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[Dead Empty]

Spoiler: Captain Ryker Oryol 

Age: 32
Species: Terran
Homeworld: Earth
Faction: Military Engineering
Rank Position: Commander of Havoc Fleet
Skills: Ship Command, Small Craft piloting, ranged and melee combat, machining/mechanics, astro-navigation, information comprehension/retention.

Background: Ryker was born into a military family. He is the oldest of three children, each of which became involved in the Terran Space Navy. Each family member had their own specialty, but Ryker was a completely different case. During advanced training, Ryker was knocked off a tall obstacle by a rival cadet, severely injuring him. Several attempts were made to save the delicate tissues and bone, but it proved useless. The only other option was a full replacement.

When Ryker finally awoke, six months later, he found that his arms and spine had been replaced with cybernetics, and an implant inside his brain rescued his cognitive and automatic functions. Advances in physical therapy kept his body active, while neurological monitoring kept his brain from atrophying.

As soon as he was able, Ryker rejoined the military, where he excelled well beyond his former capabilities. He made it through the academy with top honors, then quickly rose through the ranks until he was given command of his own dreadnought and fleet, placing him in a pantheon of young commanding officers.

Spoiler: Personnel Clothing and Armor 

Spoiler: Uniforms 

Spoiler: Mech pilot suits 

Standard issue pilot jumpsuits. Specially design to provide feedback to the pilots as battle rages on.

Spoiler: Marine suits 

Powered marine suits, classified as medium armor. Offering protection without sacrificing mobility, these marines can compete with the most proficient of infantry

Spoiler: Fleet 

Spoiler: Prometheus Dreadnought 

Class:
Dread Carrier Support

Role:
Deep space defense and support

Mention-able Characters on Ship:
Captain Ryker Oryol
Navigational Officer Ziva Alexander

Crew Limit:
7,500 fully staffed
200 Engineering personnel
100 Medical Staff
200 Heavy Marine Battle Armors
60 Hornet Assault Mechs
25 Wasp Heavy Bombers
40 Goliath Heavy Land Mechs
55 Spider Light Ground Mechs
50 Repair Drones
20 Emergency Life boats

Primary Weapons:
6 Double Barrel Plasma Super Turrets
8 Icarus Heavy Ballistic 40 Missile racks

Secondary Weapons:
20 Quad Barrel Auto Cannons
200 High Velocity point defense turrets

Defense Capabilities:
Deflector Dish
4 Missile Decoy Systems

Armor:
Graphene Micro-Mesh
Super dense Titanium Hull

Power Core:
Vortex Super Accelerated Wave Generator (V-Saw)

Engine:
Boeing Behemoth Ion Engine system
Space Fold transportation system

Details of Ship:
A literal battle station with an engine, Prometheus is a lumbering fortress that brings the hurt from the back lines. Prometheus' primary role is to support smaller ships through the use of its manned and unmanned single ships. She is also designed to make major repairs to other ships, either in its maintenance bays, direct docks, tow cables.

Prometheus depends on her fighter escort to defend itself and support the fleet. While it does have some firepower independent of its fighter escort, Prometheus is vulnerable to counter attack, being way to slow for any type of evasive maneuvering. She's deadly, but caught by herself and she's easy prey for an organized force.

Inside Prometheus' depths is a machining facility capable of forging replacement parts for the Terran fleet, in case it is every stuck somewhere without a way home.

Finally, as a last resort, Prometheus can be converted into a stationary space station. The Boeing engine becomes a power-plant, a process that is not reversible.

Spoiler: Stationed on Prometheus 

Spoiler: Hornet Assault Mechs 

Hornets represent the very best of the Terran Navy's fighter squadrons. They are fast, extremely agile, and heavily armed. Two plasma repeater rifles, two rapid fire ballistic shoulder mounts, four long range rocket packs, and an Apoc Heavy beam make up the Hornets offensive capabilities. Chaff dumbfire decoys help defend the hornets from missiles. If the Hornets cannot complete an objective, no one can.

Spoiler: Wasp Heavy Bombers 

Wasps are not nearly as fast as their Hornet cousins, but their payloads can certainly make up for the lack in versatility. Each Wasp carries 18 Micro-Hydrogen bombs. Roughly the size of an adult human, these micro bombs deliver substantial results in a compact body. Protecting the Wasps are 2 fixed-mounted auto cannons and 4 wing-mounted ion cannons. Protecting the rear is a rapid fire dual barrel plasma turret.

Spoiler: Intruder Dropships (5) 

Intruder Class Dropships have one job: Get the ground forces on the ground as quickly and safely as possible. They have no weapons, but each dropship bears 20 point defense turrets to intercept incoming missiles while entering atmosphere. Also protecting them is an extremely thick sheet of armor. After all, if it doesn't make it to the ground, it's failed is true purpose.

