Of all sci fi ships I think none has the majesty of the GTD Orion. Yet its weapons have always been severely underpowered for such a commanding ship, so my GTD Orion would be something special. Its name would be the GTD Orion Upgrade and what on most orions are those annoying big fat slow green lasers would be rapid fire long range flag guns, and all Terslashes would be replaced with Bgreens. It would carry 20 wings of TIE Interceptors, 10 wings of Viper Mark 7s, 10 wings of Pegasus interceptors, 10 wings of Ursa bombers, 5 wings of A wings, and 5 wings of Cylon raiders.
I know you, don't I? Does the name GuardianAmy mean anything to you?
Anyways...you had to be an ubermunchkin. We can't have that here.
Eat Tachyon Projection Cannon and die!
Coalition Spaceworks B-1 IndomitableMain Battery: 13 Confederacy Naval Weapons Foundry Mk X Heavy Tachyon Projection Cannon
DP Battery: 64 Coalition Weapons Mk VIc “Super 127” 127mm Railguns
AAS Battery: 328 Confederacy Arms Mk V Particle Beam Cannon
Point Defense Battery: 24 Stely Systems Mk III CIWS Batteries
Embarked Aerospace Wing: 36 Saar F-9G Peregrine, 12 Colonies Manfacturing A-12D Raptor, 6 Colonies Manfacturing A-19C Roc, 6 Mk XV Essay (Shuttle, Atmospheric). In the event of an emergency or when undertaking independent operations up to 36 more fightercraft and three more small craft can be embarked.
Indomitable is one-of-a-kind, the Coalition of Worlds' only capital craft they have constructed themselves to date; their three CVs, other battleship, and battlecruiser are all hand-me-downs from the Confederacy of Terra. The ship has come to symbolize the new unity, strength, and prosperity of the CW. Though of necessity many of its weapons and and electronics were purchased from the Confederacy, the ship retains a distinctly Coalition design.
At 2 kilometers long
Indomitable is on the small side for a battleship, but those who underestimate it do so at their peril;
Indomitable’s sheer resilence is second only to a dreadnaught-sized vessel, as it makes use of the standard Coalition backup set of shield generators: enemies must knock
Indomitable’s shields out twice. The generators themselves are the same Aguirre DS-4 models being fitted to the Confederacy’s new Jutland-class. The armor is of Coalition manufacture, ceramisteel and aligned crystal-fiber laminate, and equal to that of any battleship in service with the anticoreward powers.
The ship’s weapons are partly Coalition and partly Confederacy manufacture. The main battery is composed of the best tachyon projection cannon that the Confederacy can manufacture, thanks to the Coalition’s longtime alliance with the larger nation. It similarly uses Confederacy second-generation particle beam cannons for its anti-aerospace batteries, mounted in Confederacy-issue quad turrets but making use of the Coalition’s XR-1 fire control system. Secondary battery is composed of the new “Super 127” Coalition Weapons railguns; these models improve upon the “127” and “127 Plus” with more efficent superconducting electromagnets to reduce the power needs of the mount, and have improved rates of traverse and elevation from more powerful servos. The 127 series had always been intended as a first-line AAS defense, but previous models grew ineffective inside three or four kilometers due to poor elevation and traverse rates. The new Super 127s do not totally eliminate the problem, but perform much better. They have also proved capable of startling sustained rates of fire, much in excess of the manufacturer's specifications, and this has been decisive in several engagements. The point-defense battery of Stely Systems CIWS weapons uses combination missile-cannon batteries, each of which contains four separate launcher/gun mounts. To date the Stely Systems combination point defense system has proved nearly impossible to overcome, as the combination missile-gun system thwarts tactics designed to spoof one kind of point defense or the other.
Indomitable’s standard embarked aerospace complement is smaller than is normal for a battleship in service with one of the major powers, but her considerably greater AAS batteries help to compensate. Coalition doctrine has long held that ship’s guns are for defense: fightercraft are offensive weapons.
Indomitable carries two squadrons (36) of F-9G medium fighters and an attack squadron, two thirds medium and the remainder heavy attack craft. She also has six Essay shuttles aboard as standard. She has provision to carry nearly twice this number of fighters, but not the supplies aboard to support that number for more than two weeks.
Endurance is
Indomitable’s real failing, an inescapable one considering the constraints of size placed upon her and the desire to produce a first-rate combat ship. She carries approximately enough supplies for three and a half weeks of operations; comparable ships from the major powers tend to be able to operate for twice as long.
Indomitable’s incomplete sister ship
Invincible and the planned sister
Impervious are to be modified to remove some of the extra fightercraft space for more expendibles storage.
Indomitable’s first engagement came when the Coalition sent her on a supposed shakedown cruise across Confederacy space from the Coalition to the border with the New Colonies Federation. As major trading partners of the NCF, the Coalition gave
Indomitable a second, secret set of orders: locate and destroy the Kittaran task force that had been harrasing shipping to the NCF. Further impetus was provided by the Confederacy’s traditional protection and assistance to Coalition. For a hundred and fifty years the Confederacy had been all that stood between the Coalition and invasion, natural disaster, and at least twice total social and economic collapse. Now that the Coalition could stand upon its own two feet, the time had come to repay their debts. The Confederacy was preoccupied with the newly militant Council of Independent Worlds and could not devote as much strength as it would have liked to the same task assigned
Indomitable and its escorting destroyers.
