[OOC] Project Sigma. [Space ship / captain Roleplay]

[AbysmalDemon]

Would guys think of the exo suit addition?

[AbysmalDemon]

I only did it for the Cap and sec in command, so my fleet isn't to OP

[Avanhelsing]

@AbysmalDemon
Where did you add this?

[AbysmalDemon]

My CS under the Captain and Myra

[Avanhelsing]

@AbysmalDemon
Ohh... Yah could you move back here? Blade wants them all here. I'm looking at it now.

[Avanhelsing]

@Mugin
Hmm. Make a sheet. I'll try to convince Blade to let you in. No promises though.

[Brodie]

Normandy

Ship Designation: GANS Normandy
Ship Registry: NX-2350
Ship Class: Frigate
Ship Size: 0.2 km
Ship Crew: 45 (smaller crew that includes the 3 medical officers, 20 man security team/boarding party, 5 engineers, 3 gunnery officers, 2 helmsman, 3 communications Specialist, 2 armory chiefs, 2 yeoman, one mess sergeant, and 4 shuttle pilots.
Ship Weapons:
• x1 Thanix Cannon (retractable battery of cannons mounted beneath the Normandy's main hull.)
• x40 Javelin Torpedoes (mounted on the joints between its engine mounts and primary hull.)
• Point-defense low-powered Lasers
Ship technologies:
• AI Eva- Eva functions as the electronic warfare defense for the Normandy and can be given command of the ship at the Captains order.
• Tantalus Drive Core: Generates mass concentrations that the Normandy "falls into", allowing it to move without the use of heat-emitting thrusters. It also generates the faster-than-light travel.
• Shielding- Cyclonic Barrier Technology (CBT), ship creates rapidly oscillating kinetic barriers instead of static ones.
• Local Radar System
• Experimental Systems: Stealth Systems, the Normandy is able to temporarily sink her heat within the hull. Combined with refrigeration of the exterior hull, the ship can travel undetected for hours, or drift passively for days of covert observation. Ship must be exhausted after a point in time or the crew could be cooked alive.
Ship Appearance: (Image or description)
Notable missions:
• First Mission: Operation “Sting”: Lead a successful strike run on pirate home base that was threatening Ouri.
Weaknesses:
• Thanix Cannon has a recharge time
• CBT barriers only activated if Kinetic barriers are bypassed
• Radar Systems range is 50Km
• Stealth Systems can only be active for 5 hours before entering danger zone

Hanger

Ship Designation: Shuttle 1
Ship Class: Shuttle
Ship Crew: 2
Ship Weapons: none
Other: Only does troop drops and pickups, can carry up to 15 people at a time. Prototype shuttle. Only has CBT, shields. No weapons to help with speed. Prototype Cloaking system, has a cool down.


Ship Designation: NB4
Ship Class: Drop Ship
Ship Crew: 2
Ship Weapons: x15 guided missiles
Other: Only does resource drop and pickups. Can drop heavy pay loads. Made to be stealthy and get past enemy lines. Has low powered Kinetic barriers. Stealth systems not as advanced as Normandy’s but still effective for mission times.


Mech Designation: M-44 Hammerhead
Mech Class: Light Mobile Tanks
Crew: 4 (one driver, one gun operator and two others on communications and radar.)
Mech Weapons: x1 155mm mass accelerator cannon
Other: An infantry fighting vehicle that hovers over the battlefield at up to 120 kilometers an hour. Capable of being air-dropped from a frigate and of propelling itself vertically to scale obstacles by means of hoverjets. It lacks onboard kinetic barriers. VI system that monitors the environment for dangers and alerts the crew.