Spoiler: Lifeboats 

Exactly as they sound, Life boats are armored fast personnel transports, lightly armed.

Spoiler: Repair Drones 

Autonomous Aid Drones, or AADs, are unmanned crafts that repair outer hull damage while ships are away from port. They also function as salvage vessels when Prometheus happens upon derelict pieces or other useful bits of space debris.

Spoiler: Wolf Frigates (6) 

Role:
Tacklers and Destroyer Hunters

Crew Limit:
7

Primary Weapons:
1 Heavy Single Barrel Rail gun, fixed-mounted to the nose
2 Omni-Directional Autocannons

Secondary Weapons:
Warp Disruption
Inertial Reducers

Defense Capabilities:
none

Armor:
Tritanium Armor

Power Core:
Elite Hyperion Fusion

Details of Ship:
Designed to get in fast and lock down the larger capital ships, the Wolves can quickly turn the tide of battle when working together. Each ship is very maneuverable and quick, but no shields and thin armor makes them very vulnerable to counter attack by other frigates and fighters.

Spoiler: Viper Destroyers (6) 

Role: Long Range Support

Crew Limit:
25

Primary Weapons:
4 Medium Omni-Directional Rail Turrets
2 Long Range Missile 10 Racks

Secondary Weapons:
High Powered Targetting System

Defense Capabilities:
Deflector Dish

Armor:
Hybrid Adaptive Armor

Power Core:
Elite Hyperion Fusion Core

Details of Ship:
Viper Destroyers serve as long-ranged bombardment craft. Precise targeting systems are installed to prevent friendly fire incidents. While the Hybrid armor protects the destroyer from energy and ballistic weaponry, their armor is only marginally thicker than the frigates and are not as agile.

Spoiler: Hercules Battlecruisers (4) 

Crew Limit:
250

Primary Weapons:
5 Longbow Heavy 20 Missile racks
4 Heavy Omni-Directional Rail Turrets

Secondary Weapons:
50 Point Defense Turrets
4 Energy Vampires

Defense Capabilities:
Magnetic Field Generators

Armor:
Graphene-laced Tritanium Plating

Power Core:
Corsair Anti-Matter Core x2

Details of Ship:
The Hercules battlecruiser is one of the old warhorses that still maintains a relevant position within the Terran navy. Its design has been updated several times, but the original principals remain the same. Designed to withstand heavy damage as well as dish it out, the Hercules class battlecruisers are most at home in the front lines, mixing it up with frigates, destroyers, and other capital ships. Surprisingly nimble for its size, these mammoth ships take the fight to the enemy's doorstep, getting in their faces with a set of powerful rails and punishing missile saturation. Any enemy should think twice before engaging even one of these old war machines.

Spoiler: Atlas Battleship (2) 

Crew Limit:
500

Primary Weapons:
(15) Triple Barreled Zenith Beam Cannons
(12) Longbow 20 Missile Racks

Secondary Weapons:
(10) Medium Rail Turrets
(100) Ballistic Point Defense turrets
(30) Flak Cannons

Defense Capabilities:
Counter ECM
Chaff Missile Countermeasures
Improved Fire Suppression System

Armor:
Graphene-laced Layered Tritanium Plating

Power Core:
Quasar Class Heavy Power Plant
4 Elite Hyperion Power Cores (Emergency Power Generators)

Details of Ship:
The Atlas-Class battleship is one of the scariest ships in the Terran Navy. Heavy guns are capable of shredding layers of some of the strongest of armors. Flak and point defense turrets protect it from faster crafts and missiles. Long ranged missiles allow for bombardment, either for distraction or suppression, until the ship can get in range for the heavy turrets.

Each battleship is equipped with a variety of warheads that can be switched out depending on the situation. Warheads include: Thermite, Napalm, EMP, and delayed detonation threaded missiles (DDTs).

Capable of offensive, defensive, long range, and short range operations, the Atlas-class battleship is a force to be reckoned with.

Spoiler: Allegiance-Class Support Cruiser (2) 

Crew Limit:
225

Primary Weapons:
(4) SRM 10 Racks
(8) Plasma Beam Turrets

Secondary Weapons:
None

Defense Capabilities:
(20) Point Defense Ballistic Turrets
(10) Flak Cannons

Armor:
Titanium Blast Armor

Power Core:
Tesla Verox Super Core

Details of Ship:
An Allegiance-class support Cruiser gives its fleet the ability to make extremely long trips by providing additional repair facilities, medical facilities, and recharging exhausted batteries. Each ship carries a dedicated Ammo forge to replace spent rounds. More of a glorified hospital ship, the Allegiance cruisers pose no immediate on the battlefield, but do play a significant role in fleet operations. The limited weapons the cruiser does stand no chance against an enemy aggressor. But when have the Terrans ever neglected to put a gun on something.

