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Allied Union Colonial Defense Command Index!

Welcome to Version 0.1 of the AUCDCI! The purpose of this guide, among others, is to present an easy-to-use database for the research of various steller combat craft used by Colonial Defense Command. The system is divided into two catagories, attack craft (such as fighters) and vessels (such as cruisers). These two catagories are futher subdivided into different ship types, such as fighters, carriers, and stealth ships.

Now, on to the guide.

Attack Craft and Small Drones

Scouting and Auxilary Drones

ASD-92 Early Warning Drone (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10802160&postcount=2)
AED-2 Deep Space Patrol Drone (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10802217&postcount=3)
PDD-11 Point Defense Drone (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10802325&postcount=4)

Fighter Drones

ID-43 Interceptor Drone (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10802668&postcount=5)
SSD-9 Falken Space Superiority Drone (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10802746&postcount=6)

Bomber Drones

SBD-10 Longsword Bomber Drone (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10804784&postcount=7)
SBD-11 Cloudmaker Anti-Fighter Drone (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10804811&postcount=8)

Auxilary Craft

SBC-1B Lamprey Boarding Craft (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10804975&postcount=9)
SLP-2 Bumblebee Lifepod (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805031&postcount=10)
ST-4 Space Tender (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805157&postcount=11)
TDS-91 Pelican General Purpose Dropship (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805197&postcount=12)
HDS-34 Lodestar III Heavy Transport Dropship (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805216&postcount=13)


Combat Vessels

Corvettes


Lancer Class Torpedo Corvette (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805433&postcount=14)
Man-o-War Class Gun Corvette (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805457&postcount=15)
Spike Class Minelayer Corvette (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805483&postcount=16)
Pulsar Class Heavy Corvette (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805631&postcount=17)

Frigates


Hornet Class Assualt Frigate (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805651&postcount=18)
Garrison II Class Missile Frigate (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805672&postcount=19)
Royal Flush Class Anti-attack Craft Frigate (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805689&postcount=20)
Zero Class Ion Frigate (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805706&postcount=21)
Martinez Class Gun Frigate (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805730&postcount=22)


Light Capital Ships

Unix Class Destroyer (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805747&postcount=23)
Tempest Class Attack Carrier (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805756&postcount=24)


Heavy Capital Ships

Independence Class Super-Carrier (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805780&postcount=25)
Oured III Battlecruiser (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10805791&postcount=26)

Auxilary Ships

Credit goes to rakrent.com for the wonderful Homeworld 2 pictures and Google Images for everything else!

ASD-92 Early Warning Drone

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Desgined as an extension of a fleet's already potent sensory systems, the ASD-92 is the decesndent of a modern AWACS aircraft. Often used in conjuction with packs of fighter drones, it has the ability to link up it's own sensor feed to any other friendly spacecraft (or land unit) nearby. Unfourtunatly, it is unarmed and is rather small for it's role. It carries a variet of sensors, including RADAR, thermal/IR, gravitational, and laser guided.

Purpose: Sensor Extender and SEWC Craft
Legnth: 8.6 meters
Width at Widest Point: 2.4 meters
Height: 1.8 meters
Crew: None (AI)
Armament: None
Systems: Shade Gen. IV Sensor Suite, Helmsmen Gen. II Piloting System, Raytheon 4000 CPU
Armor Rating: Medium for it's size.
Shields: Light Hybrid
Max Acceleration: 18 Gs

AED-2 Deep Space Patrol Drone

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-12/med/iss011e14107.jpg

The AED-2 has been a workhorse in the CDC for nearly thirty years. It runs off a long range, low yield fusion reactor, and is the smallest unit in the Velkyan military to carry a peremenant cloaking device. It carries a similar sensor suite to that of the ASD-92 and also includes high-powered imagrey devices for mointering a planet's surfaces.


