Xendi
22-03-2004, 00:55
The Shadows (ShaRa) have risen again, and this time there is no doubt they will come with all their might at Xendi. Due to our leading to their demise two times before, we are worried as the races are divided now. We have sent a ship to the Rim looking for the Vorlon for assistance, but we do not believe we will receive help from them this time.
We need to unite to fight the Shadows, and send them into remission again. The Xendi Fleet is preparing for the upcomming war against the Shadows, and is prepared to go do whatever it takes to lead to the Shadows demise.
The Shadows is one of the First Races to have existed, along with a few others - including the Vorlon. We need all the help we can get.
(below pics are stats of the two standard ships, more coming later)
http://babylon5.isnnews.net/gallery/minbari/min_small02.jpg
http://babylon5.isnnews.net/gallery/minbari/min_small03.jpg
http://babylon5.isnnews.net/gallery/minbari/minbari09.jpg
http://babylon5.isnnews.net/gallery/itb/itb07.jpg
http://www.zokino.net/ArtDesign/Babylon5/Retreat.jpg
http://www.tp2b.de/interstellar_alliance/whitestar_attack_run.jpg
Xendi Class:
The Xendi class of ships were build by the Xendi to serve as the front line ships for the Army of Light. With the inclusion of the most advanced of their technology, and the addition of standard Vorlon technology, these ships were the most powerful ships build by any of the younger races until the Interstellar Alliance had the Victory Class Destroyers build. Even so, it is still by far the most powerful ship in the galaxy when the power to size ratio is taken into account.
Although the ship is some 268 meters long, it is powerful and agile enough to combat fighters. Its array of weapons is however more than powerful enough to allow the ship to fight capital ships of the line of any of the younger races.
The ship is armed with a Xendi Quantum-Gravimetric Discharge Cannon for its primary weapon. This weapon is capable of destroying a CAF Warshield class cruiser with just two shots. Supporting this weapon system, the ship carries four fusion guns and four neutron cannons. If this ship has any weakness, the weakness is that this ship does not carry missile launchers.
The hull of the Xendi is made up of a special Vorlon organic material and can both repair itself and can adapt to attacks to reduce damage. No attack does full effect on the hull more than once.
The Xendi also has shields that consist of alternating gravimetric distortion waves and complex field of energy fields. These shields disburse any and all energy (including Kinetic) fired upon the Xendi leaving only a fraction of the blast. These shields can be dropped by being hit by powerful weapons or can be dropped by multiple volleys from less powerful weapons.
The ship also has the ability to form its own rift and is presently the smallest ship constructed by Xendi that can open its own rift. However, if the main quantum discharge cannon is fired on overcharge it means that energy is drawn away from the Rift drive, so that it takes another five extra minutes to recharge.
Weapon Systems
Quantum Gravitic Discharge Cannon: This weapon fires directly forward of the ship and is mounted in the nose of the starship. This weapon system functions by firing a beam of coherent gravity waves at a target, which disrupts the very molecules of the target at a quantum level. Any target area hit by the beam is literally torn apart at the subatomic level, reducing the affected area to a very hot cloud of quarks and mesons. If the ships rift drive is shut down and the power is channeled into the weapon system, the weapons damage can be quadrupled but the rift drive will take five minutes to be brought back on line.
Nuetron Cannons: These are special particle beams that fire forward of the ship. The are mounted in the wings of the starship. The weapons can fired in short bursts or a long beam. The weapon does more damage to organic targets because of the nature of the beam.
Fusion Cannon: The fusion cannons take high mass particles and compress them until they reach fusion. These particles are then fired in a beam. The weapons are mounted in the nose of the starship and fire directly forward.
Whitestar Class
The Whitestar class War Cruiser is the largest and most powerful ship in the Xendi Navy, capable of laying waste to cities, infrastructure and the habitable surface of a planet in less than an hours time. Controlled by all of the three ruling casts in Xendi culture (Warrior, Religious, Worker) , the Whitestar class War Cruiser can be sent into almost any tactical situation on a moments notice.