Spoiler: Titan Heavy Ground Mech 

Armaments:
(3) Particle Projection Beam Cannons
(2) Heavy Beam Cannons
(4) Heavy Machine Guns

The Titan is the most massive mobile war machine in the Terran's ground assault and defense group. This modernmammoth lumbers slowly across the field, leaving nothing but fire and death for the vultures to pick from. Its immense size and armor makes the Titan slower than molasses on a cold winter day. Titans rely on other support mechs and gun placements to keep their backs protected.

Spoiler: Leopard Light Ground Mech 

Armaments:
(2) Medium Autocannons
(1) Particle Projection Cannon

The Leopard is a fast, skirmish mech that prefers to wait for the heavies to engage enemy forces before they move in from behind, where they can get in, do some damage, then retreat back before the enemy has had time to figure out what happened. They are ideal for scouting missions as well. While they are noticeably fast, it still takes a brave pilot to strap into one of these bad boys, as the weak armor and exposed actuators and joints make it a squishy target.

Spoiler: Current Fleet Status 

Dreadnought:

• Prometheus: Full Operational

Battleships:

• Hammer: Fully Operational
• Brutix: Fully Operational

Battle Cruisers:

• Osiris: Fully Operational
• Vigilant: Fully Operational
• Brahma: Fully Operational
• Vexor: Fully Operational

Destroyers:

• Logos: Fully Operational
• Gnosis: Fully Operational
• Equinox: Fully Operational
• Novelis: Fully Operational
• Pegasus: Fully Operational
• Horizon: Fully Operational

Frigates:

• Icarus: Fully Operational
• Ghost: Fully Operational
• Mortar: Fully Operational
• Shiva: Fully Operational
• Raptor: Fully Operational
• Hell Chaser: Fully Operational

Support Cruisers:

• Avatar: Fully Functional
• Excalibur: Fully Functional

[dakkagor]

The Prometheus is fine, except for the space fold system, (most of that is already done by the standard wormhole drives) the shields, and the various repulsor/tractor beams. Strip those out and she's good to go. I quite like the fact she can be converted into a station, actually, thats a pretty neat idea.

[dakkagor]

Well I have the three ships up and ready (aside from their pictures and the class of one of them). I have a question though, one of my ships is a hybrid between three other ship classes. Well that's the best way I can explain it. Is that allowed?

Also will i need to do up a full thing for my characters/ships faction since it wont be one of the main ones mentioned?

Hybrid classes are fine, but you should think about what the hybrid is sacrificing to try to achieve the role of two ships. Also, Cruiser is a very broad class. It can include light cruisers (patrol and scouting vessels) Armoured Cruisers (battleship/Dreadnought escorts), heavy cruisers (Smaller than a battlecruiser, but bigger than a standard Cruiser) and even dedicated AA platforms and assault ships.

I would also ask everyone to check that your ships follow the basic ideas laid out in the first post (so no shields, and no massive flight groups) so that no one is going to be overshadowed when the shells start flying.

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Well I have the three ships up and ready (aside from their pictures and the class of one of them). I have a question though, one of my ships is a hybrid between three other ship classes. Well that's the best way I can explain it. Is that allowed?

Also will i need to do up a full thing for my characters/ships faction since it wont be one of the main ones mentioned?

Hybrid classes are fine, but you should think about what the hybrid is sacrificing to try to achieve the role of two ships. Also, Cruiser is a very broad class. It can include light cruisers (patrol and scouting vessels) Armoured Cruisers (battleship/Dreadnought escorts), heavy cruisers (Smaller than a battlecruiser, but bigger than a standard Cruiser) and even dedicated AA platforms and assault ships.

I would also ask everyone to check that your ships follow the basic ideas laid out in the first post (so no shields, and no massive flight groups) so that no one is going to be overshadowed when the shells start flying.

[Fox Xalian]

Okay I have the written parts done so I suppose I can post them up now. If you want me to change/explain anything then ask me to. In fact I think I may need to explain a whole lot about the minor race/faction my character and ships are from (and maybe some of the tech they use)

