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Slight creativity block on the captain, but here's to what has been compiled.

Ship Designation: GANS - Phoenix
Ship Registry: NS-4077
Ship Class: Heavy Specialty Battleship
Ship Size: 0.9 KM
Ship Crew: ~12000 Strong (All hands included)

(my apologies for the darkness)

Ship Weapons

Kinetic 6.4 Mainstay Railgun
Designed to cause maximum impact, the Railgun specializes in anti-capital ship combat, or indeed anything else it can hit. Although anything short of the best defenses possible would have a very tough time resisting the fact that the Railgun drives deep into a ship in the first place, the real damage comes from the following shockwave designed to have maximum impact and disturb as much as possible. Special weapon in that it is the newest available.

The primary flaws are the horrible reload time of 45 minutes (that's if people are moving fast) and 64 rounds on-ship, requiring external reloading.

This section of the ship is one of the most heavily armored, for good reason - an explosion in that compartment can do severe damage. Although a large part of its energy comes from the railgun itself, when you have a lot of stored nuke-like (could be the wrong term, but not in this context) weapons in a crowded area...

ExternalBit Proton Particle Beam Cannon

Aka, particle beams.

The ship has 46 of them, spread in loose star positions across the ship exterior.. They can rotate in all directions (except, obviously, into itself) and are used to attack specific sections the Railgun is a little too expensive to attack. It takes 5 minutes for each to recharge.

Orbital Bombardment Cannon Torpedo

An old, but still very effective form of torpedo, designed to fire at ground targets that don't dodge and with a clear shot. Torpedos can level structures with its pressure alone and incinerate the rest in a large flash of light, but is extremely slow weapon wise, meaning it can be intercepted with heavy weapons or dodged by any ship smaller than medium size. In space it tends to be less effective; the effects of the OBC are most visible when it can accellerate in an atmosphere with abundant gravity in it, something ships have refined to minimize for this reason. There are 12 platforms and 126 rounds available.

Long Range Missile Unit

Placed in 2024 spots on the ship, LRM units are designed for more close up fighting against smaller ships and weaker plated craft. An individual LRM can only do so much damage; not enough to bring something down by itself. That's why each unit is in packs of 12 and in each unit has 200 stored missiles that are "activated" upon firing. They have enough tracking, to chase down smaller ships. They do not have enough range to go too far out, and can almost be completely absorbed by bigger ships.

Ship technologies

Main Systems

Integrated Phoenix Network: A special closed-circuit communication system designed to be lightweight but very fast, in order to process orders across the entire ship and basically act as the control system. A simplified version of what a carrier would use. Integrated is an AI designed for security and calculations, as well as some of the more general stuff that messengers used to do.

Centralcore HyperWarp Experimental System: An experimental jump drive designed to fix the current loopholes in other drives of its nature. The special bit is that it makes the speed of it all just a tad faster by moving particles a little bit apart from each other, thus allowing it to travel through things that would be annoying to other drives. It is the most stable build in production and has successfully eliminated 99.99% of bugs. Don't be the 0.01% that has a flipped fingernail.

Surgical Systems: Space warfare is a nasty business. People get jostled, blown into walls, speared through by piercing, suffer that metioned 0.01%... therefore, the ship contains a medical lab to address these issues. It can fix most problems that arise short of making a dead man walk and can get people back to work fairly quickly. Without it, a ship would indeed be in a spot of trouble...

The main problem is the fact that there's only one. The ship already has an extremly large bill that's still being paid off, so medical equipment is yet another thing to add to that list.

Replicator Systems: 30% of the ship's bill right here. An extremely costly system usually used when the bio-domes for organic food have any sort of problem, and in other cases are used to replace parts after a battle. Sometimes used to regenerate ammunition and drawing directly off the Power System.

3-Layer Shielding: An one-way set of layers where things go out simply enough (weapons and the like) but are an extreme pain to get into.

The third layer mostly is a protective one against the crap that floats around in space, repelling it. It deals with any smallarms that are shot at it but can't repel anything bigger than that.

The second layer is a real defensive layer, designed to catch energy based shots and reduce their effectiveness. It also absorbs 20% of the pure energy that it consumes, sending it directly to the Power System.

The third layer, right before the armor, attempts to slant incoming rounds/beams and in particular slant them from important parts of the ship into "solid blocks" (parts of the ship where the armor is thicker and has nothing important in the grand scheme. That means the rec rooms...). Ineffective against weapons such as railguns, but could save a ship from a well-placed particle beam.

Power System: Works in two parts. The first is a set of 5 energy cores, each of which produce raw energy for various parts of the ship.

