and its moons, the Goro Duragal was fitted with 4800 Gruel-Khan GK-17989-50000 fusion thrusters.  Each of these thrusters could push the space station up to 9500 mph, or 7,600,000 mph for all 800 engines of any one arc used together, although normally these engines were used to fine-tune movements and to maintain a geosynchronous orbit of the mobile command base around a moon, star or planet, and rarely used for travel unless an emergency required it.
         The fixed armaments of the battlefactory were intended for defense only.  They consisted of both standard blaster cannon turrets and disruptor batteries.
         Forty-eight hundred Xergin-Tah Type-XT-21070 quad ion blaster cannon turrets comprised the blaster weaponry.  These heavy blaster turrets were identical to those used on the Newel Xergis class of dreadnaught.  These cannons were scattered all over the hull of the battlestation and were intended to be able to repel any spacecraft from escort to capital ship scale.
         The 3200 Urgoh-Tah Type-UT-20691 disruptor cannon batteries of the Goro Duragal were mounted under the bell of the mushroom of the command base where the doors to the main shipyards and hangar decks were located.  There were 1200 of these disruptors per quadrant of the space station.
         The Goro Duragal used legions of mobile weapons for defense and planetary conquest.  For defense of the space station, there were 3200 small-sized hangar bays, which each held 1000 space fighters and 500 battlesuits.  This massive number of mecha gave the station more than enough protection against practically any size force of mobile weapons that a typical enemy (of the Prodono Republic era) fleet would possess.
         There were also 1600 dropship hangars, each of which held 800 fully loaded and crewed dropships. This was enough to conquer all but the largest of Solar Systems.  Normally, these dropships were deployed when the command base appeared over a planet and/or moon(s).  The ever-present defense armada of space warships of the Goro Duragal would dispatch any enemy fleet of less than comparable size, and then the dropships would be deployed to the surface of the besieged world.
         The core of the Goro Duragal was a large open area some 136,000,000,000 cubic yards in total volume.  This massive space was used to store finished starships and damaged ships awaiting repair/service.  At full capacity, this storage area could hold up to 35,000,000,000 tons of material.  This could be anything from cargo ships to ore-mining ships to military warships or even the components for another Goro Duragal command base or Goro Dei mobile battle factory.  Connected to this large internal space were the main shipyards of the vessel located in the mushroom shapted structure.  Each of these shipyards was capable of constructing up to 1,068,750,000 tons of spacecraft.  Typically, each of these shipyards would be in the process of constructing a sector fleet. A sector fleet consisted of 28,027 Raul-Zhem Kai class pickets (15,000 tons each), 11,200 V’lor Benai class escorts/battlefrigates (25,000 tons each), 5600 Quev-Leah class attackships (50,000 tons each), 154 Lurveth Throm class cruiser/battleship (250,000 tons each), 84 Jhor-Kiel class planetary assault ships (300,000 tons each), and 8 Newel Xergis class dreadnaughts (500,000 tons each).
         Typically, these shipyards were capable of constructing 1000 tons of components per day per vessel under construction.  For example, if the shipyard was starting a sector fleet, the picket force of 28,027 Raul-Zhem Kai class warships, at 15,000 tons each, would each require 15 days to construct, while the eight 500,000-ton Newel Xergis dreadnaughts would require 500 days (1.4 years) to complete.  Thus, an entire sector fleet required 1.4 years to be completed from start to finish even though its pickets would be completed in only 15 days from the start of the project.
         The Goro Duragal was a fully self-contained station capable of indefinite operation so long as a source of hydrogen gas was nearby.  The fuel production plants of the station provided unlimited fuel to the fusion reactors, which in turn provided the necessary environmental conditions for the botanical gardens that kept the crew fed and the atmosphere clean.  The stasis chambers held the vast numbers of mobile weapon pilots and space marine clones for the dropships, while the domestic population of one million enjoyed large staterooms for the production of families in the more traditional manner.
         Overall, this massive fortress-colony in space was among the finest in the long line of Prodono-designed space stations that only got larger as time went on.

         (Goro Duragal Type-230990 Number-601, Moon of Good Hope)
         The Goro Duragal found by the Planetary Alliance mining expedition team to the fourth moon of the sixth planet of the Ross 47 star system--designated R47-P6-M4--was entirely unexpected. The joint civilian-military expedition had been looking for new raw material source prospects for the mining operation of the Planetary Alliance's Xanadu colony in the Ross 47 star system located at R47-P4. The colony's survey team knew they might find Prodono ruins, or wrecks, but never did they expect to uncover a the nearly intact Goro Duragal that was within the inner crust of the mined out moon. Like most of the Prodono finds since the initial Alpha Centauri Prodono Goro Dei and fleet, this comamnd base was horribly old but in near perfect working order when the expedition found it. Oddly, there was no alien fleet within the massive base and no cloned troops were to be found anywhere either on the station or in any of the stasis chambers. It was as if the Prodono had abandoned it in a rush leaving behind the base, a Prodono civilian city, and a large-scale mining operation on R47-P6-M4. Very little is known about the history of the Goro Duragal found, though the reason it was left with no one guarding it did come to light. That information however is a classified secret.

 

 

       

Inspiration for this design was the common Shiitake Mushroom.
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