Vanguard | |
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Class: | Glorious Heritage Class |
Length: | 1301m |
Beam: | 976m |
Draft: | 325m |
Decks/Sections: | 50 Inhabitable Decks 13 Uninhabitable Decks |
Inertial Mass: | 96,408,876kg |
Cargo Handling Systems: | Manual Control Artificial Intelligence control Autopilot |
Current Status: | Destroyed |
Manufacturer: | Systems Commonwealth Newport News Orbital Shipyards (Located above Earth) |
Systems Modifier: | Unknown |
Construction Yard: | Newport News Orbital Shipyards, Earth |
Auxiliary Craft: | 36 Slipfighters 12 drones |
Armor Complement: | 4,000 General Utility Android Units 2 Planetfall Defense Bot Multi-purpose Shipboard Robots Self-guided Recording Unit |
Crew Manifest | |
Crew Complement: | 4500 living crew |
Skeleton Crew: | 6 living Hundreds of androids |
Passenger Capacity: | 2300 with full living crew |
Drive Systems | |
Power Systems: | Antiproton Fusion Generator |
Sub-Light Engines: | Navigational Thrusters |
Main FTL Engines: | Gravity Field Generator powered Slipstream Core |
Max Sub-Light Speed: | 30-50 PSL |
Offensive Systems | |
Particle Beam Weapons: | Antiproton Cannon, Point Defense Laser |
Primary Heavy Weapons systems: | Nova bomb |
Defensive Systems | |
Hull Composition: | Reactive Armour Polymer Sheath |
Countermeasures: | Combat Drone 6 Radiating Counter Measure generators |
Basic Defense Systems: | High Tension Armor Ablative Armor Reactive Armor |
Special Defense Systems: | Battle Blade |
Political & Chronological Information | |
Era(s): | Fall of the Commonwealth |
Faction: | Systems Commonwealth |
Navy: | High Guard |
Ships Role/Purpose: | Heavy Cruiser |
Overview[]
The Vanguard was a Glorious Heritage Class ship destroyed in the Battle of Witchhead. ("Angel Dark, Demon Bright")
Trivia[]
- A variant form of the French "avant garde", vanguard units of an army are the first into battle, and the counterpart of the rearguard. They often sustain the heaviest casualties.
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