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GTF Valkyrie

2010-02-06T02:02:00Z

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{{FS12_Ships}}{{shipimage|image=[[Image:valkyrie20x240.jpg]]|caption=The GTF Valkyrie}}

==Description:==

===FS1 Tech Room Description===
Using the old [[GTF Angel]] Scout Fighter as a template, the GTA created the Valkyrie Interceptor Fighter. It has two additional engines, as well as an additional set of primary hardpoints. This makes the Valkyrie the best bomber interceptor in the fleet. Its speed is unmatched in the GTA, and its maneuverability is above average. Its only drawbacks are a small secondary payload and weak hull.

===Developer Notes===
High speed recon and bomber-intercept fighter. Offers high weapon compatibility and payload.

===Name origin===
In Norse mythology, valkyries are minor female deities. They were tasked to choose the worthiest of those heroes who had died in battle, and deliver them to Valhalla, Odin's hall.

==Performance:==
===Statistics===
{|
|-
| style="width:200px" | '''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Type|Type]]'''
| style="width:200px" | Interceptor
|-
| '''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Manufacturer|Manufacturer]]'''
| Han-Roland Corp.
|-
| '''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Maneuverability|Maneuverability]]'''
| Good
|-
| '''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Max Velocity|Max Velocity]]'''
| 85.0 - 100.0 mps
|-
| '''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Max Afterburner Velocity|Max Afterburner Velocity]]'''
| 165.0 mps
|-
| '''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Armor|Armor]]'''
| Medium
|-
| [[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Hitpoints|Hitpoints]]
| 200
|-
| [[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Shields|Shields]]
| 200
|-
| '''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Length|Length]]'''
| 21 m
|}

===Armaments===

*'''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Gun Mounts|Gun Mounts]]'''
{| border=1 cellpadding=4 style="border-collapse: collapse"
|- align="center"
| colspan=3 style="background:#351515;"| '''FreeSpace 1'''
|- align="center"
| style="width:40px" |Bank
| style="width:60px" |Guns
| style="width:160px" |Standard Loadout
|- align="center"
| 1st
| 2
| [[GTW ML-16|ML-16 Laser]]
|- align="center"
| 2nd
| 2
| [[GTW Prometheus|Prometheus]]
|- align="center"
| colspan=3| Compatible Primaries
|-
| colspan=3| [[GTW ML-16|ML-16 Laser]], [[GTW Disruptor|Disruptor]], [[GTW Avenger|Avenger]], [[GTW Prometheus|Prometheus]], [[GTW Banshee|Banshee]], [[GTW Leech Cannon|Leech Cannon]], [[GTW Shield Breaker|S-Breaker]]
|}
*'''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Missile Banks|Missile Banks]]'''
{| border=1 cellpadding=4 style="border-collapse: collapse"
|- align="center"
| colspan=3 style="background:#351515;"| '''FreeSpace 1'''
|- align="center"
| style="width:40px" |Bank
| style="width:60px" |Capacity
| style="width:160px" |Standard Loadout
|- align="center"
| 1st
| 60
| [[GTM MX-50|MX-50]]
|- align="center"
| colspan=3| Compatible Secondaries
|-
| colspan=3| [[GTM MX-50|MX-50]], [[GTM D-Missile|D-Missile]], [[GTM Fury|Fury]], [[GTM Hornet|Hornet]], [[GTM Interceptor|Interceptor]], [[GTM Phoenix V|Phoenix V]], [[GTM EM Pulse|EM Pulse]], [[GTM Cluster Bomb|Cluster Bomb]]
|}

===Veteran Comments===
{{Comment|''The Valk does its job, and does it well, but when asked to perform in another role it turns out to be disturbingly fragile. If the mission calls for extended dogfighting or attacking transports or military capital craft, you're probably going to want something sturdier.''

''Flies like a dream. You'll love the huge afterburner capacity with all power shunted to Engines.''

''It is also noteworthy that AI pilots tend to drop like flies when piloting this ship, so don't expect much backup if you've been flying a long mission in a wing of Valkyries.''

''I found its guns placements rather lousy, and the singular bay is really restrictive. Not to say it isn't a bad craft. It has an extremely high afterburner velocity, as well as larger reserves of the latter than its descendant. In addition, it has a smaller profile than the Perseus either. The Valkyrie would probably be a better interceptor, but the Perseus overall is a much better craft. The Valkyrie is simply too fragile, and restricted to interception and nothing else.

