SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Tartarian Technocracy
TYPE: Main Space Battleship
MODELS: SBB-002 Defiant Class
DATE INTRODUCED: 2191 AD
LENGTH: 1875.3 feet (571.6 meters)
WIDTH: 592.8 feet (180.7 meters)
HEIGHT: 415.4 feet (126.6 meters)
MATERIAL: Composite-Alloy
POWER PLANT: 52x Tartarian Technologies IPFF-50G Ion Plamsa Fusion Furnace
OUTPUT: 50 Gigawatts each (2,600,000 megawatts/2600 Gigawatts total)
ARMOR TYPE: Composite-Alloy
ARMOR THICKNESS: 8 inches
DISPLACEMENT: 450,000 tons
CREW: 509 plus up to 80 flight, for 589 total. (45 Operators, 115 Gunners, 51 Officers, 120 Engineers, 45 Technicians, 45 Electricians, 28 Medical, 20 Science, 20 Troops, 20 Security, and 80 pilots)

PROPULSION:

PRIMARY (Intra-Solar Engines):
2x Diana Dynamics DD-EMD-400K* Electromagnetic Drive
SPEED: kiloMACH 3 each (2,280,000 mph each or 4,560,000 mph total)
*NOTE: made for a 100,000 ton vessel.

           SECONDARY (Interplanetary Engines)
   7x Tyche Research TR-FT-3000
SPEED: 3378 miles per hour each (23,646 mph total)

           FASTER THAN LIGHT DRIVE:
   1x Translight TL-IDT6-200K*, Type-5 Mark-III Intersection Drive (normal)
SPEED: 2.2 light-years per hour
*NOTE: made for a 2,000,000 ton vessel.

WEAPONS:

   PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
   4x Norking IB-50002 dual 5000-megawatt Ion Blaster cannon turrets; Effective Range: 50,000 miles; Payload: unlimited nuclear battery clutch; ROF: 1 dual blast every fifty seconds with a cyclic rate of 1 dual blasts per minute.

SECONDARY (OFFENSIVE):
   5x Federal Armory FA-FRMC-5002 dual 500-megawatt Meson cannon turret; Effective Range: 3600 miles; Payload: unlimited nuclear battery clutch system; ROF: 10 dual blasts per ten seconds with a cyclic rate of 60 dual blasts per minute.

           PRIMARY (ASSAULT/BALLISTIC):
   1x Epsilon Arms EA-WEMPAC-50K Wide-angle 50,000 megawatt Electromagnetic Particle Accelerator Cannon; Effective Range: 250,000 miles long in a cone that reaches a maximum diameter of 37.9 miles; Payload: unlimited with Fusion Reactor; ROF: 1 blast per 60 seconds/minute.

          SECONDARY (ASSAULT/BALLISTIC):
16x Terratech ASIT-15K cruise missile launcher; Missile Type: ASIT-15K 15,000-pound computer-guided medium-range cruise missile with 47.8-megaton yield; Effective Range: 5067 miles; Payload: 10 space torpedoes each torpedo launcher; ROF: 1 torpedoes per two seconds.

        PRIMARY (DEFENSIVE):
   17x Norking RFMC-2002A dual 200-megawatt (400 megawatt total) Rapid Fire Mason cannon turrets; Effective Range: 720 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery clutch, holds 40,000-megawatts for rapid fire; ROF: up to 10 dual-blasts per 2 seconds, with a cyclic rate of 300 dual blasts per minute.

ELECTRONICS:
   1x Laser Communications array with a 1000 AU range.
   1x Microwave Communications array with a 100 AU range.
           1x SLV communications suite 10 light years.
           1x LADAR sensor suite with a 200,000 mile range.
           1x Passive EMS sensor array with a range of 1,000,000 miles.
   1x Active EMS sensor array with a range of 100,000 miles.
           1x SLV sensor suite with a 80-parsec range.
   3x Gravitational Control/Antigravity unit Effect: provides artificial lift,g-force compensation and enhanced maneuverability.

DEFENSE SYSTEMS:
    1x Sophia Systems SSEEFF-20K 20,000-megawatt level-1 electron element force field generator; RANGE: 10,000 feet; Effect: Output 14,400,000 gigajoules (14,400 terajoules) with a regeneration rate of 2,400,000 gigajoules (2400 terajoules) every 10-seconds.

HANGAR BAYS:
   (Main Hangar)
          2x 20,000-yd³; Port Bay holds twenty PI-FW-Ta283, and twenty PF-87G. Starboard Bay holds twenty PS-ME262, and twenty PF-87G..

SPECIAL SYSTEMS:
   99x Escape Pods; Range: 18,240 miles; Effect: Each escape pod holds six individuals, can fly at a speed of Mach 1 for up to 24 hours, has a food supply to provide six persons with one month of food

Description/Overview:
   The Defiant class of Main Space Battleship was the first vessel designed and built entirely by the Tartarian Technocracy. It was the first line of spacecraft to come out of their orbital shipyards in the Epsilon Indi star system. These ships were not meant to replace the Revenge class of main space battleship, but rather were meant for the Alien Repulsor Fleet (APF). The APF concept was abandoned after the Tartarian Technocracy leader, Sovereign Grand Inspector General Khazar Rothschild, learned of Doctor Donaldson's Cosmo Dragoons gaining control of a massive Prodono base, and restoring its fleet. Instead, the Defiant became the main Capital ship of the Offense Space Navy forces that were being built to take on the Neo-Hebrews of Orion, Planetary Alliance, and Union of Sovereign Solar Republics. While most of the weaponry of the vessel were standard for its time, it was the maw gun of the ship that made it unique. It was the first Terran built wide-angle beam weapon. The main reason for the wide beam was to destroy incoming enemy mecha, or missiles. The second useage was to deplete the defensive shields of enemy craft in order to weaken them enough for other weaponry to penetrate more easily. The wide-angle beams did have a major drawback, that being that the damage inflicted was considerably less due to the thinning out of the particles of the beam and it spread out. A restrictor was added to the maw gun in 2192 that allowed the weapon to be recalibrated to fire a tight beam (like a normal EMPAC beam gun) at a single target. However, the recalibration required a few minutes to do, and during combat that was a crucial deficiency.