Spoiler: Sheets 

Spoiler: Character 

Name: Taylor Redmont
Age: 138 (would be considered close to middle aged by her race’s standards, but her implants slowed down aging causing her and other important members of the Alliance military to be able to have double, and even triple in one case, their average lifespan)
Species: Volarian
Homeworld: Kharilia (original Alliance homeworld, now the capital world)
Faction: United Worlds Alliance (fighting against the Lyran Empire)
Rank Position: 1st Lieutenant, Special operations and Tactics, Seraph Division (founder of Special Operations and Tactics as a whole)
Skills: Tactics and logistics skills. Team weapons/assault expert, usually armed with an assault rifle. Some demolitions and medical expertise.
Background: Taylor Redmont, the only child of former General Xavier Redmont, she has been in command of Special Operations and Tactics (SOAT) since she formed it when she was 28, and has seen combat in various former nations on their homeworld. She distinguished herself during a coup where she led the largest SOAT offensive on, at the time, foreign soil, as well as capturing her own father when he was holed up with a small rebel group in their hometown where she gets her last name from, Redmont. After a planet killer asteroid was stopped by the moon of the nearby gas giant, Ecestria, and when an unknown alien craft crash landed on their homeworld, they began to engineer new technology, she was 48 when this was occurring. Ships were built; the Conclave (the Alliance’s government) was moved to an orbital station as wars raged on planet side as an arms race went full speed ahead, and special implants were made. Still in their alpha experiment phases Taylor, now pushing 100, and all of Seraph Squad Alpha, her personal squad, went under the knife, their life spans being increased, and some of their natural abilities (strength, agility, mental acuity etc.) as well, depending on their job. After various space-based defence and counter-piracy missions she was called into the Military Conclave, and shown the finished, and still experimental, Spirit of Redmont. Now she is in charge of the Alliance contingent for the operation to retrieve the Collector ship from the now openly aggressive Lyran Empire.

Spoiler: Ship one (Being reworked) 

Ship Appearance:

Spoiler: Ship 

Name of Ship: Spirit of Redmont
Class: Heavy cruiser
Role: Spec-ops Strike Ship
Mention-able Characters on Ship: Captain & Tactical Officer: Taylor Redmont
Comms Officer: Tali Nariah
Flight Officer: Hannah Brown
Crew Limit: 4,985
Primary Weapons:
Secondary Weapons:
Defense Capabilities:
Armor:
Power Core:
Details of Ship: Spirit of Redmont is a unique ship in the United World Alliance fleet. It is all but experimental, and only used by the Alliance’s elite special forces unit, the Seraphim, of which Lieutenant Taylor Redmont is the head of. It, unfortunately, lacks the stealth capabilities of other frigates and spec-ops ships in other fleets. It is usually with its sister ships, Spirit of Eracor and Spirit of Volarous, two hunter-killer battle ships

Spoiler: Ships 2 and 3 (Being reworked) 

Name of Ship: Spirit of Eracor
Class: Battle ship
Role: Close range hunter-killer
Mention-able Characters on Ship:
Crew Limit: 10,000
Primary Weapons:
Secondary Weapons:
Defense Capabilities:
Armor:
Power Core:
Details of Ship: The Spirit of Eracor is named after the capital city of the Atlanian Empire from before the settlement of their local cluster, back when the UWA was the Consolidate Nations Alliance and was vying for super-power status on their homeworld. This ship, along with her twin sister ship, the Spirit of Volarous, had been designed as a last line of defense for the mining facilities in the asteroid belts of the settled systems.

Name of Ship: Spirit of Volarous
Class: Battle ship
Role: Close range hunter-killer
Mention-able Characters on Ship:
Crew Limit: 10,000
Primary Weapons:
Secondary Weapons:
Defense Capabilities:
Armor:
Power Core:
Details of Ship: Named after the Volarian Republic capital during the same time as the namesake of the Spirit of Eracor. Exactly identical to her twin sister ship, has been working with the Spirit of Redmont for the last month alongside her twin ship.

[Damo028]

This has certainly peaked my interest, be nice to get into a setting like this and bring in my Midgarian species if new species additions are still viable? I am still working on a lot of thing for them but this looks like a good place to develp them further and even flesh out some characters for the species to.

[Dead Empty]

Alright... I think it's finally done. I do want to point out that, while it does carry a substantial amount of fighters, not all of them are usable at any given time. The first number represents the maximum number of Fighters and Bombers it can carry. The second number is how many fighters and bombers are ready for deployment at any given time.

[dakkagor]

Yep, that number is still too big by almost a factor of 10.

Can you bring the flight group down to 96 or so fighters/bombers, all classes. No problem with you having reserves, but thousands of fighters is just impractical and over powering. A super capital carrier is on par with the Nimitz of today, and I think the Nimitz class has carriage for about 100 fighters.

[dakkagor]

This has certainly peaked my interest, be nice to get into a setting like this and bring in my Midgarian species if new species additions are still viable? I am still working on a lot of thing for them but this looks like a good place to develp them further and even flesh out some characters for the species to.

Go for it, would love to see a new race. Just make sure to read the briefing and an earlier post in the thread where I lay out what I'm expecting.

[Dead Empty]

Understood. I apologize. I've had the worst cold of my life the last several days and i'm forgetting to make changes where they're needed. Please let me know if I need to change anything else.

[dakkagor]

The rest looks good, so no problem Glad to have the Prometheus in the fleet