Empire-class battleship

This mighty interstellar warship has a balanced mix of speed, acceleration, defense, and firepower. It has less massive armor than alternative designs, but makes up for that with a powerful force screen. Its massive spinal mount and powerful batteries of beam cannon turrets give it devastating firepower, backed up by a spacious hangar bay that can carry a virtual fleet of small craft. It can also be pressed into service as an assault ship, with enough room aboard to carry a large contingent of ground troops and their vehicles. It uses a 500-meter long 1,000,000-ton (SM +14) unstreamlined hull.

This ship is the primary new battleship of the empire, signifying the new battle power.

They and a carrier normally form the core of the primary fleets, though with the troop capacity and hangar space they are fully capable subtantial independent operations.

Front Hull System

• [1-3] Hardened Diamondoid Armor.
• [4!] Spinal Battery (1 TJ antiparticle beam).*
• [5!] Secondary Battery (10 turrets with 30 GJ X-ray lasers).*
• [6] Tactical Array (comm/sensor 16).*
• [core] Control Room (C12 computer, comm/sensor 14, 40 control stations).*

Central Hull System

• [1] Hardened Diamondoid Armor.
• [2] Habitat (300 luxury cabins, 1,000 cabins and 1,000 bunkrooms with total life support, 2,750 tons cargo, 20 briefing rooms, five gym establishments, 10 fabricator minifacs, two labs, six offices, large ops center, 100-bed hospital sickbay).*
• [3!] Tertiary Battery (30 turret mounts with 10 GJ X-ray lasers).*
• [4] Hangar Bay (30,000 tons capacity).*
• [5-6!] Stardrive Engines (FTL-1.5 each).*
• [core!] Spinal Battery (central system).*

Rear Hull System

• [1] Hardened Diamondoid Armor.
• [2!] Heavy Force Screen (dDR 700 or 1,400).*
• [3!] Super Reactionless Engine (10G acceleration).*
• [4!] Spinal Battery (rear system).*
• [5-6] Super Fusion Reactors (four Power Points each).*

* 100 workspaces per system.

It has artificial gravity, gravitic compensators, and a stealth hull.

The battle ship’s typical crew consists of 40 bridge operators (including the captain, executive officer, pilot, engineering officer, navigator, sensor operator, communication officer, spinal weapon gunner, tactical officer, and all tertiary battery gunners), 10 secondary battery gunners, 1,700 technicians, 10 medics, and any small craft crew. Normally it carries at least a thousand ground troops and multiple crew shifts are often carried to provide redundancy. It also has enough room aboard to carry a force of several thousand extra troops.