Warships:
Designation: Gladius class Battlecruiser
Dimensions:
Length: 1,000 meters
Height: 265 meters
Width: 250 meters
Weapons:
1 x Mk.5 Medium Synchro Cannon
16 x Mk.5 Mini-Single Barrel Synchro Cannons (8 bow facing in two sets of 4 located in "X" shapes along the front of the ship while the other 8 are aft facing in two sets of 4 located in "X" shapes along the back end of the ship)
24 x Heavy Missile Launchers with ten individual silos per launcher for 240 silos. Each carries 8 missiles on a rotary rack for rapid deployment and can fire a missile every 5 seconds.
24 x Mk.13 "Excalibur" class Tri-Barrel Heavy Particle Beam Cannon Turrets
34 x Mk.13 "Galantine" class Dual-Barrel Particle Beam Cannon Turrets
36 x Pop-Up Interceptor Missile Launchers
260 x Dual-Barrel Point Defense Laser Arrays
Hull:
Avalon class Armor. This is a combination of Mk. X Chobham Armor with Reflective/Absorption Ablative Hyper-Carbon Tirolian Alloy infused into the metal. Reflects energy attacks into space while absorbing what little it cannot reflect and then melts and ablates to prevent a hull breach. Armor is approximately 55% tougher than the armor used on the Alpha class Veritech Fighter while being 250% lighter.
Powerplant:
Primary: 3 x Mk. 17 "Gaia" class Protoculture Enhanced Reflex Furnaces
Secondary: 8 x Mk. 17 "Tiamat" Protoculture Enhanced Reflex Furnaces
Tertiary: 9 x Micro-Fusion Reactors
Engines:
8 x Heavy Ionic Pulse Sublight Engines
16 x Medium Ionic Pulse Sublight Engines
Shields:
D - 5 Omni-Directional Barrier System
D - 5 Pin-Point Barrier system: 7 plates
Mecha:
20 x Aegis-class Multi-Purpose Vessels
360 x Veritech Fighters:
6 x Reaper class Fighters Wings, 24 Reaper Fighters per attack wing
5 x Ragnarok class Fighter/Bomber Wings, 24 Ragnarok Fighter/Bombers per attack wing
4 x Borealis class Attack Helicopter Wings, 24 Borealis Helicopters per attack wing
72 x Gurkha class Hover Tanks
120 x Destroids
1200 x Cyclones
Ships Crew:
3,000 crewmembers
Pilots:
1,000 Pilots
Army Personal:
4,000 personal
Special Technology:
--Auto-Pilot
-Omni-Directional Energy Grid: A revolutionary energy system based off of the bio-mechanical systems used by the Invid. Designed like a nervous system, the system can transfer massive amounts of energy with ease as the system can adapt to the amount of energy being pushed through the power lines, reducing the chance of an overload.
-Mental-Integration Control System: Based off of the telepathic controls of the Invid as well as control system of the Robotech Master's Bioroids, this system allows the user to interface with the system, drastically decreasing reaction time, due to the lag time between thought and reaction of the system is cut down. The system also increases the users ability to generate thought as well, further decreasing reaction time even more.
-Integrated Multi-Dimensional Shadow System: The unit has numerous small, SF-10 RRG SHADOW Mk.3 Shadow Dimensional Cloaking devices scattered throughout the unit, allowing for a much more consistent and energy efficient Shadow Dimensional field as the field contours to the shape of the vessel in question and not in a sphere shape. This systems drastically reduces the heat build up as well as the energy drain of the Shadow Dimension Field, allowing even Cyclones to take advantage of the Shadow Dimension technology.
-Inertial Dampeners: This technology drastically reduces the G's felt on the body during harsh turns and movement while both in space and in atmosphere, allowing the vessel to perform much more intense maneuvers without blacking out or dying. Can also be used on capital grade warships to reduce the G's felt on the crew while being struck by weapons or during intense maneuvers at high speed.
-Multi-Spectral Communication Jammers: A highly advanced communication jamming system that broadcasts a lot of jamming frequencies that prevents long range communication.
