Design your own infantry unit, starship, etc

[Knife]

Tried to post a pic, but my dumb ass can't figure it out even with some help.....
Any way, my futuristic ship.




ATHENA CLASS GUNSHIP:

Length: 91.5meters.
Decks: 5
Crew: 36 officers and crew

General description: almost submarine like in apperance with a block like middle section and a shrouded engine section with four fins extending out the end. Slung under the nose is the weapons and the nose and the aft end is heavily armored.

Weapons: 1 Pulse Plasma Cannon(PPC), 2 forward facing torpedo/missile launchers.

Engines: Fussion/Plasma engine with a "after burrner" second stage system. SpaceTime Gravity Slide Drive system w/ enviromental hookups, various manuvering thrusters.

Defense and Enviromental: Incorparates the SGSD gravity effect for internal gravity and acceleration comansation. Outer hull is armored and designed to spread out all kenitic attacks limiting the actual damage to the vessel and a gel coating to spread out exess heat of either the drive system, local heat sources, and or weapons fire. An EM field is projected around the ship to protect from harmful radiation with the extra bonus of deflecting some of the energy of weapons fire, but not all or even close to all.

Basic tatics is to Slide into a system and coast into range of a target. Using passive systems to target a ship and launch a barrage of 2 to 4 missiles at the target either killing it or damaging it. Exfiltration is accomplished with it's oversized sublight engines to get it out of counter attack range and escape back out of the system. The pulse cannon that give the name "gunship" to the Athena is a hold over from older naval traditions, but can be used to harrass a target or discourage a counter attack. Can be used as a point defense as well.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

lol I can't figure out how to post 'em either. I think they need to be already on the web to post, so you've got a nice chicken-and-egg thing for ya

[Knife]

lol I can't figure out how to post 'em either. I think they need to be already on the web to post, so you've got a nice chicken-and-egg thing for ya

Yeah, well I feel even dumber because I asked for help, got it, and still can't do it.

[Falkenhorst]

I envision a wheeled Urban Combat Vehicle with 6 wheels and a powerful motor and suspension built to allow smooth travel over rough terrain and rubble such as is found in an urban combat environment. It would have run-flat tires and thick armor to prevent damage from infantry-fired missiles/antiarmor weapons. It would be able to carry a squad of troops, and would mount 2 rapid-fire 25mm cannon in a traversing turret. You could also accessorize the shit out of this vehicle and fit it with hull MGs and flame throwers or grenade launchers. Full NBC protection included.

[Neko_Oni]

Starship:
Deliverer-class Ortillery Cruiser.

Weapons:
Hellebore-type Spinal Massdriver.
2 MIRV Delivery Bays.
8 Turreted UV Laser Cannons.

Defenses:
Thermal Superconductor Layer.
Composite Anti-Kinetic Armour.

Power:
Multiple Tokamak-type Fusion Reactors.

Propulsion:
5 High-thrust Ion Engines. (Max Acceleration of 6.0g).
1 Hyperspace Jump Core. (Point-to-Point).

Description:
A vessel designed to impose force on a planet without the requirement of landing troops. It's primary weapon is a massive spinal-mounted massdriver which fires specialised re-entry shells. For more widespread damage it has two seperate MIRV bays stocked with fusion warheads. To provide self-defense are 8 high-powered UV Lasers directed by turreted mirrors.

[NecronLord]

Standard Infantry/Naval.

Recruitment age 18-50 (long lifespans, this is the equialent of 16-20)

Basic training ~ 2 Years
Academic training ~ 5 Years (equivelent of doing a Bsc and Postgrad/Msc) usually in tactics, startegy logistics engineering etc.)
Advanced Millitary training ~ 3 Years Specialist and divesified training programs.
Cybernetic mental enhancement (should you be interested)
10 years basic service (garrisons etc)
5 years 'front "line"'
Optional exit and retirement
possibe Nco promotion
15 year term cycle

Standard armour (this is not a genuine exoskeleton, though these are used for actual front line combat, when humans go near the front line)
Ablative/ceramic impact absorbtion layer.
Steel/titanium/super and hyperconductive layer to absorb energy and disperse
Energy dissapation systems (classified)

Energy Carbine/Rifle. both pulse and beam fire incorparated. Remote nural feed targeting.
Energy Pistol pulsed beam variant
reloads for above.