The Battle of New Saipan began when two Kittaran destroyer squadrons and a light cruiser division attacked a Confederacy destroyer squadron escorting a convoy of merchant craft. The result was a classic meeting engagement as both sides deployed progressively larger forces in an effort to gain superiority. Ultimately the Kittarans thought they had trumped the Confederacy forces when they deployed what was thought to be their flagship, a Serpent-class battleship. The Serpent, however, was countered by the brand-new Jutland-class battleship CTS
Trafalgar. When the Serpent shunted its portside shields to reinforce its faltering starboard shields, an unengaged Confederacy destroyer squadron forced it to manuver radically by launching torpedos against its unshielded side. The Serpent’s manuvering briefly exposed an unshielded portion of the ship to
Trafalgar’s twelve heavy tachyon projection cannons. The Kittaran battleship payed the price for its class’ notorious lack of armor protection when its antimatter fuel storage was hit, lost containment, and detonated. The battle would seem to have gone to the Confederacy at that point, but then the Kittarans deployed a second battleship.
The second was part of what would soon become known as the Ravager class. It mauled the
Trafalgar before the Confederacy battleship could get off its third salvo at the newcomer and totally annihilated a heavy cruiser division that tried to support the reeling Confederacy battleship. The
Trafalgar turned to flee, but in her damaged condition the Ravager made steady gains.
Trafalgar’s captain had ordered “Abandon Ship” and prepared to come about for one final salvo exchange when the
Indomitable, making a risky precision reversion from FTL, interposed itself between the pursuing Ravager and the badly damaged
Trafalgar.
Indomitable turned to port and presented her broadside to the oncoming Ravager at a range of only twenty kilometers, achieving a classic crossing of the T, but to little apparent effect in the first salvo. The Ravager also turned to port and the two ships spent the next thirteen minutes circling and exchanging fire. The Ravager had more powerful but fewer tachyon projectors and the
Indomitable’s secondary battery output made the Ravager’s meager secondary fire pale in comparision. Over the course the engagement
Indomitable’s secondaries were to fire over ten thousand rounds. Several times during the course of the engagement the two ships passed close enough that
Indomitable’s AAS guns could also effectively engage, and her AAS batteries dwarfed the Kittaran’s.
The two ships exchanged twenty-nine main battery salvos, with the
Indomitable scoring the equivalent of twenty and a half salvo hits and the Ravager scoring twenty.
Indomitable’s secondaries and AAS battery totally dominated their respective classes in the engagement. Thanks to her backup shield generators
Indomitable sustained only two salvo hits to her actual hull; the Ravager sustained six and a half.
Indomitable lost two secondary and ten AAS turrets; the Ravager lost two of her six main battery blisters and an unknown number of secondary and AAS blisters.
Ultimately the sixth salvo hit on the Ravager’s hull destroyed something the ship needed, and it lost realspace manuvering power. The Ravager attempted a jump to escape, but it had sustained too much structural damage and did not survive the stresses of warp entry. Since that date
Indomitable has destroyed a pair of Kittaran Serpent-class battleships and several smaller Kittaran craft as a part of the Confederacy’s Operation Clean Sweep to remove the remaining Kittaran raiding forces.
See also: Saar F-9G Peregrine, Colonies Manufacturing A-12D Raptor, Colonies Manfacturing A-19C Roc.
Saar F-9G PeregrineThe F-9G is not by any standards a new ship, with the original F-9A having entered service twenty years ago, but the G model is of recent vintage (year and a half old) and well-equipped to take on modern medium fighters. With a new powerplant, uprated manuvering thrusters, improved electronics, and its old triple high-output lasers replaced by new Confederacy Arms second-generation particle beam cannon, the F-9G is a great improvement from the F-9E model it replaced, and puts the Coalition’s fighter arm on an even footing with that of major powers.
Colonies Manufacturing A-12D RaptorThe A-12D is a modified version of the New Colonies Federation’s A-12B Raptor attack ship. Like its cousins it has a high number of hardpoints and only two cannons, both lasers of decent but not impressive power output. It relies on missiles in combat, and is able to unleash an impressively large number from its sixteen hardpoints. The adaptablity of hardpoints instead of built-in missile tubes like those found on Confederacy fighters are what endeared the Coalition to the attack ship; in addition to missiles it can carry gun pods, extra fuel, “buddy” refueling stores, and EW gear, allowing it to serve in a multitude of roles. The D model uses slightly less sophisticated, but more reliable and easier to maintain, electronics when compared to the Federation B model.
Colonies Manfacturing A-19C RocThe Roc is the heavy attack ship of the New Colonies Federation, a two-man craft; it carries two first-generation particle beam cannon and no less than twenty-two hardpoints, of which four are reinforced to mount medium-scale capital ship-to-ship missiles. While its manuverablity is greatly degraded by such a heavy load (generally mounting anything else at the same time as the large missiles is anthema to the pilots of this ship, as it makes the Roc handle like a beached whale) this makes it a capable bomber when it can get close enough to the target. In more normal configurations it can carry a wide variety of weapons and equipment, serving in a multitude of roles. The A-19C model in service with the Coalition of Worlds differs from the A-19B used by the NCF in making use of the Rolls 229 fuzial engine, giving it better fuel efficency. The NCF is expected to begin upgrading its -19Bs to the C standard within six months.
