The Weirdest Star Destroyer Ever: The Peltast Sniper - Star Wars Fanon
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Today we take a look at arguably the weirdest Star Destroyer design in Star Wars - the Peltast, from Star Wars Fanon, and specifically a creation of the Star Wars Thrawn's Revenge Mod for Empire at War. I'll cover that and more for today's video!
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0:00 - Intro
0:43 - Empire of the Hand Explained
2:27 - A closer look at the Peltast
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So basically a Chiss Engineer thought about making a sniper-type cruiser after playing a game of _Halo._
Honestly few but strong primary ship-to-ship weaponries are just epic. You salvo fire and disable your opponent before it can fire back
Thats the reason i like the idea of MAC or ships with spinal weaponries. And being if its fast its literally the death of slower ships that can't escape or get in range to fire back
And when designing it he really thought "how about we make a sword into a ship meant for long ranges?"
@@BurntPlaydoh The idea propably goes back to the Punt Gun (see wikipedia).
I like that its a tool in one's arsenal rather than a all encompassing "do everything" ship.
its meant to be a component in a fleet.
That's the thing I like about creating fleets of any sort in any IP; it needs to have a purpose it does very well.
In this case:
- 2 or 3 Peltast
- 2 Interdictors
- Several screening frigates and corvettes
- Some missile boats
- 4 large cruisers
- 1 very mean dreadnaught (your choice of which)
- 6 medium battleship class vessels
- 2 dedicated carriers w/ fighters to spare
- And not just any fighters...I want the TIE Defenders.
Do Everything capital ships make some sense, given that they're generally going to be a big huge centerpiece of any task force, and therefore hugely expensive, if they're highly specialized... then you need multiple different ships to cover their weaknesses. Which is a problem, because they're hugely expensive.
It's better to have your big expensive ships be multirole - because you're paying too much to cover for each other, too much to risk losing them if they get 'countered', and also you're paying enough to include basically all the features you want. The capital ship forms the durable, versatile core of the fleet, and _then_ you can have a bunch of smaller specialist ships.
Real world capital warships tend to specialize only when absolutely forced to - a battleship can carry heavy guns for engaging other capital ships, anti-aircraft guns, lighter guns for engaging escorts etc, and can be armored against a variety of threats from shells to torpedoes to bombs, but a battleship can't _also_ be a carrier, due to the physical contradiction of a carrier needing a flat deck and vast amounts of empty space (though... on some level, many *were* equipped with seaplanes for use as scouts, and modern battlecruisers tend to be fitted with helicopters).
This isn’t even that “weird” it honestly makes sense tbh
It totally makes sense. ships with spinal mounted weapons would be extremely important since they could take out command ships from out of reach of every sensor. You Litterally won't see them coming. Make it a rail gun too and your range is practically unlimited.
Maybe that’s why it’s weird. Because it’s a sw ship that actually makes sense. Lol jk 😂
Sins of a Solar Empire even has long range ships similar to it that can deal serious damage at range but are screwed if frigates or capital ships close the distance.
Apart from using medium range(for space combat) weapon and saying that it's long range, this doesn't seem so bad. I'd even say it's an improvement.
P.S.: even lasers and particle accelerators can't hit anything reliably beyond 1 light minute ranges. Missiles travel many orders of magnitude slower, but they can adjust their course. Plus nothing stops you from mounting FTL drive on ICBM sized missile. If you can put one on X-Wing, then both FTL drive and processing unit of astromech droid ARE cheap enough for you to put onto a missile that carries enough warhead to decimate whole planet and enough false targets to fool CIWS of a capital ship that it is supposed to destroy. Unlike X-Wing that doesn't carry as much ordnance.
A quick reminder to people out the that no matter how expensive F-22 is, when taken in full package(launcher vehicles and warheads) ICBMs are more expensive. Much more! And yet they exist. So FTL equiped missiles able to track targets for decades in would also exist in Star Wars.
Well... it is just better version of Onager. Chis SD also look like variant of Nabula SD.
"You have to admire the Chiss. They don't just steal your technology-they make it better."
―Anonymous Imperial engineer.
I'd definitely wanna see a peace treaty with them sometime
See Also: Countless PA/TA/SupCom SI Fanfics.
Another "Guide to Vehicles and Vessels" fan, I see
@@jamestrexler6329 damn straight
Star Wars needs more whacky specialized ships like this. It’s a super cool niche.
