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SPECIAL NOTE: A fair number of these are copy-pasted posts. So please forgive me if something seems out of place 
In inspiration due to the contest. The Hierarch Defence Industries Shipyards are now open for business. Initialising with four vessels.
*The fourth shares the base hull of the big bastard.
Work has commenced on the Rondel Class Destroyer as the first, smallest vessel to churn out of the yards.
(WIP: Stats will be adjusted as the modelling continues.)
Class and type: Rondel Class Destroyer
Length: 2494.423m. (Not counting Drives.)
Width: 369.552m (Core Hull Only)
Height: 369.552m (Core Hull Only)
Installed power:
Propulsion:
Speed:
Range:
Complement:
Armament:
Armor:
Equipment:
Spaceplanes carried:
The HDI-X90c Advanced Sensor Array: Includes an advanced Radar facility, thermal, visual and electromagnetic sensing capabilities. The HDI-X90c is relied on for closer proximity engagements where FTL sensing capability is superfluous and not required due to proximity. A Rondel Class Destroyer is equipped with sixteen such units to allow for the rotating sections in an attempt to minimise sub-lightsecond blind-spots.
The HDI-SRAT; The Short Range Assault Torpedo is typically used at ranges under a light-second. Capable of two hundred and fifty gees acceleration once it has reached a safe drive range of 20km from the launching vessel. It carries a half gigaton antimatter warhead (12kg of Antimatter). The missile is 7.2m across in the X and Z dimensions with a 34.633m length. In addition to receiving wireless updates on positioning from the launching vessel it is capable of independent terminal guidance due to a miniaturised version of the HDI-X90C (The HDI-XT01)
A Variant of the SRAT; The SRDT, the Short Range Deceptive Torpedo is functinally identical to the SRAT. Buck has replaced the antimatter containment for it's warhead with electronic warfare suites to throw out jamming to make it harder to lock onto the torpedoes as well as provide extra targets to fire at.
Standard SRAT Torpedo Battery. A Rondel Class Destroyer typically is equipped with twelve such batteries on the forward hull. Standard munitions load includes 11 Reloads. A normal SRAT battery will have six SRAT torpedoes and two SRDT torpedoes. Though a Captain may change up the loadout. Missiles which fail to engage an enemy target and go inert may be recovered post-battle by the firing or allied ships. (If it detects a ship with the wrong signals it goes boom after all.)
Half of the Rondels SRAT torpedo armaments.
The Rondel's primary engine pods. As you can see, eight of the X90C Sensor emplacements are visible with half the short-ranged torpedo munitions. The rotation sections have still not been emplaced yet and the main weaponry has yet to be installed.
The Rondel's interstitial wavefront projection device. Used for achieving FTL. The IWP's capacitors can hold enough stored energy for a six thousand light-year jump, the Rondel's reactors can power the capacitors to full charge in approximately three hours. FTL drives however travel to the full distance of the charge in the capacitors. As such a captain will only charge the capacitors to the expected distance for the next jump. Military ships such as the Rondel also have a secondary set of fast-charge capacitors capable of a two lightyear jump. These secondary capacitors are charged in just under 67 seconds.
The less powerful fusion drive is visible at the rear of the Rondel in this image along with some of the vanes from the drive pods for the antimatter impulse engines. The IWP ring is visible just forward of them, a number of the sensor arrays are visible from this angle.
The Rondel's longest range punch comes from the four HDI-IWC-5.5m Arrays. Four arrays of nineteen 5.5m Interstitial Wavefront Cannons. These cannons each fire a 5.5x19m solid projectile, these tungsten rods are simply referred to as thumpers, the IWC fires the projectiles into FTL space with enough energy to reach their target, the rods, as designed, will emerge a mere kilometre or two from the target vessel, well inside their point defence envelope. However as the range increases the utility of the IWC is reduced as time in jump space increases making avoidance simpler. By the time the rods reach the target they typically have a velocity of eight hundred kilometres per second (each rod having an expected yield of approximately 600 megatons.).
Once the range is closer than a light minute the IWC's are no longer used. The range is simply too short and even the smallest charge would throw the rods past their targets. At ranges greater than twelve light-hours attacks like this are of very little utility except against a ship making no course corrections, or otherwise stationary. The maximum range of the IWC is five lightyears. A ship will typically carry twelve thousand rods. The time between volleys depends on the range to target.
OP NOTE: Please, feel free to comment. It may even help
Included on the Rondel are two of the famous 'lifestyle rings'. Built under contract by several subsidiary companies, the lifestyle rings provide the bulk of the crew quarters for standard operations. Though if battle damage occurs the crew may inhabit interior spaces, the habitation rings provide a more comfortable standard than inner hull quarters, they also include the ships gymnasiums and off-duty recreational stations. (The more vulgar minded of the Stellar Services refer to them as ****tubes. But Hierarch Industries would like to take this moment to remind our customers that it includes VR interface lounges, simspace pods and even a bar, not just the sanitary tension co-relief chambers.)
