[CHAR] Hegemony Rising: Rise of the Terran Hegemony

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HSS Karl Pilkington

Length-Width-Height
3150m 255m 650m

Class: Heavy Battlecruiser

Tonnage: 2,100,000 tonnes.

The Karl Pilkington patrolling a nebula.

PRIMARY ARMAMENT
The Karl Pilkington has 6 spinal railcannons that run 65% the length of the entire ship. The projectiles travel 3.75 kilometers per second and impact with 1.25 kilotons of force each. In addition, it has another large weapon system, eight vertical cruise missile launchers, able to launch with either high-explosive burst warheads, or anti-armor fragmentation warheads.

SECONDARY ARMAMENT
In addition to the primary weapon systems, the Karl Pilkington has an array of 32 total anti-fighter/missile laser systems, able to cleave fighters in two, or just ignite a fuel tank. However, while they can fire for long periods, they do need equally long cool-downs. This means that the overall effectiveness of the system may be seriously hindered if a large portion of the PD turrets are destroyed, proportionately much more then similar systems.

ARMOR/SHIELDING
The Karl Pilkington has a 22 meter thick steel shell, supplemented at key points (such as the bridge, spinal railgun tubes, cruise missile ports, and the engines) by a carbon nanotube fiber. As well, the bow has been specially reinforced even further.

COUNTERMEASURES
The Pilkington is equipped with 48 rapid-fire, high-capacity chaff/flare launchers, in addition to 4 medium-intensity ECM generators. The ECM generators are situated with two near the front, and two near the back, on either side.

ENGINES
The ship is powered by 8 ultra-high-heat plasma thrusters, with much smaller, similar units situated around the hull as a dedicated RCS system.
Additionally, it has 1 emergency FTL engine, rated for 6 times the speed of light. However, due to FTL technology at such sizes being somewhat underdeveloped at this point in time, it is ONLY for emergency uses. Thus, it is dubbed the "GTFO Drive".

REACTORS
The craft is primarily powered by one, heavily reinforced fusion reactor. If that's taken out of commission, it has ultra-high capacity batteries situated all around the main hull to provide peak operating power for 6 days, or 11 if the craft is not taken into a combat zone.

CREW
6,800 crew across the ship.
120 fighter-wing pilots, with 35 'spares'.

COMPUTER SYSTEMS
4 low-cost computer networks manage all automated systems on the ship. Each one can do everything, yet they are specialized to a certain extent, with one being focused on combat, resource management, mobility, and fighter-wing assistance respectively.
1 Backup/Emergency computer system. It has all of the specialist code installed, yet is power-costly to maintain. It can also be used to 'supercharge' the ship in general, but this further increases power consumption, and can cause overloads in some systems.

FIGHTER AND BOMBER COMPLEMENT
The Pilkington holds a total of 90 strike craft, 70 one-man medium interceptors, and 20 two-man super-interceptors.

The Medium Interceptors, called the 'Ares Type' feature decent maneuverability, but are most focused on speed and weapons load. To that end, they feature high-speed, high maneuverability anti-fighter missiles, two each in 12 tubes. They have enough power to destroy most forms of strikecraft in two to four hits. In addition, they feature two autocannons. The standard colors for the Ares-Type are red, yellow, and white.
An Ares-Type.

The Super-heavy Interceptors, called Myrmidons, are superheavy interceptor type craft designed to obliterate enemy bomber squadrons. While slower, they have superior armor and defensive systems to assist in this. As well, they have an extreme amount of firepower, with 20 two-missile anti-fighter missile tubes each, 6 heavy anti-bomber missile tubes, and eight high-explosive torpedo tubes. Finally, they feature four autocannons. Their standard colors are white, blue, and red.
A Myrmidon.

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HHS Three Mountains

Length-Width-Height
2850m 310m 580m
Class: Battlecruiser
Tonnage: 1,850,000 tonnes.

PRIMARY ARMAMENT:
The Three Mountains is armed with three heavy Wave Motion Cannon batteries. Each battery has three individual cannons which charge up shots in the turret before having the barrels guide and focus the beam to the point where it can punch straight through weaker shield systems. The other weapon systems on board are the mass acceleration canons (glorified railgun same in all aspects except name) mounted towards the front of the ship. The railguns fire a 2 tonne ferric-tungsten round with a depleted uranium core at 3.52 km a second.

The Three Mountain's common tactic is to use the WMC cannons to disable shields before opening up with the MAC guns.

SECONDARY ARMAMENT
Supplementing the anti-ship weaponry on board, the Three Mountains also comes equipped with torpedoes and a missile array. There are 6 launching tubes at the front of the ship, able to use "Lancer" anti-armor rounds and high explosive "Blossom" photon rounds. Missiles are fired from a 16 array missile bay, 6 on each side and 4 on the top. Missiles include high explosive nuclear rounds, EMP rounds and anti-ship fragmentation "Breacher" rounds. The difference between the torpedoes and the missiles is that torpedoes are unguided while missiles are.

There is a notable lack of anti-fighter weapons on the Three Mountains, on board defense total at a pitiful 12 with 6 55mm autocannons and 6 3GW lasers. Advised to deploy it with fighter escort or anti-fighter ship.

ARMOR/SHIELDING:
The Three Mountains has a two layered armor system consisting of 17 meters of solid alloy with a layer of carbon nanotube with spider silk mesh over it. Important areas may have up to another additional 4 meters of armor such as the bridge, engine bays and ammunition storage.

COUNTERMEASURES:
Lacking traditional energy shields, the Three Mountains uses a heat dispersal unit and counter-EMP equipment. As such homing missiles have a harder time finding where the ship is and the ship cannot be shut down through outside means.

In the event of a boarding action, the Three Mountains has internal point-defense turrets to defend against invaders supplimented by blast doors in the corridors which can lock down at a moment's notice.

ENGINES
The ship has one large plasma thruster for propulsion with other large, high efficiency RCS thrusters providing more maneuvering and thrust, making the ship able to do more precise movements compared to siml=ilar ships at the cost at not being able to go as fast as other ships of its class.

It come with a FTL drive, albeit an older prototype that's a bit finicky. No amount of calculations seems to let it go exactly where its supposed to with its end point deviating from a few kilometers to the other side of a planet. Its been affectionately dubbed the "Derp Drive" or "FTDerp Drive"

REACTORS
The Three Mountains has a NRS-6 cold fusion reactor serving as the main power source for on board things like engines, life support and computers. Weapons systems use four less advanced RS-3.3 nuclear reactor for power. Backup generators are modified KSV-1 fusion reactors supplemented by extendable solar panels and high capacity batteries which can power the ship for roughly a week assuming its not fighting.

CREW
6211 crew members
98 pilots with 20 in reserve

32nd Guard Infantry Platoon
33rd Guard Infantry Platoon
108th Royal Armor Battalion

COMPUTER SYSTEMS
The Three Mountains uses three central computers that manage weapons, logistics and crew members. Assisting the computers is the on board AI, Oichi, who does fine tuning for most operations.

FIGHTER AND BOMBER COMPLEMENT:
36 one man Zho-4 Kankori superiority fighters, 14 two man Kai-6 Nanatari interceptors, 20 one man Jun-11s Marung bombers, 24 Jun-14t Heavy Transports.