| Jace_Varitek | Date: Saturday, 08 March 14, 12:54 PM | Message # 1 |
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| I thought I'd post this for use in the RP since this is canon information that's not really available online. (MIND YOU I DON'T OWN THIS CONTENT AND I AM REPRODUCING IT FOR EDUCATIONAL, NOT COMMERCIAL PURPOSES.) This is background information on the Ruusan regulations on planetary ships, which isn't even mentioned on the Ruusan Reformation page on Wookieepedia. But it's important for the RP, so I recommend giving it a read. The basic takeaways are this:
■ Planets may not legally have warships greater than 600 meters in length unless they have hyperdrives of Class 5 or higher.
■ There are additional (but unspecified) limits on armament, probably on a ship-by-ship basis.
■ Exemptions are granted to "frontier sectors and dangerous areas of the galaxy."
■ "For centuries after Ruusan, capital ships larger than light cruisers were rare and deemed extravagant."
Full text below:
Determined to curb the Republic's regional rivalries and restrict sector fleets to defensive operations, Valorum ordered limits on fleet sizes and armament. Cruisers more than six hundred meters long were limited to Class Five hyperdrives by modern standards, and their navicomputers were restricted to local charts. Judicial Inspectors were given wide-ranging powers to enforce these regulations, and "bluecoats" with datapad became common sights aboard military vessels and in depots. Cruisers below the six hundred-meter limit emerged as the workhorses of the sector fleets and the Judicial Forces alike, and remaining the backbone of many military organizations long after the Yuuzhan Vong invasion.
The Reformations were less popular in the Rim world sectors. Decommissioned navy cruisers, frigates, and corvettes were assigned to these Sector Forces, and some wealthy sectors sold off capital ships in excess of their defense allowances to their poorer brethren. (Others, fearing a resumption of war, stripped their warships of weapons and key systems and mothballed them.) But the outlying sectors were last in line for the naval spoils. Exemptions to the Ruusan limits were allowed for frontier sectors and dangerous areas of the galaxy, but their Senators had to struggle with Judicial bureaucrats and Senate committees to win these allowances - and often couldn't afford to take advantage of them.
While Rim sectors struggled to police their worlds with creaky, undersized capital ships, wealthy industrial sectors built giant cruisers on a scale not seen for millennia, seeking to create impregnable defenses and impress their neighbors. Such sectors took advantage of loopholes in the Reformations: For example, systems and planets that had retained the right to direct Senate representation received additional military allowances. The new battleships were denied transgalactic capabilities and were hamstrung by armament limits, but they still made for formidable fleets - many of them concentrated in the regions of the galaxy that faced the fewest threats to law and order. Elsewhere, intergalactic organizations sought to flout the rules by building giant transports that could be quickly adapted into warships.
Yet another big loophole was an exemption granted to starship manufacturers allowing them to create prototype warships and experimental variants of existing models and classes. The exemption was intended to encourage sectors to establish their own shipyards and to ensure continued technological innovation. But it led to shipwrights creating "demonstration fleets" made up of variations on warship designs and leasing effective control of them to sectors that could afford them. In the Republic's final centuries, the shipwright exemption and armament limits encouraged modular warship manufacturing, allowing rapid alterations to ships' armament, capabilities, and functions. By then wealthy sectors were awash in warships, with their fleets' numbers swelled by "loans" from starship manufacturers.
Jace Varitek
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