Ra'Figr

Name: Ra'Figr
Age: 27
Race: Otisha
Rank: Captain
Skills: Good at space warfare, very good at hand to hand combat, also has experience leading tactical strike units. Has insect like qualities, such as ant strength, flexibility, and solid surface climbing.
Away Mission Equipment:
• 2 SIW7 “Black Widow” Pistols
• R7 Energy Sword

Clothed Appearances

The first is nude, the second is normal combat gear, the third is heavy combat gear, the fourth is snow/dust gear, and the last is his causal/captains wear.
Personality: Ra is a very quiet one. He is humble at heart and does not bother others. The few times he does speak, it is usually to give commands or make side comments. In combat he becomes an entirely different person, he is a shadow, giving commands at a lighting pace and always taking the first step into combat.

Quick-Bio: Ra’Figr was a top spy/assassin for the Otisha government. He led many tactical strike teams to recover, attack, and sabotage targets. His specialty is espionage and finesse. His code name was “Assassin Bug” due to his similarities in nature and attacks. He was given the Normandy, under temporary circumstances, but after successful missions they named him the indefinite captain.

[AbysmalDemon]

@Avanhelsing blade already accepted it, but should I move it back every time I update it? If so...

[AbysmalDemon]

GANS Riptide

Ship Designation: GANS Riptide
Ship Class: Battle Cruiser
Ship Size: 0.6 km
Ship Crew: 7,670
Ship Weapons:

- x40 Bolt Class Pulse Cannons
- x30 Antimatter Propelled Chain Guns
- x15 Anti-Ship Photon Rockets
- x2 Ion Cannons

Ship Technologies:

-Ion Shields: Ion shields absorb energy from blasts. When shields get to 25% it ionized the energy and sends it out as a controlled partial blast, therefore bringing the shields up to a max of 90%

-Triple Tank Hybrid Engine: This engine is a hybrid of Antimatter, and Synthetic Helium- 4 (SH4). The engine is known as ASH4. The main engine runs on Antimatter. But there is another tank that stores the SH4. For Jumps and quick getaways, some of the SH4 and Antimatter is transferred to a third tank. The Antimatter causes the SH4 to become kineticly charged, causing a FTL propulsion.

-AI- Atlantis: Atlantis is the AI for the Riptide. She runs the computer mainframe, and all electrical systems. Atlantis also attends board meetings, and is like an advisor to the captain.

-AI- Neptune: A backup in case Atlantis malfunctions or shuts down.

Ship Appearance:

Hangar roster

x15
Ship Designation: Mako
Ship Class: Light fighter
Ship Crew: 3 - one pilot - one co pilot- one gunner
Ship Weapons: laser cannons for ship combat
Other: made for escorting and attacking other fighter craft
Ship Appearance:

Captain Poseidon

Name: "Poseidon"
Age: 27
Race: Human
Rank: Captain
Skills: Excellent ground combat skills and leadership skills

Personality: Poseidon is a kind captain, always respecting the ideas and lives of the other Sigma members, even if not in his crew. He is a kick ass fighter, and a friend to the core.

Quick-Bio: Poseidon was commissioned, leader of a Speacial Ops assignment to rescue soldiers capture by a Nebula Corps Fleet. As the group was about to be cut into pieces by an ion laser saw, he risked his life to safe them. He got them out alive, but his left leg and arm were cut off in the process, so he was robotic replacements, and deemed a captain for his valiant actions

Captain Poseidon


Weapons:
MP5 Antimatter Triggered Assault Rifle
x5 Black Matter Grenades
Stratus Pistol
Crimson Laser Combat Knife

Myra

Name: Myra Langshire
Age: 24
Rank: Second in command
Skills: excellent hand to hand combat skills, and damn good with a knife

Personality: Most of the time, dark, and gloomy, with a kick of sarcasm and humor. She doesn't take shit from anyone. One think to keep note of...
Give Myra shit, and she'll give you a knife.

Bio: Myra trained in the Academy with Poseidon, becoming good friends with him. When Poseidon found out that Myra was captured by Nebula Corps, he did everything he could to save her. Myra thanked him and said she owed him his life. When Poseidon asked Myra to be on the Riptide with him, she gladly accepted.