Purpose: Observation Drone
Legnth: 5.2 meters
Width at Widest Point: 10.3 meters
Height: 1.9 meters
Crew: None (AI)
Armament: None
Systems: Shade Gen. V Sensor Suite, Helmsmen Gen. II Piloting System, Raytheon 4000 CPU, Ghost Cloaking System
Armor Rating: Light for it's size.
Shields: None
Max Acceleration: 9 Gs

PDD-11 Point Defense Drone

http://www.vortex.ndo.co.uk/Pics/ships/Taidan%20Defense%20Fighter.gif

PDD-11 drones fufill a specialized role in the CDC'snaval force. Released from vessels as small as destroyers, the PDD is a point defense drone desgined to destroy enemy torpedoes with racks of lasers. It's targetting feed is linked directly to shipboard systems, and it's AI is capable of detecting and destroying a hostile missile or torpedo at extreme ranges. The drone carries a small defensive hybrid shield to protect it from smaller energy weapons and fragments.

Purpose: Anti-Projectile Point Defense Drone
Legnth: 7.6 meters
Width at Widest Point: 4.2 meters
Height: 4.0 meters
Crew: None (AI)
Armament: 4x Zearn Point Defense Lasers
Systems: Shade Gen. III Sensor Suite, Helmsmen Gen. II Piloting System, Raytheon 5000 CPU, Jorgeson Targeting Computer, Xeon Sensory Link-Up System
Armor Rating: Light for it's size.
Shields: Light Hybrid
Max Acceleration: 17 Gs

ID-43 Interceptor Drone

http://www.rakrent.com/rtsc/pix/hw2/hw2-interceptor02.jpg

Interceptors serve a primary role as long range corvette and bomber killers in a Velkyan fleet. Capable of launching waves of small, manuevable, high speed anti-matter missiles at distant targets, the ID-43 also has a secondary role as a space superiroity fighter, a role which the SSD-9 Falken usually undertakes, although it is not as manuverable or "sexy" looking.

Purpose: Long Range Interdiction Fighter
Legnth: 11.5 meters
Width at Widest Point: 5.0 meters
Height: 4.1 meters
Crew: None (AI)
Armament: Variable, normally 20x Long Lance Gen. VI anti-matter missiles
Systems: Shade Gen. III Sensor Suite, Helmsmen Gen. III Piloting System, Raytheon 5000 CPU, Harlando Targeting Computer, Xeon Sensory Link-Up System
Armor Rating: Medium for it's size.
Shields: Medium Hybrid
Max Acceleration: 19 Gs

SSD-9 Falken Space Superiority Drone

http://syorinfactory.hp.infoseek.co.jp/sozai/top_e3.jpg

The SSD-9 is the most proliferous fighter drone in the Velkyan arsenal. It is both good-looking and deadly. Boasting a Wattson ND-12 fusion drive with six seperate vectoring points, it is one of the most manvurable fighter-classes in the Galaxy and also one of the fastest, with an acceleration of nearly thrity Gs. It is equipped with twin auto-tracking LASER batteries on it's "wingtips", and can internally carry nearly thirty anti-strikecraft missiles of varying types.

Purpose: Close Ragne Superiority Fighter
Legnth: 10.5 meters
Width at Widest Point: 6.2 meters
Height: 4.3 meters
Crew: None (AI)
Armament: Variable, normally 2x ATSL-91 Lasers, plus 6x Long Lance Gen. VI anti-matter missiles and 10x Python Short Ragne Fighter to Fighter Missile (SRFFM)
Systems: Shade Gen. III Sensor Suite, Helmsmen Gen. IV Piloting System, Raytheon 6000 CPU, Harlando Gen. II Targeting Computer, Xeon Sensory Link-Up System
Armor Rating: Medium for it's size.
Shields: Medium Hybrid
Max Acceleration: 28 Gs

SBD-10 Longsword Bomber Drone

http://idata.over-blog.com/0/16/66/08/longsword.jpg

The SBD-10, along with all bombers, is designed to disable capital ships with anti-matter missiles and torpedoes. Usually used in packs of five, it's advanced targeting sensors can lock onto different parts of enemy vessels, disabling sensors, engines, and weapon systems with highly coordinated strikes. It is slow in comparison to other attack craft, and carries defensive point defense lasers on it's back and belly.