A major feature of the habitation rings is that they're nestled alongside the three pylons mounting the HDI Primary Shield Generator Arrays, and are thus also protected by the secondary arrays, as such despite the relatively fragile nature of the rings compared to the primary hull they are in fact the second best protected part of the ship. (The best being the Bridge, which is nestled in the heart of the rotating section. Protected ultimately by everything else as well as it's own independent shield generators.
The HDI Series Military ES-19i Defence Platforms on the Rondel are mounted as trio. You can see a pair of them with the ship in this orientation, each ES-19i possess eight tachyo-gravitic field projectors. The TGFJ's are the Moritus Industry Gravitus Xtra 550 model. They provide a respectable ability to repel up to sixteen gigatons of incoming energy fire prior to failure, and as expected the GX-550 only engages field defence against incoming fire that the ships fire computers estimate will guarantee strikes against the Rondel, and as you might expect, the GX-550s also serve to provide the Rondel their FTL sensor capability. With accuracy of up to 200 metres at 24 light hours. Beyond that only stationary structures and planetoids can be reliably detected up to ten light years. Typical ships computers have their GX-550's restricted to an envelope of 12 light hours to avoid information overload. Objects of a size approximating that of a thumper shot are detected at 5 lightminutes.
On the top of the ES-19i are also visible the HDI-CIWS-L model 22.
The model 22 has an engagement time of point two second for 180 degrees of turn, mounted on it are the model22 point defence lasers, with an maximum energy output of 20 terajoules per second (sustainable for 100 seconds) and limited off-axis firing for the four independent lasers. The two sub-units are an independent sensor array consisting of both a tachyogravitic and conventional sensor pit. This allows the point defence weapons to take over targeting and prioritisation of point defence targets off of the ships main targeting systems. The Model22 shares sensor data allowing them to effectively co-ordinate amongst themselves. In addition to the fifteen mounted on the ES-19i platforms. The Rondel has twelve additional model 22 turrets installed upon the primary hull.
Additionally, by mounting the ES-19i's on the main rotation ring, should one of the ES-19i's be damaged or destroyed during combat against a single foe, the damaged section can be easily rotated away to present the enemy with the combined defensive output of two ES-19i's at the same time, strengthening the defense envelope while moving the damaged component away from any potential enemy fire.
(On an out of character personal note. I think that forward profile shot makes it look ****ing mean. So damned happy with it.)
The final primary armament of the Rondel Class Destroyer is it's intermediary range weapons. These weapons are, provided the FTL sensors remain operational, accurate out to 24 lightseconds. These are Terminal Effects Industries patented X666 Gravity Shear Cannons. The 'Little Satan' as it's often referred to in shipboard parlance is an FTL weapon, and with accurate targeting data is reliable up to 120 lightseconds against most targets of Destroyerweight or above. Each X666 GSC has a converted yield of approximately 1250 Petajoules per second with a maximum sustainable firing time of forty seconds before cooldown is required. Being on a rotating section as well as being able to rotate as any turret does, the Rondel can always bring both cannons to bear on a target. Experiments were initially trialed with three of the X666 turrets, but it was found that the Rondel could not adequately power them as well as other combat-critical systems. In any case, the X666 is considerd by most captains to be the Rondels main armament as longer ranged duels are more suited to Cruiserweight or Battleship classes and shorter ranged duels being a sign people on both sides have royally screwed up somewhere.
And here we see the closed bow hangar doors. The Hangar can be configured for a variety of craft. And as such this information will be updated at a later date.
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ANIMATION!
Class and type: Rondel Class Destroyer
Length: 2841.136m.
Width: 1226.293m
Height: 1231.293m
Installed power:
Propulsion:
Speed:
Range:
Complement:
Armor:
Equipment:
Spaceplanes carried:
Volume: 525640708m3 (According to 3dsMax)
Surface Area: 26622922.6m3 (According to 3dsMax)
At this stage. The only capabilities left to be modelled is the hangar interior. Any other modelling would be purely decorative.
MissileArray.jpg
In inspiration due to the contest. The Hierarch Defence Industries Shipyards are now open for business. Initialising with four vessels.
*The fourth shares the base hull of the big bastard.
Work has commenced on the Rondel Class Destroyer as the first, smallest vessel to churn out of the yards.
(WIP: Stats will be adjusted as the modelling continues.)
Class and type: Rondel Class Destroyer
Length: 2494.423m. (Not counting Drives.)