Xendi War Cruisers measure between 1,500 and 1,700 meters in length front to back and has a crew of some 190 duty personnel, ten of whom are command level officers. In addition to her standard crew, Whitestar's can carry an additional 60 combat personnel , which includes security, gunnery officers, and pilots. Maximum troop capacity for a Xendi War Cruiser is estimated to be approximately 8,000 gropos.
War Cruisers on deep patrol usually only cary a standard crew of some 190 personnel, and can maintain high combat readiness without suffering any detrimental effects due to a lack of personnel. This is due primarily to the Xendi's extremely advanced computer / AI systems aboard the War Cruisers type starship.
All tactical systems aboard Xendi War Cruisers, are directed through the Command Chamber - a holographic environment which allows the ship's command officers to view all 360° of a given combat environment. Through this Command Chamber, officers can direct all ship's resources as needed and participate fully in all combat situations. This command interface system increases Xendi response time and allows Xendi ships to react instantly in a combat situation.
At present, War Cruisers are known to be armed with a wide assortment of weapons that include eighteen Gravimetric Neutron Cannons (also known as Slicer Beams), eighteen heavy Fusion Beam Cannons, 42 Electro-Pulse guns and 24 defensive EM Neutron Guns and Fusion Gun weapons, as well as one Anti-Matter Cannon. Standard guns on the Xendi War Cruiser are are designed to deliver a massive amount of destructive energy to a target. Beam weapons can operate in both a piercing and raking mode, and output / targeting can be adjusted to combat capital scale warships or fighter craft. In addition to her standard beam weapons, the War Cruiser's Anti-Matter cannon (a weapon designed specifically for attacking planetary bodies), and 2,000 metric tons of missile ordinance capable of being launched from any of the Whitestar's four missile launchers, makes it a deadly planetary assault weapon. Projectile ordinance includes a wide assortment of weapons, including fusion and antimatter missiles / bombs, and it is believed that the Whitestar can even be outfitted with a device conducive to mass-driver orbital bombardment.
Besides it's massive weapons payload, the Xendi War Cruiser also has a decisive advantage in speed, maneuverability, and an acceleration time that makes other ships look like they are standing still. This significant advantage is credited to the War Cruiser's Stalasha Gravimetric drive system with an output in excess of 80 million Terajoules, arguablyone of the most powerful gravitic drive in the known galaxy. Standard acceleration speeds for a War Cruiser are estimated to be 60 km/s2 with an obtainable long range attack speed of "80 BoPrills", 20% the speed of light.
Main power for the Whitestar, is produced via an artificial Quantum Singularity reactor system with an estimated power output rated at 330 Exawatts which, along with several secondary fusion reactors, fulfills all of the Whitestar's energy requirements. This reactor system provides the Xendi War Cruiser with virtually unlimited power, when compared to similar class ships seen used by the younger races, allowing this class starship to remain deployed for long periods of time. With little worry for energy, the Xendi vessels do not suffer from the limitations many of the younger races must deal with, using nuclear based fusion reactors or antimatter. This also means that the recharge time on all Xendi weapons is virtually instantaneous and their rift drives can re-charge in only a fraction of the time. In addition, the Whitestar uses the waste from the Quantum Reactor, which is antimatter, as a secondary power source as well as a powerful weapon.
Though researchers have collected extensive data on the Xendi War Cruiser, there are many tactical figures on this vessel which have only been verified conclusively in recent years. This is due primarily to the fact that few races have engaged a War Cruiser and lived to tell the tale and almost no one outside Xendi culture have ever set foot aboard these impressive starships.
One aspect of the War Cruisers workings that was being debated until recently, was the question of how many fighters are onboard a War Cruiser. During the Earth/Xendi war, the most common fighter arrangement was two fighter squadrons per War Cruiser in any given situation. However, at the conclusion of the Shadow War, it is now known that the average fighter escort for a War Cruiser is only 15 fighter craft. This gives the Xendi three wings and one full squadron.
