Torpedo Sphere

The Torpedo Sphere was a specialized piece of bombardment machinery that was used in the Astragon Navy. Rather than being spherical, these are more ellipsoid in shape.

Characteristics
Torpedo Spheres were constructed with three roles in mind.

1. Bring down planetary shields 2. Bombard cities and other planet-based targets once shields (if any) are down 3. Provide long-range heavy fire support to capital ships

Each of these massive siege platforms was 8,000 meters in length, armed with 500 proton torpedo tubes and 100 turbolaser batteries. The shielding on such a massive ship was nearly equal to a planetary shield, but its weapons were concentrated only on its large equatorial "trench". Although being superiorly armed over most capital ships, the original version could only use up to fifty tubes against capital ship-size targets. Astragon modified them to use up to one hundred tubes against a capital ship.

To destroy a planetary shield, these platforms were equipped with Dedicated Energy Receptors that probe for weak spots in the shield, which are about 80% of the strength of the rest of it. The plaform aligns itself to form a line between itself, the weak spot, and the generator. It then proceeds to bombard the weak spot with proton torpedoes to open a tiny hole in the shield. Miliseconds later, a single precise turbolaser blast fires through the hole to destroy the generator. Then the shield goes down momentarily.

It can bombard unshielded cities with torpedoes or turbolasers to force enemies into submission, and it cna support other fleets with torpedoes.