Mission Appearance:


Weapons:
M4A4 Antimatter Powered Machine Gun
Damascus Steel-Titanium Combat Knife

Exo Suit:


Exo Weapons:
Antimatter Powered M4A4
Crimson Laser Katana

Atlantis: Mission Mode

Was made in order to be of assistance during missions.

Appearance:


Built in Stratus Pistol

Infantry

Total Manpower 4,000
Equipment:
Full Siege Class Armor
Helmet with regular, night, and thermal sights
Built in Quantum Shielding
Headlight

Weapons:
Antimatter MP7 Assault Rifle
Stratus Pistol
X5 Medium Explosion Grenades(MEG)

Appearance:

Pilots

Full Manpower: 45
Equipment:
Full Siege Class Pilot Gear
Built in oxygen tank

Weapons:
Barretta Px4 Storm Pistol
Damascus-Titanium Combat Knife

Appearance:

Engineer

Total Manpower: 1,500
Equipment:
Full Engineers Bag: Wrenches, Drills, Pliers, and such
Headlight
Gravity Boots: To stay on the ship while working in space

Appearance:

Crew Members

Total Manpower: Rest of unfilled spaces
Equipment:
Communication Devices

Appearance

[AbysmalDemon]

Well, added a crapload more to my CS, waiting for it to be re-approved! @Avanhelsing @Stitchblades

[AbysmalDemon]

I may have gone a little overboard

[Stitchblades]

@Nallore i being bossman says thats a awesome idea :) get it done captain
@Mugin yes i like it move it over :) and welcome to sigma
@Kimiyosis i like what you have so far - just need your ship captain to be written up :) having a higher output than what your chip is capable is a good idea too be interesting to see how that affects combat performance

@GummyCat great work Move it over and welcome to Sigma

@AbysmalDemon overboard indeed xD there's really no need for the crew CS sheets tbf they are not important
this Rp will mostly focus on the captain's orders rather than what's going on with the troops
on the note of your captains/2nd in commands exo suits, i am a bit confused? isn't the first image already exo suit/armour? or is that just his underwear? (side note same character appearance for the exo suit as what my captain wears)

[Kimiyosis]

@Nallore i being bossman says thats a awesome idea :) get it done captain
@Mugin yes i like it move it over :) and welcome to sigma
@Kimiyosis i like what you have so far - just need your ship captain to be written up :) having a higher output than what your chip is capable is a good idea too be interesting to see how that affects combat performance

@GummyCat great work Move it over and welcome to Sigma

@AbysmalDemon overboard indeed xD there's really no need for the crew CS sheets tbf they are not important
this Rp will mostly focus on the captain's orders rather than what's going on with the troops
on the note of your captains/2nd in commands exo suits, i am a bit confused? isn't the first image already exo suit/armour? or is that just his underwear? (side note same character appearance for the exo suit as what my captain wears)

@Stitchblades

Which is why that, if we do get a second ship, it's focused on power gen :P

[Apollosarcher]

@Kimiyosis Well if we don't get second ships I can use mine. The Courage could definitely spare power if you need it, after all it could hold triple it's crew size so it's power systems aren't to taxed normally.

[Kimiyosis]

@Kimiyosis Well if we don't get second ships I can use mine. The Courage could definitely spare power if you need it, after all it could hold triple it's crew size so it's power systems aren't to taxed normally.

@Apollosarcher

Oh gawd...
Mobile fortress than XD!

[Apollosarcher]

@Kimiyosis Of course, I mean my fire power is close to that of a Dreadnought and my hangar size is close to that of carrier. Sadly though I have very little armor.

[AbysmalDemon]

@Stitchblades

So what the captain is wearing, is what he wears to combat. But the exo suit is there for support, it's basically the equivalent to the Titan, in titanfall. But the exo suit is much less bulky, you can jump in it. And it's built in to your regular armor. So... Basically, you press a button, and it wraps on to you.