Not even a niche. If rail guns were a thing in star wars, strap one of these to a spinal mount and build a ship around it. Take out ships one by one from so far away the enemy won't even see you.
@@CS_Mango Rail guns actually are a part of the Star Wars expanded universe.
@@CS_Mango this is exactly what the UNSC did in Halo, they built each of their capital ships and even defense platforms around different level of MAC (Magnetic Accelerator) guns, with orbital defense platforms having the largest ones. The MACs acted as the UNSC’s most powerful weapon against the invading Covenant, and ships even after the war were still built around MAC guns
The main gun of the Republic walker a coil/rail gun.
Weirdest?
Didn’t one warlord literally glue two Star Destroyers on top of each other?
@@Obiwan7100
That one, yeah.
That might not have been a terrible idea if he'd flipped the lower one upside down
The best description for The relationship between Star Wars Legends and Star Wars Canon is that Canon tries to be more grounded (This was before Force Awakens), whereas Legends is more akin to the wildly exaggerated tales of a drunken spacer. The Annihilator class Star Destroyer is the epitome of drunken legends.
I dunno... That'd be a LOT of glue.
@@mechwar31Honestly, I can see this kinda thing actually happening in the SW universe given some of the stuff I've seen in relation to what people have done with trains, boats, etc over the years irl not being that far from someone deciding to weld two star destroyers together albeit on a smaller scale.
Star Wars Fans: "This is the weirdest Star Destroyer ever."
Me, a Physicist: "This is the best-designed Star Destroyer."
@EksaStelmere can you tell me why?
This was my favorite ship in Thrawn's Revenge. I just loved just having a TON of fighters and these in the back to just destroy any opponents. It just amazed me the firepower on the darn things.
One of my favorite star destroyers in my favorite Star Wars faction. I hope to see some fanon lore on the Empire of the Hand & how it faired after the Galactic Civil War. It's like the morally good, much better-written version of the First Order in my opinion.
@@BurntPlaydoh I know that. I'm talking about what happened to the Empire of the Hand after 19 ABY. How did they fair during the Vong invasion? How did they fair after the Vong invasion? Did they continue to pacify & control the Unknown Regions? Did they end up getting absorbed into the Chiss Ascendency, or did they remain an Independent state?
@@BurntPlaydoh I know that. What I'm saying is I'd like to say some Fan renditions of what happened to the EoTH in between the books. As well as some finer details, such as government, military, citizens, etc.
@@BurntPlaydoh Alright. I'll have to take a look at them. The only stuff that I know about the EoTH is that Voss Parck remained their emporer up until the Vong invasion. After that, I don't know what happened to them.
I love the dichotomy of sci-fi ships. Some are the results of hundreds of hours of investigating naval history, optimized mathematics, and physics in space, and others are just the galaxy's largest gun with a ship built around it.
And then some are just flying space cathedrals.
Empire: "We like putting guns on big ships."
Chiss: "Okay, what about building a big ship around a bigger gun?"
(moment of realization)
The Emperor: "Do it."
See also: "A-10 Warthog"
at least it doesn’t resemble a pizza slice or a pizza cutter
Like seriously, why do so many ships in the sci fi/sci fantasy look related to Pizza in some way?
Because pizza brings comfort to those who need it?
@@arnoldkearimal unless you're lactose intolerant, then it bootypops ya soul long time...or at least for two days.
Pizza is the ultimate resource to fight over.
I think you're just hungry, pal
Pizza is almost literally writing fuel. And you write what you know and use what you have on hand as props. That's how pizza slices became ISDs, Princess Leah flew around in a hammer, and Han found himself flying a cheeseburger with a bite taken out of it.
This is Basically what All SDs are (Giant Space Artillery) , but better.
Definitely do more “Fanon” ships.
Hey Eck, love all the work. Hope the family is good and all. Big fan from South Africa!
From 6:28 to 6:37 that Acclamator was like: Banzai!!!
I honestly wish that I had the same level of creativity as some of these ship designers. My only real idea was refitting a smaller Star Destroyer (Venator or Victory-class) with primarily ion cannons and tractor beams to use as a means of capturing enemy ships without risking damage to technology, cargo, and passengers that the Empire wanted intact.
@@michaelandreipalon359 The Empire has a ship meant to deal with point defense, the Lancer, but Imperial Naval Strategy is terrible, so they were rarely deployed
A very sensible ship. Also, with that profile, harder to hit from a distance.
