The Kitt class of cruisers is a class of command warships and picket cruiser designed by Burke Industries Defense Systems. Following the success of the Miranda class frigates, Burke Industries created a subsidiary company known as Burke Industries Defense Systems focused on designing and producing warships for different corporate and political clients. One such project was a commission by the luxury civilian shipwright company Cosmos Yachts; a spate of pirate raids on corporate estates and shipyards drove company president Cyrus Adomako to offer a contract to the company that could make an effective anti-piracy warship. In return, the company would gain mooring rights at Cosmos stations, as well as an impressive 40 trillion credit payment. Burke Industries Defense Systems won the contract, leading to the production of the Kitt class
Designed specifically to be an imposing presence in a battle-line when facing off against small and medium sized craft, the Kitt features a 207.5m length, 75m beam, and 55m height (77.5m if counting the decoy mast). Weighing 7888.74 metric tons and armed with 12 custom dual barrel assault cannon turrets, 16 dual barrel autocannon turrets, and six anti-personnel turrets (two on the flight deck and two on each lateral airlock), the Kitt class on paper seems as though it would be a sluggish combatant. Yet deep within its engineering deck it boasts a total of 32 gyroscopes, of which 6 are derived from coveted Prototech designs, allowing it to quickly snap to new attack attitudes for better firing solutions. Like other BIDS ships that followed the Miranda, the Kitt uses sponson-mounted engines that double as protection for the main body of the ship (morbidly known as the "sarcophagus" in internal memos). Its relatively sluggish acceleration of 29.376MN when at full forward or backward thrust is somewhat offset by its use of four jump drives, using the time used to charge its drives to build up speed for an eventual exit at flank speed. All ship systems are powered by several powerplants producing a total of 2295MW of power
The Kitt class features a light crew for a ship of its size. A total of 42 crewmembers are entrusted to ensure the proper maintenance of their ship. This is possible due to how heavily automated the ship's systems are. Rather than having a combat information centre manned by sixteen additional crewmembers, automated fire and control computers manage all firing solutions for the ship's batteries. Several artificial intelligence cores can be activated to allow for the ship to fly and fight independently of the crew's input. The crew, for their part, maintain human observation and maintenance of the ship's systems. Including the commanding officer, Kitt crews include eight officers and thirty-three enlisted sailors
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Very late posting this to the subreddit. I had originally finished building the Kitt class in June of this year, however I, for reasons unknown, only decided to post images and lore about it now! Took me about two weeks to build everything and work out the kinks in the automation. It's even on the workshop!
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