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-- Missiles
-- Munitions
-- Small Arms
-- Starships and Stations

Welcome to the 49,756 ACF (After Confederate Founding) edition of the Encyclopedia Xessmithica. In this edition you will find the most up to date information on science, history, economics ,and any other topic you might be interested about, in the Confederacy of Xessmithia.

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General Information

Demographics

Population by species

Human: 72%
Bowman's Wolf: 23%
Bowman's Jaguar: .03%
Bowman's Falcon. .96%
Bowman's Shark: .01%
Other: 4%

General Information

Economics

General Information

History

The Confederacy traces its roots through nearly 50 thousand years of history. Many records have been lost to the sands of time, though certain facts are clear.

What is known of the earliest beginnings of what would become the Confederacy known today starts on ancient Earth. After mass colonization of the solar system was completed, humanity looked to the stars to further its place in the universe. Construction then began on relativistic colony ships.

This titanic effort was made easier by the abundant supply of space island colonies already present. Instead of constructing a new ship, a radiation shield and engines were simply attached too an existing colony.

After decades of construction the fleet of interstellar ships lit their drives and raced into the vast emptiness between the stars. One such colony, XE-S5M1T41A however met an unexpected fate.

After five years into its journey the colony-ship encountered an exceedingly rare phenomena, a wormhole large enough to transport the entire colony. The colony plunged into the wormhole, though not by choice. The wormhole formed, swallowed the colony and was destroyed too fast for any evasion.

The colony found itself in a strange location and heavily damaged. They were fortunate to have been expelled from the wormhole near a planet suitable for human life. That planet is known today as Xess, the capital world of the Confederacy.

The colony landed on the planet and began construction of a settlement. The remaining colonists numbered five million after having their numbers cut in half by the transit through the wormhole.

At this point historic records become unclear for nearly ten thousand years when the first Confederacy was born. Taking the designation of the original colony, XE-S5M1T41A, the name Xessmithia was born. It was then revealed that the colony had landed in the Magellan Galaxy, 526 million light-years beyond the Milky Way.

In the intervening forty-thousand years the Confederacy has gone through over a dozen reformations in structure and policy. The current Confederacy is the seventeenth.

Our current population stands at just above nine quintillion sapients, spread over forty-five million systems. Concentrated on the five thousand core worlds is the majority of the population living in planet spanning cities that stretch for kilometers underground and into the sky housing hundreds of trillions on each planet alone. These massive populations are supported by a massive network of hundreds of thousands agriculture rings run by advanced robotics in thousands of empty star systems.

Resources are gathered from across the millions of barren star systems in the Magellan Galaxy and the surrounding dwarf galaxies providing near limitless raw material and energy. Advanced installations draw matter directly from the most massive of stars themselves collecting needed heavy metals and using the solar energy to refine ore and produce fuel.

Trade lanes are constantly bustling with tens of millions of transports every day. Protecting it all is the Confederate Star Patrol civil law enforcement agency and the sapients in the Confederate Armed Forces.

Star Patrol polices the starlanes of the Confederacy with it's 22.7 quadrillion officers. Equipped to deal with any internal threat Star Patrol is a force to be reckoned with, but it is not up to the task of defending against foreign aggression.

That job falls to the Confederate Armed Forces. Smaller in number than Star Patrol, with 3.8 quadrillion members able to be deployed into combat and 11.6 quadrillion in support roles, the Armed Forces are a highly mobile, highly trained, high firepower fighting force. The Navy has the ability to deploy anywhere within the Magellan Galaxy and her satellite galaxies in mere hours with the Army and Space Force not far behind.

With ships able to outrace the fastest fighters of other nations and ships capable of slagging entire worlds with a single shot the Confederate Armed Forces is the long arm of the Confederacy. When on a total war setting no known nation can hope to stand long against the might of the CAF.

Despite the great size and power of the Confederacy, its presence in the Milky Way and the surrounding galaxies is however limited. While the Confederacy has ships capable of crossing the distance it takes a fleet of tankers and ten years to cross despite the great speed of Confederate FTL. Thus all transit is done through special tachyon gates which allow near instant travel between the Magellan Galaxy and the Milky Way. These Mega-gates are the connection to the Magellan Galaxy of the Milky Way Expeditionary Force, a small group of Star Patrol, Armed Forces and civilian infrastructure measuring 6.641 billion as of the last census.

