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Background The Estado-class battleship was designed with the Imperial Praetonian Shipyards in mind. It was designed to bridge the gap between the oversized Omega-class battleship and the underpowered Haven-class battleship. Its 18 inch guns provide a higher rate of fire than their 20 inch counterparts on the Omega and the sheer number of these guns ensures that this ship is a powerful surface combatant in its own right.

The Estado has been constructed with survivability and an impressive array of weapons that make the ship one of the better defended battleships of its calibre in the world. It is not designed to serve as a superdreadnaught; rather, it has been built to serve as the flagship of a smaller navy or medium-sized task force and as the standard bearer for many of the world's navies. It is a ship that can hold its own with the larger Omega or capably carry forth against the smaller Iowa-class battleships or Haven-class.

Estado-class battleship
Length: 294 m; Beam: 55 m; Draught: 16.1 m
Displacement 164,300 tonnes full
Armament: 5 x 3 460 mm ETC guns in A, B, C, X & Y pos.; 12 x 155 mm ETC guns port and starboard; 10 x 90 mm ETC guns port and starboard; 6 x 96 cell Mk 136 VLS; 4 x 650 mm TT; 24 x 35 mm Rattlesnake CIWS; 8 x 'underwater CIWS' supercav guns.
Protection: 762 mm-860 mm advanced armour composite (amorphous steel, titanium, vanadium, aluminum, ballistic ceramics); double-bottomed, reinforced keel with void spaces over a honeycomb frame.
Aircraft: Space for up to 10 medium ASW helicopters
Propulsion: Four PebbleBed nuclear reactors compartmentalised with extensive thermal insulation surrounding each reactor; four internalised waterjets.
Speed: 34.6 knots maximum.
Electronics: Sensors: AN/SPY-3B MFR multi-function radar; AN/SPS-64(V)10 navigational radar; AN/SQS-56 (K) hull mounted sonar; Electronics Warfare Suite: AN/SLY-2 (V) Advanced Integrated Electronic Warfare System (AIEWS); Decoys: AN/SLQ-49; AN/SLQ-25 Nixie; MK-53 Nulka DLS; Fire Control: MK-99 FCS missile fire control; Gun fire control: MK-88 GFCS (System calculates ballistic gun orders, The GFCS conducts direct firing attacks against surface radar and optically tracked targets); Torpedo Fire Control: MK-117 ACWSCS (Anti-Submarine Weapon Control System, Underwater Fire Control System); Countermeasures: Towed array sonar utilizing a hull transducer or a towed active transducer or both. It is an integrated ASW, Mine Avoidance and Torpedo Defense underwater system.
Complement: 2,100
Price: $5.5 billion

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Dear sirs:

Your research and ship design for the new Estado class battleship has come to our attention. Since our nations are allies on friendly terms, and we have been engaged in research along the same lines, having developed both a Tri-Maran carrier (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=436964) and a new, Tri-maran design frigate (which will be launched later today) we were wondering if Praetonian Ship Yards would be interested in joining with W.M.D., Inc. and pooling our research and technology in the area of Tri-Maran ship design to create a new line of ships ranging from PT boats up to super-carriers and/or dreadnaughts.

Sincerely,
General Jack T. Ripper
CEO, W.M.D., Inc.
Mauiwowee

[OOC: Good to see you again Mauiwowee. It's been a while. :)]

To: General Jack T. Ripper
CEO, W.M.D., Inc.
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Resources and research

We are interested in a possible collaboration with your great company, owing to your current relationship with the Incorporated Ordnance Company and the sale of multiple variants of the Ferret. We have a multitude of naval designs, both Trimaran and monohulled and would be interested in an exchange of both experience and insight.

We look forward to further cooperation between our two great countries!

Man Sarzonia, all these incredible ships make me want to buy them but then I have to compare the ship in service in my navy and your new ship and I'm too lazy :p

But anyways, good job on your ship like always :) It makes you wonder if you ever make bad ships ;)

OOC: Thanks!

OOC: Must.....not......buy.....pretty......ship

[OOC: Good to see you again Mauiwowee. It's been a while. :)]

To: General Jack T. Ripper
CEO, W.M.D., Inc.
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Resources and research

We are interested in a possible collaboration with your great company, owing to your current relationship with the Incorporated Ordnance Company and the sale of multiple variants of the Ferret. We have a multitude of naval designs, both Trimaran and monohulled and would be interested in an exchange of both experience and insight.

We look forward to further cooperation between our two great countries!

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker, Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Gen. Jack T. Ripper, CEO, W.M.D., Inc.
Subject: Resources and Research

Admiral, I am dispatching one of our naval design and engineering teams to you with all specs, references, designs, etc. for our new class of trimaran carriers and frigates. The are authorized to share all information with your teams (though sensitive material will of course be available only to those of your team with the proper security clearances). We are hopeful your teams will be able to reciprocate in kind (all personnel on our visiting team have either a "top secret" or a "Classified Military" security clearance and have been completed vetted and cleared and can be trusted not to reveal sensitive information. It is our hope that both of us will come away with ideas on how to design and build ships even better than those we make now.

Sincerely,
Gen. Jack T. Ripper