Knife/CCW [monomolecular edge, with disruption feild]

assorted other kit.

[IDMR]

Imperator-R class Star Dreadnaught

Fleet Role Designation: Dreadnaught (DN)
Launch of Class Ship: 2653
Commissioning of Class Ship: 2653
Dimensions: 691x158x123 meters
Manufacturer: Feng Tian Fleet Yards, PSRNC
Crew Complement: 2200; 3 companies of Templars; 200 Flight Crew, 1 Ship-level Astronomicon, 3 backup, 5000 drones, 800 ‘droids
Max. FTL: 146,000c
Cruising FTL: 129,600c
Max. Accel.: N/A Inertialess Drive system
Primary Weapons: 4x3 Anti-matter Lance Cannon, 6x64 VLS missile canisters, 8x3 Heavy Glaser
Secondary Weapons: 8x2 Torpedo Turrets (640 torpedoes on board), 24x2 Medium Glaser, 12x1 Discharger Cannon
Point-Defense Weapons: 80x2 Mark XX Glaser CIWS, 120x8 magazine-fed Countermissile Battery
Protection: 640mm Fibroid-reinforced Armosteel Blend Armour, Ultraconduction Deflectors & Capacitor Array, 16 Type II Shield Generators, 4 Type II Shield Generators Backup
Power Plants: 2 Qing Dao Light and Power Mark XVI Solar Fusion Reactor, 4 General Generators Fusion Reactors, 12 Energizer Fuel Cells Array
Flight Complement: 1 Squadron of Tie-LN, 1 Squadron of TIE-Avenger, 1 Squadron of TIE-Drone and 1 Flight of Tie-Spectator; 4 Assault Shuttles, 4 Transport Starcraft
Special Equipment: Mark XVI Fleet Intelligence Web Master Saint Juste, Mark XXIX Fleet-based Electronic Warfare System, Mark XIII Aerospace Command Web, Translocation Machine x 4, Emission Dampening Shield, EM Stealth Calibrator
Builders: Feng Tian Fleet Yards, Terminus Industrial Enterprises, Bastion Steel, Sienar Fleet Systems

Description: The Imperator typer R was first commissioned for security reasons, in order to spread misinformation about the Order and to distance itself from the Imperium, as well as to test and integrate the various new technologies discovered in the new universe. After extensive refits in New China, the Type R is not even recognizable as an Imperator class dreadnaught. Most of the Order's more conspicuous weapons had been stripped and replaced with those more standard to this galaxy, premium cannons replaced by anti-matter cannons, mass-drivers replaced by heavy glaser, pulse autocannon replaced by glaser gatling. The Void Missiles had been taken out and replaced with Extended Ranged Capital Missiles. Even the railjet arrays had been replaced with heavy counter-missile batteries. The Symmetry Engine had been changed to the vastly cheaper Hyperdrive. Even the ECM and sensor suite had been modified to be as similar to those of the Pure Lands as possible. The result, the Type R, is a surprisingly effective combatant and had yielded much useful information for future ship designers and engineers regarding the integration of Pure Lands and Order technology. Up to two full squadrons are to be manufactured for the ease of logistic, to be replaced by the new Imperator-II, which incorporates technology from both universes.

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That is a little ship I designed for an old SD back at SB.com.

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Yeah, that means I am back. Greetings and good will.

[Guest]

Navy Marine

Taken at puberty say 14 and trained for 4 years on a High Gravity Planet.
training consists of various strenghtening exercises and stand drill exercises.
From there move them on to a high security plantet when they are 18 where they are taught how to adapt to almost any kind to situation via VR. Teach the recruits how to opperate in any enviroment from zero g to 3 times normal G.

Equipment consists of enclosed armor kinda like a 40K Space marine but not so bulky.
Standard lasgun with single shot or ful auto settings.
As a back up a pistol with a mini replicator so re-loads never neccesary (think serrious Sam)
the helmet will have a direct link to the brain via borg style neural interface so the hud of the helmut can automatically define threats and assign them prioraties. also direct link for the teams to talk to each other.
Armour will consist of strong but light ceramics/plasteel capable of withstanding anything up to one lasgun blast. will have built in HAlflife stle medcapabilities. and be completely sealed.