The MWEF was commissioned to start a Confederate presence in the human home galaxy. They were given the best technology to start colony worlds, of which there are now seven. These worlds are connected to home by three tachyon mega-gates, these gates are kept open only enough to allow communications through to the extreme energy requirements of activating it to full power. Every eight months the MWEF Star Patrol and Armed Forces are swapped out, this is the only time the gates are open to full capacity. If a situation arose that required a response from the main fleet it would still take four months for the reactors to charge the mega-gates.

These gates are some of the most protected installations in the whole Confederacy, as the destruction of one would mean chaos for the MWEF and spell a massive downfall of morale as well as a cessation of needed re-enforcements.

Such an event happened during the last civil war which resulted in the current seventeenth Confederacy being formed. This most recent civil war was known as "The War of Isolationism", fought between the Confederate Loyalists and the Magellan Isolationist Union, broke out into open hostilities in 49,973 ACF and ended with the defeat of the MIU in 49,991. The war lasted 18 years due to the near total destruction of modern infrastructure and fleet reserves in the opening weeks of the war which required 15 years to rebuild to levels sufficient to allow the Confederacy to retake the systems lost to the MIU. Civil infrastructure and transport routes took next to a century to restore to pre-war levels to finally allow the Confederacy to resume operations in the Milky Way Galaxy.

General Information

Politics

Science/Technical Information

Biology

Species Information

Human

Taxonomic classification: Homo sapiens sapiens

Average Lifespan: 480 years

Species Information: Homo sapiens sapiens is the dominant species in the Confederacy and has been since its foundation. The current generation of H.s.sapiens has inherited the benefits of nearly 50,000 years of genetic engeneering and is more resistant to disease, radiation and has had their lifespan tripled from what was once thought of as the maximum human lifespan. H.s.sapiens fall into any spectrum and personality and are adept at any field or occupation they work towards.

Bowman's Wolf

Taxonomic classification: Canis rufus sapiens

Average Lifespan: 486 years

Species Information: Canis rufus sapiens was the first widely succesfull genetically engineered sapient. The social habits of their base species Canis rufus allowed members of C.r.sapiens to easily join H.s.sapiens culture and society. Their keen sense of smell gives them a unique perspective on life that most H.s.sapiens find refreshing. Like members of H.s.sapiens, C.r.sapiens can excell at anything they put their minds too.

Bowman's Jaguar

Taxonomic classification: Panthera onca sapiens

Average Lifespan: 413 years

Species Information: Arguably the least succesfull engineered sapient P.o.sapiens has a population as large as it does simply due to the fact that it has been around only slightly less than C.r.sapiens. Despite many milenia of acclimatization most members choose to live apart from society, unlike their engineered brethren. While as diverse as any sapient, this attitude seems to have become a meme among P.o.sapiens and you'll find most of them living in isolated colonies.

Unfortunately for the species most of their colonies were destroyed by the racist and fascist Magellan Isolationist Union during the War for Isolationism. The MIU unfortunately managed to kill 98% of the population of P.o.sapiens in the chaotic opening phase of the war due to the isolated nature of their population centers. Their current population stands at 54 trillion members reduced from 5.4 quadrillion.

Bowman's Falcon

Taxonomic classification: Falco peregrinus sapiens

Average Lifespan: 304 years

Species Information: Despite the stereotype most Falco peregrinus sapiens are not pilots. While their avian ancestry does grant them superior eyesight and spatial awareness invidiual F.p.sapiens are as diverse as humans.

Bowman's Shark

Taxonomic classification: Carcharodon carcharias sapiens
EXTINCT

Average Lifespan: 267 years

Species Information: The most recent genetically engineered sapient in the Confederacy, C.C.sapiens was created to utilize the vast resources available in the oceans of Confederate orbitals and planets. Their ability to survive underwater without specialized equipment has allowed oceanic resource development to skyrocket due to decreased cost.

Species went extinct in 49,832 due to a species wide pandemic.

*I took this concept from the webcomic Freefall. The other "Bowman's" species are my own derivatives of that idea. I do not claim to be the creator of the Bowman's Wolf in any way.

Notable Other Species

Resistance to the "Supernatural"

Due to genetic engineering, natural evolution, and just engineering in the case of AIs, sapients of the Confederacy have an innate resistance to the so called "supernatural". Essentially the stronger one's will the more resistant one is to the effects, while that itself is not unknown to users of the "supernatural" sapients of the Confederacy have an innate boost to this ability. As such it takes far more than the average user of the "supernatural" has to affect a Confederate sapient.