Width: 369.552m (Core Hull Only)
Height: 369.552m (Core Hull Only)
Installed power:
Propulsion:
Speed:
Range:
Complement:
Armament:
12 HDI-SRAT Torpedo Batteries;
Missiles launched by salvos of 8 per launcher. (Giving a maximum salvo of 96 missiles. Of which 24 are SRDT Torpedos.)
Total Missile Stores; 1152 Torpedoes. (288 SRDT, 864 SRAT)
Total Missile Stores; 1152 Torpedoes. (288 SRDT, 864 SRAT)
Armor:
Equipment:
16 HDI-X90C Sensor Arrays (Short Ranged Sensors)
Spaceplanes carried:
The HDI-X90c Advanced Sensor Array: Includes an advanced Radar facility, thermal, visual and electromagnetic sensing capabilities. The HDI-X90c is relied on for closer proximity engagements where FTL sensing capability is superfluous and not required due to proximity. A Rondel Class Destroyer is equipped with sixteen such units to allow for the rotating sections in an attempt to minimise sub-lightsecond blind-spots.
The HDI-SRAT; The Short Range Assault Torpedo is typically used at ranges under a light-second. Capable of two hundred and fifty gees acceleration once it has reached a safe drive range of 20km from the launching vessel. It carries a half gigaton antimatter warhead (12kg of Antimatter). The missile is 7.2m across in the X and Z dimensions with a 34.633m length. In addition to receiving wireless updates on positioning from the launching vessel it is capable of independent terminal guidance due to a miniaturised version of the HDI-X90C (The HDI-XT01)
A Variant of the SRAT; The SRDT, the Short Range Deceptive Torpedo is functinally identical to the SRAT. Buck has replaced the antimatter containment for it's warhead with electronic warfare suites to throw out jamming to make it harder to lock onto the torpedoes as well as provide extra targets to fire at.
Standard SRAT Torpedo Battery. A Rondel Class Destroyer typically is equipped with twelve such batteries on the forward hull. Standard munitions load includes 11 Reloads. A normal SRAT battery will have six SRAT torpedoes and two SRDT torpedoes. Though a Captain may change up the loadout. Missiles which fail to engage an enemy target and go inert may be recovered post-battle by the firing or allied ships. (If it detects a ship with the wrong signals it goes boom after all.)
Half of the Rondels SRAT torpedo armaments.
The Rondel's primary engine pods. As you can see, eight of the X90C Sensor emplacements are visible with half the short-ranged torpedo munitions. The rotation sections have still not been emplaced yet and the main weaponry has yet to be installed.
The Rondel's interstitial wavefront projection device. Used for achieving FTL. The IWP's capacitors can hold enough stored energy for a six thousand light-year jump, the Rondel's reactors can power the capacitors to full charge in approximately three hours. FTL drives however travel to the full distance of the charge in the capacitors. As such a captain will only charge the capacitors to the expected distance for the next jump. Military ships such as the Rondel also have a secondary set of fast-charge capacitors capable of a two lightyear jump. These secondary capacitors are charged in just under 67 seconds.
The less powerful fusion drive is visible at the rear of the Rondel in this image along with some of the vanes from the drive pods for the antimatter impulse engines. The IWP ring is visible just forward of them, a number of the sensor arrays are visible from this angle.
The Rondel's longest range punch comes from the four HDI-IWC-5.5m Arrays. Four arrays of nineteen 5.5m Interstitial Wavefront Cannons. These cannons each fire a 5.5x19m solid projectile, these tungsten rods are simply referred to as thumpers, the IWC fires the projectiles into FTL space with enough energy to reach their target, the rods, as designed, will emerge a mere kilometre or two from the target vessel, well inside their point defence envelope. However as the range increases the utility of the IWC is reduced as time in jump space increases making avoidance simpler. By the time the rods reach the target they typically have a velocity of eight hundred kilometres per second (each rod having an expected yield of approximately 600 megatons.).
Once the range is closer than a light minute the IWC's are no longer used. The range is simply too short and even the smallest charge would throw the rods past their targets. At ranges greater than twelve light-hours attacks like this are of very little utility except against a ship making no course corrections, or otherwise stationary. The maximum range of the IWC is five lightyears. A ship will typically carry twelve thousand rods. The time between volleys depends on the range to target.
OP NOTE: Please, feel free to comment. It may even help
Included on the Rondel are two of the famous 'lifestyle rings'. Built under contract by several subsidiary companies, the lifestyle rings provide the bulk of the crew quarters for standard operations. Though if battle damage occurs the crew may inhabit interior spaces, the habitation rings provide a more comfortable standard than inner hull quarters, they also include the ships gymnasiums and off-duty recreational stations. (The more vulgar minded of the Stellar Services refer to them as ****tubes. But Hierarch Industries would like to take this moment to remind our customers that it includes VR interface lounges, simspace pods and even a bar, not just the sanitary tension co-relief chambers.)
