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GOVERNMENT: Jovian Defense Forces
TYPE: Interstellar Astro Missile-destroyer (Conqueror Class refit)
MODEL: Narvi class SDDM-78 (Ironclad Mark-III)
DATE INTRODUCED: 2178AD
LENGTH: 544.6 feet (166 meters)
WIDTH: 185.6 feet (56.6 meters)
HEIGHT: 99.4 feet (30.3 meters)
MATERIAL: Composite Alloy
POWER PLANT: Macrotechnologies IPFF-5000 Ion Plasma Fusion Furnace x 5
OUTPUT: 5000 megawatts each (25,000 megawatts total)
ARMOR TYPE: Composite Alloy
ARMOR THICKNESS: 1 inch
DISPLACEMENT: 4500 tons
CREW: 73 (4 Operators, 30 Gunners, 4 Officers, 4 Engineers, 4 Technicians, 4 Electricians, 3 Medical, plus 20 battle robot pilots.)
PROPULSION
FASTER THAN LIGHT DRIVE :
1x Pallas Research PRID-T2-800 Type-2-Mark-II intersection drive unit
SPEED: .213 light years per hour maximum warp
SUBLIGHT DRIVE::
4x Lunar Dynamics PD-2000 plasma drives
SPEED: kiloMACH 4.4 or 0.10C each (3,350,000 mph each or .01125C each: .45C total for all four engines combined)
WEAPONS:
PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
3x Militia Military Industries MMI-PC-3180 540-megawatt triple PHELAC turrets; Effective Range: 1600 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery clutch system; ROF: 3 blasts every twenty seconds with a cyclic rate of 9 blasts per minute.
SECONDARY (OFFENSIVE):
8x Lithgear LG-CML-5000 cruise missile launcher; Missile Type: UN-SRT-5000 short-range 5000-pound computer-guided cruise missile/space torpedo; Effective Range: 35.1 miles; Payload: 2 cruise missiles each in a vertical launch missile silo; ROF: 1 torpedo each.
PRIMARY (DEFENSIVE):
2x Lithgear LG-STL-800 space torpedo tubes; Missile Type: UNSST-01 short-range 800-pound television-guided space torpedo (95.6 kiloton nuclear warhead); Effective Range: 5.4 miles; Payload: 20 torpedoes each tube. ROF: up to 1 torpedo per two seconds each launcher.
ELECTRONICS:
1x Microwave 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 1 parsec (3.26 light years).
2x Gravitational/Antigravity Control Unit; Effect: Provides artificial lift, g-force compensation, and enhanced maneuverability. One for Intersection Drive.
DEFENSIVE SYSTEMS:
6x Cydonia Research CR-DF-1000 omnidirectional LEVEL-1 Gravitonic deflector field generator; Range: 1000 feet from hull; Power Requirement: 1000 megawatts each; Output: 180 terajoules with a regeneration of 18 terajoules every ten seconds.
HANGAR BAYS:
1x 1600-yd3ground-assault hangar that holds up to twenty Main Battle Robots, normally fifteen MBR-01C and five MBR-01B1s.
Description/Overview:
With the demise of the UN Solar Empire and the liberation of the various moons bases, O'Neil Cylinders, Bernal Spheres, and other space stations around Jupiter; the newly formed Jovian Defense Forces began an emergency armament program to replace the ailing EFSM fleet of sublight spacecraft that comprised the bulk of their space navy. The JDF had lost the Posse Commitatus to the Earth Federal Republic during their exodus to the outer planets. Even with their acquisition of the Prodono Goro Dei battle factory (parked in orbit near Saturn), they lacked the raw materials to construct the new ships their engineers were designing, and needed a interim fleet that could protect the Jovian worlds should either the Ceres Regency or EFR chose to attack.
From this need the decision was made to refit the existing fleet of Mark-II Iron clad ships that could serve as both a bolster to their existing space navy and as the initial Extra-Solar Expeditionary fleets that would spearhead the transfer of the Methusians to another part of the galaxy away from normal humans. The Narvi class was the first of the refit UNSC/Solar Empire ships to be upgraded for use by the JDF in the 1st and 2nd Jovian fleets (Saturn Navy), and 5th and 6th Jovian fleets (Jupiter Navy).