OOC: This is essentially just my take on D&D style Spell Resistance. As in the more powerfull a caster the more likely they are to affect a Confederate sapient. The following values represent different sapients and the approximate level a caster has a 50% chance of succeding.

High School Student: SR 15, CL 5(mid-level Padawan)
Average Citizen: SR 20, CL 10(Average Jedi Knight)
Special Forces/ PhD/MD Holder: SR 25, CL 15(Jedi Master)
Warship/University AI: SR 65, CL 55(Wankatine aka Dark Empire Palpatine)

Science/Technical Information

Chemistry and Material Science

Construction Materials

UBT Superalloy

UBT Superalloy is the primary material used to construct the load bearing sections and frames of starships and large structures in the Confederacy. The material is kinetically super-conductive trasnferring force throughout the entire frame instantly. The material has a yield strength in the hundreds of millions TPa

In development this material was called Unobtanium as a testament to it's difficulty to create. While it is now easily produced in mass quantities the name stuck and was shortened from Unobtanium to UBT.

QISCA

QISCA(pronounced kiss-ka) is an acronym for Quark-gluon plasma Impregnated Super Conducting Armor. It is a mixture of UBT Superalloy and thermally superconductive material impregnated with extremely small amounts of quark-gluon plasma. When energy strikes the armor it is conducted throught the armor instantly. The UBT allows the armor to withstand kinetic strikes extremely well, althouth not as well as "pure" UBT would be.

It takes 4.2x10^14 Joules to vapourize one cubic meter of QISCA.

Science/Technical Information

Physics

Faster Than Light

Travel

Hyperdrive
Confederate hyperdrive converts the ship into tachyonic matter via a quantum mechanical property that appears at velocities very close to that of light. The ship uses its complex mass fuel as a ballast to activate the transition, which occurs in under a Planck-second. The speed of hyperdrive varies according to several variables. Civilian craft normally operate at 1 to 10 megacees while military craft operate at upwards of 50 megacees.

Tachyon Gate
These generate a type of hyper-dimensional passage between two gates. Craft travel through this passage at upwards of 550 petacees.

Jump Drive
This drive finds a quantum tubule, expands it and then uses it to transport a ship up to a range of 10 light-years. It is the least energy intensive of all Confederate FTL and the most primitive.

Communication and Detection

Hyperwave
Like radio waves hyperwaves are used for both communication and detection at FTL speeds. The signals propagate at 945 teracees. Thus all FTL communication between the Magellan Galaxy and the MWEF is done through Tachyon gates via comm drones.

Military Hardware

Body Armor

Infantry Armor

Standard Armor: The standard Confederate body armor is a suit of hard armor over the torso, legs and arms over a flexible fabric. It is fully NBC proof and incorporates a small shield generator which allows for great resistance to kinetic and energy attacks. The hard plates are 1 mm thick and are equivalent to 100 meters of RHA steel. The complete armor masses 8 kg, or 17.6 pounds.

Military Hardware

Energy Shields

Military Hardware

Energy Weapons

Confederate energy weapons are composed of a beam of exotic massless particles. As such the beam travels at c while a particle tracer travels slightly behind the main beam at .0001% less than c. The tracer beam is optional.

Firing time: .01 second

Military Hardware

Ground Warfare Platforms

Tanks

Main Battle Tanks

M-663 Legionnaire

Dimensions:
Length - 8 m
Width - 4 m
Height - 2.5 m
Mass - 59 metric tons dry
Mass - 66.78 metric tons fully loaded and fueled
Ground Pressure in Standard Gravity - 74.2 kPa (10.77 PSI)

Armaments:
- 90 mm L/18 Mass Driver
-- max muzzle velocity, 300 km/s
-- ammuniton
--- standard kinetic round 12 kg, 5.4x10^11 J
-- 50 assorted round magazine, auto-loader

- 1x12.7mm co-axial anti-infantry mass driver
-- max muzzle velocity, 6 km/s
-- shell mass, .3 kg
-- max kinetic energy of shell, 5.4x10^6 J
-- 5,000 round magazine

Armor:
- UBT Superalloy
-- Turret Front: 300 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 90 km RHAe
-- Turrent Side 100 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 30 km RHAe
-- Turret Rear: 100 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 30 km RHAe
-- Turret Top: 100 mm perforated @ 0° slope, 15 km RHAe
-- Glacis: 300 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 90 km RHAe
-- Hull sides: 100 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 30 km RHAe
-- Hull rear: 100 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 30 km RHAe
-- Hull bottom: 100 mm perforated @ 0° slope, 15 km RHAe
-- Hull top:150 mm perforated @ 0° slope, 22.5 km RHAe


