SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Colonial Confederacy, Union of Sovereign Solar Republics
TYPE: Interplanetary Space Dreadnought
MODEL: Glorious class DN-001 (Ironclad Mark-V)
DATE INTRODUCED: 2183 AD
DIMENSIONS
LENGTH: 2269.4 feet (691.7 meters)
WIDTH: 473,8 (144.4 meters)
HEIGHT: 552.5 feet (168.4 meters)
MATERIAL: Crystal Composite
POWER PLANT: Hensai Energy HEFR-10G fusion reactor x 118
OUTPUT: 10 gigawatts each (1,180,000 megawatts/1180 gigawatts total)
ARMOR TYPE: Crystal Composite
ARMOR THICKNESS: 12 inches
DISPLACEMENT: 750,000 tons
CREW:
           659 + 150 pilots (809 total) before 2093 (75 Operators, 202 Gunners, 76 Officers, 200 Engineers, 75 Technicians, 75 Electricians, 36 Medical, 20 Science, and up to 100 Security.)
           659+ 180 pilots (839 total) after 2093 (75 Operators, 202 Gunners, 76 Officers, 200 Engineers, 75 Technicians, 75 Electricians, 36 Medical, 20 Science, and up to 100 Security.)

PROPULSION

             FASTER THAN LIGHT DRIVE :
             1x Pallas Research PRID-T4-900K Type-4, Mark-V Intersection Drive unit
             SPEED: 0.51 light years per hour total (designed for a 900,000 ton ship) 

             PRIMARY:
             8x Uranus Propulsion Systems UPS-EMD-35K Electromagnetic Drive (Level-02)
             SPEED: 509,200 mph each (4,073,600 mph total)

             SECONDARY:
             17x Neptune Drives NDFT-7500 (Level-03) fusion thrusters
             SPEED: 5092 mph each (86,564 mph total)

WEAPONS:

             PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
             Maw Gun "Main Cannon"
             1x Lithgear LG-EMPAC-50K 50,000-megawatt electromagnetic particle accelerator heavy maw-gun; Effective Range: 250,000 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery clutch recharged from the vessel's main reactor; ROF: 1 blast per 1 minute, 47-seconds.

             Main Turrets
             8x Degtyrayov Dynamics/Lithgear DD/LG-EMPAC-5002 dual 500-megawatt Electromagnetic Particle Accelerator Cannon turrets; Effective Range: 2500 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery clutch recharged from the vessel's main reactor; ROF: up to 6 dual blasts per minute in cycles of 1 twin blast per 10 seconds.

             Broadside Guns
             24x Lithgear LG-PC-300 300-megawatt PHELAC cannon barbettes in two banks of seven; Effective Range: 2400 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery clutch recharged from the vessel's main reactor; ROF: up to 9 dual blasts per minute in cycles of 1 twin blast per 6.7 seconds.

             SECONDARY (OFFENSIVE):
             8x Lithgear LG-CML-5000T-24 24-shot heavy space torpedo launcher; Missile Type: UN-SRT-5000 short-range 5000-pound computer-guided cruise missile/space torpedo (597.5 kiloton nuclear warhead); Effective Range: 35.1 miles; Payload: 48 cruise missiles each in an internal space torpedo tube; ROF: 1-24 torpedoes each launcher per 2-seconds.

             PRIMARY (DEFENSIVE):
             16x Lithgear LG-RFL-502 dual 50-megawatt rapid-fire laser cannon turrets; Effective Range: 500 miles; Payload: unlimited with a 1000-megawatt nuclear battery clutch recharged from the vessel's main reactor; ROF: up to 60 blasts per minute in cycles of 10 blasts per 10 seconds.

            PRIMARY (BALLISTIC):
            Pluto Arms PAITL-10K Mark V dual-shot ion torpedo cruise missile torpedo tube; Missile Type: IDST-10K ion drive computer-guided space torpedoes armed with one 10,000-pound nuclear warhead; Effective Range: 1056 miles; Payload: 35 space torpedoes each in an autoloading torpedo tube; ROF: 1-2 torpedoes per two seconds with a cyclic rate of 60 torpedoes per minute per torpedo battery.