''If you're going to fly this thing in one of the earlier missions in FS1 without shields, you'll come to learn the hard way about the poor placement of the Communication Subsystem. I don't know about anyone else having issues with the Comm SS being prone to a cheap shot, but be warned, have a support ship in the area if there's some mission critical dialogue going on in the middle of a dogfight (it shouldn't be there in the first place, but there is), or you're going to miss something important.

''The top bank primaries are the outer two guns, and don't expect to hit anything smaller than a bomber with these. The second bank fires shots incredibly close together, originating from just under the cockpit, making this bank much more useful. Aim shots like you would the Herc. On Comm SS issues, don't let your front shield drop, or you'll find the Comm SS down to 20% or lower.''

''My personal favorite ship. The maneuverability is almost as good as the Ulysses, and its afterburner capacity is unmatched. The narrow guns in the center are very well-placed, as you can hit a target more directly, whereas the outer guns are more suited for larger targets, like large bombers, capital ships, flagships, etc. The best loadout in my opinion is Prometheus cannons in the gun banks on the wings, Avenger cannons in the nose guns, and either Phoenix or Interceptor missiles. It may be fragile, but if you fly it right, that doesn't matter. There has been no ship in either of the FreeSpace games that I haven't been able to destroy with the Valkyrie. Excellent ship.}}

[[Category:Ship]]

SJ Sathanas

2010-01-29T20:11:46Z

ChronoReverse: Undo revision 27860 by Androgeos Exeunt (Talk)

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The '''SJ ''Sathanas''''' is the most powerful space-faring warship ever encountered by the [[Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance|GTVA]]. It is comparable in size to and perhaps more than a match for the [[GTVA Colossus|''GTVA Colossus'']].

Not to be confused with the decoy version, the [[SJD Sathanas|SJ<u>D</u> ''Sathanas'']].

A debris chunk of the Sathanas is also included as an individual model and ship, known as the [[SpaceHunk]].
[[Image:Sjsathanas-old.jpg|thumb|480px|right|The SJ Sathanas]]
[[Image:Sjsathanas.jpg|thumb|480px|right|The SJ Sathanas in FS2_Open 3.6.10]]

==Overview==
With four ultra-heavy beam cannons concentrated in the bow, a Sathanas outstrips even a [[GTVA Colossus|''Colossus''-class vessel]] in terms of raw firepower that it can project at one target. Like other Shivan capital ships, the Sathanas has an attack-oriented design that makes use of the known Shivan superiority at subspace jumping to deal devastating first-strike blows. The Sathanas best exemplifies the Shivan war machine, which is dependent on continually being on the attack to keep its flaws from being exposed. On the defensive it can still deal out heavy blows, but ultimately it is not prepared for the role.

The only apparent weakness of the Shivan juggernaut is that the massive beam cannons are concentrated at the bow, and aside from a comparatively diminuative anti-warship beam cannon at the stern, the other flanks of the massive warship are covered only by point-defense weapons. The main armament is also not well defended against fighters compared to the ''Colossus''. Nonetheless, a Sathanas is still more than able to defend itself and project offensive power via the many hundreds of fighters and bombers it carries in its cavernous hangar. Thus, stopping a juggernaut is almost impossible.

Even the "expedient" of disabling the massive warship is hardly worth considering, due to the numerous redundant engines found on the hull. In essence, any attack on a ''Sathanas''-class juggernaut can be considered almost suicidal. Only the ''Colossus'' demonstrated enough firepower to take on a Sathanas.

Its prefix designation, SJ, stands for "Shivan Juggernaut."

===History===
The first combat appearance of a Shivan Juggernaut was in the nebula theater, beyond the first [[Knossos]] portal in [[Gamma Draconis]], when the warship destroyed a Vasudan task force assaulting a Shivan gasmining operation. The GTVA immediately began to withdraw from the nebula, though not before sending a pilot in the new [[GVF Ptah|''Ptah'']]-class stealth fighter to scan the vessel. Based on this information, the Alliance launched a targeted bombing mission to eliminate several of the forward beam cannons (there is no canon consensus concerning exactly how many were destroyed, but at least two were taken out) in the Gamma Draconis system, and the [[GTVA Colossus|GTVA ''Colossus'']] engaged and destroyed the weakened juggernaut after it jumped to the [[Capella]] system.

