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Vanguard
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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