ELECTRONICS:
              1x Microwave Radio Communications array with a 1000 AU range.
              1x Laser Radio Communications array with a 1000 AU range.
              1x Super Luminal Velocity Communications Suite with a range of 10 light years.
              1x RADAR array with a range of 200,000 miles.
              1x LADAR array with a range of 220,000 miles.
              1x Passive EMS array with a range of 1,000,000 miles.
              1x Active EMS array with a range of 100,000 miles.
              1x Super Luminal Velocity Sensor Suite with a range of 80 parsec (260.8 light years).
              2x Gravitational/Antigravity Control Unit; Effect: 1 Provides artificial lift, g-force compensation, and enhanced maneuverability, the other four are for the Intersection Drives (1 each).

DEFENSIVE SYSTEMS:

                 6x Cydonia Research CR-DF-2000A omnidirectional LEVEL-2 Gravitonic deflector field generator; Range: 2000 feet from hull; Power Requirement: 2000 megawatts each; Output: 432 terajoules with a regeneration of 43.2 Terajoules every ten seconds.

HANGAR BAYS:
              1x 150,000-yd3 Bay holds ten AS-02B Shuttle Bombers, eighty PSF-35J Space Fighters, and 30 VAT-77 Variable Arthropod Tanks and 10 VAT-80 Variable Arhtropod Tanks (prior to 2093), after 2093 VATs are replaced with 40 PHT-110 Protean Hover Tanks.

SPECIAL SYSTEMS:
              140x Ganymede Industrial GI-EP-01 emergency escape pods; DETAILS: Escape pods have 24-hour life-support, a speed of Mach 1 (760 mph), 3 weeks of food for six people, full reentry capability, parachutes for free fall, life raft for six people (water landing), and 24 hours of fuel for rocket engines.

Description/Overview:
              A part of VonStalin's plan to make an invincible space navy, the Glorious class of Dreadnought was the first Mark V Ironclad based on the Kiev class space battleship of the defunct UN Solar Empire. Totally independent of the Michael Romanov type refit, the Glorious created by the Pluto Republic was more than just a command/flag ship, it was meant to go toe-to-toe with the large warships of the Ceres Regency and Union of Solar Republics. Originally conceived of in 2180 AD as a Space Control Ship for use in the campaigns that VonStalin was planning against the Union of Solar Republics and the Ceres Regency, the Glorious design team modified the design to be a pure warship, with the ability to fight on its own without escort. On top of this, Lady Furrier wanted a whole new fleet of ships capable of autonomous operation without aid of escorts or large flotillas.   The initial production run of Glorious class ships was completed in 2183 AD, this fleet consisted of four warships all fitted with heavy PHELAC turrets as their main battery. During the Ceres Conflict of the 2180s, this main battery of five dual PHELAC beam cannon turrets was replaced with dual EMPAC cannon turrets to overcome the energy resistant armor of Prodono type ships believed to be in the Ceres Space Navy. The most outstanding feature of the Glorious class was the oversized Intersection Drive Unit. Lady Furrier was keenly aware of the massive time dilation of the Prodono alien hyperspace fold flight system, and she needed a fleet of warships capable of shortening the gap between the considerably slower Terran Intersection Drives and the FTL engines of the alien ships. The Earth Federal Republic had begun using Type-3 Intersection Drive units in 2181 AD provided by the Lagrange "TransLight" company of L3-Space Island colony. The EFR configuration used two of the Type-3 FTL engines to propel their 580,000-ton Kongo class Space Battleships at a time-dilation of 0.36 light years per hour. The Pluto Republic obtained the plans for said drive system in late 2081 and by 2183 a new Type-4 Heavy Intersection Drive unit, capable of pushing a 900,000-ton ship through hyperspace at 0.28 light years per hour, was built for the Kirov and Glorious class warships. On the 750,000-ton Glorious the time-dilation was 0.51 light years per hour. A speed few Terran-borne ships could boast during the 2180s and early 2190s.
            The second major feature of the Glorious was the use of a "universal" drive ring structure. This structure was intended for use in all Pluto Republic and Colonial Confederacy capital ships and was the first step in a truly modular space fleet design concept. Modular components were in use by the EFR prior to the Glorious, but were not "plug-and-play" like the Glorious and other Pluto spacecraft that used these systems.
            The Glorious was built in enormous numbers for a space dreadnought during the Outer Sphere War with over thirty being constructed by war's end. This was due to the Colonial Confederacy's other two major powers getting contracts for these ships: Pluto had 12-Glorious class ships by 2186, Uranus had 10, and Neptune had 8. During the years prior to the 2nd Interplanetary War, the Glorious class would be upgraded yet again to a newer more powerful class of main space Dreadnought.