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Divine Ascension retired, Divine Ascension class unveiled (open to comments)

Shenyang
12-02-2005, 23:48
OOC: For those who remember a while back I created a 60km long super-flagship called the Divine Ascension. I have decided that it is too large, and a class of smaller ships would be able to fill the same niche.

IC: After several years of venerable service it has been decided that the great Divine Ascension has finished its tour of duty and will be retired to serve out the rest of its life as an orbital museum of history, encompassing everytime period from the stone age to the dawn of this century.
In light of this the SOSY (Shenyang Orbital Shipyards) has begun development of the class to honor this great ship, the Divine Ascension class. Though exponentially smaller they will serve with the same dignification that the class's namesake served with.
I give you the Divine Ascension:
http://www.homeworld-center.de/pictures/ships/hw2/hiig_battlecrui1.jpg
The new prototype ship, unpainted, comes out of hyperspace in the same way its predecesor did. A red wall of energy appeared and oppened, the ship then materialized out of the "gate."
She is 1/10 the size of the original, but her power is still on par with its parent the original.
The new ship's basic statistics are brought up on the same screen that had witnessed the statistics of the original DA.
Divine Ascension
Flagship
Dimensions:
Length:6km
Width:1.8km
Height:.3km
Crew: 20200 (Skeleton: 1000) (ooc: explained later)
Armor: 4m of tritantalumium (titanium, tritium, and tantalum (look it up, its real))
Shielding: 2 layers of ultra-high output shielding (ooc: capable of surviving 10 consecutive turbolaser hits in the same area)
Powerplant: 16 modular warp cores
Maximum Recorded Speed: Warp 9.65 (safe) Warp 9.98 (6 hour max (core burns out))
Ship Bay Capacity: 100 fighters
Armament: (modular)
1 ultra-heavy phased particle cannon array
20 dual plasma bomb cannons (gimbal)
6 heavy spinal mount turbolasers (fore)
16 heavy strip phasers (15 star., 15 port, 2 stern)
6 quantum torpedo tubes (fore)
28 quantum torpedo tubes (star.)
28 quantum torpedo tubes (port)
4 heavy missle batteries (10 tubes per batteries) (aft)
300 point defense lasers
300 point defense railguns
Other:
Neural Command Interface (ooc: Homeworld players will understand)
Nanite Repair System
Though she has shrunken she possesses the same in deniable power, and the fact that many are on the drawing board and underconstruction will make the Shenyang Fleet a much more flexible force.
Shenyang
13-02-2005, 01:52
BUMP for comments (though this move was meant to eliminate any opposition to my flagship's dimensions)