After that victory, the GTVA were confident they could eliminate any threats the Shivans could present, and returned to the nebula with the objective of locating and capturing [[Admiral Aken Bosch]]. However, that goal failed to be achieved as GTVA forces discovered that multiple ''Sathanas''-class juggernauts were en route to GTVA space. Gamma Draconis was quickly overrun by the swift advance of the juggernaut fleet, which shortly entered [[Capella]]. In a desperate gamble, the GTVA fleet held the Shivans at bay while civilians were evacuated to [[Epsilon Pegasi]] and [[Vega]]. During the closing stages of the battle, the GTVA ''Colossus'' was destroyed in Capella by a Shivan juggernaut while providing a diversion for the [[GTD Bastion|GTD ''Bastion'']], which was tasked with collapsing the jump corridor to Epsilon Pegasi. In a final startling turn of events, the Shivan juggernauts instigated the supernova of the Capella star as the jump corridor to Vega was destroyed.

===Conclusion===
The Shivan juggernaut fleet is the single, most serious threat to the survival of the Terran and Vasudan species. The prowess of this class was tragically demonstrated when a Sathanas juggernaut destroyed the [[GTVA Colossus|GTVA ''Colossus'']] in the [[Capella]] system. The GTVA barely managed to stop one Sathanas, and even then it was with a warship that took two decades and enormous amounts of resources to construct. An encounter with any more Shivan juggernauts will only be able to be stopped with extreme difficulty. All technical data concerning ''Sathanas''-class juggernauts has been classified Level Epsilon.

==Description:==

===FS2 Tech Room Description===
Very little is known about the SJ Sathanas class. This juggernaut seems comparable in strength to the GTVA Colossus. All intelligence concerning the Sathanas has been classified level Upsilon.

===Developer Notes===
None

==Performance:==
===Statistics===
{|
|-
| style="width:200px" | '''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Type|Type]]'''
| style="width:200px" | Juggernaut
|-
| '''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Manufacturer|Manufacturer]]'''
| Unknown
|-
| '''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Maneuverablity|Maneuverability]]'''
| N/A
|-
| '''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Max Velocity|Max Velocity]]'''
| 25.0 mps
|-
| '''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Max Afterburner Velocity|Max Afterburner Velocity]]'''
| N/A
|-
| '''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Armor|Armor]]'''
| N/A
|-
| [[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Hitpoints|Hitpoints]]
| 1 000 000
|-
| [[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Shields|Shields]]
| N/A
|-
| '''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Length|Length]]'''
| 5978 m
|}

===Armaments===

*'''[[Technical_Terms_and_Definitions#Turrets|Turrets]]'''
{| border=1 cellpadding=4 style="border-collapse: collapse"
|- align="center"
| colspan=2 style="background:#300505;"| '''FreeSpace 2'''
|- align="center"
| style="width:120px" |Turret Type
| style="width:60px" |Amount
|- align="center"
| [[Shivan Turret Laser]]
| 22
|- align="center"
| [[Standard Flak]]
| 11
|- align="center"
| [[Long Range Flak]]
| 2
|- align="center"
| [[GTM Piranha|Piranha]]
| 5
|- align="center"
| [[SAAA|Anti-Fighter Beam]]
| 8
|- align="center"
| [[LRed|Large Red Beam]]
| 1
|- align="center"
| [[BFRed|Very Big Red Beam]]
| 4
|}

==Notes==
===User-made campaigns===
This ships also appears in [[Inferno]], where it makes use of a subspace weapon based on the one seen in FreeSpace 2's penultimate cutscene. Several other mods including the [[Scroll of Atankharzim]] and Inferno-based campaigns also make use of this addition.

Unfortunately, currently the pincer movements and other cosmetic effects have not been reproduced in-game, though it would theoretically be possible to do so using the [[Animation Code]] and major modifications to the model.