Squads will work in groups of 12 split into 2 teams, once commanded by the Sargent the other by the Corperal. each team will have one heave weapon specialist armed with a plasma rifle capable of incinerating a building in one shot, resf of the team will be grunts.

let me know what you think, this is my 1st attempt.

[Larz]

Terran Sphere Defense Force: Standard Marine

Training: 2 Months Physical I Training
2 Months Small Arms Training (Ballistic)
2 Months Equipment I Training
2 Months Enviroment I Training
4 Months Tactical and Strategical Training
1 Month Full R&R Leave
1 Month Large Arms Training
2 Months Energy Weapons Training
2 Months HtH and Melee Fighting
2 Months Physical II Training (Zero G)
2 Months Refresh
2 Months Trials
Total: 2 years cumilative training from ages 16-40
* After training, marines are placed in a TOD of 2 years as a garrison or battalion soldier before they get a choice of assignment

Armor: Unresponsive Impact Armor Mk III with 80% Flame Resilliance
Standard Weapons: 6" Boot Combat Knife
8" Bayonet
Ballistic Baton (24")
50 Cal. Gresham Military Special sidearm
Bullpup Pierson R900 20mm Carbine
OR Pancore Jackhammer Mk V
Standard Equipment: 2 weeks worth of Rations
4 weeks worth nutrient replacement suppliment
2 weeks worth water
Standard Military Medkit
Standard Military Trauma Kit
Standard Drug Satchel (containing 5 cans Liquid
Bandages; 4 Adrenil, 4 Psycho Cocktail Hypos; 2
cans burn spray, 2 containers and 2 Hypos
painkillers)
Spare Clothing
Mess Kit
14 Chem Heat Pads
Rebreather and Gas Mask
Class 1 Compact Biosuit
Toiletries
Standard Military Enviroment Kit (Contains 6 weeks
worth water purification tablets, 8 Immune Booster
Hypos, 2 canisters Bioagent Conteract A- medium
biohazard counteraction level)
4 Flares
Assortment of Flashlights and Chemical Lights
Military Pack
Tarp
Assorted Items issued out for missions

[RedImperator]

Majestic-class battleship

Fleet designation: Battleship (BB)
Built:Spaceframe assembly and systems integration, Barnard's Star Naval Shipyards. Sublight drives, CAI Reactor Plant, Chiron. Translight drive, Pluto Translight Systems Barnard's Star plant. Turrets and cannons, Nippon General Military Systems Auxillary Plant, Tau Ceti III.
Class ship and commissioning date: BB-194 I.S.W. Majestic, 2811
Other ships in class: BB-195 I.S.W. Fearless (2811), BB-196 I.S.W. Indomitable (2811), BB-197 I.S.W. Intrepid (2812), BB-198 I.S.W. Splendid (2812), BB-199 I.S.W. Magnificent (2812), BB-200 I.S.W. Imperious (2812), BB-201 I.S.W. Courageous (2813), BB-202 I.S.W. Invincible (2813), BB-203 I.S.W. Resplendant (2813), BB-204 I.S.W. Ark Royal (2814), BB-205 I.S.W. Awesome (2814), BB-206 I.S.W. Audacious (2814), BB-207 I.S.W. Honorable (2814), BB-208 I.S.W. Superior (2815). 3 more ships under construction, 5 more ordered, 10 more planned.
Dimensions and displacement:1220m * 365m * 132m * 14.7 million tons
Sublight performance: Six Consolidated Axxis Industries Agamemnon-9 hyperspace tap drives, 370 compressed gas maneuvering thrusters. Max acceleration 425 Gs, max turning 10 degrees/s.
Translight performance:1 Pluto Translight Systems 12 coil hyperdrive. 15.4 second realspace/hyperspace turnaround, 26,000*c velocity, 22 degrees/m maneuvering, all axises.
Armament: 21 Nippon General heavy pseudomatter cannons on 7 turrets, 355 megatons per shot, 4 shots per minute. 3 fixed forward Nippon General "Executor" siege pseudomatter cannons, 1.1 gigatons per shot, 1 shot per minute.
Defense: 1 meter composite outer hull, alternating 2cm layers of Phasesteel(TM) armor and ceramic suspension mesh shock absorber and heat sink, 10cm Phasesteel outer layer. 21 internal gastight transverse (port to starboard) bulkheads, 3cm Phasesteel, 9 armored gastight decks, 3cm phasesteel, 5 logitudinal (bow to stern) armored gastight bulkheads, 4cm phasesteel. Full ship photon screen, divided into 30 sections, optimized for gamma and X-ray frequencies, 2gt total rating, 16mt/s overload threshold per section(i.e., the screen can absorb up to 2gt of EM before the heat sinks start to melt, but the couplings between the energy-field screen and the matter generators can only take 16mt/s of energy before overloading). Full-hull force field, composed of 17,000 individual panels. Each panel equivilant to one half meter of Phasesteel. No cumulative damage effects to field, but damage sufficient to penetrate a panel will destroy the panel's generator inside the hull due to transfer of momentum from impacting object to field generator coils. Repeated high-sub critical loads have been known to weaken panel generator's mounting brackets thanks to metal fatigue, forcing a generator offline if the strength of the brackets falls below that of the generator coils, else high KE impacts would launch field generators through the ship. Full-hull single shell pseudomatter shield, 1.67gt rating, 7.4s cycle (the shield can withstand up to 1.67gt of pseudomatter fire per 7.4s cycle before failing). Damage is cumulative within a cycle, but not between (in other words, 1.67gt is needed to bring the shield down each cycle. All damage above that is absorbed by the hull armor. Shield resets to full strength every 7.4 seconds.)