A major feature of the habitation rings is that they're nestled alongside the three pylons mounting the HDI Primary Shield Generator Arrays, and are thus also protected by the secondary arrays, as such despite the relatively fragile nature of the rings compared to the primary hull they are in fact the second best protected part of the ship. (The best being the Bridge, which is nestled in the heart of the rotating section. Protected ultimately by everything else as well as it's own independent shield generators.
The HDI Series Military ES-19i Defence Platforms on the Rondel are mounted as trio. You can see a pair of them with the ship in this orientation, each ES-19i possess eight tachyo-gravitic field projectors. The TGFJ's are the Moritus Industry Gravitus Xtra 550 model. They provide a respectable ability to repel up to sixteen gigatons of incoming energy fire prior to failure, and as expected the GX-550 only engages field defence against incoming fire that the ships fire computers estimate will guarantee strikes against the Rondel, and as you might expect, the GX-550s also serve to provide the Rondel their FTL sensor capability. With accuracy of up to 200 metres at 24 light hours. Beyond that only stationary structures and planetoids can be reliably detected up to ten light years. Typical ships computers have their GX-550's restricted to an envelope of 12 light hours to avoid information overload. Objects of a size approximating that of a thumper shot are detected at 5 lightminutes.
On the top of the ES-19i are also visible the HDI-CIWS-L model 22.
The model 22 has an engagement time of point two second for 180 degrees of turn, mounted on it are the model22 point defence lasers, with an maximum energy output of 20 terajoules per second (sustainable for 100 seconds) and limited off-axis firing for the four independent lasers. The two sub-units are an independent sensor array consisting of both a tachyogravitic and conventional sensor pit. This allows the point defence weapons to take over targeting and prioritisation of point defence targets off of the ships main targeting systems. The Model22 shares sensor data allowing them to effectively co-ordinate amongst themselves. In addition to the fifteen mounted on the ES-19i platforms. The Rondel has twelve additional model 22 turrets installed upon the primary hull.
Additionally, by mounting the ES-19i's on the main rotation ring, should one of the ES-19i's be damaged or destroyed during combat against a single foe, the damaged section can be easily rotated away to present the enemy with the combined defensive output of two ES-19i's at the same time, strengthening the defense envelope while moving the damaged component away from any potential enemy fire.
(On an out of character personal note. I think that forward profile shot makes it look ****ing mean. So damned happy with it.)
The final primary armament of the Rondel Class Destroyer is it's intermediary range weapons. These weapons are, provided the FTL sensors remain operational, accurate out to 24 lightseconds. These are Terminal Effects Industries patented X666 Gravity Shear Cannons. The 'Little Satan' as it's often referred to in shipboard parlance is an FTL weapon, and with accurate targeting data is reliable up to 120 lightseconds against most targets of Destroyerweight or above. Each X666 GSC has a converted yield of approximately 1250 Petajoules per second with a maximum sustainable firing time of forty seconds before cooldown is required. Being on a rotating section as well as being able to rotate as any turret does, the Rondel can always bring both cannons to bear on a target. Experiments were initially trialed with three of the X666 turrets, but it was found that the Rondel could not adequately power them as well as other combat-critical systems. In any case, the X666 is considerd by most captains to be the Rondels main armament as longer ranged duels are more suited to Cruiserweight or Battleship classes and shorter ranged duels being a sign people on both sides have royally screwed up somewhere.
And here we see the closed bow hangar doors. The Hangar can be configured for a variety of craft. And as such this information will be updated at a later date.
[MEDIA=youtube]ltj9rsHdeDk[/MEDIA]
ANIMATION!
Class and type: Rondel Class Destroyer
Length: 2841.136m.
Width: 1226.293m
Height: 1231.293m
Installed power:
7 Eternity Dynamic Solutions Mk42 Gravity-Fusion Reactors.
('3 Eternity Dynamic Solutions Mk999 Antimatter Backup Reactors.
('3 Eternity Dynamic Solutions Mk999 Antimatter Backup Reactors.
Propulsion:
Four IWP-X220 Gravity Induction Drives; Maximum Acceleration of 120 Gees. Reactionless Drive creates a manipulable gravity field for course changes.
One IWP-OSFT-1100; Fusion Torch capable of 12 Gees Acceleration. Emergency Engine not intended for regular use.
One IWP-OSFT-1100; Fusion Torch capable of 12 Gees Acceleration. Emergency Engine not intended for regular use.
Speed:
120 Gee Acceleration under GIDs.
('12 Gee Acceleration under Fusion Torch.
('12 Gee Acceleration under Fusion Torch.
