Prodono mobile Citadel

SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Prodono Empire
TYPE: Mobile Citadel
MODEL: Goro Yuradei Type-242885
DATE INTRODUCED: 2.42885 GS (258,283 BC)
LENGTH: 4200 miles (6759 kilometers)
HEIGHT: 1570 miles (2527 kilometers)
WIDTH: 4200 miles (6759 kilometers)
MATERIAL: Coherent Dense Material (Prodono 16th-Level Carbonium-Molecular Alloy)
POWER PLANT: 1070x Obuch-Ron Type-202119-12-1PW heat pile fusion reactor clusters (12 x 1 Petawatt cells)
OUTPUT: 12 Petawatts (each cluster) ( 12,840 Petawatts total)
ARMOR TYPE: NONE
ARMOR THICKNESS: NA
DISPLACEMENT: 700,000,000,000 tons (approximately)
CREW: 53,693,709 plus 18,000,000 pilots in stasis, and 643,200,000 space marinesin stasis for a total of 714,893,709.
(288,060 Gunners, 700,000 Operators, Officers, 7,000,000 Technicians, 7,000,000 Electricians, 7,000,000 Engineers, Medical, 400,000 Security, 100,000 Science, 24,000,000 Civilian/Domestic, 18,000,000 Pilots (in stasis), 643,200,000 Space marines (in Stasis for dropships)

PROPULSION
   PRIMARY (FASTER THAN LIGHT DRIVE):
1x Z’Katan-Feul ZF-201044-70PW hyperspace fold drive.
SPEED: 20.5 light years per hour

SECONDARY (SUBLIGHT):
4x Wur'Than WT-Type-203118-35000TW Graviton drive
SPEED: 0.10C (18,600 miles per second each) 0.40C light years (74,400 miles per second)

TERTIARY (COMBAT-SPEED/EMERGENCY ENGINES):
12x H'Takan-Feul HF-240118-49PW Photon Particle Drives (Level-03)
SPEED: 0.01C/1860 miles per second (0.02C/3720 miles per second total from all drives in one vector: 2 top, 2 bottom, 2 forward, 2 aft, 2 left, 2 right)

WEAPONS:
   PRIMARY (ASSAULT):
12,000x Quelli-Vahn Type-QV-201881 dual-500 Megawatt Electron-Element Beam cannon turrets; Effective Range: 500 miles; Power Required: 1000 megawatts total (500 each cannon); Power Supply: nuclear battery with clutch; Payload: unlimited; ROF: fires three quad blasts per twenty seconds with a cyclic rate of 18-dual blasts per minute.

           PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
24,000x Xergin-Tah-D'nosh Type-XTD-204888 1000-megawatt sixteen-emitter ion blaster cannon rotary turrets; Effective Range: 10,000 miles; Power Required: 1000 megawatts total; Power Supply: nuclear battery with clutch; Payload: unlimited; ROF: fires two blasts per ten seconds with a cyclic rate of 12 blasts per minute.

           PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
12x Pa’Zhin Mogul-Voltz Type-PZMV-202118 electromagnetic particle beam cannon; Effective Range: 50,000 miles; Power Required: 10,000 megawatts; Power Supply: nuclear battery with clutch; Payload: unlimited; ROF: 1 blast every 10 seconds with a cyclic rate of 6 blasts per minute.

TERTIARY (OFFENSIVE):
36,000x Urgoh-Tah-Zhan Type-UTZ-202000 plasma-disruptor cannons; Effective Range: 4500 miles; Power Required: 1000 megawatts; Power Supply: nuclear battery with clutch; Payload: unlimited; ROF: 2 blast every twenty seconds with a cyclic rate of 12 blasts per minute.

BALLISTIC (INTERPLANETARY):
24,000x Mingheis Zor Type-MZ-19991 (Buster Missile); Effective Range: 837,000 miles (missile)/250,000 miles (beam); Missile Type: Type-MZ-19991 a computer-guided Buster Missile; Payload: 1 Buster Missile each in a missile silo; ROF: 1 missile per two seconds each silo when all missiles are armed and ready.

ELECTRONICS:
92,020x Microspace Radio Communications array with a 1000 AU range.
92,020x Laser Radio Communications array with a 1000 AU range.
60x Hyperspace Communications array with a range of 200 light years.
92,020x RADAR array with a range of 200,000 miles.
92,020x LADAR array with a range of 220,000 miles.
92,020x Passive EMS array with a range of 1,000,000 miles.
92,020x Active EMS array with a range of 1,000,000 miles.
60x 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)
3600x 24,312,664-yd³. All 3600 of these bays hold enough food and supplies for the entire citadel for 32.2 years. Normally these bays are replenished via the botanical gardens of the factory.

(Mecha and Dropship storage)
6600x 570,000-yd³. Each of these bays holds 1000 fully armed spacefighters, 500 fully armed battlesuits, and 80 fully loaded dropships (with AGARs, or Tanks, or APCs, or combination, but no crew).

(Fuel Bladders)
3600x 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)
12,000x 90,000-yd³. Each bay holds 500 battlesuits (15 tons each) and 1000 spacefighters (15 tons each).

(Dropship Mecha)
6000x 4,800,000-yd³. Each bay holds 800 fully loaded (and crewed) dropships.

(Shipyards)
72x 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).

(SPACE STATION CONSTRUCTION YARD)
1,000,000,000,000-yd³ Normally holds space stations in various stages of construction, including Goro Dei, and Goro Duragal class. The yard has a teleportation system that allows it to use the fold system of the Goro Yuradei to fold a completed space station out of the Goro Yuradei or a damaged one into it for repair.

SPECIAL SYSTEMS:
661,200,000x 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.

89,488,952x 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.

