New Technology III and Next Generation ships

April 17, 75218 N.B.E.*

It has been 1 3/4 years every sense the 1st G.R.F.-Cylon war began and the G.R.F.* Military Scientists and engineers have been working around the clock on the Next Generation of Warships for the G.R.F. to use in their war with the Cylons. The Next generation warships were The Andromeda Class Battlestar in Early-75,218, The Kara Thrace Class Destroyer in Early-75,218; The Aaron Kelly Class Cruiser in Early-75,218, The Aleksanteri class Carrier in Early-75,218, and the Anastasia Bulla Class Flattop ship in Early-75,218. They have invented the Next generation shield generator to for their Warships shields to take more Damage and More Powerful Plasma cannons for their warships. The Andromeda Class Battlestar class warship to defend the G.R.F. better; The Ships Role would be as a G.R.F. Battleship. The engineers and construction workers said that take would 1.65 years to have an Andromeda Class Battlestar ready for service and ready for action with normal shipyard production time; however in wartime a Shipyard can produce an Andromeda Class battlestar in nearly 4 months.

The Ship would have approximately 2,314 crew members to maintain the systems of the ship. The ship would be 1,147 meters in length, 434.0479 meters in width, and 126.187 meters in height. The armaments of the Andromeda Class battlestars would be 31 Primary Guns, 409 Dual Point-defense turrets, 10 missile tubes. The Defenses would be Traditional Heavy armor hull plating to protect the ship from missile impacts, electronic countermeasures and flak. The ship would have a 7th generation shield generator to generate powerful shields around a ship to protect it from Nuclear Missiles. The ship would carry 55 Viper Mk XIV's with 11 Viper Launch tubes to launch their Vipers, with a Full Raptor Compliment and atmospheric shuttles.

The Aleksanteri class supercarrier warship to defend the G.R.F. better; The Ships Role would be as a G.R.F. carrier to provide fighter support to give the G.R.F. fighters more of balance to combat a Cylon basestar overwhelming fighter support. The engineers and construction workers said that it would take 4.125 years to have a G.R.F. Aleksanteri class Carrier ready for service and ready for action with normal shipyard production time; however in wartime a Shipyard can produce an Aleksanteri class Carrier in nearly 9 months. The carrier would have approximately 6,325 crew members to maintain the systems of the ship. The ship would be 2,868.25 meters in length, 434.0479 meters in width, and 126.187 meters in height. The armaments of the Aleksanteri class Carrier would be 15 Primary Plasma Ship-to-ship cannon guns, 1,023 Dual Point-defense turrets and 10 missile tubes. The Defenses would be Traditional Moderate armored hull plating to adsorb Moderate damage to protect the ship from missile impacts, electronic countermeasures, flak and the latest shield generator. The ship would carry 385 of the latest Vipers with 77 Viper Launching tubes to launch their Vipers, with a Full Raptor Compliment and atmospheric shuttles.

The Kara Thrace Class Destroyer named in the honor of Colonel Kara Thrace; The Ships Role would be as a G.R.F. destroyer to defend the G.R.F. from a Cylon Attack or to attack a Cylon fleet. The engineers and construction workers said that take would 1.1 years to have a G.R.F. destroyer ready for service and ready for action with normal shipyard production time; however in wartime a Massive Shipyard can produce a Kara Thrace Class destroyer in 2.64 months. The Kara Thrace class would have approximately 1,543 crew members to maintain the systems of the ship. The ship would be 764.863 meters in length, 289.3649 meters in width, and 84.124 meters in height. The armaments of the Kara Thrace class would be 19 Primary Guns, 249 Dual Point-defense turrets, 44 missile tubes. The Defenses would be Traditional Light armor plating to protect and adsorb light damage to protect the ship from missile impacts, electronic countermeasures, flak and the latest shield generator. The ship would carry 15 of the latest Vipers with 3 Viper Launch tubes to launch their Vipers, with a Full Raptor Compliment and atmospheric shuttles.

The Aaron Kelly Class Cruiser named in the Honor of G.R.F. Vice Admiral Aaron Kelly; the Aaron Kelly class cruiser role would be as a combat Support ship to their destroyers, Battlestars and Flattops ships to help them defend their fleets better along with their other Military vessels from Cylon attacks or to attack a cylon fleet. The engineers and construction workers said that it would take 16 1/2 months to have an Aaron Kelly Class Cruiser ready for service and ready for action with normal shipyard production time; however in wartime a Shipyard can produce an Aaron Kelly Class Cruiser in nearly 2 months. The Aaron Kelly class Cruiser would have approximately 1,929 crew members to maintain the systems of the ship. The ship would be 956.0815 meters in length, 361.7064 meters in width, and 105.155 meters in height. The armaments of the Aaron Kelly class would be 24 Primary Guns, 329 Dual Point-defense turrets, 24 missile tubes. The ships Defenses would be Traditional Heavy armor hull plating to protect the ship from missile impacts, electronic countermeasures and flak and the latest shield generator. The ship would carry 40 of the latest Vipers with 8 Viper Launch tubes to launch their Vipers, with a Full Raptor Compliment and atmospheric shuttles.

