My first post btw
My ship: The massive Yamato-Class Battlecruiser (YCBC)
Hope.
Historical: The name was inspired by the feared Yamato-Class. Measuring 263m in overall, the
Yamato was the largest sea-faring warship ever constructed.
Her massive armament composed of:
Nine 46 cm (18.1 inch) guns mounted on three towers,
Twelve 15.5 cm (6.1 inch) guns mounted on 4 towers,
and another twelve 12.7 cm (5 inch) guns mounted on 6 towers.
These 33 (!) main ship-to-ship guns were also capable of heavy coastal bombardement - usually with catastrophic results.
The yamato also carried 24 25mm AA guns, and another 4 13mm AA guns.
Now the history wrap around the Starship:
A few years before the
Hope was constructed, the Terran Council spanned a mighty territorry of multiple galaxies, namely: The sattelite Galaxy of Canis Major, Virgo Stellar, Saggitarius and - of course - the Milky way. All this massive colonialization could occur with no alien interference. Occasional riots be hindered by massive amounts of happy-keeping. Should still a riot occur, they could quickly put to peace with the weapon technologys.
However the terran council never put much effort in weapon research.
It would eventually mean serious trouble.
In 2543, multiple faster-then-light messages reached the Alpha Centauri system(due to the inhabitancy of earth at this point because of the sun turning into a red giant). All these messages were distress calls. A few outposts in the Saggitarius galaxy were under heavy fire, and the few kinetic weapons Terran ship's had almost would'nt harm the invaders. Command established a voice connection to
Outpost Lincoln, the largest of them all.
"Listen, I don't have time for formalities! We are under heavy attack! We've never seen this kind of ships before, but these capital monsters are far more advanced then ours.
It even seems these fighters seem to have shields like our Frigates (a small-scale 'half-capital'-ship)! I know that you don't have time to send reinforcements, but know that, if you dont IMMEDIATELY get new weapons, the whole Mankind will be doo-!"
This was the last message ever heard of the entire northern part of Saggitarius.
As even more messages arrived from fallen outposts, we knew:
We need some serious alien butt kicking stuff.
All research was forced to be aimed at weapons and warship technologies, and the Grand Terran Army is the proud result of it.
The great Flagship - and largest spacefaring ship ever constructed - is the YCBC
Hope.
Now for the tech specs:
Total length is 18 kilometers.
Crew composes of 190'000 individuals(The 300 attached boarding vessels also have loaded one Company of 240 marines, and they can be transfered to air-to-surface droppods)
The massive armament consists of:
25 350 cm semi-energy turrets, cabable of firing both Nucler-Capped Explosive (NCE) and Ionized Shield Piercing (ISP) shells. Mainly used for planetary bombardment and long to medium range exchange.
150 75 cm semi-energy limited targeting cannons mounted per side, delievering heavy ordonance to every target they're still able to hit (there are reports of ace gunners hitting very slow bombers). Preferably fired in full broadsides.
400 full-energy turrets, firing 150 MW powered plasma magnetically formed to a beam, with speedy and accurate targeting, preferably used on anything that dosen't exceed the size of a bomber. But if their firing mode is set to ions, about 50 of these can degenerate shields of small capital shield slowly.
75 180 cm cannons somewhere between the size of a Capital Cannon and a Heavy Cannon, fully 360° turreted to enably anti-capital bombardment at close range without blowing yourself up.
Note that these may also fire NCE and ISP shells.
Armor composes of 60m of maximally densed duranium steel, an alloy of titanium and tungsten, which the molecules were as densely compressed as physically possible.
75 cm of the interiors are dedicated to emergency and engineering shafts, they also house diverse electrical systems like lighting and heating.
The whole ship is painted in a special color, aiming to deflect most radar waves and making it hard to launch succesful EMP attack on the
Hope.
She also carries 30 missile launchers, able to launch many different types, from extremly nimble anti-fighter missiles to (relatively) high payload anti-capital rockets.
Also, 10 forward torpedo tubes are able to launch destructive nuclear, extreme payload torpedos, either to assist a planetary bombardment or inflicting heavy damage to the few, very big capships they would still be able to hit (travel rate is about 10 km/H). Because no sane captain would be willing to be hit by such a thing. These torpedo tubes may also launch the aDvanced shIEld disrupTor Missile (DIE
TM, lol), a missile that will latch onto the target and create interference on shield buffers, evnetually lowering shield regeneration rate and power. These are however very expensive and big, maximally twelve at a time can be transported.
Last topic: Shields. A total of 36 main shield generators are scattered on the surface, with another 108 secondary generators.
Combined, they create a shield with an withstanding power of impressive 250'000 GJ (gigajoule).
Though the
Hope still lacks the advanced energy weapons found on alien ships, a few ships were captured, and we are now analyzing their shield and energy technologies, and the
Hope will eventually be retrofitted.
Of course, this gigantic, collosal to say at least, ship, draws on unbelievable power.
Thus, 6 anti-matter reactors deeply embed into the hull of the
Hope generate 300'000 TW of power.
Securing peace for today and future generations, the YCBC
Hope will also have sister ships and will dispatch the alien forces easily.