Range:
Given Standard Supplies the Rondel Class Destroyer is capable of a 60'000 Lightyear Tour of Duty.
Complement:
SPECIAL NOTE: This figure to follow assumes that 80% of the ships volume is occupied by ships systems and that crew needs (Mess Halls, Gymnasiums, recreational space, crew quarters, life support etc is based off assuming each crewman needs 200m3.)
(125000 Crew.
Option for 200'000 Troops and Equipment.
(40128'000m3 Cargo and Storage Vaults.
Armament:
(125000 Crew.
Option for 200'000 Troops and Equipment.
(40128'000m3 Cargo and Storage Vaults.
Twelve HDI-SRAT Torpedo Batteries;
CLASSIFICATION: Short-ranged SL Weaponry. (SL=Sub-lightsecond.)
CLASSIFICATION: Standoff Range Weaponry.
CLASSIFICATION: Intermediary Ranged Weapons.
CLASSIFICATION: Short-ranged SL Weaponry. (SL=Sub-lightsecond.)
Missiles launched by salvos of 8 per launcher. (Giving a maximum salvo of 96 missiles. Of which 24 are SRDT Torpedos.)
Total Missile Stores; 1152 Torpedoes. (288 SRDT, 864 SRAT)
Maximum Effective Range; 280'000 Kilometres.
Standard Yield: 500 Megatons.
Four HDI-IWC 5.5m Arrays;Total Missile Stores; 1152 Torpedoes. (288 SRDT, 864 SRAT)
Maximum Effective Range; 280'000 Kilometres.
Standard Yield: 500 Megatons.
CLASSIFICATION: Standoff Range Weaponry.
Total Ammunition Stores; 3'000 Tungsten Rods per array.
Maximum Effective Range vs Active Starships; Twelve Light Hours
Maximum Range vs Relatively Stationary Targets; Five Lightyears
Minimum Range; One Light Minute
Standard Yield: 600 Megatons Per Rod.
Four TEI-X666 GSC in twin HDI-Babylon Particle Cannon Turrets.Maximum Effective Range vs Active Starships; Twelve Light Hours
Maximum Range vs Relatively Stationary Targets; Five Lightyears
Minimum Range; One Light Minute
Standard Yield: 600 Megatons Per Rod.
CLASSIFICATION: Intermediary Ranged Weapons.
Ammunition Stores; Infinite so long as ship maintains power.
Maximum Range; One Hundred and Twenty Light-Seconds.
Standard Yield: 1250 Petajoules Per Second.
Fire Sustainability: 40 Seconds. With 80 seconds to cool before continued firing.
Twenty-Seven Model 22 HDI-CIWS-L;
Maximum Range; One Hundred and Twenty Light-Seconds.
Standard Yield: 1250 Petajoules Per Second.
Fire Sustainability: 40 Seconds. With 80 seconds to cool before continued firing.
Total Ammunition Stores; Infinite so long as ship maintains power.
Maximum Effective Range; 4 Lightseconds.
Effective Yield: 20 Terajoules per second per laser.
Independent Engagement Threshold: 4 Lightseconds.
CIWS target engagement time: .2 seconds.
Maximum Effective Range; 4 Lightseconds.
Effective Yield: 20 Terajoules per second per laser.
Independent Engagement Threshold: 4 Lightseconds.
CIWS target engagement time: .2 seconds.
Armor:
Average Armor Thickness of 5m thick graviton-enhanced metalloceramics. Capable of resisting up to 400 megatons.
Equipment:
16 HDI-X90C Sensor Arrays (Short Ranged Sensors)
Effective Combat Utility up to 6 Lightseconds.
('27 Model22 Sensor Clusters. (Point Defence Sensors.)
See Model 22 HDI-CIWS-L Brochure for more details.
('3 ES-19i Tachyo-Gravitic Sensor/Shield Arrays.
Effective Combat Utility up to 6 Lightseconds.
('27 Model22 Sensor Clusters. (Point Defence Sensors.)
See Model 22 HDI-CIWS-L Brochure for more details.
('3 ES-19i Tachyo-Gravitic Sensor/Shield Arrays.
24 MIG Xtra 55 Tachyo-Gravitic Arrays.
Total Defensive Capacity; 16 Gigatons.
Sensor Accuracy;
HDI-Rondel Interstitial Wavefront Projector;
Total Defensive Capacity; 16 Gigatons.
Sensor Accuracy;
15 Lightyears for objects of at least 200km in diameter.
('24 Lighthours for objects from 200m and greater.
('12 Lighthours for normal settings to avoid information overload.
('5 Lightminutes for anti-capital munitions detection.
('24 Lighthours for objects from 200m and greater.
('12 Lighthours for normal settings to avoid information overload.
