[b]Hegemony Central Command Secure Facility, Earth, 3 kilometers below Washington, DC.[/b] [i]"Why that's just the goddamn most rag-tag assembly of ships i have ever seen in my career..."[/i] [i]"It's the best we can muster out to that deep in the Orion arm, sir."[/i] [i]"I suppose so. How many have arrived?"[/i] [i]"HSVs Europa, The Vulture's Claw, and Resource."[/i] [i]"Hm, good enough. Dispatch our auxiliary group to the system now, best they get there and establish who's who and keep that band of...miscreants from killing each other."[/i] The man who just spoke turns and stares out over the blue orb below, a tactical representation of Earth's orbital space. He shakes his head. [i]"They ask me to send a task force to find out why a full battle-group dissipated...and this is what i get?"[/i] [i]"Madness."[/i] [b]Hegemony Space Dock Weaver, Earth Orbit.[/b] The so-called Auxillary group consisted of three [i]Burke-Leigh[/i] class Frigates, two [i]Benjamin-Franklin[/i] class Space Control Destroyers, one [i]Dauntless[/i] class Cruiser, and one of the fleet's aging vessel; long over due for retrofit and overhaul...a singular, decrepit Battleship, long phased out of use: The HSV Hood. Matter of fact, you could describe every ship in the ancillary group as decrepit and outdated. They had all been pulled out of mothball. The Burke-Leigh class was over eighty years old. The three frigates, HSVs Indomitable, Daring, and Supernova were roughly seventy years old. The Benjamin-Franklin class was over a hundred years old; the two belonging to it were roughly as old as the class itself, those were HSVs Samantha Jansen and Alabama. The Dauntless class was even older...one hundred and twenty two years. The sole ship in it's class left operable was the one in the ancillary group: HSV Jackhammer. All had countless mechanical, electrical, and hull issues. Most of the HSV Indomitable's armor had to be replaced due to cracks in it from banging into countless wrecks while in mothball, the HSV Supernova had nearly lived up to it's name when they tried to start the reactor, the Samantha Jansen's engines exploded, and shorted out half the systems in the aft of the ship, the Alabama's railguns had to be totally replaced, and the Jackhammer's frame required reinforcing to hold up under acceleration. In short, the entire group was a clusterfuck. Worse, though, was the Hood. The hood ran on Deuterium and Tritium. Most Hegemony standard ships used hydrogen. It had taken months to get a full fuel load, and worse yet, most of the superconductors had to be replaced, along with half the power conduits in the ship. It doesn't stop there. The ship's sewage system had failed, leaving thousands of gallons of waste sitting in the tanks for who knows how long, and corroding them, the missile tubes were totally non-functional, along with most of the railguns. The computer cores had to be replaced, and the ship's AI had long since deleted itself after going insane when the ship was slated for mothball. Worse, yet, was the captain assigned to the ancillary group's command. Commodore Theodore Samson. A drunkard. Most of fleet passed him over out of respect - he had fought in the last civil war that had broken out in the Inner Hegemony. He lost everything, evidently. Wife, children, family. He crawled into a bottle and never came out. He was placed in charge of a mothball carrier - long since recycled since being assigned to the Hood. [hider=Burke-Leigh Class] L-W-H 150m 45m 60m [url=http://orig14.deviantart.net/799c/f/2007/303/5/f/gun_frigate_by_orpheus7.jpg]Reference Image[/url] [b]PRIMARY ARMAMENT[/b] x20 Browning M76 350mm