Purpose: Anti-Ship Strikecraft
Legnth: 20.9 meters
Width at Widest Point: 17.0 meters
Height: 6.1 meters
Crew: None (AI)
Armament: Variable, normally 32x Zekel Anti-Matter Missiles or 10x Multiple Warhead Nuclear Fighter-to-Ship Torpedoes (MWNFSTs)
Systems: Shade Gen. III Sensor Suite, Helmsmen Gen. II Piloting System, Raytheon 4000 CPU, Harlando Gen. II Targeting Computer, Xeon Sensory Link-Up System
Armor Rating: Heavy for it's size.
Shields: Heavy Hybrid
Max Acceleration: 12 Gs

SBD-11 Cloudmaker Anti-Fighter Drone

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/Lloyd1337/longsword_cel.png

The Cloudmaker is a highly specialized version of the Longsword with a different role and loadout. It is designed to intercept large quanties of enemy attack craft and torpedoes with waves of dozens of Cloudmaker guided submunition missiles. It is nickedname the Beehive by it's operating crews because of the deadly swarm just one of these bombers can unleash upon enemies.

Purpose: All-Purpose Mass Eliminator
Legnth: 21 meters
Width at Widest Point: 17.2 meters
Height: 6.2 meters
Crew: None (AI)
Armament: Variable, normally 32x Cloudmaker Submunition Warheads
Systems: Shade Gen. III Sensor Suite, Helmsmen Gen. II Piloting System, Raytheon 4000 CPU, Harlando Gen. II Targeting Computer, Xeon Sensory Link-Up System
Armor Rating: Heavy for it's size.
Shields: Heavy Hybrid
Max Acceleration: 12 Gs

SBC-1B Lamprey Boarding Craft

http://files.turbosquid.com/Preview/Content_on_1_21_2005_15_49_48/star%20freighter%20persp.jpgc9c821f2-5e08-4c28-aa7f-6454c09f23e8Large.jpg

The Lamprey, or the Dick of Steel, as it's Marine crews refer to it as, is the principle boarding craft used by the Colonial Marine Corps to board and capture enemy capital ships in combat. It is well armored and shielded, and possesses a specialized cannon to blow through the thick hulls of most ships. Like most Velkyan torpedoes, it also carries anti-particle shield shielding, which uses a form of anti-matter to break through enemy particle shields. It can seat two fully armed sqauds of Marines, or ten power armor suits, or a combination of both.

Purpose: Boarding Craft
Legnth: 35 meters
Width at Widest Point: 11.8 meters
Height: 6.2 meters
Crew: 1 (Pilot)
Carrying Capacity: 20 Marines
Armament: Boarding Charge
Systems: Shade Gen. III Sensor Suite, Helmsmen Gen. II Piloting System, Raytheon 2000 CPU
Armor Rating: Heavy for it's size.
Shields: Heavy Hybrid
Max Acceleration: 14 Gs

SLP-2 Bumblebee Lifepod

http://escape.extraneous.org/wp-images/pod-icon400.jpg

A simple lifepod designed to carry crew and Marines away from a doomed ship and into friendly hands. It is reasonably well armored and has light hybrid shielding. It's small impulse drive can carry it to a acceleration of 11 Gs, and it is sufficently shielded to enter most atmospheres. Onboard airbrakes and thrusters aid it's descent to soild ground, and food and water for twenty people for a period of two weeks is also carried.

