SPECIFICATIONS


GOVERNMENT: Union of Solar Republics
TYPE: Omni-Hull Warship Frame
MODELS: SDD-01 (Heavy Space Destroyer)
DATE INTRODUCED: 2176 AD
LENGTH: 1397.3 feet (425.9 meters))
WIDTH: 643.1 feet (196 meters)
HEIGHT: 386.3 feet (117.7 meters)
MATERIAL: Composite-Alloy
POWER PLANT: Gaea Energy GEFR-5000 (80 port, 80 starboard, 80 aft: 240 total)
OUTPUT: 5000 megawatts each reactor (600,000 megawatts total)
ARMOR TYPE: Composite-Alloy
ARMOR THICKNESS:1.5 inches
DISPLACEMENT: 290,000 tons
CREW: 103 (CREW ROSTER: 6 GUNNERS, 16 ENGINEERS, 10 ELECTRICIANS, 10 TECHNICIANS, 10 OPERATORS, 4 MEDICAL, 7 OFFICERS, 20 FIGHTER PILOTS, 20 BattleKnight pilots)

PROPULSION
             FASTER THAN LIGHT :
             2x Prodotech SWD-104.5K 2nd Generation Mark-II stellar warp drives
             SPEED: .304 light years per hour

             INTERPLANETARY:
             2x Eurospace ES-ID-550K high yield ion engine
             SPEED:
             152,000 mph each (304,000 mph total)

WEAPONS:
             PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
             3x Centauri Research CR-PC-3252 dual 325-megawatt PHELAC turrets; Effective Range: 2600 miles; Payload: 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 (ASSAULT):
             3x Proxima Arms PA-STL-800 space torpedo tubes; Missile Type: USR-SRT-800 short-range 800-pound computer-guided space torpedo; Effective Range: 33.3 miles; Payload: 20 torpedoes in a machine-fed torpedo tube; ROF: 1 torpedo each launcher every two seconds with a cyclic rate of 30 torpedoes per minute each tube.

ELECTRONICS:
              1x Laser Communications array with a 10 AU range.
              1x Super Luminal Velocity Communications suite with a range of 10 light years.
              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 20 parsec (63.2 light years)
              1x Gravitational/Antigravity Control Unit; Effect: Provides artificial lift, g-force compensation, and enhanced maneuverability.

DEFENSE SYSTEMS:
             6x Proxima Research PR-DF-1100 omnidirectional LEVEL-2 Gravitonic deflector field generator; Range: 1100 feet from hull; Power Requirement: 1100 megawatts each; Output: 237.6 terajoules with a regeneration of 23.76 terajoules every ten seconds.

HANGARS:
            (MAIN HANGAR: MAIN BODY)
             1x 62,000 yd3 Holds 20 SF-03A space fighters (20 tons each), or two AS-01 type assault shuttles (or equivalent).

            (BATTLEKNIGHT HANGAR: BRIDGE SECTION)
                1x 450yd3 Holds 20 BK-01 series BattleKnights.

Description/Overview:
         (USR Omni-Hull Warship Frame type one family of spacecraft)
         The USR omni-frame line of warships was conceived of by the lady-chairman of the UN Solar Empire after the Earth Federation Forces launched “Operation Zeus’ Spear” in 2173 AD. The UNSC forces had suffered a major disruption of their supply lines to and from Venus and Mars.  In Lady Furrier’s opinion, the UN Solar Empire elite Soviet Council had been too slow in the development of newer “Ironclad” type warships with which to overcome the EFSN fleet.  Therefore, she ordered the UN commander at Vesta to begin development of a new fleet of spacecraft, which centered on a single main body that could be fitted with different modules, thus allowing for the construction of different levels of warships as needed. This new family of omni-hull warships, as she called them, would help reduce the cost of such a fleet in terms of tooling and manufacturing needs.
         Unfortunately,for Furrier and the Solar Empire, Charles Dalltan had control of the base commander of the Vesta installation in 2173 AD, and thus he ordered the construction of the fleet to be postponed until such time that Alphonse Zhukov took possession of the planetoid base.  However, Charles did instruct his minions on Vesta to design and fully develop the omni-hull warships in order for their blueprints to be ready upon Zhukov’s arrival.
         Therefore,after the Battle of Vesta in 2175 AD, Alphonse Zhukov’s forces took control of the planetoid and “discovered” the omni-hull warship plans that Dalltan had instructed be left for them.  The Zhukovist forces began the immediate construction of these ships in 2176 AD.
         This family of warships was built to be pure spacecraft and was useless in an atmosphere.  However, these craft proved to be extremely effective against the Solar Empire forces in 2176 AD.