railguns, single-mount, 120 RPM. x40 Argus HM445 High-explosive 350mm missile pods, 1 missile every 3 seconds. [b]SECONDARY ARMAMENT[/b] x4 JPL 10GW Ion Cannons, turret-mounted. x25 Oerlikon 30mm autocannons, 400RPM. [b]ARMOR/SHIELDING[/b] 10m Titanium-A Armor Plating around all sections. Magnetic Meteor shielding. [b]COUNTERMEASURES[/b] 30 rapid flare launchers, non-reloadable. [b]ENGINES[/b] 4 Pratt and Whitney CR3 Neuro Fusion engines [b]REACTORS[/b] 2 Pratt and Whitney TR5 Fusion Reactors providing 400GW of power total. [b]CREW[/b] Accommodations for 300 crew, 10 officers. 40 marines. [b]COMPUTER SYSTEMS[/b] 2 computer cores, isolated and EMP hardened. [b]FIGHTER AND BOMBER COMPLEMENT[/b] NA [/hider] [hider=Benjamin-Franklin Class] L-H-W 156m 35m 60m [url=http://img03.deviantart.net/6751/i/2013/296/6/6/destroyer_anatomy_by_garretaj-d6rm25n.jpg]Reference Image[/url] [b]PRIMARY ARMAMENT[/b] x46 250mm M55 Maxim Railguns, single-mount, 240RPM. x20 120mm M4 Browning Railguns, single-mount 120RPM. [b]SECONDARY ARMAMENT[/b] x25 Argus High-explosive missile pods, 1 missile every 40 seconds. 2 5GW Ion Cannons. [b]ARMOR/SHIELDING[/b] 12m Titanium-B Armor. Magnetic Meteorite Shielding. [b]COUNTERMEASURES[/b] 20 rapid fire reloadable flare launchers. 10 chaff rocket launchers, reloadable. [b]ENGINES[/b] 3 Vought BR34 Ion drives [b]REACTORS[/b] 3 Pratt and Whitney TR2 Fusion Reactor providing 250GW of power. [b]CREW[/b] Accomodations for 500 crew, 20 officers. 50 marines. [b]COMPUTER SYSTEMS[/b] 3 computer cores, 1 AI core. EMP hardened and isolated. [b]FIGHTER AND BOMBER COMPLEMENT[/b] 12 'Raptor' Fighters and launch tubes; no repair facilities. Raptor fighter is armed with dual 30mm autocannons and 6 high-explosive interceptor missiles. [/hider] [hider=Dauntless Class] L-W-H 346m 60m 78m [url=http://pre13.deviantart.net/2764/th/pre/i/2013/035/3/6/eradicator_battleship_by_quesocito-d5ttio9.jpg]Reference Image[/url] [b]PRIMARY ARMAMENT[/b] x80 Smith and Weston 150mm dual-mount railguns firing 120 RPM. x40 Browning M6C 120mm railguns, single-mount, firing 160 RPM. [b]SECONDARY ARMAMENT[/b] x40 Oerlikion 40mm autocannons firing 250 RPM. [b]ARMOR/SHIELDING[/b] 16m of Titanium-A Armor. Light Magneto-plasma shield, moderately durable. [b]COUNTERMEASURES[/b] 30 counter-radar emitters. 20 chaff launchers. 15 flare launchers. Chaff and Flare launchers are re-loadable. [b]ENGINES[/b] 2 Pratt and Whitney Super Zeus fusion engines. [b]REACTORS[/b] BMW VB3 Fusion Reactor x3 providing 600GW of power. [b]CREW[/b] Accommodations for 1200 crew, 50 officers, 100 marines. [b]COMPUTER SYSTEMS[/b] 4 Computer cores, 1 AI core, EMP hardened and isolated. [b]FIGHTER AND BOMBER COMPLEMENT[/b] NA [/hider] [hider=Hood-Class] L-W-H 2556m 250m 450m [url=http://orig12.deviantart.net/34ab/f/2012/357/f/2/efsf__battleship_v2_0_by_ivkol-d5ovt5u.jpg]Reference Image[/url] [b]PRIMARY ARMAMENT[/b] x140 Barett 250mm single mount railguns firing 80 RPM. [b]SECONDARY ARMAMENT[/b] x10 Martian Armories Mass Driver, firing 4 RPM. x150 Argus High Explosive missile pods firing 1 missile per 50 seconds. [b]ARMOR/SHIELDING[/b] 25m of Titanium-A armor. 2m of Ablative Armor. 1m of Reactive Armor. Supermagneotoplasma shielding, extremely durable. [b]COUNTERMEASURES[/b] 50 chaff launchers 60 flare launchers 50 counter-radar emitters. [b]ENGINES[/b] 8 Pratt and Whitney Super-Thor Mk2 engines. [b]REACTORS[/b] 8 BMW VBN-S Mk3 Supertokamak reactors providing 1200GW of power. [b]CREW[/b] Accomodations for 5000 crew, 120 officers, and 400 marines. [b]COMPUTER SYSTEMS[/b] 8 Computer cores, 2 AI cores, isolated and EMP hardened. [b]FIGHTER AND BOMBER COMPLEMENT[/b] NA [/hider]