As for the crew, I did it so that you would know exactly how much I have to deploy, and I'm not saying I deploy 6,000 infantry, because then I would therefore only have like a couple hundred of crew/engineers/pilots. It's also for myself, so that I know what I have to deploy.

[ArenaSnow]

Slight creativity block on the captain, but here's to what has been compiled.

Work In Progress

Ship Designation: GANS - Phoenix
Ship Registry: NS-4077
Ship Class: Heavy Specialty Battleship
Ship Size: 0.9 KM
Ship Crew: ~12000 Strong (All hands included)


(my apologies for the darkness)

Ship Weapons

Weaponry

Kinetic 6.4 Mainstay Railgun
Designed to cause maximum impact, the Railgun specializes in anti-capital ship combat, or indeed anything else it can hit. Although anything short of the best defenses possible would have a very tough time resisting the fact that the Railgun drives deep into a ship in the first place, the real damage comes from the following shockwave designed to have maximum impact and disturb as much as possible. Special weapon in that it is the newest available.

The primary flaws are the horrible reload time of 45 minutes (that's if people are moving fast) and 64 rounds on-ship, requiring external reloading.

This section of the ship is one of the most heavily armored, for good reason - an explosion in that compartment can do severe damage. Although a large part of its energy comes from the railgun itself, when you have a lot of stored nuke-like (could be the wrong term, but not in this context) weapons in a crowded area...

ExternalBit Proton Particle Beam Cannon

Aka, particle beams.

The ship has 46 of them, spread in loose star positions across the ship exterior.. They can rotate in all directions (except, obviously, into itself) and are used to attack specific sections the Railgun is a little too expensive to attack. It takes 5 minutes for each to recharge.

Orbital Bombardment Cannon Torpedo

An old, but still very effective form of torpedo, designed to fire at ground targets that don't dodge and with a clear shot. Torpedos can level structures with its pressure alone and incinerate the rest in a large flash of light, but is extremely slow weapon wise, meaning it can be intercepted with heavy weapons or dodged by any ship smaller than medium size. In space it tends to be less effective; the effects of the OBC are most visible when it can accellerate in an atmosphere with abundant gravity in it, something ships have refined to minimize for this reason. There are 12 platforms and 126 rounds available.

Long Range Missile Unit

Placed in 2024 spots on the ship, LRM units are designed for more close up fighting against smaller ships and weaker plated craft. An individual LRM can only do so much damage; not enough to bring something down by itself. That's why each unit is in packs of 12 and in each unit has 200 stored missiles that are "activated" upon firing. They have enough tracking, to chase down smaller ships. They do not have enough range to go too far out, and can almost be completely absorbed by bigger ships.

Ship technologies

Techs

Main Systems

Integrated Phoenix Network: A special closed-circuit communication system designed to be lightweight but very fast, in order to process orders across the entire ship and basically act as the control system. A simplified version of what a carrier would use. Integrated is an AI designed for security and calculations, as well as some of the more general stuff that messengers used to do.

Centralcore HyperWarp Experimental System: An experimental jump drive designed to fix the current loopholes in other drives of its nature. The special bit is that it makes the speed of it all just a tad faster by moving particles a little bit apart from each other, thus allowing it to travel through things that would be annoying to other drives. It is the most stable build in production and has successfully eliminated 99.99% of bugs. Don't be the 0.01% that has a flipped fingernail.

Surgical Systems: Space warfare is a nasty business. People get jostled, blown into walls, speared through by piercing, suffer that metioned 0.01%... therefore, the ship contains a medical lab to address these issues. It can fix most problems that arise short of making a dead man walk and can get people back to work fairly quickly. Without it, a ship would indeed be in a spot of trouble...

The main problem is the fact that there's only one. The ship already has an extremly large bill that's still being paid off, so medical equipment is yet another thing to add to that list.