The Anastasia Bulla Class Flattop ship was named in the Honor of G.R.F. Brigadier General Anastasia Bulla; the Anastasia Bulla Class Flattop ship main role would be as a mobile ship repair yard; Secondly Role would be combat support when engaged in battle with a Cylon Fleet. The engineers and construction workers said that take would 6.6 Months to have a Flattop Class ship ready for service and ready for action with normal shipyard production time; However in wartime a Shipyard can produce an Anastasia Bulla Class Flattop ship in 2.2 months. the Flattop class Ship is 450.7338 meters in length, 170.5224 meters in width and 49.574 meters in height. The Ship would have approximately 910 crew members to maintain the systems of the ship. The Flattop class ship can carry 90,751.7719 tons of ship Building and Repair Materials to help Repair Damage from an engage with Cylon Raiders, Basestars or from Damage caused by Accidents on Ships. The ships Defenses would be Traditional Moderate armored hull plating to protect and adsorb Moderate damage to protect the ship from missile impacts, electronic countermeasures and flak and the latest shield generator. the armaments of the Anastasia Bulla class 11 Plasma Cannon Primary Guns, with 165 Dual Point-defense turrets, 4 Missile tubes to launch anti-ship missiles, and 7 viper launching tubes to launch 35 Mark XIV vipers to defend themselves.

The G.R.F. scientists and engineers improved their Radar systems. Their newest radar system has the same weakness as its predecessors. The newest radar system can detect ship as far as 10.25 light years out but the radar could not determine if the ships were friendly or hostile. The Scientists countered this weakness by having some cylon raider scarps from Cylon raiders. The scarps provide samples of what a cylon ship was made of for radar to determine that if a few ships on Radar were Cylon basestars or Cylon raiders. The scientists put in the new radar system samples of what G.R.F. ships were build out of to determine that if a few colonial ships on radar came in as G.R.F. ships. the G.R.F. put the latest the Newest radar system aboard all Available G.R.F. ships as an early warning if Cylons were nearly by to jump to a safely or to keep an eye on the Cylon ships on radar.

Their New Plasma Cannon systems give the Plasma Cannons a 25% power boost and increase the Plasma Cannon's firing rate by 25% and increased its Destructive damage to a target by 25%. The G.R.F. military ordered all their military vessels to have the latest Plasma Cannons to have the latest advanced Plasma cannon systems to be installed on them to have them as the latest Primary Gun on all the New Battlestars and the other Classes of Warships.

The G.R.F. scientist and engineers design their latest Viper design to help the Survival rate of the G.R.F. viper pilots go up. The Viper was called the Mark XIV viper. The new viper was similar to the Mark XIII but with one change. the Mark XIV has a 7th generation miniature shield generator that could produce a shield around the viper, the shield generator can generator a shield powerful enough to take 10 blasts from a Cylon raider's weapons before failing making the viper valuable to cylon raider weapons fire. The G.R.F. military ordered all Mark XIV Vipers aboard all their military vessels and bases on their colonies.

The G.R.F. Military Scientists and Engineers have developed the 7th generation shield generator can generate shield powerful enough to it the pounding of 234 nuclear missiles. The G.R.F. ordered all their latest military vessels to be equip with the 7th generation shield Generators to protect their ships from enemy fire along with G.R.F. Traditional heavily armory hull to protect inner hull from missile impacts.

The G.R.F. scientists and engineers designed the 8th generation FLT dive system. The 8th generation FLT dives go can 700 light years in one jump and could travel from earth to their formerly furthest colony: Kaseem shipyard 77,760 light years away earth in just 8.8214 days. However the 8th generation FLT dive system had the same weakness as their predecessors, it needed a recharging a day, 2 hours and 15 minutes so the scientists and engineers design in each new G.R.F. vessel with 2 Fusion reactors instead of the Traditional one. The other fusion reactor was to power the 8th generation FLT dive system and the FLT system now had made a jump in 22 ½ minutes. A G.R.F. ship with a 7th Generation FLT Dive system could travel from earth to their furthest colony: Kaseem shipyard 71,840 light years away earth in just a day, 14 hours and a little over 29 minutes. The G.R.F. ordered all their ships to be equipped with the 8th Generation FLT dive system.

As the war continues the G.R.F. is begun to see that their Fleets are starting to rely more and more on their present battle cruiser class do with their production of their present Battlestar class ships are being stall while their Karseem shipyard destroyed and with the rebuilding of the new Massive Battlestar shipyards at Alekanteri to produce New Battlestars to battle the Cylon fleets. they decided to increase the production of their Present battle cruiser class by building another massive shipyard at Atlanta, however it would take a year to finish construction of the massive shipyard at Atlanta; As well with the Production of more Galactic ships the G.R.F government and Military high command was forced after some controversy and protects that they forcefully suppress to increase their Military Conscription laws to that of Limited Services(6.66% of the entire population.) to which would slower some of the speed in their production lines. Both the G.R.F. and Military said that they would reduce their conscriptions unless their population dramatically increase in size to give them a large pool of manpower to pull from or until this war with the Cylons in over with; The G.R.F. military high command decided to send all of the new recruits into the Space Navy and Air Force military branches to give them much needed manpower for them maintain their current amount of ships and fighters; As well for the new ships that are going to begin producing to fight the Cylons.

*N.B.E. stands for New Beginning Era.

*G.R.F. stands for the Galactic Republic Federation.