Note: Pseudomatter is "packets" of hyperspace, normally expelled into realspace by the presence of a starship in hyperspace (preserving conservation of mass/energy). It's extremely disruptive to real matter or antimatter, but is usually very widely dispersed. A mass of pseudomatter equivilant to the mass of the starship that entered H-space will be spread out in neutron-sized packets across the entire flight path of the ship. Curiously, the pseudomatter "bread crumbs" will trace the exact flight path of the ship through realspace instantly, arriving at the starship's hyperspace egress point hours before the ship actually does, perfectly predicting any unexpected course changes by the ship. When the ship returns to realspace, the pseudomatter disappears. Pseudomatter cannons force a "shell" composed of "Compound C", a highly volitaile substance related to the subspace conductors used in the hyperdrive, into hyperspace, but freeze it at its ingress point, allowing the cannons to concentrate and direct a pseudomatter particle beam at lightspeed to a target. Pseudomatter disrupts nuclear and electromagnetic bonds in both matter and antimatter, causing massive bursts of heat and gamma radiation, and also carries a kinetic force. Pseudomatter beams propagate for as long as the shell can be held in hyperspace, typically 3-5 seconds, before the shell reemerges in realspace as a plasma and is vented from the cannon. At that instant, the pseudomatter disappears back into hyperspace. Pseudomatter ignores both photon screens and force fields. It is highly effective against hull armor since it turns superhard alloys into a mess of free subatomic particles without the energy expenditure normally necessary for such a task. On contact with a particle of realspace matter, pseudomatter returns to hyperspace and forces out an equivilant mass of the original projectile's or ship's matter. A pseudomatter shield is more sophisticated, partially submerging a mass of Compound C in hyperspace, which forces an equivilant mass of pseudomatter almost into realspace. The resulting spatial distortions can be arranged into a pane or sphere that only temporarily "bends" matter or energy passing through, but will force pseudomatter back into hyperspace, at the cost of some of the shield particles being forced fully back into hyperspace as well. The mass of Compound C can only be held at the threshold point for a limited time before it's forced fully into realspace again. Unlike shells, which are fully immersed into H-space and then held, the gas created by sheild fuel tablets can be condensed and refined into new tablets by on-board facilities. Ships typically carry enough tablets for 4 days' continuous shield operation with recycling, and 2000 shells.