Replicator Systems: 30% of the ship's bill right here. An extremely costly system usually used when the bio-domes for organic food have any sort of problem, and in other cases are used to replace parts after a battle. Sometimes used to regenerate ammunition and drawing directly off the Power System.

3-Layer Shielding: An one-way set of layers where things go out simply enough (weapons and the like) but are an extreme pain to get into.

The third layer mostly is a protective one against the crap that floats around in space, repelling it. It deals with any smallarms that are shot at it but can't repel anything bigger than that.

The second layer is a real defensive layer, designed to catch energy based shots and reduce their effectiveness. It also absorbs 20% of the pure energy that it consumes, sending it directly to the Power System.

The third layer, right before the armor, attempts to slant incoming rounds/beams and in particular slant them from important parts of the ship into "solid blocks" (parts of the ship where the armor is thicker and has nothing important in the grand scheme. That means the rec rooms...). Ineffective against weapons such as railguns, but could save a ship from a well-placed particle beam.

Power System: Works in two parts. The first is a set of 5 energy cores, each of which produce raw energy for various parts of the ship.

The second is the "recycling" system, where absorbed energy, usable mass (biomass, HHO generators from the vent system) and other such things are put into one of two "recycling" cores that turn them into less effective but still potent energy, which is then placed into the backup generators.

The primary generators use the Main Cores to operate most of the things on the ship, while the backup generators use the Recycling Cores. I need not explain the purpose of a backup generator.

-Disclaimer: If it's logical to be on a battleship, it's there. So don't complain about my lack of a standard high-frequency 30km sensor system, detail of the organic system, or oxygen supply detailed.-

Ship Appearance: (Image or description)

Notable missions:

Missions(2)

The ship has been mostly on patrol, but has participated in two combat scenarios.

The first was dealing with civil strife on behest of a neighbor planet, and saw little action by itself. However, the captain was caught in the crossfire and left the ship abandoned in the yard for a few years due to no other crew members having the proper credentials.

The second was dealing with a rogue captain, in a battle which badly damaged the Phoenix yet gained its respect by many other captains. It was after this that the Alliance made large investments in the ship's repair... and upgrades.

Other

Other bits

The ship is a 100 year old design recently remodelled with almost the US debt's worth of new equipment.

Although it now works better than before and is considered a prized melee ship of the Alliance with a professional crew, it is haunted with some outdated systems. The ventalation system got no attention and sometimes malfunctions when it comes to temperature control, and can possibly block up in a particularly bad situation. The AI system is simply old. The only reason why it has survived so long is because of the fact that it has a good crew with a good past and some damn fine equipment. Civilians generally hate it as there's even a small tax across the Alliance specifically for the ship. None other, just the Phoenix. Alliance command likes to remind the ship captain of that. Damage to an expensive system is political suicide, billions (never mind inflation) were spent on making the power, ventalation and LRM unit systems work.

It's firepower and the fact that it is usually in front of the main fleet (despite some efforts to move it back because of the cost) makes it a bit of a sore thumb to the enemy. Although it's technically a battleship, it's a pretty damn big one in comparison to others. It does, however, make up for it with its railgun designed to disable enemy ships and many smaller systems to counter smaller craft.

Captain Rolgnar Cimmicks

Name: Rolgnar Cimmicks
Age: 62
Race: Human
Rank: Captain
Skills
-Experienced captain, capable of managing a ship in a time of crisis, as he has operated the ship in one of its notable missions and knows many of the crew members.
-He has to be somewhat skillful if he has managed to keep the Alliance from throwing him out as an old fart, in favor of a new young commander fresh out of the Academy. Skillful in piloting and politics...
Away Mission Equipment: Assault suit, designed for the ship's security crew and a few custom fitted for people such as the Captain.
Appearance: <pending... need a stroke of creativity here>
Personality: Calm enough to look perfectly normal in front of superiors, but rather blunt and sometimes rude when it comes to crew. He loves sarcasm, hates it when one of the crew members play the stupidly old game "Pacman" on duty and can seem too hyper when in a situation. Dispite these things, he can get the job done; and he has done it before. He loves to complain about the Alliance command when nobody's watching.