         (HSD-01 SPACE DESTROYER)
         The HSD-01 heavy space destroyer was the workhorse of the USR space navy.  Considerably larger than the AS-04/TS-04, the HSD-01 was the first true space warship built by the USR.
         The unique feature of the Omni-Hull Warship Frames was their multi-reactor cluster modules that held either four or five Gaea Energy GEFR-5000 5000-megawatt fusion reactors each.  In the case of the HSD-01, five quad-cluster modules were mounted on the port side next to the port ion engine nacelle and five quad-cluster modules were mounted on the opposite side of the ship next to the starboard-side ion engine nacelle.  Four pentad-clusters were mounted in the center of the ship towards the aft below the hangar.  Each of the five quad-clusters was used to power the energy-hungry high yield ion engines, while the four pentad-clusters were used to power the other needs of the ship including the FTL drives.
         The UNSC had intended for this first design to use a pair of Pallas Research PRID-T2-2000 Type-2, Mark-III Intersection Drive units, but the conspirators' engineers at Vesta scrapped this idea and instead used an entirely new FTL drive technology, that being stellar warp drive.
         The HSD-01 used a pair of parallel Prodotech (Prodono technology) SWD-19K stellar warp drive units as its faster-than-light drive.  The combined speed of this pair of FTL engines gave the ship a maximum warp speed of .304 light years per hour. These drives were mounted in what was dubbed an “Advanced Parallel Traction” configuration that allowed the warp nacelles to pull the ship along the various electro-element lines of force at greater speeds than that of the first Cydonia Research CR-TSWD-760 stellar warp drive configuration used on the AS-04 assault shuttles.
         The sublight propulsion of the HSD-01 consisted of two Eurospace ES-ID-100K 100,000-megawatt high yield ion drives.  The sublight engines had an individual maximum speed of 152,000 mph/Mach 200 and a combined maximum of 304,000 mph/Mach 400.  These engines were sufficient to meet nearly every mission requirement the HSD-01 was expected to perform.
         The HSD-01 was armed with three Centauri Research CR-PC-3252 dual 325-megawatt PHELAC turrets.  These weapons were extremely powerful and were capable of destroying an EFF Anapolis class cruiser with one barrage of all three dual cannons.  These cannons were also capable of defeating nearly all types of deflector field generators with one hit.
         In addition to the three dual turrets, the HSD-01 had three Proxima Arms PA-STL-800 space torpedo tubes.  These torpedo launchers fired the USR-SRT-800 short-range missile armed with an 800-pound warhead of various types including nuclear and HEAP.  The range of these torpedoes limited their effectiveness, but did give the HSD-01 a hard-hitting punch at close range.
         The HSD-01 also carried a complement of either two AS-01 type assault shuttles or twenty SF-03A space torpedo-fighter/bombers in the main hangar bay.  The SF-03A space torpedo-fighter/bombers often acted as the real torpedo weaponry of the heavy space destroyer.  In addition it the top hangar carried 20 "Zhukov" type BattleKnights for defense of the ship or for planetary operations.
         The defense systems of the HSD-01 were six Proxima Research PR-DF-1100 1100-megawatt deflector field generators originally built by the USR at the facilities on Io (Jupiter’s moon), but then moved the manufacturing facilities to their base on one of the planetoids orbiting Proxima Centauri.
         The HSD-01 was built in large numbers.  Some 160 were built per year up until 2176 AD. This made the total known produced to be 480 by the end of the 1st Interstellar War.  The USR continued to produce these craft well after the war at Alpha Centauri.  However, it is not known how many were built.  Estimates put the number somewhere around 1000 to as many as 10,000 by 2210 AD.