Who else would love a short series to coincide with Ecc's playthrough where he does ship breakdowns of the empire of the hand's vessels, naval doctrine etc
The ship does seem to function almost like a Halo UNSC ship. One of the things I love about Halo, long range space combat instead of like old naval warfare with everything close range
Halo isn't even close to long range.
If you want to read long range, go read Honor Harrington
@@soumyajyotimukherjee4752 It is though. Many times the UNSC and Covenant are shooting their MACs and Plasma Lances and etc at long range and dodging shots.
@Alexander Orozco I guess. Depends on what you taste is.
@@PackHunter117 The furthest a Covenant Plasma Lance has fired is 100,000 km.
I don't think that's even a fraction of the Combat ranges of Honor Harrington.
HH, The Lost Fleet and others measure combat ranges by Light Seconds.
The tabletop game Dropfleet Commander addressed space-battle weapon ranges in its rules.
Basically, beam weapons, rail guns, and so on do indeed have a practically infinite range - but good luck actually hitting anything capable of maneuvering, if you're opening fire at ranges measured in Astronomical Units. If you want your shots to actually connect, then you need to be close enough for your sensors to lock on properly, and for the shot travel time to be short enough that the enemy can't avoid being hit.
That said, I think the HH series tends to fight at longer ranges. It's not uncommon for their cat-and-mouse maneuvers to be visible on the scale of entire systems.
The AT-AP- the Sniper Tank
Marauder Class Crusier-Missile Crusier that sniper from afar
Now an Imperial Sniper Crusier.
@Alexander Orozco it had missiles on it in EAW.
@Alexander Orozco it's fine. Also you have a good day.
I love glass-cannon ships like this.
It looks like it’s based around a mag cannon, like a halo ship
Its Mack cannon not mag cannon
agreed.
@@wesleygetsinger1859 pretty sure its MAC cannon not mack cannon.
Not even MAC cannon. Just MAC.
Magnetic
Accelerator
Cannon
Imagine a Chiss Peltant-class equipped with two large MAC cannons. That's good enough to gut an SD with three shots. Two well placed shots with armor piercing rounds and a finishing shot with a round that has a nuclear warhead. That just may be the one of the best heavy anti-capital ship weapon to counter the Yuuzhan Vong.
This reminds me a lot the Artillery Cruiser class from Dreadnought, that game have very interesting sniper ships.
Clearly made by an Elite Dangerous player. It looks like an Federation Capital ship mixed with the Corvette in it
It always seemed like the focus on close range engagements is a major weakness of starwars ship technology. Seems like any power that can make ships that can engage in combat beyond visual range would have a major advantages in attacking large slow moving targets.
MOST DEFINITELY liked and really enjoyed watching this one.
Yes, hope that you'll cover more of Star Wars Fanon!
You know, the First Order's Mandator-IV siege dreadnought probably functions in a similar way (sniping heavy capital ships from afar) in addition to its ground-bombardment role.
Cover whatever you like. I'm honestly just happy to watch whatever you put out. You make good content.
i love when you cover fan ships.
The new canon Onager class reminded me a lot of this ship, just a giant gun on a thinner star destroyer base.
Keep cool fan designs coming!
the fact that you can shoot a ship billions of miles away this doesnt make it weird to me , heck ill bet in the future most spaceship combat will be done in extreme distance 😎😎
not necessary. It'll depends on stealth technology. It quite possible in the future ships wouldn't be able to detect each other and aim from afar.
@@sirtaelellevalerie1056 its imposible to be stealthy in space, ships gives off all kinds of radiation and signals. if you somehow manages to capture all that energy, it will just cook the ship from the inside.
@@sirtaelellevalerie1056 you can't avoid the laws of thermodynamics sorry
@@OverlordZephyros only working engines (and there is almost no friction in space, so engines are shut of most of the time) and active sensors produce any noticeable emission. Everything else are blocked by ship thermal insulation and anti-radiation defence. and even engine emission can be blocked, for example by IR-blocking aerosoles (although this is quite temporal solution).
Thermal insulation , anti radiation defense this is just technobabble. You cannot hide a spaceship that produces heat/radiation and everything produces heat (computer, engine, the human body etc) and this in a black background of -270c.
Thermodynamics 101
I love the fan designs. Keep 'em coming!
