• Registered: 2005-03-29
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Topic: Grand Hegemony of the Ashkriel

"This is the Valaxon Gorgon-class light cruiser Darak'Ha to any ships that can hear us. Please help! Our hyperdrive spat us out here, and there are bogeys attacking us. They're boarding us! Hel--"

Last transmission from Valaxon light cruiser Darak'Ha

The Ashkriel, for ages, had experimented with FTL travel. But their minds, while excellent at creating weapons and how to advance every other aspect of their technology, couldn't work out the finer aspects of hyperspace.

Until they had a working model...

The Grand Hegemony rushed out, attacking everyone. They attack warships without a second thought, and anything that has weapons is attacked. Ships without weapons, however, aren't attacked. Possibly it is because that they feel that the universe is out to get them.

In the last few years, the Ashkriel have stopped attacking everyone. However, that isn't always a good thing...

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Re: Grand Hegemony of the Ashkriel

This is the file where you can access the Ashkriel light ships.

Class Notes:

The Sprite is the smallest hyperspace-capable unit of the fleet. It is lightly armed compared to most ships, but it uses a large electronic warfare suite, comparable to few other vessels.

The Banshee is designed to deal out some heavy punishment for its size. Its speed and its electronic defences, such as the vaunted stealth generator, are its primary defence.

The Siren is the lightest carrier unit in the fleet. However, it is little more than a hull with fighter bays, lacking comprehensive firepower. It is usually teamed up with light units to provide a fast attack team.

The Vampyre is the standard fleet destroyer. Its the smallest ship to carry the feared battle lance, a weapon capable of carving larger ships in pieces...if its lucky.

The Scylla is a fairly powerful light cruiser. Shields replace point defence on these vessels, giving it excellent protection, and the armament is fairly good for an Ashkriel line unit.

The Charbydis is a battlecarrier, designed to stand and fight as well as deliver fighters. It doesn't carry more fighters than the Siren, but its weaponry is good enough to knock any fighters that come too close out of the sky.

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Re: Grand Hegemony of the Ashkriel

This is the file where you can access the Ashkriel capital ships

Class Notes:

The Gogmagog is designed to attack enemy installations quickly and powerfully. It carries a couple of fighter squadrons to aid in that task.

The Fenris Wolf is designed to stand in the line of battle and fight it out. For this purpose she carries two battle lances and supplementary bolters to help her. She is also used to keep small Ashkriel colonies calm.

The Kraken is a battleship, despite its nomenclature. It has four battle lances plus a couple of bolters for extra armament. If any fighter squadron attacks her, she is also equipped to deal quickly with the problem...

The Midgard Serpent is slightly larger, and carries less weapons, because she is a battlecarrier. Unlike the Charbydis, however, she carries a formidable armament of battle lances, and her anti-fighter defence is comparable to the Kraken.

The Yggdrasil is the smallest vessel to carry the heaviest battle lance, and multiple heavy bolters as well. Typically of an Ashkriel battleship, she carries a formidable armament of anti-fighter weaponry.

The Mjollnir is literally a hammer. Mjollnir commanders pick a vector, and a target, and if you're in the way, bad luck. All Mjollnirs are painted black, which adds to their psychological value

EDIT: I noticed that the Mjollnir and the Yggdrasil both were more expensive, because I accidentally kept 20 fighter bays on-board. The ships are now the real price.

  • Registered: 2005-03-29
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Re: Grand Hegemony of the Ashkriel

This is the file where you can access the Ashkriel Bases

There are no class notes as of yet, but a later post might contain some.

EDIT: Same problem as before.