Energy Shields:
- Max dissipation peak
-- N/A, heat sink must be emptied by specialized support vehicle
- Heat Sink Capacity
-- 8.4x10^15 Joules ( 2 megatons)

Powerplant:
- Micro Annhilation Plant
-- peak combat output, 5.5x10^11 Watts
-- peak cruise output, 6.6x10^7 Watts
- Essentially indefiniate sustainability on internal fuel load. Limited by crew endurance, heat sink load



Performance:
- Road speed 160 km/h, off-road speed 80 km/h
- max incline, 60 degrees
- full NBC protection

Drives:
Primary
- 8 heavy duty electric motors
-- 2 independent treads

Secondary
- Anti-gravity drive

Sensors:
- Full spectrum analyzer
- Advanced targeting computer

Crew:
- 3
-- Commander, Gunner, Driver

Heavy Tanks

M-529 Titan

Dimensions:
Length - 24 m
Width - 16 m
Height - 5 m
Mass - 867 metric tons dry
Mass - 1152.4 metric tons fully loaded and fueled
Ground Pressure in Standard Gravity - 117.7 kPa (17.1 PSI) [given by two treads 5.33m*18m in area]

Armaments:
- dual 225 mm L/25 Mass Driver in single turret
-- max muzzle velocity, 141 km/s
-- ammunition
--- standard kinetic round 188 kg (1.84x10^12 J)
-- 200 assorted round magazine, auto-loader

- 6x12.7mm anti-infantry mass drivers
-- max muzzle velocity, 6 km/s
-- shell mass, .3 kg
-- max kinetic energy of shell, 5.4x10^6 J
-- 5,000 shell magazine/ weapon


Armor:
- UBT Superalloy
-- Turret Front: 600 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 180 km RHAe
-- Turrent Side 200 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 60 km RHAe
-- Turret Rear: 200 mm perforated @ 0° slope, 20 km RHAe
-- Turret Top: 200 mm perforated @ 0° slope, 20 km RHAe
-- Glacis: 600 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 180 km RHAe
-- Hull sides: 200 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 60 km RHAe
-- Hull rear: 200 mm perforated @ 0° slope, 20 km RHAe
-- Hull bottom: 200 mm perforated @ 0° slope, 20 km RHAe
-- Hull top:200 mm perforated @ 0° slope, 20 km RHAe

Energy Shields:
- Max dissipation peak
-- 4.2x10^15 Watts
- Heat Sink Capacity
-- 2.1x10^17 Joules

Powerplant:
- Micro Annhilation Plant

Performance:
- Road speed, 30 km/h; off road speed, 15 km/h
- max incline, 15 degrees
- full NBC protection
- can be completely submerged for 45 minutes

Drives:
Primary
- 32 heavy duty electric motors
-- 2 independent treads

Secondary
- Anti-gravity drive

Sensors:
- Full spectrum analyzer
- Advanced targeting computer

Crew:
- 9
-- Commander, Main Gunner,Loader,Left side Gunner, Right Side Gunner, Pilot, Co-Pilot, Navigator, Reactor Tech

Being withdrawn from service due to lack of operational requirement.




Light Tanks
M-672 Hoplite

Dimensions:
Length - 5 m
Width - 2.5 m
Height - 2.5 m
Mass - 4.3 tons dry
Mass - 5.7 tons fully loaded and fueled
Ground Pressure in Standard Gravity - 12.16 kPa (1.77 PSI)

Armaments:
- L/9 30 mm Mass Driver
-- max muzzle velocity, 629 km/s
-- ammunition
--- standard kinetic round 0.445 kg
-- 70 assorted round magazine, auto-loader

- 7.62 mm anti-infantry mass drivers
-- max muzzle velocity, 6 km/s
-- shell mass, .01 kg
-- max kinetic energy of shell, 1.8x10^5 J
-- 1500 round magazine


Armor:
- UBT Superalloy
-- Turret Front: 30 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 9 km RHAe
-- Turrent Side 20 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 6 km RHAe
-- Turret Rear: 20 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 6 km RHAe
-- Turret Top: 20 mm perforated @ 0° slope, 3 km RHAe
-- Glacis: 30 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 9 km RHAe
-- Hull sides: 20 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 6 km RHAe
-- Hull rear: 20 mm perforated @ 60° slope, 6 km RHAe
-- Hull bottom: 20 mm perforated @ 0° slope, 3 km RHAe
-- Hull top:20 mm perforated @ 0° slope, 3 km RHAe