I love fanon ships personally, from the totally insane ludicrously over-the-top designs to more realistic and practical designs like the Peltast. Fanon adds a lot of creativity while also sometimes filling in voids left in canon, and so I really enjoy it.
Awesome video! You should do more with explaining the lore in this mod. I downloaded this mod and was kind of lost with all the factions
Really interesting! I'd love to hear more of these wacky fan ships, cool seeing what the fanbase is up to
I'm surprised that rail or coil guns are not prevalent in Star Wars. They seem more viable, at least given our current knowledge, than particle weapons. Their major drawbacks are mostly related to material science and solutions are currently being worked on. You can get some pretty scary energy density out of a slug of inert metal too, if you get it going fast enough.
I love looking at fannon designs, they bring that needed extra variety to various factions
Looks like a cool and original design. It's great to see what fans can come with when doing their own designs and ideas.
It seems like it has a lot of engines for the mass/displacement of it. And with the flare of the hull on the sides to protect the engines, it looks similar to the Pelta class frigate, so I wonder if the name came from that.
A mega weapon I would like to see is the beam turbolaser, like on the SPHA-T. I love the small scene at the beginning of Ep III of a Venator using a hangar mounted one against a CIS ship. Like a super scaled up version of that that could do ongoing damage, not just a single shot. Obviously not as powerful as a Death Star-esque laser, but something that produces a long lasting beam would be really cool
Me, seeing the thumbnail: damn that's an awesome looking ship, guess that means it couldn't have been created by Disney.
Eckhartsladder: today we'll be covering a fanmade ship
Me: of course.....
Please keep covering all lore, you are excellent at it and by far so much more, if not THE most respectable source for this process next to channels like ECHenry & Co. - Keep it up!
#AskEck Could someone theoretically use The Force to destroy a World Devestator?
That would be one hell of a force user/group of users!
Yes as we see in Dark Empire, Luke and Leia combine their powers together to push back the Emperors force storm to destroy his Eclipse class super dreadnought.
Funny timing, I just got back into Empire at War and was playing the Thrawn's Revenge mod as Empire of the Hand. The Peltast is pretty useful as long-range fire support and destroying Golan stations from afar.
Well this looks interesting
Awesome video! Please make more.
A ship like this would make a lot of sense. I could see the tactical use now. Take pot shots at an adversary until it is vulnerable. Once it is, send in fast moving assets to finish off the adversary -- say bombers escorted by fighters or corvettes in pack formation.
The peltast is probably one of my favourite fanmade ships. i just love the idea of a ship that stays behind but can do some heavy damage
We need EC Henry and his model friends, and/or FractalSponge’s expertise to make a 3D model of this.
I recall EC Henry saying he’s gotten help from others on ship design, though maybe that was mostly the interior of some ships? I don’t remember exactly
Keep doin the fanon ships. I’m loving it. Wouldn’t mind some lore/story on the Chiss and their enemies with droid fighters. Peaked my interest.
Glad you're enjoying the design Eck!
Looks like a sword. And it makes me think of He-Man's sword.
"By the power of Greyskull! I have the better range!" LOL
I love it. It seems like a must have for fleets.
Yes definitely do more ship videos! Very cool concept for a ship.
If this was an official ship it would probably replace the Hammerhead and the Dreadnaught as my favourite ship in the universe. It is very stylish, very distinct and has a unique role. I had a similar idea of using ships with mass drivers and railguns in the Star Wars setting to outrange various conventional ships.
I have recently played the Homeworld Remastered Collection. I remember the old textures of the original, nice big chunky blocks. The new ones, oh my! Sometimes i just circled around them because they look just so gorgeous. I thought you might like them too.
Having the distance advantage to take on a sniper role makes it far less of a glass cannon than the Zann Consortium's Aggressor class was
About 20ish years ago my friend am myself were playing a space combat game called Starmada, I can't remember which edition, there have been many. (note this is a table top game). This system allow you to build you own ship designs. One of the ship I designed was the Legolass Class Sniper Ship. Four mass drivers, twin TD&R systems, and extend range on the mass drivers. It became a very feared ship, to the point, while it was make completely within the rules, some said I was stretching the rules with the design.
Incredibly cool looking ship. I like it!