Quick-Bio: Born on a central alliance world, Rolgnar was always interested in ships. He went through the educational system with high marks in aviation and potential. This allowed him to pick up a job as a guard on the ship GANS - Jupiter.

On the GANS - Jupiter, he served for a few years before dropping out over a dispute with his supervisor and took several years of officer training. Although chances were he would be stuck on a frigate and be done with it, there was a slot open on the GANS - Phoenix, a ship of somewhat old design yet still high respect in the Alliance.

On the Phoenix, he lead several patrol missions before being deployed to settle a civil dispute on Karvon, where a rouge captain had commadeered a battleship. Rolgnar was supposed to have a backup, but the ship in question had critical malfunctions in the power core that went undetected during its construction, leaving the Phoenix alone with a fairly veteran crew and a rather green captain.

During the battle, Rolgnar made a good call with positioning the railgun at a spot directly below a heavily armored section that other crew members had failed to detect. When the railgun was fired, the spot was rather obviously a power core, as not only the ship had a massive explosion out of its left side, but all power went offline and the ship crashed safely into a frozen tundra. Of course, things would have been much different if the ship had crashed into a population center...

Despite the railgun wiping out the enemy ship, the Phoenix was left with heavy damage from the crossfire before that. It was taken to a nearby shipyard and repaired. The Alliance command noted that the Phoenix was bigger than the average battleship and re-classed it, in the meantime spending huge resources on giving it upgrades, including making the railgun into a new design designed for taking down large ships. Rolgnar for his actions in the battle was allowed to keep command of the ship, and so here he is today.

[AbysmalDemon]

Also I'll change the exo suit image, didn't know it was yours lol

[Kimiyosis]

Slight creativity block on the captain, but here's to what has been compiled.

Work In Progress

Ship Designation: GANS - Phoenix
Ship Registry: NS-4077
Ship Class: Heavy Specialty Battleship
Ship Size: 0.9 KM
Ship Crew: ~12000 Strong (All hands included)


(my apologies for the darkness)

Ship Weapons

Weaponry

Kinetic 6.4 Mainstay Railgun
Designed to cause maximum impact, the Railgun specializes in anti-capital ship combat, or indeed anything else it can hit. Although anything short of the best defenses possible would have a very tough time resisting the fact that the Railgun drives deep into a ship in the first place, the real damage comes from the following shockwave designed to have maximum impact and disturb as much as possible. Special weapon in that it is the newest available.

The primary flaws are the horrible reload time of 45 minutes (that's if people are moving fast) and 64 rounds on-ship, requiring external reloading.

This section of the ship is one of the most heavily armored, for good reason - an explosion in that compartment can do severe damage. Although a large part of its energy comes from the railgun itself, when you have a lot of stored nuke-like (could be the wrong term, but not in this context) weapons in a crowded area...

ExternalBit Proton Particle Beam Cannon

Aka, particle beams.

The ship has 46 of them, spread in loose star positions across the ship exterior.. They can rotate in all directions (except, obviously, into itself) and are used to attack specific sections the Railgun is a little too expensive to attack. It takes 5 minutes for each to recharge.

Orbital Bombardment Cannon Torpedo

An old, but still very effective form of torpedo, designed to fire at ground targets that don't dodge and with a clear shot. Torpedos can level structures with its pressure alone and incinerate the rest in a large flash of light, but is extremely slow weapon wise, meaning it can be intercepted with heavy weapons or dodged by any ship smaller than medium size. In space it tends to be less effective; the effects of the OBC are most visible when it can accellerate in an atmosphere with abundant gravity in it, something ships have refined to minimize for this reason. There are 12 platforms and 126 rounds available.