Energy Shields:
- Max dissipation peak
-- N/A heat sink discharged by specialized vehicle
- Heat Sink Capacity
-- 5 kilotons

Powerplant:
- Micro Annhilation Plant
- Peak combat output, 4.97x10^13 Watts
-- Sustainable for 251 hours on internal fuel
- Peak cruise output, 8.8x10^6 Watts

Performance:
- Road speed, 200 km/h; off road speed, 90 km/h
- max incline, 60 degrees
- full NBC protection
- can be completely submerged for 5 minutes

Drives:
Primary
- 6 heavy duty electric motors
-- 2 independent treads

Secondary
- Anti-gravity drive

Sensors:
- Full spectrum analyzer
- Advanced targeting computer

Crew:
- 2
-- Commander/gunner, driver



Infantry Fighting Vehicles and Armoured Personel Carriers
Coming Eventually

Military Hardware

Missiles

The Confederacy fields many different kinds of missile weapons. The two primary missiles are KE impactors and Annhilation warheads.

KE impactor missiles are accelerated to 1x10^-5% beneath c by the launcher. This gives them an effective yield greater than their mass-energy. The explosion is however omni-directional.

Annhilation warheads annhilate an amount of matter then focus the explosion forward in a 2 degree cone. While less powerfull then KE impactors this focused blast causes far more damage.

Military Hardware

Munitions

Military Hardware

Small Arms

Impact pressure assumes armor piercing round, 1 cm stopping distance with an area of 1 mm^2.

Machine Guns

Model: R-730 Light-Machine Gun

Weight: 7 kg empty, 37 kg loaded

Caliber: 7.62 mm

Barrel Length: 55 cm

Overall Length: 105 cm

Action: Frictionless Mass Driver

Mode of Fire: Fully automatic

Rate of Fire: 800 Rounds per minute

Range: 1000 m

Magazine: 2916 round belt

Power Cell: 400 megajoules

Round Energy: Level 1 - 6 kilojoules
Round Energy: Level 2 - 24 kilojoules
Round Energy: Level 3 - 60 kilojoules

Pistols

Rifles

Model: R-710 Battle Rifle

Front (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/Xessmithia/battle_rifle_front.jpg)
Back (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/Xessmithia/battle_rifle_back.jpg)

Weight: 3 kg empty, 8.4 kg loaded standard, 19.2 kg loaded extended

Caliber: 7.62mm

Barrel Length: 50 cm

Overall Length: 85 cm

Action: Frictionless Mass Driver

Mode of Fire: Semi-automatic, three round burst, fully automatic

Range: 3000 m

Magazine: 108(standard), 324 extended

Power Cell: 200 megajoules

Round Energy: Level 1 - 6 kilojoules, impact pressure 1.2 TPa
Round Energy: Level 2 - 24 kilojoules, impact pressure 4.8 TPa
Round Energy: Level 3 - 60 kilojoules, impact pressure 12 TPa
Round Energy: Level 4 - 240 kilojoules, impact pressure 47.99 TPa
Round Energy: Level 5 - 50 megajoules, impact pressure 10,000 TPa (Note: Round will Round Energy:vapourize shortly after impact resulting in an explosion not penetration)

Sub-Machine Guns

Model: R-720 Sub-Machine Gun

Front (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/Xessmithia/smg_front.jpg)
Back (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/Xessmithia/smg_back.jpg)

Weight: 1 kg empty, 3.4 kg loaded

Caliber: 5.56 mm

Barrel Length: 30 cm

Overall Length: 50 cm

Action: Frictionless Mass Driver

Mode of Fire: semi-automatic, fully automatic

Range: 400 m

Magazine: 240

Power Cell: 50 megajoules

Round Energy: 24 kilojoules

Military Hardware

Starfighters

Military Hardware

Star Frigates to Star Cruisers

Star Frigates


Magnificent-class

Image (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/Xessmithia/Starships/MagnificentStarFF.jpg)

Dimensions:
Length -912 m
Beam - 332 m
Height - 276 m
Volume - 21.8 million m^3
Mass - Dry, 2.16x10^9 kg
- With Fuel, 7.7x10^10 kg

Armaments:

-16 Medium Primary Canons(dual turrets)
– 500 gigaton max yield
– Rate of Fire, 300 RPM

- 240 Light/PD Primary Canons(quad turrets)
– 30 megaton max yield
– Rate of Fire, 6000 RPM

Armor: Mk. 3 QISCA

Energy Shields:
- Max dissipation peak: 2.0x10^23 Watts
- Heat sink capacity: 10^25 Joules

Powerplant:
- Ripstar Annihilation Plant
-- Max reactor peak: 7.0x10^23 Watts
--- Sustainable for 38.58 hours
---- Effective fuel mass 1.08x10^10 kg (non-complex mass)
---- Actual fuel mass 1.08x10^12 kg (complex mass)

Performance:
- Mass Ratio 5
-- deltaV, 4.8x10^8 m/S
- 3000 G max linear acceleration
- 100 degrees/second^2 max radial acceleration
- FTL velocity, 6000 LY/hr
- Range, 150,000 LY before refueling


Crew:
- Ship AI
- 16,976
- 6364 marines

Miscellaneous:
- 1.09 million m^3 cargo capacity

Production Cost:
- 1.06 billion credits

Star Destroyers

Grizzly-class

Image (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/Xessmithia/Starships/GrizzlySD.jpg)

Dimensions:
Length - 1922 m
Beam - 592 m
Height - 543 m
Volume - 161.7 million m^3
Mass - Dry, 1.1x10^11 kg
- With Fuel, 4.0x10^12 kg
Armaments:

-16 Heavy Primary Canons(dual turrets)
– 500 teraton max yield
– Rate of Fire, 120 RPM

- 32 Medium Primary Canons (quad turrets)
– 200 gigaton max yield
– Rate of Fire, 300 RPM

- 300 Light Primary Canons (quad turrets)
– 50 megaton max yield
– Rate of Fire, 3000 RPM


Armor: Mk. IV QISCA

Energy Shields:
- Max dissipation peak: 2x10^24 Watts
- Heat sink capacity: 10^26 Joules

Powerplant:
- Annihilation Plant
-- Max reactor peak: 3.6x10^25 Watts
--- Sustainable for 38.88 hours
---- Effective fuel mass 5.6x10^11 kg (non-complex mass)
---- Actual fuel mass 5.6x10^13 kg (complex mass)

Performance:
- Mass Ratio 5
-- deltaV 4.8x10^8 m/s
- 3000 Gs max linear acceleration
- 100 degrees/s^2 max radial acceleration
- FTL velocity, 6000 LY/hr
- Range, 150,000 LY before refueling


Crew:
- 64,000
- 24,000 marines

Miscellaneous:
- 8.085 million m^3 cargo capacity

Production Cost:
- 4 billion credits

Star Cruisers

Dawn Runner-class

Image (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/Xessmithia/Starships/StarCruiser1.jpg)

Dimensions:
Length - 2348 m
Beam - 802 m
Height - 687 m
Volume - 338.6 million m^3
Mass - Dry, 5.6x10^11 kg
- With Fuel, 2.0x10^13 kg

Armaments:
- 40 Heavy Primary Canons (dual turrets)
– 500 teratons max yield
– Rate of Fire, 120 RPM

- 69 Medium PCs (quad turrets)
– 500 gigatons max yield
– Rate of Fire, 300 RPM

- 646 Light/PDF PC (quad turrets)
– 50 megatons max yield
– Rate of Fire, 6000 RPM

Armor: Mk, V QISCA

Energy Shields:
- Max dissipation peak: 2x10^25 Watts
- Heat sink capacity: 1x10^27 Joules

Powerplant:
- Annihilation Plant
-- Max reactor peak: 1.8x10^26 Watts
--- Sustainable for 38.11 hours
---- Effective fuel mass 2.8x10^12 kg (non-complex mass)
---- Actual fuel mass 2.8x10^14 kg (complex mass)

Performance:
- Mass ratio 5
-- deltaV 4.8x10^8 m/s
- 3000 Gs max linear acceleration
- 60 degrees/s^2 max radial acceleration
- FTL velocity, 6000 LY/hr
- Range, 300,000 LY before refueling


Crew:
- Ship AI
- 202,384 crew
- 75,892 marines

Miscellaneous:
- 16.93 million m^3 cargo capacity

Production Cost:
- 12.65 billion credits

Military Hardware

Star Battlecruisers to Star Dreadnaughts

Star Battlecruisers

Ravager-class

Dimensions:
Length - 2558 m
Beam - 879 m
Height - 732 m
Volume - 430.8 million m^3
Mass - Dry, 1.85x10^12 kg
- With Fuel, 6.7x10^13 kg