Anti-torpedo systems: 90 gatling mass drivers, 14,000 RPM, 125 single kt UV lasers, capable of independnent or coordinated operations directed by the ship's central AI.
Crew: 1300 ratings, 400 NCOs, 45 officers, 2,300 automaton robots (controlled by the AI), 80 sentient robots, 250 enlisted Marines, 5 officers, 12 semi-sentient combat robots. Flag officer staff adds 8-10 officers and 30 enlisted, plus 5-10 automatons under the command of 1 or 2 sentient robots, and a squad of Marine bodyguards and security, 1 officer, 7 men, one combat robot.
Command & Control: One Europa Cybernetics Mark VII sentient core, 1.6 billion megafolds of data storage capacity, processes rating of 18 on the Hiedeki scale (average human rating, .029, average genius rating, .033, modern PC rating, .0000003, probable rating of a Culture Mind, 100 or so). Two Europa Cybernetics Mark III slave AIs, .9 billion megafolds, 12 rating. Several hundred automaton (non-sentient) computers as backups on critical ship's systems.
Special Systems: Pluto Translight "Long Song" FTL transciever. Real time holographic transmission out to 30 light years, video to 200 light years, voice to 1500 light years, text to 3000 light years, Morse code to 5000 light years. Consolidated Axxis Industries Model H hyperradar targeting system. McMichael and Kensington "Siren" FTL sensor jammer.
Auxillary Craft: 6 personel shuttles, 25 passengers each. 2 crew tenders, 100 passengers each. 10 cargo shuttles, 100 tons each, 2 convertible to liquid or high pressure gas transports. 4 cargo ferries, 1000 tons, non-atmosphere capable, 1 convertible to liquid or high pressure gas transport. 12 inspection and repair pods. One mini-tug (cargo container or disabled auxillary craft). One luxury shuttle, 10 passengers, FTL capable. 3 FTL capable cutters, armed with 2 5mt UV lasers, 1 turret mounted Gatling mass driver, and one Long Lance anti-ship missile. 4 S-80 scout fighters, one turret mounted 1mt UV laser. 150 escape pods, 5000 passengers total capacity.

Notes: The Majestic-class project had been in conceptual stages since the late 2760's, based on the success of the then-new Crusader class battleships. However, after the Terran Empire's defeat in the Ghelran War and its subsequent acceptance of the Naval Treaty of 2779, the plans were shelved, as it was deemed the Majestic would consume too much of the Empire's alloted capital ship tonnage for the limited power of the guns she would be allowed to mount (treaty limitations forced the Empire to mount guns lighter than 200mt on all capital ships). In its place, the Navy constructed a limited number of Philadelpia-class battlecruisers, with 175mt guns but very light armor for its 900 meter length, and kept the 4 Crusaders it had built prewar as up to date as possible. Budget constraints and a pacifist-Marxist Socialist Republican government kept Naval readiness in poor shape for much of the 30 years following the Ghelran War. When the Confederate War broke out in early 2808, the Navy found itself stretched perilously thin on all frontiers while trying to mount offensive operations supporting Loyalist forces in the Orion Confederacy. Worse, the battlecruisers which had formed the backbone of the peacetime Navy performed dismally in major fleet operations, thanks to their thin armor, though their speed and relatively heavy guns made them excellent for hit-and-run raids and squadron attack work. Only the innovative tactics of General Rosaria Villerreal, joint forces commander in the Confederacy, including use of carrier-based bombers against capital ships for the first time in a major conflict, allowed the Terran/Loyalist coalition to succede. Following the war and the creation of the Tripartite Defense League by the Terran Empire, Orion Confederacy, and Saurian Huntlands, the Empire withdrew from the '79 treaty and undertook a crash naval rebuilding project. The old plans for the Majestic, long coveted by the Navy, were dusted off and updated with massive 355mt turreted cannons and the new Executor fixed cannons, each capable of delivering more damage than a torpedo hit. The Navy was forced to used outdated and cramped spacedock facilities originally designed for the Crusader's construction for the first four ships of the class until all new construction and repair facilities could be built at Barnard's Star. The Navy lobbied the Assembly for 40 Majestics and recieved funds for 21, with an additional 10 promised for later. Some critics within the Navy Department say any more than 20 is a waste of money that could be spent on the new Lexington-class carriers (5 in service, 13 on order or under construction). The Navy Plan on 2812 calls for 60 Majestics and 40 Lexingtons by 2830, a figure most privately admit won't be reached so long as the current ruling Liberal (libertarian) and opposition Labor (democratic socialist) parties continue to dominate national politics.

