NationStates Jolt Archive


OOC: Ships of the union

17-03-2004, 08:34
Designation: Venus Class Warcraft
Powerplant: Pulse-Fusion Reactor
Mass: 150,000 Tons
Complement: 900 crewmen, 10 pilots, 90 Maintainers (1000 total, with room for 100 extra men)
Small Craft Complement: 8 Blackjack Fightercraft. 2 Jupiter Class Shuttlecraft
Weapons: 30 Missile Tubes, 2 Cruise Missile Launchers
Length: 1100 Feet
Width: 100 Feet
Height: 120 Feet
Armor: 1 foot of Steel Armor, wih titanium reinforcement around the bridge and engine.
Amount in Fleet: 3
Docking Ports/Airlocks: 1, on the Starboard side near the back.
Description: the Speedy Warships of the Tian union, these ships are the workhorses of the Union. they provide protection, and carry the transports that the fleet needs to resupply with, and perform Travel Functions for crew and civilians.

Designation: Saturn Class Citycraft
Powerplant: Pulse-Fusion Reactor
Mass: 300,000 Tons
Complement: 500,000 Civilians, 50 Crewmen, 10 Maintainers
Small Craft Complement: none
Weapons: 5 Missile Tubes, 2 Defence Heavy Laser Turret
Length: 3000 Feet
Width: 200 Feet
Height: 270 Feet
Armor: 7 inches of Steel Armor, wih titanium reinforcement around the bridge and engine.
Amount in Fleet: 2
Docking Ports/Airlocks: 4, 2 on rach side.
Description: the Lumbering Population centers of the Tian Union, the citycraft is an extremly important ship. it is weakened by the fact that it has no internal bay, but only docking ports to dock resupply craft.

Designation: Blackjack Class Fightercraft
Powerplant: Ion Ray Engine
Mass: 25 Tons
Complement: 1 Pilot
Weapons: 2 Nose mounted light laser cannons, 1 Nose mounted Missile tube
Length: 75 feet
Wingspan: 20 feet
Height: 16 feet
Armor: half an inch of Alluminuim Armor, with Titanium Reinforcement on the engines
Amount in Fleet: 24
Description: Nimble and sleak, these ships are larger and less armed then most ships in there clas, but they pack an incredable punch due to being able to pull nearly 20g, and speed around at speeds nearly unimaginable to many humans.

Designation: Jupiter Class Shuttlecraft
Powerplant: Ion Ray Engine
Mass: 70 Tons
Complement: 2 Pilots, 160 Passengers or 32,000 Pounds of cargo
Weapons: 1 Turret mounted Defence Missile Tube
Length: 136 feet
Wingspan: 34 feet (wings retract for docking operations, but even then a tunnel is extended from the ship to make sure everything is safe)
Height: 22 feet
Armor: a qaurter of an inch of Alluminuim Armor, with Titanium Reinforcement on the engines
Amount in Fleet: 6
Description: the Slow transports of the Union. these ships, like the the Blackjacks, can land on planets or moon, as they have landing gear.

this is to provide an ooc reference to our fleet.