• Registered: 2011-09-30
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Topic: The Solarian War

In this thread, I intend to post the ships I'm developing, as they come to fruition, from my Solarian War campaign

  • Registered: 2011-09-30
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Re: The Solarian War

Type: ANGELUS-class TERRAN UNION DESTROYER ESCORT (115)                
HULL: 5 4 3 2 1                 
ENGINES [TL1] 6 5 4 3 2                                         
FACETED: [TL-1] 9 8 6 4 2                                         
FACETS: (2,2,2,1,1,1)                
WEAPONS: [TL-1] 1:[VW] 2:[VW] 3:[V] 4:[V] 5:[V] 6:[W]                
Battery V: Grendel Mk XIII 7.6cm Laser Array, 3/6/9, 2/4+/1/1, Anti-Fighter                
[ACE] [ACE] [BDE] [BDE]

Battery W: Tannhauser C-25 Charged Particle Beam, 4/8/12, 1/5+/2/2, Slow-Firing; Piercing +1
[AB] [AB]                 

Special: [TL1] Marines (2); Carrier (16); Armor Plating                
Fighters: [TL0]                
1xBoarding Pod, 6/10/0, (Boarding Pod/5+)

Designed to travel in support of larger ships, the Angelus class is also pressed into service as a convoy escort, and as a patrol vessel for the spaces between the stationary fortresses along the outer band of the Terran orbital path. Many have been used in anti-piracy roles, where even their defensive weaponry is formidable, and customs inspection, where their contingent of Marines double as inspectors.

Her weapons are all at least a generation old, and while the laser arrays used in Terran design haven't changed significantly in the last decade or so, her forward C-beams are starting to show their age, with newer vessels mounting lighter, more accurate and faster firing weapons.

Notable ships include TSS Guardian, present at the start of the hostilities in the Solarian War when covert Martian ships sprung their sneak attacks. Severely wounded, she went on to distinguish herself alongside Venusian ships by shepherding unarmed merchants into Venusian space, and with her involvement on the attacks that liberated Earth and Luna from the Martian invaders.

  • Registered: 2011-09-30
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Re: The Solarian War

Type: WOLF-class REPUBLIC OF MARS ASSAULT FRIGATE (COVERT) (228)                
HULL: 5 4 3 2 1                 
ENGINES [TL0] 7 6 5 3 2                                         
SHIELDS: [TL2] 2 2 2 1 1                                         
WEAPONS: [TL1] 1:[VW] 2:[V] 3:[V] 4:[W] 5:[W] 6:[W]                

Battery V: M11 Raven Fusion Projection Cannon, 4/8/12, 1/4+/2/2, Anti-Fighter                
        M11 Overloaded, 4/8/-, 1/5+/3/3, Carronade                
[AB] [AB]                 

Battery W: M88 Righteous Gatling Laser, 2/4/6, 3/5+/1/1,                 
[ABCDEF] [ABCDEF] [ABCDEF]                 

Special: [TL1] Marines (2); Carrier (91); Cloaking Device; Cargo (5)                
Fighters: [TL0]                
1xBoarding Pod, 6/10/0, (Boarding Pod/5+)                
5xSeeker, 6/10/0, (Seeker/5+)

A breakthrough in defensive masking technology allowed the Republic of Mars to protect significantly larger vessels than had been practical in the past. They made use of this technology with several squadrons of Wolf class Assault Frigates. Armed with older, light-weight gatling lasers in a dorsal triple turret for close in defense, they mounted a pair of state-of-the-art fusion projectors in the bow, giving the ships immense firepower for their size. Coupled with six torpedo tubes and a magazine of thirty conventional anti-ship torpedoes, Wolf-class ships were central to the first phases of the Solarian war.

Cloaked, they snuck across the border and attacked the stationary fortresses that the Terran Union had emplaced, and then lingered to pick off any naval vessels that were dispatched to check up on the disturbance. They were responsible for hundreds of thousands of tons of merchant hulls being vaporized in the first few days of the war. The sheer difference in firepower between similar sizes of vessels stunned the Terran Union, and had they not been able to call upon the help of the Kingdom of Venus, the Starward Pact would likely have lost the war in early days.

One such ship, the Hood, has been decommissioned and serves now on the surface of Mars as a museum and monument to the war - to some a reminder of the costs of their aggression, and to others a reminder of their initial successes.