('5 Lightminutes for anti-capital munitions detection.
Maximum Jump Range; 6'000 Lightyears with a 3 hour capacitor recharge.
Minimum Jump Range; 2 Lightyears with a 67 second capacitor emergency fast-charge.
INDUSTRY WARNING: Frequent jumps will burn out an IWP sooner than later. The IWP Standards Bureau recommends three times the charge time between jumps to minimise strain on the IWP. Full Service Recommended after every 120'000 Lightyears.
Minimum Jump Range; 2 Lightyears with a 67 second capacitor emergency fast-charge.
INDUSTRY WARNING: Frequent jumps will burn out an IWP sooner than later. The IWP Standards Bureau recommends three times the charge time between jumps to minimise strain on the IWP. Full Service Recommended after every 120'000 Lightyears.
Spaceplanes carried:
TBA
Volume: 525640708m3 (According to 3dsMax)
Surface Area: 26622922.6m3 (According to 3dsMax)
At this stage. The only capabilities left to be modelled is the hangar interior. Any other modelling would be purely decorative.
MissileArray.jpg
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Here we see the basic hull of the Hierarch Defence Industries Spatha Cruiser. Though it's armaments have not yet been installed an a number of rotating sections have yet to be installed, you can already see the Spatha has a greatly enlarged engine section compared to the Rondel even accounting for it's significantly greater mass. Despite the increased size of the engine sections, the Spatha's gravity drive only has a comparable output, as growing inefficiencies require larger drives to compensate for it. For example, the Claymore Class Battleship is only capable of a hundred gees of gravitational acceleration as the engine sizes required to match the Spatha or Rondel would be be cost-ineffective for the marginal performance increase.
The increased power requirements for sublight flight are not the only noticeable elements. Additionally you, our valued customer, would already notice that the Spatha has not one, but two Interstitial Wavefront Projector rings. And though the Spatha will have many pieces of equipment possessed by the Rondel, it's armaments are, as one might expect, heavier. For example, the standard SRAT and the TEI666's are among the least of the Spatha's weaponry.
Where the Rondel's only torpedo armament are the short ranged SRAT's, the main punch of the Spatha comes from it's stand-off range weapons. The Interstellar Initiative Slingshot 15 missile is quite a bit more advanced than the SRAT missiles. Carrying twice the payload in antimatter than the shorter ranged SRAT that isn't what makes the Slingshot more advanced. It is the two Interstitial Wavefront Microprojectors that put Interstellar Initiative at the top of the standoff range business. These FTL missiles have almost ten times the effective range of any IWC array. A situation made ever more enviable in that the launching ship doesn't have to power the IWP of the Slingshot missiles. These missiles power their own IWP based on the distance to target. And retain enough power for their own gravitic drive to complete an interception.
With five hundred gees of acceleration to call on these deadly missiles deliver their payloads in record time. With an effective maximum range against starships of a hundred and twenty hours, and against stations or planets of fifty lightyears the Slingshot's only downside is that, due to expense, it is actually too expensive to make a decoy version, and missiles that fail to acquire targets need to be recovered. (They're too expensive to waste.) Made worse by the fact that the Slingshot is easily detected. Against other capital ships, only one in every twenty or so missiles can be expected to survive to hit the enemy vessel.
The Slingshot Launcher is, therefore, a ten-shot launcher. As with the SRAT's for the Rondel, they're eminently reloadable. However a Spatha carries fifty-nine reloads for it's pack launchers allowing an unprecedented stand-off ranged attack.
The Spatha, as can be seen here, packs twenty-four Slingshot packs giving it an individual salvo ability of two-hundred and forty FTL missiles. (With 14'160 missiles to replenish supply.) The more observant of you will also notice that the Spatha packs twice as many Interstitial Wave Cannons as the Rondel as well as it's close-ranged sensors being arranged in threes. These sensor clusters, while no more powerful than those on the Rondel do provide extreme supporting data for one another as well as redundancy against damage. Also visible are the two rotation ring housings which will mount the superfiring Gravity Shear Cannons. Unlike the Rondel the Spatha was designed to power these weapons adequately, both rotation rings will house a trio of the cannons on a more robust turret mount.
Those of sharp mind will notice that the point defence emplacements clearly haven't been installed yet. Good on your sharp eyes. They're not.
The Intermediate Ranged weaponry of the Spatha consists of six HDI-Skyfall 103 assault turrets. Each Skyfall is armed with the Kelsan Offensive Developments StarSiegeX50 Graviton Shear Cannons. Compared to these behemoths the X666 developed by TEI look like military training wheels, though it shares range with the TEI-X666 the KOD SSX50-GSC packs nearly ten times the converted offensive output. With twelve thousand petajoules per second.