===Veteran Comments===
{{comment|''The Sathanas, like most FS2 Shivan capital craft, has an attack-oriented design that makes use of the known Shivan superiority at subspace jumping (at least in capital craft) to deal devastating first-strike blows. If itself attacked, it has problems. It has a single other anti-capital beam, an LRed in a "stinger" position aft and below; this weapon is not sufficent to prevent the Sathanas from being flanked. The Sathanas' defenses against fightercraft assault are respectable, but poorly sited to defend against an attack on its main armament. (The Colossus is notably superior in this regard.) In a way the Sathanas is a microcosm of the Shivan war machine, which is dependent on continually being on the assault to keep its flaws from being exposed. On the defensive it can still deal out heavy blows, but ultimately it is not prepared for the role. It is worth noting that the only time ingame the Sathanas was actually attacked, by a Vasudan corvette in "A Monster in the Mist", it was unable to come to grips with its opponent. Even in "High Noon" the Sathanas was essentially on the offensive, in motion towards the statically positioned Colossus.''

''It is also vulnerable to fighters and bombers if they attack near enough to the weapons subsystem, making it impossible for the anti-fighter beams to reach.''

''It's not clear if the Sathanas is a warship at all, or some kind of colonization vessel or Shivan living quarters fitted with heavy weaponry. It certainly has some kind of secondary non-combat capabilites, such as the bizarre equipment that the Shivans used to destroy the Capella star. Via Petrarch's statements in the end cutscenes, Volition seems to imply that the Shivans destroyed Capella to create subspace access to their homeworld and used the Sathanses as glorified personnel transports for their journey.''

''This giant warship is curious, neither the [[GTVA Colossus|Colossus]] nor the Sathanas have very good anti-fighter defenses. A squadron of [[GTM Helios|Helios]]-capable bombers can take out all of its main beam cannons, leaving it vulnerable to attack. If it wasn't for the "supercap" flag, the Sathanas in such a state would be vulnerable to attacks by destroyers.''

''This is one bigass mother of a ship. However, its defensive capabilities against fighters and bombers are far below par, so you can easily see why I disagree with the first comment. A quick salvo of Helios missiles should take care of the four front beams. The only annoying thing one should be warned about this is the forward flak cannon constantly bombarding your ship. If you can get rid of that, the ship is easily fried into helpless cap-ship fodder. Given an endless amount of time, enough missiles, and enough patience, it's possible that a single fighter or bomber could take down this juggernaut, as the Shivans apparently weren't planning on engineering defenses into their cap-ship destroyer. Unless its forward beam turrets are intact, it's as harmless as a fly (although not easily as squashed). Just be warned not to sit in front of it as it jumps out.''

''It is true that a Sathanas '''CAN''' be flanked by a smaller warship, but do not underestimate the strength of its rear-facing LRed. Without any fighters or bombers to disable it, even a [[GVD Hatshepsut|Hatshepsut-class]] destroyer may not be able to survive attacking it from behind. If that single turret is destroyed, however, it will change the outcome.

It is also interesting to note that the Sathanas has basic AWACS capabilities, meaning that it can occasionally target and open fire on hostile stealth fighters in addition to relaying the enemy stealth fighter's targeting data to all nearby friendly ships. There's a little drawback about this, however - if the Sathanas is set as a friendly ship, it will send builtin AWACS messages in case its hull integrity is moderately and/or critically reduced.''

''A note about the ship's turn radius: if ordered to attack a nearby target, the AI code will tell the Sathanas to move forward while turning (rather than just pivot in place), so a warship placed to the side of the Sathanas in the right "sweet spot" can harass the juggernaut while remaining out of range of the short-range anti-fighter beams and blobs guarding the Sath's flanks. The Sath will turn in a wide circle and will never bring its main guns to bear. In this way a Fenris can defeat a Sathanas over the course of an hour, assuming that the latter's fighterbays are empty, and that the person who FREDded the mission didn't simply give the Shivan vessel a decent waypoint path to follow. For example, telling the Sath to head for a distant waypoint will cause it to pivot tightly, in which case the Fenris is screwed.''

''Despite all this, remember that the Sathanas is not meant to be left immobile and unescorted. If you create a mission, make sure that the ship turns to face the opponent, or at least move to evade. Also, the Sath's presumably very large fighter complement should be enough to overwhelm GTVA bombers and warships. Consider these factors when designing a strike against a Sathanas. ''

I find that as long as you're nowhere near any flak cannons, staying low and close to the hull like you're walking on it is a method that can allow you to effectively neutralize every one of its turrets. Of course it'll take a while, since you're certainly not going to get your wingmen to follow you in your plan. The Sathanas in my opinion really only poses a threat to big ships. (A really, really big threat.)
}}

[[Category:Ship]]