Armaments:

- 12 super-heavy guns(double turrets)
– 5 petaton max yield
– Rate of Fire, 120 RPM

- 24 heavy guns (double turrets)
-- 100 teraton max yield
-- Rate of Fire, 240 RPM

- 766 light/PD guns (quad turrets)
-- 500 megaton max yield
-- Rate of Fire, 6000 RPM

Armor: Mk. V QISCA

Energy Shields:
- Max dissipation peak: 2x10^25 Watts
- Heat sink capacity: 4x10^26 Joules

Powerplant:
- Ripstar Annihilation Plant
-- Max reactor peak: 6x10^26 Watts
--- Sustainable for 38.54 hours
---- Effective fuel mass 9.25x10^12 kg (non-complex mass)
---- Actual fuel mass 9.25x10^14 kg (complex mass)

Performance:
- 3000 Gs max linear acceleration
- 75 degrees/second^2 max angular acceleration
- FTL velocity, 6000 LY/hr
- Range, 150,000 LY before refueling


Crew:
- 261,532 crew
- 98,076 marines

Miscellaneous:
- 21.54 million m^3 cargo capacity

Production Cost: 16.35 billion credits

Star Battleships

Dauntless-class

Image (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/Xessmithia/Starships/DauntlessStarBB.jpg)

Dimensions:
Length - 3509 m
Beam - 1276 m
Height - 1064 m
Volume - 1247.2 million m^3
Mass - Dry, 1.23x10^13 kg
- With Fuel, 4.44x10^14 kg

Armaments:

- 32 Super-heavy guns(dual turrets)
– 5 petaton max yield
– Rate of Fire, 120 RPM

- 153 Heavy guns (dual turrets)
-- 100 teraton max yield
-- Rate of Fire, 240 RPM

- 1442 Light/PD guns (quad turrets)
-- 30 megatons max yield
-- Rate of Fire, 6000 RPM


Armor: Mk V QISCA

Energy Shields:
- Max dissipation peak: 2x10^27 Watts
- Heat sink capacity: 1x10^29 Joules

Powerplant:
- Ripstar Annihilation Plant
-- Max reactor peak: 4.0x10^27 Watts
--- Sustainable for 38.56 hours
---- Effective fuel mass 6.17x10^13 kg (non-complex mass)
---- Actual fuel mass 6.17x10^15 kg (complex mass)

Performance:
- 3000 Gs max linear acceleration
- 30 degrees/second max radial velocity
- FTL velocity, 6000 LY/hr
- Range, 75,000 LY before refueling

Crew:
- 674,260 crew
- 252,984 marines

Miscellaneous:
- 62.36 million m^3 cargo capacity

Production Cost:
- 42.16 billion credits

Star Dreadnaughts

Nightingale-class

Image One (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/Xessmithia/Starships/Stardread2.jpg)

Image Two (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v422/Xessmithia/Starships/Stardread3.jpg)

Dimensions:
Length - 11,094 meters
Beam - 3329 meters
Height - 2959 meters
Volume - 28,609.8 million m^3
Mass - Dry, 6.16x10^15 kg
- With Fuel, 2.22x10^17 kg

Armaments:
- 68 Ultra-heavy Primary Canons (dual turrets)
-- 18 exaton max yield
– Rate of Fire, 15 RPM

- 1538 Super-heavy Primary Canons (quad turrets)
-- 100 petaton max yield
– Rate of Fire, 120 RPM

- 3076 Heavy Primary Canons (quad turrets)
-- 200 teraton max yield
– Rate of Fire, 240 RPM

- 1000 Medium Primary Canons (dual turrets)
-- 800 gigaton max yield
– Rate of Fire, 960 RPM

- 14,422 Light/PDF Primary Canons (quad turrets)
-- 500 megatons max yield
– Rate of Fire, 3840 RPM

- 5000 Tractor beams

Armor: Mk. VI QISCA

Energy Shields:
- Max dissipation peak: 1 x10^30 Watts
- Heat sink capacity: 5x 10^31 Joules

Powerplant:
- Ripstar Annihilation Plant
-- Max reactor peak: 4 x10^30 Watts
--- Sustainable for 19.25 hours
---- Effective fuel mass 3.08x10^16 kg (non-complex mass)
---- Actual fuel mass 3.08x10^18 kg (complex mass)

Performance:
- 6000 Gs max linear acceleration
- 30 degrees/s^2 max radial acceleration
- FTL velocity, 6000 LY/hr
- Range, 150,000 LY before refueling


Crew:
Ship AI
- 21,333,332 crew
- 7,999,996 marines

Miscellaneous:
- 1430.49 million m^3 cargo capacity

Production Cost:
- 1333 billion credits

Updated.

