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Ship's complement:

* None. The Neutron S missile is unmanned at all times.

Dimensions:

• Length : 2800m overall, 1050m warhead section.
• Diameter: 1000m main section, 1850 m drive section cap,
1700 m warhead section.
• Mass : 340,000,000 metric tons.
• Fuel Mass : 101,000,000 metric tons.

Propulsion systems:

* Main power system: RRG Mk. 18 EOT generator cluster.The powerplant of the Neutron-S Missile can deliver up to 340 Petawatts of power for its main propulsion systems.
* Maneuvering thrusters: None. The Neutron S missiles use a gyrostabilization system.
* First stage reaction thrusters (20): Pratt & Whitney Pluto-9 fusion-plasma reaction engines.
* Second stage reaction thrusters (16): Rolls-Royce Hades fusion-plasma reaction engines.
* Hyperdrive (1): A military-type hyperdrive, tweaked and modified for extra speed. It's equipped with a "stutterwarp" system to allow some penetration of interdiction fields. (ooc: see the Selonian Trilogy for details on this)
* Planetary capabilities: The Neutron S missiles cannot operate in an atmosphere, save for a single re-entry by the warhead section.

Endurance and mobility limits:

* The EOT generators can operate in a stand-by mode for almost 70 years before an energizer rebuild becomes necessary.
* First stage endurance is about 1.0 g for about 74 minutes (c. 43.6 kps).
* Second stage endurance is about 1.5 g for 20 minutes (c. 17.6 kps), after which the fuel would be exhausted. The second stage engines would be good only for scrap after this, if they somehow survived the explosion of the warhead.
* Hyperdrive (1): The performance of this upgraded version is unknown, but estimated to be even faster than that of most fighters, due to not needing saftey equipment and so forth to keep conditions tolerable to human life.
* Total first and second stage delta-v capacity is about 61.2 kps.

Weapon systems:

* Nuclear warhead. Almost all details of this awesome warhead are classified. What is known is that the weapon is a fusion bomb using a LiD mantle around one or more fission initiators. The total volume of the reactant is approximately 150,000,000 cubic meters, with an expected total yield of 15 million megatons, similar to the K-T event that struck the Yucatan 65 million years ago, leading to the mass extinction of the late Cretaceous. The weapon's surface is lined with a neutron-rich material, for maximal neutron radiation emission on detonation and short-lived neutron-emitting fallout.

Electronics:

* The Neutron S missiles equip Phase Shift Armor, Geschmeidig Panzer Energy Deflection Armor, Force Jammers, and Mirage Colloid distortion jammers; although after launch their size and heat signature make them readily apparent to all belligerents.

Design notes:

These vessels are probably the most massive space warships ever designed by Axis Nova, and consist of nothing more than a hyperdrive, numerous reaction thrusters, and history's largest nuclear weapon.

The forward-most section of the weapon is the warhead itself, to the rear of which is attached a battery of sixteen reaction thrusters for terminal delivery to the target. Aft of the warhead is a large cap lying between the main drive section and the warhead section, to which the warhead mounts. Sixteen aft pointing reaction engines are located on the exterior of the cap. In addition, the cap has a mounting point fitted, where a Girty Lue-class cruiser can dock for a non-remote arming of this dangerous missile. The cap is a total of 250 meters long.

Further aft of the cap is the main drive section, consisting mainly of reaction-mass tanks, the hyperdrive, navigational computers, main powerplant, and the remaining four main reaction thrusters. To save design and production effort, the Neutron S missiles use salvaged Coreworlds hyperdrives (modified, of course).

History:

As Axis Nova slowly began the transition to a late postmodern nation to an early future technology nation (helped in no small part by assorted technology recovered, bought, and stolen), it evaluated the assorted interstellar nation's technologies for planetary siege and the propensity for large-scale ships, and found it's own resources lacking. Thus, as an intermittent nature, this awesome weapon's design was layed down to allow the Axis Nova Space Navy forces to meet such opponents on even terms.

The basic premise of this weapon is based on the ramships and Red Rain vessels utilized by the nation of Godular. This group utilizes robot ramships that will jump to the target, immediately spray forth a large number of fusion warheads, and proceed to ramming speed, invariably resulting in heavy damage or complete destruction to the target if the ramship is not eliminated before it reaches terminal range. Axis Nova has taken this concept and improved on it, designing a vessel for this purpose. The Neutron-S missile uses an enhanced-radiation type warhead, and relies more on its size and armor to punch through defenses rather than on missile saturation. While possessing a similiar attack style to a Red Rain vessel, the final effects are undisputedly far more deadly.

