Here's the ship I'll be using. Fleet details are below, but they won't be partaking in this particular exercise. Name: CSS Sword of Vengeance Class: Hellfire (Vengeance variant) (formerly classified as an evolved second-generation Sentinel) Type: Heavy command battlecruiser (capital ship, type IV) Affiliation: Tigris Draconis Confederation Ship Master: Fleet Admiral David "Stardust" Turcotte Role: Grid dominance, Fleet-level combat coordination Crew: 120 Nahydran pilots, 400 Dorrian gunners, 650 Xargon engineers, 550 Terran command/miscellaneous staff, 50 Natturan, 1000 support staff and crew Skill level: Elite Offensive Armament 2 clustered pulse graviton hellbores, forward artillery configuration 2 high energy plasma torpedo launchers 5 quantum energy pulse cannons (dorsal and ventral, fore and aft, port and starboard) 4 meson beam cannons 5 dark matter lasers 2 type-2 dual-barrel dark matter laser/meson beam arrays 2 ion cannons 8 maximum-compatability torpedo launchers, spread across outer hull GTM-3307 "Streak" MRAM system(4x launchers), delivering Trident anti-ship missiles GTM-5D missile tubes (x2), delivering Nike ship-to-ship phase missiles Defensive equipment Level 30 defense grid, covering all approach angles with overlapping fields of fire 4 "Rapier" long range tachyon pulse interception systems Ancient-derived cloaking field 2 BCG "Trinity" decoy launchers High Guard stealth suite, providing advanced ECM/ECCM abilities Imperial Munitions ITM-5494G8 "Trinity Mk 2" ECM warfare pod Advanced tractor beam Combat AI, improving ECM/ECCM abilities Advanced type 5 multiphase elemental primary shield generator Xargon "Protector" force field secondary shield generator Armor, outer: QuadRHOD matrix armor, interwoven with molecular diamond strands and with energy-absorbing stealth film Hull, inner: Prototype flexon-duranium composite battleplate, interwoven with struts and braces ("Halcyon" system), making the ship almost unkillable Modules Scanning/sensors: Terran Model 12 Union Aerospace "Seeker" Long Range LIDAR array Dorrian telescoping optical/infrared scanners, modified Union Aerospace Subspace ITT-909 Mass Searcher TDC-Infinity model Z fire control computers Propulsion, N-space: 2 Union Aerospace "Powerthrust" TPU-5000 gravitic ion engines 2 Novaldex "Star Roamer" advanced ion engines FTL: 1x Startech Industrial C-BC 3A "Hopper" warp drive 1x Solarian Arms Corporation Hyperspace shunt system Power, primary: TDC Experimental Terran "Halcyon" ion neutron reactors Power, secondary: Xargon regenerative hydrogen fuel cells, powered by Xargon fusion reactor Thermal regenerative power junctions Standard multiphase subspace communications array for fleet coordination Miscellaneous: Tachyon enhancement array Battle pods Cargo Fighter wings: 11 Bomber wings: 5 Gunships: 5 Terran Indictor-class gunships, 4 Nahydran Dragon-class space superiority gunships 5 Mobile Combat Armors Mines: none Satellites: 4 Punisher-class RBCs 5 Hydra class defense satellites Ballistics: Full complement of standard HE cyclops torpedoes, MIRV warheads and antimatter & graviton torpedoes for area destruction and complete hostile eradication. Hellfire-class battlecruiser. Mankind’s sharpest sword. Primary force concentration asset of the second stage of Project: PREDATOR and the Combat Analysis Survey. The mission of the Hellfire-class is to enter a tactical situation and resolve it successfully. No matter the threat, Hellfire-class warships are designed to deploy intelligence, tactical superiority, task force & fleet command, strategic integration and small craft support to any theater to degrade and overcome any foe. From a tactical perspective, the Hellfire-class depends on nothing. Loosely based on a Nahydran design, and integrating several advanced technologies from three different races, the Hellfire-class battlecruisers represent a new dawn in Allied warship construction. Advanced shielding and hybrid armoring ensure the ships can take the blows designed to shatter conventional capital ships, but their experimental propulsion and power generation systems enable them to perform evasive maneuvers long-deemed impossible for this type of starship without breaking it in half. They are designed both for extensive combat operations as well as short, high-intensity ship to ship engagements. Communications systems built to the Confederation Star Navy’s SERPENT DANCE initiative provide common operational capability even in the face of most jamming, as well as non-permissive environments such as nebulae, and are designed to integrate with other Navy assets, multiplying the effectiveness of a unit’s force awareness. SERPENT DANCE can also designate a group leader or coordinate a flat, decentralized operations system across a given theater or battlespace, intelligently distributing tasks and updates across all units in a task force or battle group. The primary design tradeoffs lie in poor logistical capability – for all their combat prowess, Hellfire-class battlecruisers don’t have much space for consumable stores and repair supplies; to offset this, High Command rarely deploys these assets far from resupply or for long term independent operations without a support convoy nearby. Endless conflict gave birth to the Hellfire-class. They are a departure from the Terran philosophy of giant centerpiece combatants capable of withstanding as much fire as possible, the Xargon fleet’s doctrine with multiple mission-specific assets grouped together for organizational theater operations, as well as the Nahydran tactical operations plan of multiple escalating tiers of combat-capable craft centered around heavy battle carriers. Rather, they incorporate capabilities from all three races. These ships thrive in the very heart of combat, and are all but undefeatable in combined-arms sorties. It is no surprise that such hard-hitting vessels only draw from the best and most capable to crew them. BATTLECRUISER SQUADRON HELLFIRE ------------------------------- FLAGSHIP CSS Sword of Vengeance Hellfire-class battlecruiser HEAVY SUPPORT UES Lucifer’s Hammer Typhoon-class monitor CARRIER SUPPORT SCS Olympus Mons Olympus-class assault carrier LINESHIPS UES Thunderchild Hellfire-class battlecruiser CSS Warspite Hellfire-class battlecruiser UES Reprisal Harbinger-class battlecruiser SCS Odyssey Harbinger-class battlecruiser