21,600,000x Clone Chambers; Effect: Each clone chamber is able to create a 1-year-old baby clone in 6 months.

3600x Fuel Production Plants; Effect: Each fuel production plant produces 1,000,000 yd³ of liquid deuterium per hour.

Description/Overview:
The Goro Yuradei Type-242885 mobile citadel was the pinnacle of the engineering accomplishments of the Prodono Empire. It was a massive structure the size of a small moon. On average a Goro Yuradei required one hundred years (Earth Relative) to construct. Like nearly all of their previous mobile stations, the Goro Yuradei 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. Unlike the Goro Dei or Goro Duragal, the Goro Yuradei was able to construct a volume of spacecraft that was enormous by Prodono standards, it was actually able to construct Goro Dei and Goro Duragal class mobile space stations in addition to the full range of Prodono warships from smallest to largest. The Goro Yuradei was like nothing the Prodono Republic or Federation had ever built.
The Goro Yuradei required mammoth amounts of power for it to operate and perform its functions. Thus, the mobile citadel was fitted with 1070 Obuch-Ron Type-202119-12-1PW head pile fusion reactor clusters. Each cluster was capable of putting out twelve Petawatts of power from twelve one Petawatt fusion reactor cells that comprise each cluster. Naturally these fusion reactor heat pile clusters were very thirsty and had over 850,000,000 cubic yards of liquid deuterium stored on their fuel tanks.
The Goro Yuradei was mobile, thus it had drive engines that allowed it to move throughout the galaxy and subsequently star-systems. For interstellar flight, the Goro Yuradei was equipped with one Z’Katan-Feul ZF-201044-70PW hyperspace fold drive. This 70-Petawatt drive was capable of producing an equivalent speed in hyperspace of 20.5 light-years per hour in real space, which allowed the Goro Yuradei to travel to any part of Prodono-controlled space within a reasonable amount of time.
The sublight engines of the mobile battlefactory consisted of four Wur'Than WT--Type203118-35000TW graviton drives. The Gravition system was chosen over a photon particle drive type engine because it was omnidirectional, and thus all four drives could be used to push the space station in any one direction at speeds of up to forty percent the speed of light. 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 citadel. 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 drives 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 Yuradei was fitted with twelve H'Takan-Feul HF-240118-49PW Photon Particle Drives. Each of these drives could push the space station up to 0.01C (1860 miles per second). Two of these massive photon particle drives were mounted in each arc of the massive station allowing the citadel to travel at 0.02C (3720 miles per second) in any direction. These drives were normally used to fine-tune movements and to maintain a geosynchronous orbit of the mobile citadel around a moon, star or planet, and rarely used for travel unless an emergency required it.
The fixed armaments of the Goro Yuradei were formidable and were intended for both offensive and defense use.
Twelve thousand Quelli-Vahn Type-QV-201881 dual-500 Megawatt Electron-Element Beam cannon turrets comprised the main offensive weaponry of the citadel. These turrets were identical to those used on the Imperial 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 24,000 Xergin-Tah-D'nosh Type-XTD-204888 1000-megawatt sixteen-emitter ion blaster cannon rotary turrets of the Goro Yuradei were mounted strategically along the perimeter of the "brim" of the hat-shaped mobile citadel. There were 6000 of these disruptors per quadrant of the space station used to defend the main hangar doors that lead into the interior of the massive space station.
Twelve Pa’Zhin Mogul-Voltz Type-PZMV-202118 electromagnetic particle beam cannons were mounted in massive turrets. Six of these heavy EMPBC were located on the top of the station at the base of the central "pillar", the other six were located along the rim of the large circular "crater" on the bottom of the massive citadel. These weapons were for anti-space station, and anti-Super-Heavy-Starship applications.
Thirty six thousand Urgoh-Tah-Zhan Type-UTZ-202000 plasma-disruptor cannons were scattered across the whole of the mobile citadel in tactical positions for use to repel enemy mecha. Roughly eighteen thousand were on the dorsal side of the mega structure and eighteen thousand on the ventral side. These cannons were nestled away between the buildings and within the crevices of space station.
The last weapon of the Goro Yuradei was for use primarily against other mobile space stations of enemy nations. These were 24,000 Mingheis Zor Type-MZ-19991 Buster Missile silos located in concealed positions all over the hull of the citadel. There were 12,000 top and 12,000 bottom. Each silo held one Buster Missile.
The Goro Yuradei used legions of mobile weapons for defense and planetary conquest. For defense of the space station, there were 12,000 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 Empire era) fleet would possess.
There were also 6000 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 Yuradei was a large open area some 1,000,000,000,000 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 3,800,000,000,000 tons of material. This could be anything from cargo ships to ore-mining ships to military warships or even a 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 walls of the bolero-hat 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 10,000 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 1.5 days to construct, while the eight 500,000-ton Newel Xergis dreadnaughts would require 50 days to complete. Thus, an entire sector fleet required 20 months to be completed from start to finish even though its pickets would be completed in only 1.5 days from the start of the project.
The Goro Yuradei 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 Yuradei Type-242885 Number-81, Altair VII)
The Goro Yuradei found by Doctor Adrianne Donaldson sometime in the late 2170s orbiting around Altair VII was in a horrid state of disrepair. The massive space station's weapons were gone, its fuel bladders were depleted, some empty. While the engines, and fusion reactor heat pile clusters were intact, as were most of the internal systems, the citadel was in terrible shape. Despite its condition, Donaldson's Cosmo Dragoons were able to bring the massive Prodono megastructure to operational status by the early 2190s. It had limited spacecraft repair/construction capabilities, full engine capability, and limited fuel and food production. The cloning chambers were brought back to operational condition in 2192, and by 2193 the Goro Yuradei Number-81 was ready for use in Donaldson's plans.

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