Purpose: Escape Craft
Legnth: 15.2 meters
Width at Widest Point: 15.4 meters
Height: 15.3 meters
Crew: 1 (Pilot)
Carrying Capacity: Thirty humans
Armament: None.
Systems: Shade Gen. III Sensor Suite, Raytheon 2000 CPU
Armor Rating: Heavy for it's size.
Shields: Medium Hybrid
Max Acceleration: 11 Gs

ST-4 Space Tender

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The ST-4 is a drone used by tender ships such as the Pepperbox II to reach ships trapped in places the tender itself cannot go, such as astroid bases and nebulai. It's flight control AI is sufficently more effective than most other drones, barring the Falken and the Bumblebee drones. It has a carrying capacity roughly that of a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.

TDS-91 Pelican General Purpose Dropship

http://carnage.bungie.org/rogerwilco/images/pelican_heavy.jpg

The Pelican has been the workhorse dropship of the Velkyan CDC navy for many years, and has many incarnations. Foremost of these is the troop transport variant, which can carry twenty armed Marines from ship-to-ship or ship-surface, or vise-versa. It carries a light form of bybrid shielding and Plasteel, and is armed with a 32mm infantry support railgun. Additional variants can carry ATGMs, AAMs, and vehicles. Note that the above picture is a anti-armor variant.

HDS-34 Lodestar III Heavy Transport Dropship

http://www.serenadawn.com/Alien-Snakefighter.JPG

A behemouth dropship used for carrying heavy vehicles such as armor, mechs, and supplies from ship to surface and back. It has heavy shielding and armor, but is unarmed.

Lancer Class Torpedo Corvette

http://www.vortex.ndo.co.uk/Pics/ships/Kushan%20Mine%20Layer%20Corvette.gif

The Lancer is a future extension of one some may call a torpedo boat. It carries six Shiva nuclear tipped, AM-shielding torpedoes capable of tremendously high speeds. It's slightly faster than a longsword bomber and also carries several point defense laser weapons for dealing with fighters and interceptors.

Man-o-War Class Gun Corvette

http://www.vortex.ndo.co.uk/Pics/ships/Taiidan%20Multi-Gun%20Corvette.gif

The MoW class corvette is equipped with five seperate Aramlite 110mm electromagnetic autocannons and is designed to destroy other corvettes with coordinated fire. It also carries several energy weapon point defenses as well as heavy shielding.

Spike Class Minelayer Corvette

http://www.rakrent.com/rtsc/pix/hw2/hw2-hiiminelayer.jpg

Named after the shape of it's mines, the Spike class is responsible for maintaining anti-strikecraft mine pickets around installions and capital ships. It can carry around fifty Aramlite AFM-01 mines, which are covered in a cheap cloaking system and will activate once their sensors pick up an enemy attack craft. It's small explosive charge is devestating to corvettes and smaller craft, but against frigates and larger vessels, heavier mines are better used.

Pulsar Class Heavy Corvette

http://www.rakrent.com/rtsc/pix/hw2/hw2-pulsar.jpg

The Pulsar class is a big brother to the Lancer class torpedo frigate, in that it is effective at disabling capital ships. It's main armament is a small bore (around 5 inch) MAC gun, which uses high powered magnets to fire a nuclear tipped dart at near light speeds. These darts are capable of penetrating enemy light capital ships from quite some distance, and are a force to be reckoned with. Like all other frigates, it uses point defenses to ward off enemy strikecraft.

Hornet Class Assualt Frigate

http://www.rakrent.com/rtsc/pix/hw2/hw2-infiltrator02.jpg

The assualt frigate is usally deployed in small numbers in a Velkyan fleet because of it's extreme specialization. It's sole purpose to deploy SBC-1B Lamprey Boarding Craft unto enemy vessels, which is does admirably. It can carry up to one hundred of them in launch tubes across it's hull, meaning it can fit over 2,000 combat ready Marines in it's hull. It's easily one of the largest frigates in service with the Velkyan navy. For self defense, it carries Phalanx missiles pods, three dozen LASER point defense mounts and two 10 inch MAC guns.

