Slava class

SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Colonial Confederacy, Union of Sovereign Solar Republics
TYPE: Interplanetary Space Battlecruiser
MODEL: Slava class SBCC-40 (Ironclad Mark-IV)
DATE INTRODUCED: 2183 AD
LENGTH: 2084.3 feet (633.3 meters)
WIDTH: 1374.3 feet (418.9 meters)
HEIGHT: 345.1 feet (105.2 meters)
MATERIAL: Crystal Composite
POWER PLANT: Hensai Energy HEFR-5000B fusion reactor x 224
OUTPUT: 5000 megawatts each (1,119,270 megawatts total)
ARMOR TYPE: Crystal Composite
ARMOR THICKNESS: 3 inches
DISPLACEMENT: 1,000,000 tons
CREW: 601 + 216 pilots (817 total) (100 Operators, 43 Gunners, 76 Officers, 100 Engineers, 100 Technicians, 100 Electricians, 40 Medical, Science 8, and up to 100 Security.)

PROPULSION
           FASTER THAN LIGHT DRIVE :
4x Pallas Research PRID-T3-28000B Type-3, Mark-IV Intersection Drive unit
SPEED: 0.045 light years per hour each, 0.18 light years per hour total (all four)

   PRIMARY:
4x Neptune Drives ND-IPFE-50K ion-plasma fusion engines
SPEED: 1,900,000 mph each (7,600,000 mph total)

SECONDARY:
   7x Eurospace HYIE-36K high yield ion engines
SPEED: 2763 mph each (19,152 mph total)

WEAPONS:
   PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
4x 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.

SECONDARY (OFFENSIVE):
  4x Lithgear LG-LC-1002 dual 100-megawatt laser cannon turrets; Effective Range: 1000 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.

PRIMARY (DEFENSIVE):
16x Lithgear LG-LC-804 quad 20-megawatt laser cannon ball turrets; Effective Range: 200 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery clutch recharged from the vessel's main reactor; ROF: up to 9 quad blasts per minute in cycles of 1 quadruple blast per 6.7 seconds.

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 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).
5x 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:

          (Bay Doors 1 & 2)
          1x 50,000-yd³ Bay has two doors for rapid launch of its six AS-02B type shuttle bombers, with 7303.7 cubic yards for parts, equipment, fuel, and munitions to service the shuttles.

          (Bay Doors 3 through 6, 8 through 11, 14 through 17, and 19 through 22)
8x 20,000-yd³ Bay holds ten SF-03A space fighter/bombers, with 10,517.4 cubic yards for parts, equipment, fuel, and munitions to service the fighters; plus seven space fighters.

          (Bay Doors 7 and 12, and 18 and 23)
           2x 35,000-yd³ Bay holds fifty PSF-35J Protean space fighters, with 11,855 cubic yards for parts, equipment, fuel, and munitions.

          (Bay Doors 13 and 24)
           2x 15,000-yd³ Bay holds twenty Type-110 Protean Hover Tanks (after 2093) or 5 Type-80VATs and 15 Type-77VATs (prior to 2093), with 2483 cubic yards for parts, equipment, fuel, and munitions.

Description/Overview:
The Slava class is the final incarnation of the Borodino/Rivadavia/Centauri family of Battlecruiser/carrier classes that were originally conceived of in 2160 AD as a command cruiser/battlecarrier with FTL capability. The Slave class was a greatly improved warship compared to its predecessors due to its ability to deploy a massive number of mobile weapons for both planetary assault and orbital superiority missions. By 2183 most of the Borodino and Rivadavia class class ships were obsolete and inferior to the warships of the Grand Duchy of Ceres. VonStalin knew that if he was to complete his plans of taking down both the Grand Duchy of Ceres and the Union of Solar Republics he needed a spacecraft that could deploy large numbers of mecha to a planet's surface and control the orbital space around a planet or planetoid. Supreme Commander Edric VonStalin, demanded the Borodino family of ships under the control of the Colonial Confederacy be refit with an Intersection Drive configuration that was capable of at least 0.18 light years per hour, and have sublight speeds capable of interplanetary travel at a reasonable amount of time within a solar system like Alpha Centauri.
   The result was the Slava class of battlecarrier. The core ship the Slava class is based on is basically the same as the Borodino/Rivadavia/Centauri class only with improved engines, and a pair of secondary hulls that contain hangar bays.
        This allowed for large numbers of existing Borodino type ships to be refit/upgraded to the Slava making production of the class very rapid and so modest numbers of these battlecarriers were produced for the Ceres Conflict, Outer Sphere war and the initial phases of the 2nd Interplanetary War. The Slava class did not perform well during the 2nd Interplanetary War as it was a major target for its enemies. Few survived the conflict and no subsequent advanced variants were made from this design as it was replaced by newer, superior warships.