GTCa Hera

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GTCa Hera

The GTCa Hera is large, fanmade terran carrier with large fighterbays and excellent anti-fighter defenses.

Description:

Tech Description

Initially designed as carrier-compliment to the Colossus, the Hera fleetcarrier was never completed in time and entered active service in 2369. The newest addon to terran GTVA fleets, Hera is the first carrier-type vessel designed by terran engineers since the Unification War. Equivalent of vasudan Amaunet, Hera is mammoth of a ship. About a half of her 3km-long interior is occupied by hangarbays and cargo space. Housing two times more fighter and bomber wings then Hecate, the Hera was designed to put emphasis on the strongest advantage GTVA has against the shivans - strikecraft. Both terran and vasudan fleetcarriers were designed to be beating heart of every major fleet of the Alliance. Hera is equipped in advanced command and control facilities, AWACS devices, modern subspace scanners and paired jumpdrives powered by next-gen Nankam XG-3127h reactor. Internal superstructure is covered by collapsed-core molybdenium armor first mounted on Deimos-class corvettes. As a dedicated fleetcarrier class, Hera offers almost no firepower by herself. Six corvette-grade slash beams are mostly designed to provide Hera with anykind of self-defense against enemy capital ships. Although the carrier can overload them to provide power output close to modern destroyers, Hera was designed around fighterbay capacity in mind. The fleetcarrier is capable of providing additional fire support for multiple operations at once, with countless fighters and bombers housed inside her cavernous hangarbays. She is also the only warship capable of maintaining Jotun-class superbombers, rendering her the only asset of GTVA fleet capable of effectively engaging shivan Sathanas juggernauts alone. Strong armor is enough to keep her vulnerable, internal structure safe from main cannons of enemy warships and thick point-defense screens of multiple flak cannons, AAA beams and laser turrets renders the Hera very easy to escort. Due to enormous strategic and logistic value, those impressive warships rarely enters direct combat. GTVA deploy heavy escort of multiple warships to keep their Hera-class carriers alive and safe. Only two fleetcarriers were ever constructed - prototype GTCa Hera, flagship of 2nd Fleet and GTCa Magnus assigned to reborn 6th Fleet headquartered in Polaris. Three more units are expected to be complete by 2400.

Credits

• The ship is a collaboration between Col.Hornet and Nyctaeus. Col.Hornet modelled the mesh, while Nyctaeus provided UVmapping, conversion and tabling. Textures are joint effort of both modders.
• Inspired by GTCv Diomedes by Aesaar

Developer Notes

Comes in two texture variants.

Threat Exigency Initiative reskin

Name origin

Hera is the goddess of women, marriage, family, and childbirth in ancient Greek religion and myth, one of the Twelve Olympians and the sister-wife of Zeus.

Performance:

Statistics

Name	GTCa Hera
Type	Fleetcarrier
Manufacturer	Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance
Yaw, Pitch, Roll	150.0, 150.0, 150.0 s
Max Velocity	20 ms-1
Hitpoints	225 000 pts
Length	3091 m
Turrets	51 turrets
Fighter Complement	300+ strikecraft

Armaments

• Turrets

Released version
Turret Type	Amount
TerSlash	6
Standard Flak	17
AAAf	8
Terran Turret	20

Veteran Comments

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There are ships with weak point defenses, there are ships with good point defenses, and there is Aeolus and this ship. Lure enemy fighters and bombers close to top ramp and see them vaporizing in furious storm of fire from ten flak cannons and two AAA beams. Use this spot to call support ship if you need to rearm in the middle of battle. Rest of the ship is protected by tons of other weaponry, so escorting her is one of the easiest task you can imagine in FS. Hera barely hold her own against enemy capital ships, as six TerSlashes barely contribute to her power output but her main weapons should always be her fighter and bomber compliment. She is supposed to be centerpiece of GTVA fleets, so if you want to use her in mission in her preassigned role, she should be always escorted by other vessels.

Related Links

• • Release Thread | Hard-Light Productions.net