In a concession to the increasing needs of larger starships, the Skyfall 103 turrets also have a X90C sensor array, a Model22 CIWS-L as well as two SRAT packs. The Skyfall SRAT packs are stack loaded with five missiles per tube. There is no automatic loading facility for these launchers and they must be re-armed post-battle.
It was decided that while the ES-19i was adequate for the Rondel class Destroyer, that the Spatha Class Cruiser simply could not rely on such a small defence platform, as such we here at Hierarch Defence Industries commissioned a specialised defence platform for the Spatha, the SPa-01A was designed explicitly for the Spatha, and the lessons learned in it's production would go on to inform our decisions for the Claymore class Battleship. The SPa-01A has specialised Tachyo-Gravitic Field Projectors. The contract was once more awarded to Moritus Industry, which in respect for the changing needs also developed a new TGFP. The Gravitus X750-E was developed explicitly for the Spatha's SPa-01A
The five X750-E's on each of the SPa-01A are easily equal to the GX-550's used by the ES-19i, while providing ten times the defensive capacity each. However, the Spatha has twice the platforms, so while it can repel 320 gigatons, it's detection capacity is 50% greater than the Rondel. (With efficiency falling off over distance.) Unfortunately for an attacker, the SPa-01A also has ten model 22 CIWS-L on each platform giving the Spatha a vast sixty point defence weapons on the rotation sections, not counting those mounted on the Skyfall turrets (another six).
In addition, the arrays are arranged so that they provide the maximum coverage as well as, like the Rondel, retain the capacity to change rotation to keep damaged sections facing away from an enemy.
The Incomplete Spatha alongside the Rondel.
Special Note: A colleague has felt the need to point out that under most circumstances ships of these classes being within ten thousand kilometres of one another is exceptionally rare. And yes Michael at this range if the Spatha decided the Rondel didn't belong there anymore the Rondel would be turned inside out in as many breaths as Rondel has syllable.
Though the aft wing structures were later modified to be a bit slimmer in profile, we here at HDI decided that the Spatha needed a bit of ability to defend itself in the case of attack from the aft should it decide a strategic retreat is required. In order to fill these needs we looked to the Rondel and it's TEI X666 GSC's mounting four of those turrets onto the the wing structures. This gives the Spatha a respectable ability to deal with pursuit. Though against another cruiser it is unlikely that the Spatha would outgun them.
The Spatha, with its greater size, has naturally a larger pair of the famous 'lifestyle rings'. In order to fulfil it's longer operational requirements for extended operations, the Spatha's lifestyle rings even include rotationally arrayed interior parks facing towards the main hull allowing for a relaxed atmosphere. These sections are unfortunately marginally less armoured. But the parks do have armoured belts separating them from the crew sections thicker than the main hull, therefore an attacker attempting to exploit a weakness will in fact be trying to penetrate one of the thickest armour belts. Of course, that is ignoring the enemies folly of attackign the most thoroughly shielded part of the vessel.
And here we have the Broadsword Battleship whose work has commenced upon while we await some minor completionist elements for the Spatha (while I think of anything else major the Spatha needs basically.) The Broadsword is a vast starship, at current projections is a moderate length of 47.581 kilometres in length with a width of 10.8km and height of 10.85km. The Broadsword, as can be seen, requires staggeringly more power to move than the Spatha, as such not only are the engines of the Broadsword significantly enlargened over the Spatha, but it requires a secondary pair. The Interstitial Wavefront Projectors are increased to three, but latest developments allowed them to be housed in the pylons upon which the main drive pods are mounted.
Also visible are the nine Mk100 Planetary Assault Delivery Cannons, colloquially referred to by the ground pounders as trouser-browners. We assume they're referring to the effect on the enemy as the Mk100 Plantary Assault Drop Bastion arrives.
We have yet to find any justifiable reason for increased reports of motion sickness when being delivered by a MK100.
(Dimensions of a Mk100 are 180m diameter and 230m tall)
Because perspective is important.
Remember ladies and gents, the little guy is nearly 3km long.
Oh not too much more than the Cruiser. But it's going to have a lot more of them.
Military procurators requested we here at HDI double the amount of PAD Cannons, in addition as you can see in this image, the Claymore has four shield generating rings based off of the smaller SPa-01A used for the Spatha Class Cruiser. The SPa-01A was upscaled into the SPb-01A, the G X750-E was upgraded by Moritus Industry using the Gravitus X4500-F, with thirty of them mounted on the twelve sections it has a forty times the defensive ability of the SPa-01A giving it the ability to repel twelve point eight teratons of incoming firepower. It does not however retain the point defence of the Spatha's own defence rings as point defence for the Claymore is managed by a drone net as well as escorting vessels.