Love the fan designs
Honestly, this is one of my favorite fan ships, solely for what it's role in a fleet. I loved the idea of having a ship doing long range attacks. Either assaulting something like a base from afar, or supporting other ships currently engaged with enemy ships while keeping a relatively safe distance from the front line. For a ship of it's type, which is a rarity, it's surprisingly great.
To quote RimmyDownUnder-
They’re essentially engines on a giant rail gun and I love it
He said this in regards to the UNSC frigates
Last time I was this early Jar Jar was still fandom enemy number one!
Who took his throne🤔
Jar Jar is beautiful besides those SJW non-characters from the sequels
A design I’d love to see would be a star destroyer that is not centered on an axis, since space is a 3D engagement
I want to try whatever people who make Star Wars fanon are on
We run on good times and companionship
Love the chiss ingenuity. Can you make more videos on their ships/technology?
I actually love this a lot. It's strong, consistent, and it just makes sense. I'd definitely wanna have a couple of these in my fleet! Imagine a couple of these paired with an Interdictor. You can literally fish ships out of hyperspace and have these just bomb the shit out of it until it's rendered useless! Definitely should be added to cannon!
This seems like one of those types of ships that really start to excel the more you have of them. Since it can snipe enemy targets before they get into range, it can effectively reduce enemy numbers before they have a chance to do anything back. And if the enemy has too massive of a fleet, a fleet incorporating these can take out a portion of the enemy fleet and disengage before the enemy gets a chance to fire back.
Two of these behind a wall of Chaf class and a couple of Intego class to man the spearhead helped me take down Kaine's SSD. Totally epic battle.
When I was playing my first campaign with the EoTH I went with a defensive playstyle. I'd focus all my defence into my border worlds. The peltast fit into my play style very well, and even if I only had a few assisting the defence I could take out fleets of vessels. I remember once I just barely came out with a victory after fighting off a death stack fleet that had multiple torpedo spheres.
The ability to disable capital ships or at least remove troublesome hard points before they ever reach my defensive structures, all whilst my ships are well behind my defenses was too powerful.
Sniping's a good job mate!
I've seen that ship from playing Empire at War Thrawn's Revenge. It's not too shabby in combat.
Keep going with fnon designs, love this ship!
I always liked the concept of big gun ships and wonder why they weren't more prevalent in star wars. They would be like tank destroyers and could be really useful for clearing out tough, big ships that regular ships would take a while to defeat like a star destroyer.
Loved this more please!!!!
Reminds me of the "Ragnarov Titan" from "Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion". That's a pretty cool ship.
Why is it that the SW universe that the Clone Wars Republic capital ships, the Empire’s capital ships and apparently Thrawn’s EOTH ships don’t include PDCs, either as laser cannon or rail gun emplacements to handle snub fighters or small picket ships, like Corvettes & Frigates, working in an offensive role. Having a crap load of fighters on board or impressive shielding is only as good as having the fighters already flying CAPs or shields that can handle taking multiple hits from ion bombs, torpedoes or heavy ion cannon. Look at the Hoth evacuation. The ISD shields did not stop the ship from being disabled. The shields and more TIEs than god already flying in the combat space at Scarif didn’t protect the one ISD from being disabled by an element of Y-Wing bombers using ion ordnance. We all know how that ended. Having the ability to pick off small but apparently effective snub fighters by blowing them out of the sky before they can disable you goes a lot farther than the hope & pray strategy that either some of your own in snub fighters come to your aid or that your shields will hold up is naive.
Nice video, was quite good. It would be good to see fannon ships in the future please. What were the other ships in the video? Could you please do some videos on them or even just a brief overview?
covering fan ships like this are awesome
The ship would probably be extremely effective when grouped and have their barrage synced. What I would have liked to see on the ship design is a couple of forward facing main engines, this allows the ship to keep distance from the target but still have its main weapon pointed towards it.
I honestly love this. Holding planets would be a lot easier. Park 4-5 of these behind your starbase with a battlecruiser or 2 up front to soak up damage, and you have huge withering fire support killing off enemy capital ships before they can wear down your starbase or front line ships. Also if you have a tough system to crack you could bring in enough of these to max out the unit cap and snipe a few targets of opportunity before fleeing to hyperspace. Great design.