Long Range Missile Unit

Placed in 2024 spots on the ship, LRM units are designed for more close up fighting against smaller ships and weaker plated craft. An individual LRM can only do so much damage; not enough to bring something down by itself. That's why each unit is in packs of 12 and in each unit has 200 stored missiles that are "activated" upon firing. They have enough tracking, to chase down smaller ships. They do not have enough range to go too far out, and can almost be completely absorbed by bigger ships.

Ship technologies

Techs

Main Systems

Integrated Phoenix Network: A special closed-circuit communication system designed to be lightweight but very fast, in order to process orders across the entire ship and basically act as the control system. A simplified version of what a carrier would use. Integrated is an AI designed for security and calculations, as well as some of the more general stuff that messengers used to do.

Centralcore HyperWarp Experimental System: An experimental jump drive designed to fix the current loopholes in other drives of its nature. The special bit is that it makes the speed of it all just a tad faster by moving particles a little bit apart from each other, thus allowing it to travel through things that would be annoying to other drives. It is the most stable build in production and has successfully eliminated 99.99% of bugs. Don't be the 0.01% that has a flipped fingernail.

Surgical Systems: Space warfare is a nasty business. People get jostled, blown into walls, speared through by piercing, suffer that metioned 0.01%... therefore, the ship contains a medical lab to address these issues. It can fix most problems that arise short of making a dead man walk and can get people back to work fairly quickly. Without it, a ship would indeed be in a spot of trouble...

The main problem is the fact that there's only one. The ship already has an extremly large bill that's still being paid off, so medical equipment is yet another thing to add to that list.

Replicator Systems: 30% of the ship's bill right here. An extremely costly system usually used when the bio-domes for organic food have any sort of problem, and in other cases are used to replace parts after a battle. Sometimes used to regenerate ammunition and drawing directly off the Power System.

3-Layer Shielding: An one-way set of layers where things go out simply enough (weapons and the like) but are an extreme pain to get into.

The third layer mostly is a protective one against the crap that floats around in space, repelling it. It deals with any smallarms that are shot at it but can't repel anything bigger than that.

The second layer is a real defensive layer, designed to catch energy based shots and reduce their effectiveness. It also absorbs 20% of the pure energy that it consumes, sending it directly to the Power System.

The third layer, right before the armor, attempts to slant incoming rounds/beams and in particular slant them from important parts of the ship into "solid blocks" (parts of the ship where the armor is thicker and has nothing important in the grand scheme. That means the rec rooms...). Ineffective against weapons such as railguns, but could save a ship from a well-placed particle beam.

Power System: Works in two parts. The first is a set of 5 energy cores, each of which produce raw energy for various parts of the ship.

The second is the "recycling" system, where absorbed energy, usable mass (biomass, HHO generators from the vent system) and other such things are put into one of two "recycling" cores that turn them into less effective but still potent energy, which is then placed into the backup generators.

The primary generators use the Main Cores to operate most of the things on the ship, while the backup generators use the Recycling Cores. I need not explain the purpose of a backup generator.

-Disclaimer: If it's logical to be on a battleship, it's there. So don't complain about my lack of a standard high-frequency 30km sensor system, detail of the organic system, or oxygen supply detailed.-

Ship Appearance: (Image or description)

Notable missions:

Missions(2)

The ship has been mostly on patrol, but has participated in two combat scenarios.

The first was dealing with civil strife on behest of a neighbor planet, and saw little action by itself. However, the captain was caught in the crossfire and left the ship abandoned in the yard for a few years due to no other crew members having the proper credentials.

The second was dealing with a rogue captain, in a battle which badly damaged the Phoenix yet gained its respect by many other captains. It was after this that the Alliance made large investments in the ship's repair... and upgrades.

Other

Other bits

The ship is a 100 year old design recently remodelled with almost the US debt's worth of new equipment.