And in thise images, though the support struts have not been included, are the Claymore's habitation rings. (Special note; I don't typically like to use greeble for detailing. But for basic cityscapes I make an exception.) As you can see, this is one of the reasons why the Claymore class vessels are officially recognised as functional operating cities with populations in the millions. Though it is not hard to forget that it is a military vessel, and while it does have a vast population they are all military personnel, though many may spend years serving aboard such a vessel. On the interior surface of the habitation rings are hundreds of square kilometres of farmland, parks, forests and the like. The exterior surface is covered in the floorscrapers that extend out from the 'bottom' decks of the hull. As such the structures extending out from there are not protected by the ring's armour belt. During combat those exterior structures will be evacuated and the armour belt sealed.
And here, for your amusement, we have the early mockups of the Planetary Assault Drop Bastion. Visible are the fourteen tank gates on the lower section of the hull to let out the gravitation tanks to unleash hell upon the enemy, not visible is the second deck which contains more tanks, and artillery as well as the maintenance hardware for the tanks and artillery. The third deck is a gravity-launching hangar for the deployment of Stealth Hypersonic Atmospheric Reaper Killer 45 as well as storing all the equipment to maintain those craft.
The upper hangar contains eight SHARK45's. Visible in the centre of this is the gravity elevator used to move hardware between the three primary decks of the Mk100, the gravity catapult emitters and a simulated holographic box to demonstrate the size of the SHARK45s, above this deck are two smaller decks containing the troops required as part of a Mk100 deployment, and above that is the cargo hold containing munitions and supplies. Beneath the main tank deck the reactor is buried with the reactor supplies to keep the bastion running.
The sensor vanes operate on the outer surface and not visible at all are the Bastion's shield generators and weapon emplacements. On the upper surface are ten VLS cells containing a Short Ranged Assault Torpedo. These allow the Mk100 to engage in some surface to orbit fire as well as, in the most desperate situation, ground targets. Though if an SRAT is needed against a surface target the Claymore has failed to adequately suppress planetary defence installations.
(Note: The "Boxes" are size representations of the B-2 Spirit I used to work on the Drop Pod's basic structure.)
The HDI Industries Mk 7 Monty class point defence drone is a drone designed for front-line military duties on the Claymore Class Battleships to serve as their point defence net, maintaining a graviton drive, but no FTL, it is entirely dependent on its mothership for long-ranged mobility. It's wings, while suitable for atmospheric flight are predominantly magnetic 'vanes' to manipulate the gravity drives output giving the Monty unprecedented agility. It's single tachyo-gravitic sensor is designed to pic up incoming FTL munitions to allow it to be where it needs to be to engage it with the six Hexus Industries Electron Particle Beams. These 25 gigajoule weapons are not possessed of a great range. A few thousand kilometres at most before the beam becomes too diffuse to be effective. But the EPBs are more easily powered by the small antimatter reactor that powers the drone than adequate lasers let alone the more power hungry graviton shear cannons. And should the EPBs prove insufficient to destroy the incoming munitions the Monty is programmed to expend itself to destroy the munition by ramming it thus detonating its antimatter reactor for a good 5-10 megatons.
The Mk7 Monty also has the distinction of being easily mass produced by the Claymores onboard additive fabrication factories. Combat losses of the Mk 7 Monty can be replaced inside of an hour through these means. Though a wise captain prefers not to have to.
(See the tiny one visible near the shield ring, that isn't a rendering artefact
The Hangar Ring build for launching and storing of the Mk7 Monty has three hundred graviton catapults, due to the potential rapidity of requirement for point defence assets these pods don't have exterior hangar doors, the ready drones are always exposed to space, if protected by the Claymore's shields, the standard count of ready Mk7 monty drones is one in each graviton catapult and three ready to be loaded. Thus at maximum strength the Claymore is protected by one thousand twelve hundred MK-7 Monty drones allowing for a truly powerful defensive envelope.
As such, any attacker bold enough to risk an assault against the Claymore Battleship will in fact likely try and arrive in the close range of intermediary weapons giving them the ability to engage it with Graviton Shear Cannons instead of depending on missiles or projectiles that the Monties can shoot down. Conversely, no attacker has ever survived to attempt this twice.
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The Claymore's main armament consists of four broadside batteries, each battery has four HDI-Skyfall 103 Assault Turrets identical to that mounted upon the Spatha. Additionally it possesses two Kelsan Offensive Developments StarSiegeX950 Graviton Shear Cannons. A single shot from an X950 is sufficient to do unfathomable damage to smaller targets. As with the X50 it shares the range of the X666, but with an output of 250 exajoules per second it is a foolish captain who willingly stands against a Claymore. The ability to concentrate a full thousand exajoules on a target is enough to reduce most people to quaking in fear.