It appears to draw design aspects from the Pelta-class frigate from the Prequels with its longer length and extended rear sides, the Mammalian Titan from Stellaris for the primary cannon, and standard Imperial ships with the angular designs near the end, alongside the bridge. It also seems to draw inspiration from the Executor super star destroyer for it's engine bay, with the sides being much closer to the front with the center being far further behind. The Republic aspects suggest it was designed as the Empire neared its full, totalitarian rule, while not quite being the beast it is in Rebels, or A New Hope. It certainly feels like something that could be seen in an Official Star Wars show (i.e. the Bad Batch or the Mandalorian.), with the Star Wars-feel, while introducing a new, or at least uncommon, design aspect.
It looks like a conceptual evolution of sorts of the Zann Consortium's Aggressor class... optimizing range but doing away with the 1-2 punch with the linked Ion/Plasma cannons due to the slow projectile speed effectively limiting its effective range and opting for a single hard hitting and long ranged plasma bolt to increase its effective engagement range.
It feels like a very refined version of the Aggressor-class destroyer prototype. I don't remember if you ever did a video on the Aggressor
Reminds me of dreadnoughts in Mass Effect with their full hull length Mass Accelerator cannons. "FEEL THE WEIGHT!"
This was dope
What a beautiful design! I would love to see an Ion cannon version so you can disable ships from super long-range.
Love fan designs.
*Empire of the Hand:* [exists]
*Okuyasu Nijimura:* "Oi Josuke, my Stand has its own empire now!"
*Jotaro Kujo:* "...good grief. Josuke, did you give him sugar again? You know how he gets when he's had Pixy Stix."
Yes more fanon plz
Interesting design and yeah the UNSC definitely came to mind as well as the First Order with there Xyston Class, to which I think would be better taking out capital ships instead of planets. As for covering canon or fanon ship designs, why not both? With fanon designs being used in comics and stuff it would be interesting to look into the original versions knowing the actual creators. With canon ones the more obscure or lesser known given more illumination as EC Henry has thus far only touched on a few as far as I know.
These fan ships would be perfect for Thrawn's return, I love them all
It reminds me of that one ship used by the Zann Consortium - the Aggressor-class Star Destroyer I think?
That other Chiss Star Destroyer not focused on here looks a bit and sounds a lot like the New Republic's Nebula class which imo makes for a great example of convergent evolution or at least of both sides adopting and adapting to new tactics and doctrine in similar ways.
I like these Fanon ships. It's great to see new ideas that aren't official, as in canon.
This video was good timing because in Empire at War I was like, wtf is that, dumbfounded by it, 2 of them killed a star destroyer and a victory of mine.
Now I want freckle sponge, to make what is essentially a hybrid of this, and the onager class siege breaker dreadnought
It's pretty much similar design to the UNSC MAC guns in Haloverse.
In a practical universe, railguns and hyper-ranged weaponry is GODLY, unless you can close on them with a hyper-fast ship capable of making micro-jumps. Far as I know, there are no such ships and no computer powerful enough to make the appropriate equations.
In EVE ONLINE, they've countered this with ships capable of counter-ranging with a railgun ship at 250-300km(about maximum range(?) for non-lore.
In David Weber's Honorverse, the very opening scene of one book is a battle showing off the prowess of range and remote-controlled missiles at tens of thousands of kilometers, using cloaked sensor arrays to relay data between the missiles and the ships they were launched from. Honestly, one of the greatest, if mind boggling, scenes I've ever read from the standpoint of nearly 30 different characters within 4 chapters... again, very OPENING scene of the book, taking some 30 pages(felt like more) just to convey "Range superiority" of one faction in a defensive action "Show of force" more or less. "Well! We aren't going to try and piss THOSE guys off again, they could have just killed us!"
StarWars would probably be on the par of EVE ONLINE for space battles becoming the brawling masses that they turn into. Sure, you can TRY and snipe, and try to keep people at-range so your glass cannon doesn't get destroyed, but chances are you are going to be blobbed at one point or another, so get the damage in while you CAN. The Peltast would be comparable to the Caldari Naga, or the Caldari Rokh. PURE range, capable of denting ships of similar or bigger size, with minimal or no fighter-drone support.
If it were me, I would probably streamline the Peltast with a drone control and launch bay. Keep about 100 spare drone fighters, launch as need-be, and also allow for the use of flying repair bots to either work in conjunction with defense drones, or even take over the drones to help with hull repairs and maintenance. This clears up needing anything more than a landing bay for shuttles. I don't know the innards of the Peltast, but I would assume there's a barracks for a security/marine troop force for at least 50-100 to repel borders.
I love it!
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