[Pu-239]

Military Buggy-

Dimensions:
4 meters long, 2.5 meters wide, .7 meters high, not including turret
3 wheels

Weight- ~2 tons- too lazy to calculate weight for everything

Crew of 2- gunner and driver

Weaponry:
1 mk19 fully automatic grenade launcher, externally mounted on sealed roof turret with
1 autoloading RPG with 10 rounds
1 minigun, US M2HB Machinegun, or MK19 fully automatic grenade launcher.

Armour- 3 inches steel and ceramic sandwich, with some tungsten layers in critical parts.

Just how are you getting an off-road vehicle under 3 feet tall?

Oops. Sorry I really can't eyeball distances. Make that the size of an SUV, but a little lower.

[Pu-239]

and screw the minigun. Also give the M2 APDS rounds

[Pu-239]

From my novel-in-progress...

Everlasting Glory-class Dreadnought.

Basic dimensions: 6 Km long, 1.5 Km diameter. Submarine-shaped.

Power Generation: 12 antimatter/matter reactors. Each is self-contained, and various safety mechanisms based off a loss of power(Think each reactor is held against a magnetic field by an electromagnetic field. Power drops, reactor is flung.).

300 Capacitors: Store power for silent running(Think the batteries used by a U-boat when underwater).

Stealth materials on hull(Similar to modern stealth aircraft, only not the black. IIRC, blue-black is better for absorbing scans, but black was used for cooler look).

Eka-lead(The theorized stable transuranic) hull to help absorb heat/rads.

Ion drive units, capable of 30G's maximum. Normal running 5G's. Silent running is coasting.

Grav-Buffers to lessen the affects of acceleration. Can negate up to 27G's.

Multi-munition tubes, thirty thousand. Can be configured for pure kinetic kill, nuclear, biological, or antimatter warheads. Reload rate, 90 seconds.

Electromagnetic Field Generators. Built to form a near-solid electromagnetic field over the hull, to deflect incoming radiation/impacts. (Inspired by Mike's thoughts on gravity vs. electromagnetic shields, and the recent success of electromagnetics in shielding an APC from RPG-7's)

Lots and lots and lots of antimissile point defense. Think tiny chainguns mounted all over the hull, and computer controlled.

I think the last tech of note is the Resetter, but it's not standard issue.

Uh space doesn't transmit sound, so who cares about silent running. <001 though

[Pu-239]

Haven't they developed a miniature radar? How about making a miniature CIWS fireing very small rounds- 2mm caseless AP- at missiles on the buggy. I think the radar is currently used to measure the amount of liquids in a container but I think it can be developed in the next 50 years.

[Pu-239]

From my novel-in-progress...

Everlasting Glory-class Dreadnought.

Basic dimensions: 6 Km long, 1.5 Km diameter. Submarine-shaped.

Power Generation: 12 antimatter/matter reactors. Each is self-contained, and various safety mechanisms based off a loss of power(Think each reactor is held against a magnetic field by an electromagnetic field. Power drops, reactor is flung.).

300 Capacitors: Store power for silent running(Think the batteries used by a U-boat when underwater).

Stealth materials on hull(Similar to modern stealth aircraft, only not the black. IIRC, blue-black is better for absorbing scans, but black was used for cooler look).

Eka-lead(The theorized stable transuranic) hull to help absorb heat/rads.

Ion drive units, capable of 30G's maximum. Normal running 5G's. Silent running is coasting.

Grav-Buffers to lessen the affects of acceleration. Can negate up to 27G's.

Multi-munition tubes, thirty thousand. Can be configured for pure kinetic kill, nuclear, biological, or antimatter warheads. Reload rate, 90 seconds.

Electromagnetic Field Generators. Built to form a near-solid electromagnetic field over the hull, to deflect incoming radiation/impacts. (Inspired by Mike's thoughts on gravity vs. electromagnetic shields, and the recent success of electromagnetics in shielding an APC from RPG-7's)

Lots and lots and lots of antimissile point defense. Think tiny chainguns mounted all over the hull, and computer controlled.