Although it now works better than before and is considered a prized melee ship of the Alliance with a professional crew, it is haunted with some outdated systems. The ventalation system got no attention and sometimes malfunctions when it comes to temperature control, and can possibly block up in a particularly bad situation. The AI system is simply old. The only reason why it has survived so long is because of the fact that it has a good crew with a good past and some damn fine equipment. Civilians generally hate it as there's even a small tax across the Alliance specifically for the ship. None other, just the Phoenix. Alliance command likes to remind the ship captain of that. Damage to an expensive system is political suicide, billions (never mind inflation) were spent on making the power, ventalation and LRM unit systems work.

It's firepower and the fact that it is usually in front of the main fleet (despite some efforts to move it back because of the cost) makes it a bit of a sore thumb to the enemy. Although it's technically a battleship, it's a pretty damn big one in comparison to others. It does, however, make up for it with its railgun designed to disable enemy ships and many smaller systems to counter smaller craft.

Captain Rolgnar Cimmicks

Name: Rolgnar Cimmicks
Age: 62
Race: Human
Rank: Captain
Skills
-Experienced captain, capable of managing a ship in a time of crisis, as he has operated the ship in one of its notable missions and knows many of the crew members.
-He has to be somewhat skillful if he has managed to keep the Alliance from throwing him out as an old fart, in favor of a new young commander fresh out of the Academy. Skillful in piloting and politics...
Away Mission Equipment: Assault suit, designed for the ship's security crew and a few custom fitted for people such as the Captain.
Appearance: <pending... need a stroke of creativity here>
Personality: Calm enough to look perfectly normal in front of superiors, but rather blunt and sometimes rude when it comes to crew. He loves sarcasm, hates it when one of the crew members play the stupidly old game "Pacman" on duty and can seem too hyper when in a situation. Dispite these things, he can get the job done; and he has done it before. He loves to complain about the Alliance command when nobody's watching.

Quick-Bio: Born on a central alliance world, Rolgnar was always interested in ships. He went through the educational system with high marks in aviation and potential. This allowed him to pick up a job as a guard on the ship GANS - Jupiter.

On the GANS - Jupiter, he served for a few years before dropping out over a dispute with his supervisor and took several years of officer training. Although chances were he would be stuck on a frigate and be done with it, there was a slot open on the GANS - Phoenix, a ship of somewhat old design yet still high respect in the Alliance.

On the Phoenix, he lead several patrol missions before being deployed to settle a civil dispute on Karvon, where a rouge captain had commadeered a battleship. Rolgnar was supposed to have a backup, but the ship in question had critical malfunctions in the power core that went undetected during its construction, leaving the Phoenix alone with a fairly veteran crew and a rather green captain.

During the battle, Rolgnar made a good call with positioning the railgun at a spot directly below a heavily armored section that other crew members had failed to detect. When the railgun was fired, the spot was rather obviously a power core, as not only the ship had a massive explosion out of its left side, but all power went offline and the ship crashed safely into a frozen tundra. Of course, things would have been much different if the ship had crashed into a population center...

Despite the railgun wiping out the enemy ship, the Phoenix was left with heavy damage from the crossfire before that. It was taken to a nearby shipyard and repaired. The Alliance command noted that the Phoenix was bigger than the average battleship and re-classed it, in the meantime spending huge resources on giving it upgrades, including making the railgun into a new design designed for taking down large ships. Rolgnar for his actions in the battle was allowed to keep command of the ship, and so here he is today.

@ArenaSnow

"Who called in the fleet?"
Is that the Behemoth class or the Minotaur class?

EDIT: Also, reading through the first OOC post, I re-read the formations.
Eh...how would a BC which was designed for solo strikes to, well, fit in XD?

Only thing I can think of, at least for the Standard formation, would be for the Sovereign to be a bit more ahead than the main fleet as both a scout and for shock runs.