Capitol High Emperor Class Dreadnought

Grand Empire of Capitol High Emperor Class Mk.3 Dreadnought:

Overview: The old Capitol Super dreadnoughts were supposed to be the epitome of Capitols space forces, anchoring the fleets and spearheading the line. However all three were lost during the opening engagements of the 2nd Ancerious and Empress Inara was forced to evaluate the effectiveness of these huge warships. Taking experience from other engagements and the fact that large 'super vessels' seemed to get focused down she turned away from such huge projects, funneling resources away from replacement super dreadnoughts into another, larger project. However she also knew that while the new Mk.3 Trident was powerful, it couldnt go toe to toe with enemy larger vessels. The High Emperor class was commissioned, the largest ship of the Mk.3 fleet and capable of immense firepower the ship has a scaled down Tachyon Obliterator from the old super dreadnoughts as well as devastating secondary firepower. The High Emperor is now rolling off production lines to fight on the frontline of the 2nd Ancerious war.

Armament: The High Emperor is armed to the teeth with an incredibly powerful array of armaments. Its primary armament consists of 81 Tachyon Arrows in 27 triple turret mounts. Backing these up are 8 torpedo tubes to fire up to 468 Tachyon Torpedoes while 39 dual Heavy railgun mounts provide a strong secondary shorter range attack plus numerous light railguns and point defense for close range combat. 296 Missile launchers run the flanks of the High Emperor capable of launching swarms of Thermonuclear Missiles and 140 heavy missile launcher tubes are also located on the flanks ready to launch much more devastating missiles at the foes. The High Emperor also has a spinal mounted Tachyon Obliterator.

Railguns: Taken from Union specifications while not as advanced as the Unions Mass Drivers Capitols new railgun technology is vastly superior to their old rocket propelled cannons. Now they can engage enemies at speed and while still not dealing massive amounts of damage per shot Capitol have managed to increase their ROF to around 450 shots per minute. This results in the rails being changed after every engagement but also a serious boost in firepower.

Missile Launchers: Made to fire Capitols primary anti-ship missile at extremely long ranges these weapons have limited supplies though most of the missile launchers in Capitols arsenal have been changed to fire thermo nuclear munitions. These new fusion warheads can produce yields from 500-900MT each easily able to damage enemy ships and scour worlds clean of all life.

Tachyon Arrow: Tachyon Arrow profile

Tachyon Torpedoes: Capitol Tachyon Torpedo

Tachyon Obliterator: Essentially a overcharged much larger TA, firing a huge corridor of Tachyons rather than a small precision kill amount, able to smash apart large vessels and instantly wipe out smaller ones its ROF is still very low despite the upgrades in power generation and miniaturization as well as efficiency increase. 

Defences: The High Emperpr mounts around 11ft of Azanium armour plating with composite layers of ballistic gels and heat resistant materials. This new type of armour was developed with the help of Triarch Industries and is now able to take much more damage from both kinetic and energy weapons than the previous armour. The Trident as well is protected by 9 medium and 2 heavy shield generators capable to taking many direct hits each before they need to recharge again. Capitols new shield technology allows them to partially absorb around 11% of an enemy energy weapon shot and use it to charge the ships Tachyon Arrows if it has any.

Tachyon Point Shields: A new development available only to the new Mk.3 fleet ships the Tachyon Shield is a point defence shield able to protect very specific parts of the ship when under attack or to intercept very specific enemy attacks with almost total impunity. Able to siphon off generated Tachyons from the ships TAs and route them through specialized shield banks all over the ship the vessel can produce for a few seconds a shield of pure Tachyons before they merely disappear, the shield coverage is only able to intercept specific shots and such siphoning from the TAs prevents their fire however the shield can withstand even a shot from a dreadnought level railgun with no damage to the ship, however the system is far from perfect and so the ships main shields provide the primary protection, the Tachyon shield being used only as a last ditch secondary. The more TAs a ship has the more the shield can be used and the larger the area covered.

Power plant: The High Emperor runs on 18 Cold Nuclear Fusion reactors for energy, this system was reverse engineered at a remote location using Union schematics however, they were produced before Inaras rise to power but due to the actions of Sabre team the project was massively set back when the base was destroyed. The reactors are superior to the Mk.2 vessels and have even more power output meaning more shots from the TAs and increased shield output and engine output all round, with less space taken up by the generators.

Electronic capabilities: The High Emperor is run by a advanced computer system which is on the very edge of computational capability bordering on AI. This system can aid targeting, calculate anything that is needed and also provide limited control over the ships actions. The system can also be slaved to the will of the captain to prevent mutiny or boarding however the ships actions under the computers control are severely limited. The Trident also mounts 2 interdiction units with selective interdiction capabilities.

Crew: The High Emperor has a crew of 36,000 men. All of which are human. Around 270 are commissars. With around 500 pilots.

Attack craft: The High Emperor mounts 2 large external hangar pods containing around 220 Sabre Mk.2B Interceptors each and 30 Phalanx Mk.2B Bombers each. Both contain full repair and rearm capabilities and spares for losses.

Sabre Mk.2B Capitol Interceptor
Phalanx Mk.2B Capitol Space Bomber

Speed and Engines: The High Emperor is equipped with a Gravitic drive and can reach speeds of up to 0.7 Light speed in very fast amount of time for a dreadnought. It is also equipped with a Capitol Trans-Warp FTL drive.

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