The Xendi War Cruiser appears to be virtually unstoppable, with no major known weakness to speak of. The ships armor and deflector fields make conventional weapons almost useless against Whitestar class vessels in open combat conditions. Beyond this, advanced sensors warn Xendi crews of any impending attack, jamming systems make it easy for Xendi forces to attack without warning and there are few ships that can deliver as massive a weapons payload as a War Cruiser. Centauri sources, however, seem to indicate that the dreaded Whitestar class War Cruiser does have one weakness, that is nearly impossible to exploit.
It would seem that the Xendi's gravimetric drive systems, which is often the key to their victories (as it is used to provide shielding and significantly enhance their weapons), is also their only true weakness. The large fins characteristic of Xendi and Centauri vessels alike are, in fact, the projection system for their gravimetric drive system. Should these fins be damage or blown off, the gravimetric field used for propulsion could collapse. Xendi capital ships use gravimetric drives exclusively and does not use any other known form of propulsion, such as ion or plasma engines. Thus, theoretically, if serious damage were to be inflicted upon any one of the Whitestar's four fins, the ship would be effectively disabled for several minutes. This was decisively proven in 2259 when the Xendi Cruiser Tragati had its rear gravimetric fin cut in half by another Xendi vessel.
class: Whitestar
type: War-Cruiser
length: 1,600 meters [?]
mass: 44.4 million metric tons
crew: 190
troop: 8,000
fighter: 30 Nial fighter craft
power: 1 Quantum Singularity
8 Fusion reactor
duration: 20 years
weapon:
18 Gravitic Neutron Cannons
18 Gravitic Fusion Beam Cannons
24 EM Neutron guns
24 EM Fusion Beam guns
42 Electro-Pulse Guns
4 Missile Launcher
1 antimatter Cannon
Mass Driver
defense:
10 meter re-enforced Poly-Crystalline armor
42 Tractor Beams
Minbari Stealth Device [sensor disruption generator]
Gravitic Defense Shield Grid
The ship has powerful shields to protect the ship and are capable of stopping most weapons. These shields both use Gravimetric waves and radiation shielding to prevent energy weaponry together to achieve a more powerful shield.
We need to unite to fight the Shadows, and send them into remission again. The Xendi Fleet is preparing for the upcomming war against the Shadows, and is prepared to go do whatever it takes to lead to the Shadows demise.
The Shadows is one of the First Races to have existed, along with a few others - including the Vorlon. We need all the help we can get.
(below pics are stats of the two standard ships, more coming later)
http://babylon5.isnnews.net/gallery/minbari/min_small02.jpg
http://babylon5.isnnews.net/gallery/minbari/min_small03.jpg
http://babylon5.isnnews.net/gallery/minbari/minbari09.jpg
http://babylon5.isnnews.net/gallery/itb/itb07.jpg
http://www.zokino.net/ArtDesign/Babylon5/Retreat.jpg
http://www.tp2b.de/interstellar_alliance/whitestar_attack_run.jpg
Xendi Class:
The Xendi class of ships were build by the Xendi to serve as the front line ships for the Army of Light. With the inclusion of the most advanced of their technology, and the addition of standard Vorlon technology, these ships were the most powerful ships build by any of the younger races until the Interstellar Alliance had the Victory Class Destroyers build. Even so, it is still by far the most powerful ship in the galaxy when the power to size ratio is taken into account.
Although the ship is some 268 meters long, it is powerful and agile enough to combat fighters. Its array of weapons is however more than powerful enough to allow the ship to fight capital ships of the line of any of the younger races.
The ship is armed with a Xendi Quantum-Gravimetric Discharge Cannon for its primary weapon. This weapon is capable of destroying a CAF Warshield class cruiser with just two shots. Supporting this weapon system, the ship carries four fusion guns and four neutron cannons. If this ship has any weakness, the weakness is that this ship does not carry missile launchers.
The hull of the Xendi is made up of a special Vorlon organic material and can both repair itself and can adapt to attacks to reduce damage. No attack does full effect on the hull more than once.
