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Xanthalian Fleet Admiral Telemachus Rhade announced today the launch of the prototype Rhade class light tactical ship, the fleet's newest vessel. Fleet Admiral Rhade expects the awesome firepower of the small ship to be a great asset to the fleet, taking burdens off the Dreadnaughts and Super Dreadnaughts in battle. The prototype, temporarily designated XX-01 to show it's status as an experimental vessel, has been slated to fly with the Xanthalian fleet and join the coming assault on the Kechan space navy.

Rhade class (light tactical): $200,000,000,000
The Rhade class is a state-of-the-art light warship designed to pack maximum firepower. Equipped with a limited but powerful range of weapons and piloted by a single Xanthalian AI, the Rhade class fails in the area of defense and is alarmingly vulnerable to almost all types of weapons fire. Best deployed with a fleet for protection, the Rhade class can do immense damage to an opponent in a very short period of time.
http://img29.photobucket.com/albums/v88/Zorak950/Ships/Rhade.jpg
Dimensions: 300 X 150 X 170 meters
-Impulse drive (0.3 SL)
-Quantum Slipstream drive (500,000,000 SL)
-Complement: One AI
-Powerplant: One Infinite Energy Core
-Infinity ion cannon
-Infinity plasma cannon
-Bio-pulse beam
-Chloro-Borg infused hull and systems
-Cluster missiles
-Phaser banks (total 15):
--Fore: 12
--Aft: 6
--Port: 5
--Starboard: 5
--Dorsal: 5
--Ventral: 5
-Multiphasic disrupter banks (total 12):
--Fore: 9
--Aft: 3
-Shielding:
--Primary: Type V
-Armor rating: 5
-Atmospheric flight capable
-Landing capable

Cute.

I bet ya's 10 bucks "cute" isn't what he wants as a response, :lol:

I know, that's why I said it. :wink: Xanthal can't get mad at me. Right? Right!?! Erm...backs into a wall. Eep.

Careful, he just might take that Rhade class warship and kill you with It's overwhelming cuteness.... :D

Well, I'll take cute. It does look rather quaint. It's a lot less cute when it delivers a smack-down though. All it needs is a few shots to take out a battlecruiser. OOCly speaking, I had to give it weak defense so that people don't ignore it. This ship is, in many ways, superior to even the heaviest Xanthalian warships. It incorporates technology that we don't use anywhere else, and that gives it a great deal of unique ability. Take the Chloro-Borg technology, given to Xanthal over 200 years ago NS time. This is the first ship it's been used on, and this ship has been optimized to use it. Same thing with the bio-pulse beam, except that's a totally new technology as far as the Xanthalians are concerned. It's extraordinarily powerful, and has a good rate of fire compared to comparable weapons like heavy ion and plasma cannons. It is most effective against ships with little or no biological material in their structures, but fails when used against ships with high ratios of biological to technological systems. The bottom line is that in battle the Rhade class will rule o'er all... Then blow up because its shields suck. It'll be used for one-on-one combat and in fleets for that reason. A fleet of Rhade class ships will simply not last without heavier vessels to protect them.

Wow...firepower equal to a superdreadnaught...able to take out a Xanthalian battlecruiser in a few shots. Hell, it might actually be able to take on a Wazzu merchant ship and win. :)

Infinite energy core
Transphasic torpedos
Infinity Ion/Plasma cannons
Bio-pulse beam
Farad system
Chloro-Borg junk
Phasers
and more....

Xanthal, this is a new level of godmod for you. Really, what do you get out of throwing around the highest numbers plucked from dilusion? Does it bolster your ego? Does it get you groupies? Is it just a way to pass time?

I mean really...whats the point of it all? It certainly doesn't enhance RP. I just don't get it.