I think the last tech of note is the Resetter, but it's not standard issue.

Uh space doesn't transmit sound, so who cares about silent running. <001 though

sorry my lame attempt at 1337 speak

[NecronLord]

Silent running in space means general emessions, not just sound

Am I the only one who ends up checking everyone else's ship designs and comparing to mine.

[Darth Valdemar]

Warspite

Designation: Battleship

Length: 1650 feet (502.92 meters)
Beam: 490 feet (149.35 meters)
Depth: 260 feet (79.24 meters)

Hullform: Triangular, wedge shaped - designed to allow the best firing
arc for most weapons. No external protrusions other than weapons and
external sensors. Bridge is internal, within the hull, it does not protrude.

Power:

He Fusion reactor powering propulsion and general operations with another for weapons power. Another as an emergency standby, and several other smaller ones scattered about the ship for emergency use.

Propulsion:

Reaction type R, max acceleration 25 Gs

Armour:

Seven feet (2.13 meters) of armour consisting of alternating six inch
(152.4 mm) thick layers of depleted uranium and high density steel, with
14 layers in all, 7 of each type.

There is internal subdivision with sixteen evenly spaced transverse
bulkheads and four evenly spaced longitudanal bulkheads. Each of the
aforementioned bulkheads is one foot (305 mm) thick steel, and all the
ship's decks are six inches (152.4 mm) thick.

Armament:

12 sixteen-inch naval rail rifles in four triple turrets, capable of
firing a projectile at betwen 12%-15% of C. Ordnance inludes a solid DU
penetrator, a solid tungsten penetrator, and a warhead-carrying round
that can carry conventional explosive or a nuclear device. The ship
carries nuclear shells with yields varying from 20 KT to 3 MT, and these
shells are replicable. Effective range is 75,000 miles (120,701 KM)

24 five inch naval rail rifles in twelve dual turrets, with a muzzle
velocity of 12%-15% of C. These can fire DU or tungsten penetrators, or
a conventional explosive or incendiary shell. Effective range is 40,000
miles (64,374 KM)

48 CIWS laser mounts, each laser is 16 terawatts and is primarily an
anti-missile defence. Maximum effective range 2,000 miles (3,219 KM)

12 CIWS missile batteries, primary anti-fighter defence, each battery
has six tubes and a ROF per tube of one missile every 8 seconds. Maximum
range of 5,000 miles (8,047 KM)

Craft:

Four assault shuttles, two ground-assault landing craft, two general
purpose shuttles.

Crew:

800 ship's crew, 1,200 troops.

[Pu-239]

well the ship would still emit heat

[Pu-239]

Standard Infantry/Naval.

Recruitment age 18-50 (long lifespans, this is the equialent of 16-20)

Basic training ~ 2 Years
Academic training ~ 5 Years (equivelent of doing a Bsc and Postgrad/Msc) usually in tactics, startegy logistics engineering etc.)
Advanced Millitary training ~ 3 Years Specialist and divesified training programs.
Cybernetic mental enhancement (should you be interested)
10 years basic service (garrisons etc)
5 years 'front "line"'
Optional exit and retirement
possibe Nco promotion
15 year term cycle

Standard armour (this is not a genuine exoskeleton, though these are used for actual front line combat, when humans go near the front line)
Ablative/ceramic impact absorbtion layer.
Steel/titanium/super and hyperconductive layer to absorb energy and disperse
Energy dissapation systems (classified)

Energy Carbine/Rifle. both pulse and beam fire incorparated. Remote nural feed targeting.
Energy Pistol pulsed beam variant
reloads for above.

Knife/CCW [monomolecular edge, with disruption feild]

assorted other kit.

Cybernetic would really make aiming accurate. Monomolecular knife would quickly lose that property though.

[SirNitram]

Silent running in space means general emessions, not just sound

Am I the only one who ends up checking everyone else's ship designs and comparing to mine.

I am.

