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Capitol Tartarus Class Bombardment Cruiser Mk.3

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Grand Empire of Capitol Tartarus Mk.3 Bombardment Cruiser:

 

Overview: The old Tartarus bombardment cannons even with the upgrades of the Mk.2 fleet proved ponderous and somewhat ineffective. Their basic mass driver gun, small ammo capacity and reliance on near direct hits forced the weapons to be slowly phased out of combat operations. Questions were asked if such a weapon was still needed in Capitols Mk.3 fleet, and while the descision was decided that they were needed, drastic redesigns were required to make the vessel worth its cost. The new Tartarus design while based somewhat off the Madon is a completely new ship, still built around a giant gun the new weapon is far superior, able to fire its projectiles at 0.89c  and a variety of ammo makes it useful against all targets. The vessel is also capable of supporting fleets, with hangars for attack craft, better defensive armament and also excellent long range sensors the Tartarus can either hang back and support or provide front line hitting capabilities with equal success, something the old model could simply not do. 

 

Armament: The Tartarus Mk.3 is built around substantial linear accelerator capable of long or short range fire with multiple projectiles. Backed up by 10 heavy railguns and numerous light railguns and point defense the Tartarus can engage at all ranges to effect.

Spinal Linear Accelerator: This new weapon can fire rounds at 0.89c which are also capable of course correction mid flight. The gun carries around 16 shots, divided up between three shell types. One is a kinetic impact round, designed to destroy heavy enemy vessels such as dreadnoughts or space stations with only a few blows. The second is a weapon helped derived from EPA technology, a bomb pumped laser shell which can either engage up to 10,000 incoming small targets at once to cover a fleet from fighter or missile swarms or can focus on up to 10 larger targets to do substantial damage. The final round is a 4GT thermonuclear warhead, designed primarily for destroying planetary installations or breaking up fleet formations.

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

Defences: The Tartarus Mk.3 mounts around 6ft 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 Tartarus Mk.3 as well is protected by 3 medium 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 Tartarus Mk.3 runs on four 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 Tartarus Mk.3 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 Tartarus Mk.3 has an upgraded computing capacity for this system to assist nearby ships in either Electronic warfare or general computing power.

 

Crew: The Tartarus Mk.3 has a crew of 2800 men. All of which are human. Around 100 are commissars. With an additional 240 pilots aboard as well.

 

Attack craft: The Tartarus Mk.3 mounts 2 smaller hangar bays either side of the ship, each containing 80 Sabre Mk.2B Interceptors, and 20 Phalanx Mk.2B bombers. As well as the repair and refit capability to keep them up to scratch plus several spare craft in case of losses.

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

Speed and Engines: The Tartarus Mk.3 is equipped with a Gravitic drive and can reach speeds of up to 0.7 Light speed in a reasonable amount of time. It is also equipped with a Capitol Trans-Warp FTL drive.

Tartarus Mk.3 and Capitol belong to me :iconemperormyric:

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Skibud98's avatar
I love all these new Capitol Ships! Great Job, Myric! :D