-The Cardboard Avenger

Just Fire a few cap ship guns at it and its disabled

Wow...firepower equal to a superdreadnaught...able to take out a Xanthalian battlecruiser in a few shots. Hell, it might actually be able to take on a Wazzu merchant ship and win. :)

Infinite energy core
Transphasic torpedos
Infinity Ion/Plasma cannons
Bio-pulse beam
Farad system
Chloro-Borg junk
Phasers
and more....

Xanthal, this is a new level of godmod for you. Really, what do you get out of throwing around the highest numbers plucked from dilusion? Does it bolster your ego? Does it get you groupies? Is it just a way to pass time?

I mean really...whats the point of it all? It certainly doesn't enhance RP. I just don't get it.

-The Cardboard Avenger

It's the groupies. :wink: :roll: But seriously, you heard him, if you throw a few rocks at it, it'll crash and burn.

Wazzu, I'm well aware of what you think of my technology. Fortunately, I also don't care. By the way, since when are phasers godmoding? As for the rest of that stuff, it's all preexisting RP technology for me except for the bio-pulse beam, the only new tech. on it.

Wazzu, I'm well aware of what you think of my technology. Fortunately, I also don't care. By the way, since when are phasers godmoding? As for the rest of that stuff, it's all preexisting RP technology for me except for the bio-pulse beam, the only new tech. on it.

OOC: My point wasn't that any one of them is godmoding (though how you present some of them is). My point is that your still trying to have the best of everything.

It's like building a modern tank with a 125mm main cannon, 50 long range and 30 short range missiles, a metal-storm system, a pulse laser, and a ship-sytle phalanix CIWS and calling the hodge-podge result "small, fast, extremely powerful and effictive, but only a bit light on the armor."

The rest of us can only assume that to fit everything in, your weapons are so tiny as to be able to damage nothing but other cardboard ships. We can only assume that since so much was bought with so little, your cramped "infinite powerplant" provides almost no energy and your ship is prone to constant breakdowns. And we can only assume that since it has firepower equal to a Xanthalian Super Dreadnaught, those too must be pretty weak.

But why am I explaining? Why did you ask? You don't care anyway.

Let me try and sum up the reason for my constant irritation.

In all the good science fiction ever written, all the outstanding technology exists for one reason...use as plot tools. Sure, it is fun to read about it all, but all it is is setting up an environment in which characters interact.

And thats why cardboard spacecraft get me so bent up...because cardboardwankers are worried more about inflating their ego then setting up an environment in which their characters can interact.

Without limits, without problems to overcome, RP becomes stale and stories die.

OOC: Trust me, we've got plenty of problems. And we don't have the best of everything, which is why we build these things, to advance our status and work toward that goal. It'll never be fully realized of course, since nobody has the best of everything, but it's a good goal. Anyway, the frame is not a real limitation. The IEC is only a few cubic meters in size, and a slipstream drive is long, but not more than a meter in radius. Transphasic torpedos are the same size as standard torpedos (about 3X1X.5 meters), and the Rhade class has a very small complement of them. The ion/plasma cannon draws a lot of power, but the mechanics aren't particularly space-consuming. The majority of space consumption is for plasma storage, which is minimized by use of replicator technology. The bio-pulse beam requires almost no space, as it fires bio energy gleaned from the organic parts of the ship itself. There's a collector that takes up a good twenty cubic meters, but that's it. The Farad system (which came from the now dead Capsule Corporation) is the most space-consuming piece of the ship, taking up about a hundred cubic meters, and the Chloro-Borg technology (also from Capsule Corporation) takes up no space at all, but is simply a biological/technological infestation of the ship's systems to enhance their function and allow for regeneration. The reason it all fits is because there is no biological crew, so there are no rooms, life-support systems, access terminals, or other space-consuming facilities that would be required to support a crew. I'll be happy to explain anything you ask to the best of my ability, but if it's the premise that you don't like, it would be fairly useless.

Oops... I made an error. Stupid PC calculator... I've removed the standard torpedos from the arsenal of the Rhade class. It turns out that they don't fit.

Bump pending add to other vessel lists.