The second is the "recycling" system, where absorbed energy, usable mass (biomass, HHO generators from the vent system) and other such things are put into one of two "recycling" cores that turn them into less effective but still potent energy, which is then placed into the backup generators. 

The primary generators use the Main Cores to operate most of the things on the ship, while the backup generators use the Recycling Cores. I need not explain the purpose of a backup generator.

-Disclaimer: If it's logical to be on a battleship, it's there. So don't complain about my lack of a standard high-frequency 30km sensor system, detail of the organic system, or oxygen supply detailed.-

Ship Appearance: (Image or description) 

Notable missions: 

The ship has been mostly on patrol, but has participated in two combat scenarios.

The first was dealing with civil strife on behest of a neighbor planet, and saw little action by itself. However, the captain was caught in the crossfire and left the ship abandoned in the yard for a few years due to no other crew members having the proper credentials.

The second was dealing with a rogue captain, in a battle which badly damaged the Phoenix yet gained its respect by many other captains. It was after this that the Alliance made large investments in the ship's repair... and upgrades.

Other
The ship is a 100 year old design recently remodelled with almost the US debt's worth of new equipment.

Although it now works better than before and is considered a prized melee ship of the Alliance with a professional crew, it is haunted with some outdated systems. The ventalation system got no attention and sometimes malfunctions when it comes to temperature control, and can possibly block up in a particularly bad situation. The AI system is simply old. The only reason why it has survived so long is because of the fact that it has a good crew with a good past and some damn fine equipment. Civilians generally hate it as there's even a small tax across the Alliance specifically for the ship. None other, just the Phoenix. Alliance command likes to remind the ship captain of that. Damage to an expensive system is political suicide, billions (never mind inflation) were spent on making the power, ventalation and LRM unit systems work.

It's firepower and the fact that it is usually in front of the main fleet (despite some efforts to move it back because of the cost) makes it a bit of a sore thumb to the enemy. Although it's technically a battleship, it's a pretty damn big one in comparison to others. It does, however, make up for it with its railgun designed to disable enemy ships and many smaller systems to counter smaller craft.

Name: Rolgnar Cimmicks
Age: 62
Race: Human
Rank: Captain
Skills 
-Experienced captain, capable of managing a ship in a time of crisis, as he has operated the ship in one of its notable missions and knows many of the crew members.
-He has to be somewhat skillful if he has managed to keep the Alliance from throwing him out as an old fart, in favor of a new young commander fresh out of the Academy. Skillful in piloting and politics...
Away Mission Equipment: Assault suit, designed for the ship's security crew and a few custom fitted for people such as the Captain.
Appearance: <pending... need a stroke of creativity here>
Personality: Calm enough to look perfectly normal in front of superiors, but rather blunt and sometimes rude when it comes to crew. He loves sarcasm, hates it when one of the crew members play the stupidly old game "Pacman" on duty and can seem too hyper when in a situation. Dispite these things, he can get the job done; and he has done it before. He loves to complain about the Alliance command when nobody's watching.

Quick-Bio: Born on a central alliance world, Rolgnar was always interested in ships. He went through the educational system with high marks in aviation and potential. This allowed him to pick up a job as a guard on the ship GANS - Jupiter.

On the GANS - Jupiter, he served for a few years before dropping out over a dispute with his supervisor and took several years of officer training. Although chances were he would be stuck on a frigate and be done with it, there was a slot open on the GANS - Phoenix, a ship of somewhat old design yet still high respect in the Alliance.

On the Phoenix, he lead several patrol missions before being deployed to settle a civil dispute on Karvon, where a rouge captain had commadeered a battleship. Rolgnar was supposed to have a backup, but the ship in question had critical malfunctions in the power core that went undetected during its construction, leaving the Phoenix alone with a fairly veteran crew and a rather green captain.

During the battle, Rolgnar made a good call with positioning the railgun at a spot directly below a heavily armored section that other crew members had failed to detect. When the railgun was fired, the spot was rather obviously a power core, as not only the ship had a massive explosion out of its left side, but all power went offline and the ship crashed safely into a frozen tundra. Of course, things would have been much different if the ship had crashed into a population center...

Despite the railgun wiping out the enemy ship, the Phoenix was left with heavy damage from the crossfire before that. It was taken to a nearby shipyard and repaired. The Alliance command noted that the Phoenix was bigger than the average battleship and re-classed it, in the meantime spending huge resources on giving it upgrades, including making the railgun into a new design designed for taking down large ships. Rolgnar for his actions in the battle was allowed to keep command of the ship, and so here he is today.
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