The Xendi also has shields that consist of alternating gravimetric distortion waves and complex field of energy fields. These shields disburse any and all energy (including Kinetic) fired upon the Xendi leaving only a fraction of the blast. These shields can be dropped by being hit by powerful weapons or can be dropped by multiple volleys from less powerful weapons.
The ship also has the ability to form its own rift and is presently the smallest ship constructed by Xendi that can open its own rift. However, if the main quantum discharge cannon is fired on overcharge it means that energy is drawn away from the Rift drive, so that it takes another five extra minutes to recharge.
Weapon Systems
Quantum Gravitic Discharge Cannon: This weapon fires directly forward of the ship and is mounted in the nose of the starship. This weapon system functions by firing a beam of coherent gravity waves at a target, which disrupts the very molecules of the target at a quantum level. Any target area hit by the beam is literally torn apart at the subatomic level, reducing the affected area to a very hot cloud of quarks and mesons. If the ships rift drive is shut down and the power is channeled into the weapon system, the weapons damage can be quadrupled but the rift drive will take five minutes to be brought back on line.
Nuetron Cannons: These are special particle beams that fire forward of the ship. The are mounted in the wings of the starship. The weapons can fired in short bursts or a long beam. The weapon does more damage to organic targets because of the nature of the beam.
Fusion Cannon: The fusion cannons take high mass particles and compress them until they reach fusion. These particles are then fired in a beam. The weapons are mounted in the nose of the starship and fire directly forward.
Whitestar Class
The Whitestar class War Cruiser is the largest and most powerful ship in the Xendi Navy, capable of laying waste to cities, infrastructure and the habitable surface of a planet in less than an hours time. Controlled by all of the three ruling casts in Xendi culture (Warrior, Religious, Worker) , the Whitestar class War Cruiser can be sent into almost any tactical situation on a moments notice.
Xendi War Cruisers measure between 1,500 and 1,700 meters in length front to back and has a crew of some 190 duty personnel, ten of whom are command level officers. In addition to her standard crew, Whitestar's can carry an additional 60 combat personnel , which includes security, gunnery officers, and pilots. Maximum troop capacity for a Xendi War Cruiser is estimated to be approximately 8,000 gropos.
War Cruisers on deep patrol usually only cary a standard crew of some 190 personnel, and can maintain high combat readiness without suffering any detrimental effects due to a lack of personnel. This is due primarily to the Xendi's extremely advanced computer / AI systems aboard the War Cruisers type starship.
All tactical systems aboard Xendi War Cruisers, are directed through the Command Chamber - a holographic environment which allows the ship's command officers to view all 360° of a given combat environment. Through this Command Chamber, officers can direct all ship's resources as needed and participate fully in all combat situations. This command interface system increases Xendi response time and allows Xendi ships to react instantly in a combat situation.
At present, War Cruisers are known to be armed with a wide assortment of weapons that include eighteen Gravimetric Neutron Cannons (also known as Slicer Beams), eighteen heavy Fusion Beam Cannons, 42 Electro-Pulse guns and 24 defensive EM Neutron Guns and Fusion Gun weapons, as well as one Anti-Matter Cannon. Standard guns on the Xendi War Cruiser are are designed to deliver a massive amount of destructive energy to a target. Beam weapons can operate in both a piercing and raking mode, and output / targeting can be adjusted to combat capital scale warships or fighter craft. In addition to her standard beam weapons, the War Cruiser's Anti-Matter cannon (a weapon designed specifically for attacking planetary bodies), and 2,000 metric tons of missile ordinance capable of being launched from any of the Whitestar's four missile launchers, makes it a deadly planetary assault weapon. Projectile ordinance includes a wide assortment of weapons, including fusion and antimatter missiles / bombs, and it is believed that the Whitestar can even be outfitted with a device conducive to mass-driver orbital bombardment.
