AN: To all my fan's this has been a long time Coming, I mean seriously, I have slipped and slipped hard, no excuses like I've had life troubles and all that bull, no I just decided to give myself a break from FanFiction, do some soul searching whilst trying to develop my next biggest FanFic: Lion BS-106, and I'll say this, I've been Inspired by content creators from all walks of life, novelists, youtuber's, video game producers and YOU my fans...
The comments and PM's just keep coming and I thank you, FARCRY of the Colonies was some good work but there were errors big ones, and rather remove something so well liked I will leave it as is and have LION BS-106 pick up the torch as a spiritual successor of sorts, now what does this Fic have in store for you?

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Battlestar Lion – BS-106 Information Sheet

Name: LION
Identifier: BS-106
Battlegroup: 72nd RESERVE

Manufacturer: McLees Shipyards – Sagittaron

Specifications

Length: 1,387.89m (4,553.44 feet)
Beam: 539.02m (1,768.44feet)
Draught: 181.27m (594.72 feet)

Weight: 41,375,000 metric tonnes
Cargo Capacity: 1,367,159.09 metric tonnes
Ship Duration: 4 years at maximum capacity

Hull: 3 metres of Titanium-A Hexagonal Battleplate
(Rated at 60 megatons)
(Potential at 100 megatons)

Superstructure: Honeycombed Titanium-A supplemented with cross bracing
eliminating the ships "spine" weakness

Weapon Systems

Armament: Primary: 40 Sagittaron Naval Armaments (SNA) Mark 22/1-A 20 inch (3 Gun*) Turrets
(150 barrels total – firing 4 rounds per barrel per minute)
Loaded with:
FLAK (Flechette loaded Rounds Anti-Missile/Fighter Area Suppression)
APAC (Armour Piercing Anti-Capital)
APACHE (Armour Piercing Anti-Capital High Explosive)
KATIE (Specialised 100 Kiloton Nuclear Tipped Rounds)

Armament: Secondary: 500 SNA Mark 166 4.5inch Anti-Fighter / Anti-Missile Turrets
(500 barrels total – firing 1500 rounds per minute)
Loaded with:
BALL (Standard 4.5 inch Anti-Missile/Fighter Rounds)
FLAK (Flechette loaded Rounds Anti-Missile/Fighter Area Suppression)

Armaments: Additional: (Optional) 16 Zenith VLS-20/D9 Launch Tubes
(Loaded with 16 canisters loaded with D9 Type Anti-Capital Ship Nuclear Missiles)

Armaments: Additional: (Optional) 4 Bow Spearfish Heavy Torpedo Tubes
(Loaded with 16 Spearfish D9 Anti-Capital Ship Nuclear Torpedo's)

Carrier Facilities/Air-Wing

2 Flight Pods (2 Decks – 1 Per Flight Pod)
Launch: 80 AC-3 Mark 9 Catapult Assisted Take Off (CATO) Launch Systems
(80 Tubes Total – 40 Per Flight Pod)
Recovery: 4 CLS-12-6B "MEATBALL" Optical Guidance Systems
(2 Per Flight Pod)
Storage: 80 D44/2B Overhead Magazine Racks
(40 Per Flight Pod – ONLY useable by Viper Mark IV's and Earlier this system was phased out for superior fighters)

Capacity

Small Craft: 180
Heavy Shuttles: 4

Fighter: Viper Mark II's: 80 (Wings: 1 and 2 – 4 Squadrons of 20)
Fighter: Viper Mark III's: 80 (Wings: 3 and 4 – 4 Squadrons of 20)
(Wings 3 and 4 utilise the D44/2B Overhead Magazine Racks in both flight pods this doubles carrier capacity)
Gunship: Raptor Multi Mission Support Craft: 20 (4 Squadrons of 5)

OR

Fighter: Viper Mark V's: 40 (Wing 1 – 2 Squadrons of 20)
Fighter: Viper Mark VI's: 40 (Wing 2 – 2 Squadrons of 20)
Gunship: Raptor Multi Mission Support Craft: 20 (4 Squadrons of 5)

Dedicated Transport: King Raven Transport: 4 (Shuttles 1 through 4)

Additional: (Optional) Gunship: Rhino Heavy Missile Support Craft: 20

Crew/Personal

Total: 5069
Naval Officers: 503
Naval Enlisted: 4,423
Marine Officers: 5
Marine Enlisted: 138

Vessels of the Class

LION BS-106
TEMERAIRE BS-107
DRAGON BS-177
VICTORY BS-178

History Behind the Lion Class Battlestar's

During the First Cylon War (FCW) Colonial think tanks realised the successes of the Columbia class Battlestar's, the Colonial Admiralty agreed with the think tanks and proposed that the Columbia class Battlestar designs be further improved upon there by creating the then un-named Columbia Sub-Class. The Admiralty published their proposal to all ship building firms, the ship building firm's designs were then submitted to the Admiralty and the think tanks for review the most reasonable yet ground breaking proposal would be accepted.
McLees Shipyards, based in Sagittaron's orbit were producers of the 12 Colonies' most successful line of support vessels the Boadicea class, proposed their Lion Class Design Externally nothing had changed sans the new 3 gun turret design instead of the traditional 2 gun turret design internally however it was revolutionary the Honeycombed superstructure removed the need for the ship to have a spine, this came at a price, quite literally, the turn out however meant that their backs couldn't be broken under any amount of firepower unlike the Columbia's two of which had suffered from this fate.
The proposition given by the Admiralty covered the cost for four Columbia's, the Lion's however were over exaggerated in survivability to the extreme meaning that for the price of four Columbia's they would only cover the cost for two Lion's with change to spare, months of deliberation later and the government gave the go ahead for the Admiralty to produce two Lion's, by the time McLees began production of the two Lion's, the Columbia class Battlestar's had doubled from 12 to 24 and numerous other Battlestar classes were also being produced from the Athena Heavy Battlestar to the Hoplite Light Battlestar meaning that the two Lion's would be given the identifying markers of BS-106 and BS-107.

The Battlestar's LION and TEMERAIRE fought throughout the last 9 years of the war Proving their superior designs by constantly smashing through Cylon Battlegroups taking only moderate damage to the Battleplate which at its worst took one week to replace, prompting the government to grant the Admiralty enough funds to produce a second pair of Lion class Battlestar's by the time of their completion Battlestar's DRAGON BS-177 and Victory BS-178 only saw action in the last two years of the FCW with the end of the FCW the Armistice treaties between Human's and Cylon's were signed aboard the LION BS-106 at the Cylon's request.
According to sources when asked why they wanted the signing of the Armistice on the LION, the triple oh fives simply stated: "As beings created by man we respect all machines even vessels…. The LION has both pride and honour we see it in her movements and design, she is proud to serve and is honoured in doing so…. A vessel such as the LION deserves a long life do not see her wasted…."

As of right now in June 26th 2708 of the Colonial calendar (40 years post FCW) The LION and her sister ships are stationed at various Reserve Anchorages throughout Colonial Space and are expected to still be in service for another forty years they are four of five ships still serving the Colonial Navy in some active Capacity from the First Cylon War, the fifth being the Battlestar Galactica which still serves the 75th Battlegroup until her Decommissioning in five months' time.

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