Garrison II Class Missile Frigate

http://www.rakrent.com/rtsc/pix/hw2/hw2-hvmsslfrig.jpg

This baby is covered head to toe in Phalanx anti-ship missile pods, and can launch a massive salvo of three-hundred of the little buggers at once. It also carries twenty Shiva nuclear torpedo tubes for heavier-capital ship busting. It's point defenses are also top notch, considering one stray torpedo can detonate the whole lot of missiles.

Royal Flush Class Anti-attack Craft Frigate

http://www.rakrent.com/rtsc/pix/hw2/hw2-hiiflak.jpg

The Royal Flush is equipped with hundreds of seperate anti-fighter missile and laser pods and submunition launchers for dealing with fighter swarms. It also carries secondary MAC turrets for anti-ship use, and heavy point defenses to defend itself from waves of enemy missiles.

Zero Class Ion Frigate

http://www.rakrent.com/rtsc/pix/hw2/hw2-hiiions.jpg

The Zero Class is very recognizable to euthunsiasts and sailors alike due to it's distictive shape and purpose. The entire ship is based around one extremely long-ranged ion cannon, which has the ability to break through nearly all deflector shielding and expose enemy vessels to attack. The ship diverts mosts of it's power to the ion beam, so weapons outside of routine point defenses are not carried.

Martinez Class Gun Frigate

http://www.rakrent.com/rtsc/pix/hw2/hw2-assltfrig.jpg

The Martinez Class Gun Frigate is derived from the Garrison II class of warships in both role and hull commonality. It carries twenty seperate 10-inch MAC guns, as well as dozens of missiles pods and laser point defenses. It's effective use would be killing other frigates, and when en masse, taking on larger vessels.

Unix Class Destroyer

http://www.rakrent.com/rtsc/pix/hw2/hw2-vygdestroyers.jpg

Destroyer are, unlike their modern counterparts, designed as anti-ship combatants, and are equipped as such. They could be related to modern battlecruisers and battleships. The Unix class incorporates extensive missile system, torpedo tubes, LASER point defenses, and fifty MAC guns with bores ranging from 10 inch to 21 inch batteries, and a small launch bay capable of holding one hundred drones of varying types. All of these already impressive armaments are rounded out by the large FND (Focused Nuclear Detonation) cannon which juts out of the bow of the craft. This cannon has an extremely long range and has been shown to destory frigate-sized vessels in a single shot, bypassing most deflector and particle shields.

Tempest Class Attack Carrier

http://www.rakrent.com/rtsc/pix/hw2/hw2-hiitorps.jpg

The Tempest Class Attack Carrier is used in situations which would not warrant the use of a Independence Class SuperCarrier. The Tempest has room for nearly two thousand drones, and is nearly fully automated. It's point defenses (both missile and laser based), like that of her larger cousin, are better than average and can reduce a fighter patrol to burning wreckage in mere seconds. It also holds three torpedoes tubes for ship-to-ship engagements, although this is not recommended.

Independence Class Super-Carrier

http://www.rakrent.com/rtsc/pix/hw2/hw2-hiicarrier.jpg

The mainstay of any fleet, these behemouths are at the center of any Carrier Battlegroup. They're 1.5 kilometers long and can dish out nearly ten thousand different drones at the enemy. It's covered bow-to-stern in lasers, anti-strikecraft missile pods, and small bore MAC guns, and is like a mobile fortress more than anything else. It also boasts the ability to produce drones will underway, which decreases logistical load on Velkyan forces.

Oured III Class Battlecruiser

http://www.rakrent.com/rtsc/pix/hw2/hw2-hiibc02.jpg


This is it. The largest ship in the Velkyan fleet, checking in at over 2.3 kilometers. It's fully capable of blowing most smaller ships apart with little to no effort, and it's arament shows it. It carries two hundred seperate MAC guns, along with a four barrel FNDC cluster in the bow. Over two thousands seperate missile pods and torpedo tubes also dot the surface of the vessel, and it's point defenses burn like the sun when active. It's launch bays are capable of holding three-thousand seperate drones, and it also boasts a drone construction capability.

Do not fuck with it, for you will sign your death warrant.