Besides it's massive weapons payload, the Xendi War Cruiser also has a decisive advantage in speed, maneuverability, and an acceleration time that makes other ships look like they are standing still. This significant advantage is credited to the War Cruiser's Stalasha Gravimetric drive system with an output in excess of 80 million Terajoules, arguablyone of the most powerful gravitic drive in the known galaxy. Standard acceleration speeds for a War Cruiser are estimated to be 60 km/s2 with an obtainable long range attack speed of "80 BoPrills", 20% the speed of light.
Main power for the Whitestar, is produced via an artificial Quantum Singularity reactor system with an estimated power output rated at 330 Exawatts which, along with several secondary fusion reactors, fulfills all of the Whitestar's energy requirements. This reactor system provides the Xendi War Cruiser with virtually unlimited power, when compared to similar class ships seen used by the younger races, allowing this class starship to remain deployed for long periods of time. With little worry for energy, the Xendi vessels do not suffer from the limitations many of the younger races must deal with, using nuclear based fusion reactors or antimatter. This also means that the recharge time on all Xendi weapons is virtually instantaneous and their rift drives can re-charge in only a fraction of the time. In addition, the Whitestar uses the waste from the Quantum Reactor, which is antimatter, as a secondary power source as well as a powerful weapon.
Though researchers have collected extensive data on the Xendi War Cruiser, there are many tactical figures on this vessel which have only been verified conclusively in recent years. This is due primarily to the fact that few races have engaged a War Cruiser and lived to tell the tale and almost no one outside Xendi culture have ever set foot aboard these impressive starships.
One aspect of the War Cruisers workings that was being debated until recently, was the question of how many fighters are onboard a War Cruiser. During the Earth/Xendi war, the most common fighter arrangement was two fighter squadrons per War Cruiser in any given situation. However, at the conclusion of the Shadow War, it is now known that the average fighter escort for a War Cruiser is only 15 fighter craft. This gives the Xendi three wings and one full squadron.
The Xendi War Cruiser appears to be virtually unstoppable, with no major known weakness to speak of. The ships armor and deflector fields make conventional weapons almost useless against Whitestar class vessels in open combat conditions. Beyond this, advanced sensors warn Xendi crews of any impending attack, jamming systems make it easy for Xendi forces to attack without warning and there are few ships that can deliver as massive a weapons payload as a War Cruiser. Centauri sources, however, seem to indicate that the dreaded Whitestar class War Cruiser does have one weakness, that is nearly impossible to exploit.
It would seem that the Xendi's gravimetric drive systems, which is often the key to their victories (as it is used to provide shielding and significantly enhance their weapons), is also their only true weakness. The large fins characteristic of Xendi and Centauri vessels alike are, in fact, the projection system for their gravimetric drive system. Should these fins be damage or blown off, the gravimetric field used for propulsion could collapse. Xendi capital ships use gravimetric drives exclusively and does not use any other known form of propulsion, such as ion or plasma engines. Thus, theoretically, if serious damage were to be inflicted upon any one of the Whitestar's four fins, the ship would be effectively disabled for several minutes. This was decisively proven in 2259 when the Xendi Cruiser Tragati had its rear gravimetric fin cut in half by another Xendi vessel.
class: Whitestar
type: War-Cruiser
length: 1,600 meters [?]
mass: 44.4 million metric tons
crew: 190
troop: 8,000
fighter: 30 Nial fighter craft
power: 1 Quantum Singularity
8 Fusion reactor
duration: 20 years
weapon:
18 Gravitic Neutron Cannons
18 Gravitic Fusion Beam Cannons
24 EM Neutron guns
24 EM Fusion Beam guns
42 Electro-Pulse Guns
4 Missile Launcher
1 antimatter Cannon
Mass Driver
defense:
10 meter re-enforced Poly-Crystalline armor
42 Tractor Beams
Minbari Stealth Device [sensor disruption generator]
Gravitic Defense Shield Grid
The ship has powerful shields to protect the ship and are capable of stopping most weapons. These shields both use Gravimetric waves and radiation shielding to prevent energy weaponry together to achieve a more powerful shield.