Hyperion Muti-Deck Carrier

The present iteration of the Hyperion Multi-Deck Carrier is a more advanced variant from it's earlier predecessor, the Hyperion Mk-1 and Mk-2. It contains a more advanced scanner and tracking systems, sensor suite, and ability to carry and load it's charges, be they torpedo bombers to interceptors. The Gravity Manipulator Generators as well as armor and shielding are as well updated as often as possible. Weapons are pretty much for defense but also can allow for offensive action if absolutely needed, once things get that bad it is time to warp the carrier out of the Operational Area. Pictured to the right is the Hyperion Mk-III, and this one design is presently as advanced as it will likely get as there are the presently operational Hyperion Mk-4 and Mk-5.

If carrying heavy aircraft the load out of planes is lowered whereas interceptors and dive bombers tend to take less space, thus a larger load, the quarters for officers and crew on the Hyperions of all classes, tend to be the least comfortable billets in the UruKhar Astro-Fleet. So while the armor, shields, drives, GMG and weapons are comparable in many ways to the other war ships the UruKhar operate, these are the most uncomfortable vessels, and during flight operations and training operations, they tend to add noise to the situation, until at least the planes are off in the vacuum on the flight decks which again are another fine tuned GMG control zone, allowing the carrier to act as a base for the planes as if they were on a planetary surface, allowing the runways to launch two planes per deck every thirty seconds when the planes are out on the decks.

recovery is deck landing with gravity arrestors to halt and guide the planes off to the side, and use of gravity elevators move the planes to and from the storage and repair/fitting decks inside the hull of the carriers. The Mk-III is the focus as it is the design most likely to be retired in the next few years due it's age of design, advanced components out pacing it's power systems, and that an all straight deck carrier is no long seen as needed as much as the cantilever top decked Mk-4 and Mk-5's which will see service once the Mk-III is retired.

Length: 410 meters

Weapons: 5 x triple barreled 133mm Phased Variable Particle Beam Cannons (Mk-IV)

8 x quad barreled 33mm rapid pulse Phased Variable Particle beam Cannons ( 4 x port, 4 x starboard)

3 x 170cm torpedo launchers

12 x missile launch tubes

Planes carried: 

37 x FWG-97 heavy torpedo delivery bombers, or

57 x DWG-109 Interceptors, or

57 x DMB-87 Dive bomber, or

57 x DWG-262 Fighters

4 x shuttles

2 x FG-156 scout planes.

Pilots:

43 to 63

Crew:

20 x Officers

260 x plane support and flight deck crew

240 x ship crew

100 x Droid Marines.