-Combat Computer: The Gladius class is equipped with an advanced AI combat computer that can store and analyze data during combat with hostile forces. Data collected by the combat computer can be displayed on the virtual environment cockpit of the mecha, which allows the system to display large amounts of data to the pilot and even highlight enemies and missile attacks with overlaid graphics. The combat computer tracks and identifies specific enemy targets, and has a database of over a few million images stored in memory. The computer can identify and track up to several thousand targets simultaneously.
-Heat and Radiation Shields: Special shielding prevents the penetration of life threatening head and radiation. A radiation detection and alarm system are linked with the shields and will sound an alarm if there is a rupture in the shields and what the levels of radiation are.
-Homing Signal: The escape pods of the Damocles class is equipped with a homing device that enables rescue teams to locate a disabled craft or ejected life pod. The range of the signal is 400 miles. Most REF ships and veritechs can locate and track a homing signal, and the onboard computers will automatically notify their pilots if such a signal is detected.
-Laser Targeting System: Range: 1,500,000 miles. An system that uses invisible laser to help target vessels, mecha or any other kind of objects.
-Optics (Infrared): Range: 1,500,000 miles. This optical system projects a beam of infrared light that is invisible to the normal eye, but detectable by the vessels sensors.
-Optics (Night Vision): Range: 1,500,000 miles. A passive light image intensifier that emits no light of its own, but relies on ambient light which is electronically amplified to produce a visible picture.
-Optics (Thermal Imager): Range: 1,500,000 miles. A passive optical heat sensor that detects infrared radiation projected by warm objects and converts that data into a false-color visible image. The system enables the pilot to see in the dark, in shadows, and through smoke.
-Radar AN/APG-95C: X-band pulse Doppler radar. Detection radar against target 1,750,000 km.
-Gravitic Disruption Sensors: An advanced Haydonite/Tirolian sensor module that allows the vessel to track other ships by the gravitic wake of vessels.
-Radio/Video Communication: Long range, directional communications system with satellite relay capabilities. Range: 3,000 light years or can be boosted indefinitely via satellite relay.
-Infra-Red Warning Receiver OLDELFT (IRWR): Providing all aspect protection from IR guided missiles
-Radar Warning Receiver AN/ALR-80 (RWR): Providing all aspect protection from RF guided missiles.
-SF-10 RRG SHADOW Mk.3: A four-dimensional distortion field generator which downshifts and dampens protoculture radiation so that it is emitting only weakly in these wavebands. Like the VAF-8, the Gladius class is designed to use the SF-10 Cloaking Device, the new standard cloaking device for the REF. A much improved version of the original SF-7 cloaking device, this version incorporates changes that makes the device smaller and more affordable to manufacture. The device still operates like older versions; rendering the mecha invisible to all electronic forms of detection, including radar, Invid Protoculture sensors, and microwaves. Only light-based detection systems, such as optical and laser tracking will detect the mecha.
The SF-10 is the first cloaking device to feature THREE modes of operation instead of only two: ON, in which the device operates normally; OFF, in which the device is shut off and the mecha is detectable by all forms of electronic detection; and SAFETY, in which the device emits a "4th dimensional blip," which is detectable by other REF mecha's collision warning systems. The SAFETY mode is used for close formations where mecha proximity could potentially cause disastrous collisions.
-Laser-Resistant Ceramic Coating: A Southern Cross invention, this coating type has been heavily upgraded by modern technologies, allow the coating to scramble laser tracking and can even reduce laser damage by half.
-RRG Mk.4 EM-Absorbing Skin Cover: A thin skin covering that strongly absorbs EM radiation from radio through ultra-violet wavelengths so that the unit emits only weakly in these bandwidths.
-Self-Destruct: To prevent capture of an advanced ship by the enemy, the crew can activate the Gladius class self-destruct system, which will cause the vessel to explode after a delay of up to 60 minutes with the time set by the vessel's captain alone. All internal systems are obliterated.
Design:
Maximillion class Heavy Cruiser with a square shaped barrel with a circular energy projector
Description: A heavily armed warship, the Gladius class is middle step between a Stalingrad class Heavy Cruiser/Carrier and a San Francisco class Battleship. Easily able to tear apart dozens of smaller ships while also being able to lock down entire sections of outer space by itself. The Gladius is an important part of any battle fleet.