Mine currently seems to be the quietest, thus making it perfect for it's normal mode of operations.. Sit a few AU from the target, wait for a perfect lock, and fling a volly of tens of thousands of warheads. Duck behind a planet, reload, fire again.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

Steel-class Escort Cruiser

Length: 867m
Width: 259m
Crew: 98 (skeleton) 342 (full)
Cruising Speed: 34mps
Max Speed: classified
FTL Speed: 357x speed of light
Troops: 350 Marines, 100 Naval Troopers
Starfighter Complement: 1 squadron SF-128Es

Powerplant: Riff & Johnson 20x Cold Fusion MkIV Capital-class Drive System

Armor:
1.7m titanium/adamantium alloy
2m inner titanium

Shields:
T-850 Class III anti-radiation/particle screen
X-270 Smithborne MkII Capital-class shield array
C-23 MkI backup shield system

Weaponry:
- 5 Heavy Neutron Cannon Turrets
- 28 Neutron Cannons
- 15 point-defense Plasma Cannons
- 4 multi-purpose missile tubes
- 10 AU Area MkVII multi-frequency jamming suite
- X-80A Targetted Inertial Nullification Beam

Escort Cruiser is something of a misnomer for the [/i]Steel-class as it generally performs reconnaisance and harassment functions to make best use of its speed and jamming suite. The X-80A is a recent addition to its arsenal, designed to make supply convoy interceptions more effective. The prototype weapon can completely halt a good sized ship by calculating its velocity and matching it with an equal force, only in the opposite direction. It requires vast amounts of power, however, and if targetted on a ship too large it will propel the Steel-class backward as it can no longer compensate for the force its putting on the target ship.

[SirNitram]

well the ship would still emit heat

Yes. But compared to all the others mentioned here, mine is nearly silent and invisible. Range(Which I didn't mention.. Bad me) is about 3AU, or 24 Lightminutes max, so it'd be sitting well out of normal engagement range for these. Plus there's it's normal SOP, hide behind handy planets.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

D'oh! Stupid italics

[NecronLord]

Standard Infantry/Naval.

Recruitment age 18-50 (long lifespans, this is the equialent of 16-20)

Basic training ~ 2 Years
Academic training ~ 5 Years (equivelent of doing a Bsc and Postgrad/Msc) usually in tactics, startegy logistics engineering etc.)
Advanced Millitary training ~ 3 Years Specialist and divesified training programs.
Cybernetic mental enhancement (should you be interested)
10 years basic service (garrisons etc)
5 years 'front "line"'
Optional exit and retirement
possibe Nco promotion
15 year term cycle

Standard armour (this is not a genuine exoskeleton, though these are used for actual front line combat, when humans go near the front line)
Ablative/ceramic impact absorbtion layer.
Steel/titanium/super and hyperconductive layer to absorb energy and disperse
Energy dissapation systems (classified)

Energy Carbine/Rifle. both pulse and beam fire incorparated. Remote nural feed targeting.
Energy Pistol pulsed beam variant
reloads for above.

Knife/CCW [monomolecular edge, with disruption feild]

assorted other kit.

Cybernetic would really make aiming accurate. Monomolecular knife would quickly lose that property though.

The major Cybernetic implants are mostly enhanced memory capacity. so if they are parachuted {ok thats a reduntant term} they will remember exactly where everyone landed. They also have in there the knowlage of how to maintain practically anything. and full layouts of major planetery capitals.

They don't use it much. The bit that does the work is the disruption feild. It is basically a strong localised AG feild so if you slash someone's neck, their head flies off instead of merely cutting a large hole in the neck. Or if you punctre a lung instead of being a small wound it creates a huge one. The monomolecular part is only really to help in penatrating soft armour such as mild steel. They have a sharpening device in the sheath

[NecronLord]

Silent running in space means general emessions, not just sound

Am I the only one who ends up checking everyone else's ship designs and comparing to mine.

I am.

Mine currently seems to be the quietest, thus making it perfect for it's normal mode of operations.. Sit a few AU from the target, wait for a perfect lock, and fling a volly of tens of thousands of warheads. Duck behind a planet, reload, fire again.

Hum theres a stealth variant of most of my ships that the expansive secret service use. (a few au? ha I scorn you with my X * 1,000C attack passes, waits, I seem to remeber you made the 5th imperium pl;anetoid from hell *hides* please don't ever repost that monstrosity)