Update: Added Resistance to the "Supernatural" inder Science: Biology.

There were some minor updates.

Just added a brief history. Boo yaa!

EDIT: THat history means that the population I use for ships and crap is my NS population. So no whining!

OOC:

Nice designs! Don't see anything wrong with them.

I updated the tank entry. Revised the mass of the tanks to reflect the density of the sci-fi armor I'm using. I also realized my super-heavy tank was retarded, so no longer using that thing.

Added a light tank.

In case anyone is wondering the armor I'm using for my tanks has a resistance compared to RHA steel ratio of 100,000:1. Which means basically that 1 cm of the armor is equal to 1 km of steel plate. The Legionnaire has 100mm 60 degree sloped armor on the turret and glacis and 50mm non-slope elsewhere. The Titan has 300 mm of armor turret and glacis sloped and 150 elsewhere. The Hoplite has sloped 20mm on the turret and glacis and 20mm non-sloped elsewhere.

The armor on all the tanks is perforated like the Leopard 2 to resist the equivalent of HEAT warheads. This also helps against the 1% c kinetic rounds I shoot as the rounds instantly turn into plasma on contact and empty space will help diffuse it so it will be less penetrative.

I've altered the size of the Grizzly-class Star Destroyer to match the scale I have for length with respect to reactor output. I also need to change the scale of the Magnificent-class frigate.

My tanks have been altered again as well. Mass has been altered to reflect the change of 100mm thick front armor to 300mm thick armor on the Legionnaire. I also changed the round velocity to reflect the energy required to punch through armor. I'm using 11 kJ/mm I have no idea how that compares to actual armor but it's what I'm using. You'll note that the M-663 can't penetrate the front armor of another M-663, that's intentional to require that a side or rear armor hit is required. I've also altered the Titan's gun stats.

Added a section in history briefly describing the civil war that had been mentioned in passing earlier. I intend to start up a RP detailing the war in a much more thorough fashion in the future.

Updated my ship entries with new crew size, cargo capacity and overall ship volume. The volume is found by taking the volume of an ellipsoid twice the length of my ships but the same width and height and dividing that volume by 4 and rounding down to the nearest single decimal place. Cargo capacity is 5% overall ship volume. The new crew figures are 4 times the size of my old ones as I retconned that as the on-duty crew in a single 6-hour duty shift, of which there are 4 daily. Each crew-member gets 5 cubic meters of personal living space in the form of a shared 10 cubic meter room with a roommate.

Confederate Navy Designation System

General

While modern space warfare bares little resemblance to planetary ocean based or "wet" warfare, ships are still classified in wet navy positions that have since become representative of general combat power rather than any specific role. Each step up the chain represents roughly an order of magnitude increase in reactor output and thus combat power.

In the Confederacy there are two officially recognized scales of naval ships, the standard scale and the "Star" scale. Star scale ships are six orders of magnitude (one million times) more powerful than the equivalent standard scale ship and are strictly in use by the military though there is overlap with the standard scale's upper end. Ship designations of the star scale have the prefix S to denote the Star scale status of the vessel. There is a hypothetical third scale, the galactic, which would be six orders of magnitude above the star scale. No such vessel has ever been constructed or will likely to be for the foreseeable future.


Standard Scale
FF - Frigate; 10^18 Watts
DD - Destroyer; 10^19 Watts
CR - Cruiser; 10^20 Watts
BC - Battle Cruiser; 10^21 Watts
BB - Battleship; 10^22 Watts
DN - Dreadnought; 10^23 Watts
TT - Titan; 10^24 to 10^26 Watts


Star Scale
SFF - Star Frigate; 10^24 Watts
SDD - Star Destroyer; 10^25 Watts
SCR - Star Cruiser; 10^26 Watts
SBC - Star Battle Cruiser; 10^27 Watts
SBB - Star Battleship; 10^28 Watts
SDN - Star Dreadnought; 10^29+ Watts

Note: There is no star scale Titan designation due to military tradition that the most powerful ship in service be a Star Dreadnought.