In all, nine of these formidable missiles are to be built in the first production run. To insure complete control of this planet-busting weapon, a Girty Lue-class cruiser will be docked with each missile until the launch of the warhead.

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ooc: The nuclear warhead is rather pointless, just so you know. If you have something of that size/mass, and get it going fast enought, the Kinetic energy would far outclass the warhead in terms of pure destructive potential. The only thing the warhead might contribute is the fact that the area would be baked in radiation.

Also, for those of us who've never read/heard of Selonian Trilogy or don't wish to read it, mind explaining the StutterWarp.

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You noticed the thread is marked FT, right? It's no more wank than a Super Star Destroyer or a Death Star or whatever, and at least I make some effort to explain how it works.

Kindly explain your reasoning.

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The stutterwarp thing relies on a sort of system that does not PROPEL the equipped ship, but simply sustains it in hyperspace on momentum while it passes through the interdiction field. The module used for this can't keep it up forever, and burns out after a short time-- but a number of additional modules were kept handy to allow the ship to maintain it's hyperdrive field until it can hopefully get past the interdiction field's radius.

OOC: Its simply the fact that the use of a missile that is longer than most average space ships (2 kilometers +) is to me...just really wank, even for FT. And SSDs are only wank when you have a fleet of them. And a DS is always wank, unless for some reason you actually rp'd its construction over a long period of RL time.

OOC: Its simply the fact that the use of a missile that is longer than most average space ships (2 kilometers +) is to me...just really wank, even for FT. And SSDs are only wank when you have a fleet of them. And a DS is always wank, unless for some reason you actually rp'd its construction over a long period of RL time.

So your only objection is based on SIZE? Really, have you looked around a bit? There are MANY, MANY, MANY FT constructions that are ridiculously gigantic.

What is a Stutterwarp?

OOC: And their all wank.

OOC: And their all wank.

Considering I've never seen you in an FT RP around here, I'm just going to assume you're here to troll.

OOC: Well actually I was FT up to three weeks ago, so I have a clear understanding of what I am speaking. And like Theo said, it is rather pointless. Why not spend your resources building more spaceships? Things that last more than one attack.

OOC: Well actually I was FT up to three weeks ago, so I have a clear understanding of what I am speaking. And like Theo said, it is rather pointless. Why not spend your resources building more spaceships? Things that last more than one attack.
Size is not a measure of wank. Some of us have fleets with ships no smaller than 2 kilometers, with the largest around 20. A 2 km missile isn't wank, although it isn't really wise. Why not just use a standard star ship, you can defend yourself until you reach the target, abandon ship, and ram the thing into a planet. Instant planet-kill.

And the lord spake that ramming 10 kilometer asteroids down the enemy's throats is far more cost effective and easier to initiate in a pinch... in thy mercy.

No pesky radiation either.

And a most hearty agreement rang forth from the crowd, who all knew and understood the use of tractor beams and their placement on almost all warships, often for that very purpose.

In clarification, from what the design sounds like, this is all one big warhead, rather than the Red Rain Cluster bomb I use, and Red Rain is incapable of entering into atmospheric conditions (although the Ramming Wedge 'Javelins' can and often do) in exchange for the application of an easier-to-access-and-MUCH-cheaper material as the fusion mechanism in the cluster bombs.

Red Rain itself is specifically an anti-fleet weapon, while the Javelin fills any other necessary roll in a pinch, but primarily acts as a giant mass-driver shell.

In clarification, from what the design sounds like, this is all one big warhead, rather than the Red Rain Cluster bomb I use, and Red Rain is incapable of entering into atmospheric conditions (although the Ramming Wedge 'Javelins' can and often do) in exchange for the application of an easier-to-access-and-MUCH-cheaper material as the fusion mechanism in the cluster bombs.

Red Rain itself is specifically an anti-fleet weapon, while the Javelin fills any other necessary roll in a pinch, but primarily acts as a giant mass-driver shell.


Yeah, this thing is basically designed to do both things better. Consider it a stopgap measure since right now Axis Nova simply does not have the industrial base to field massive fleets of ships. It's basically an equalizer.