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Bernard Hacker
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"Menendez de Aviles" Exploration Cruiser/Battleship/Colonial Monitor (3xBattleship +60)
- Mobility: 0+2
- Evasion: 0+1
- Armor: 8+12
- Structure: 8+3
- Hits: 40+48
- Reactor: 88
- Power Requirements: 84
- Spaces: 259
- Engineering Coefficient: 10
- Hull: Coe: 8
Propulsion
- 2 x Fusion Thruster (-40 Spaces, -80 Power)
- 11 x Fission Reactors (-11 Spaces, +88 Power)
- 1 x Jump Drive (-1 Space, -4 Power)
Protection
- 6 x Belted Armor (-48 Spaces)
Hull
- 4x Hatches (-8 Spaces)
Fixed Equipment(2120 Model)
- 3x Large Naval Rifles (-60)
- 7x Medium Naval rifles (-70)
- 1 x White Shark Launchers (-10 Spaces)
- 1 x Anti-Ship Missiles (-05 Spaces)
- 3x Flak Cannon (-6 Spaces)
Fixed Equipment (2150 refit "C1")
- 2x Large Naval Rifles (-40)
- 6x Medium Naval rifles (-60)
- 2 x White Shark MKII Launchers (-20 Spaces)
- 3 x Anti-Ship Missiles (-15 Spaces)
- 8x Flak Cannon (-16 Spaces)
Fixed Equipment (2185-86 Emergency Refit)
- 2x Large Naval Rifles (-40)
- 2x Medium Naval rifles (-20)
- 2 x White Shark MKII Launchers (-20 Spaces)
- 3 x Anti-Ship Missiles (-15 Spaces)
- 2 x VLS AA Launchers(-10 Spaces)
- 23x Flak Cannon (-46 Spaces)
Class Ships: Menendez de Aviles (Converted to monitor 2146), Juan de Lángara, Reale Carlos, Bristol, Lombardy (Lost 2109), Dresden (Scrapped 2161), General Cornwallis (Sunk 2187)
Originally designed as long-term exploration ships in the beginning of space exploration. The Menendez de Aviles class were all retired from active service with the introduction of the Drake class, but some colonies still retain a few of these old and battered ships. In construction they resemble less a ship of the modern era (such that the Drake represents) and more of a ship envisioned for today by the previous era. Due to concerns over long-term voyages the class was designed to by in a constant state of rotation to provide pseudo gravity for its crew. Perhaps the key factor to the long-term endurance of the class was the extensive armor belting that covers all important interior spaces. While originally intended as a measure aganist whatever damage the hull might take during its exploration mission it served well enough aganist the crude plasma cutters of drones and finally aganist priate and rebel light warships unforunate to underestimate the strength of these ships hulls. In 2120, with widespread understanding of the threat posed by feral Drones, most ships of the class recieved a modernization that involved a very large weapons armament.
In some cases the jump drives of these ships have been stripped or their armament upgraded to be nearly comparable to the Drake; or made into specialized boats of various makes. In the ZOCU War several Men. de. Aviles received rush or emergency modernizations; one was the Reale Carlos at the time serving in the Outremonde Frontier Squadron. At the time of its modernization Outremonde lacked any medium or heavy railguns to replace its naval rifles with but possessed a abundance of missiles and launchers, originally for a now abandoned project to build several missile-centered cruisers. With the upsetting success of ZOCU Peltasts aganist DSF warships the Reale Carlos was stripped of most of its medium naval rifles for additional VLS AA launchers and a immense number of flak cannons twenty-three in total!
While the Reale Carlos was too slow to participate, and indeep far too old to be expected to hold up in anycase, in the Deep Space Fleet's victorious offensive against the rebel colonies the ship served in several actions in the Outremonde system and some neighbouring starzones in the role of both flagship and convoy guard. Notably at the battle of Rooks Drift where the Reale Carlos and a group of guardships interdicted a small group of ZOCU transports ferrying reinforcements to the besieged planetoid and were defeated, causing the surrender of the planetoid a week later. The ship never came up against massed ZOCU strike craft assault where its large AA suite would have proved useful. None the less the class, itself another tribute to the rugged survivability of EU shipbuilding, served honourably either exploring now settled systems, fending off drone attacks and finally in defence of the Union.
"Menendez de Aviles (Improved)" Battleship (4xBattleship +80)
- Mobility: 0+2
- Evasion: 0+1-1
- Armor: 8+12+4 (+4 AP)
- Structure: 8+3
- Hits: 40+48
- Sensors/ECM: -1
- Reactor: 225
- Power Requirements: 216
- Spaces: 279
- Engineering Coefficient: 10
- Hull: Coe: 8
- Propulsion
- 2 x Fusion Thruster (-40 Spaces, -80 Power)
- 15 x Fusion Reactors (-15 Spaces, +225 Power)
- 2 x Jump Drive (-2 Space, -8 Power)
- Protection
- 6 x Belted Armor (-48 Spaces)
- Rating 1 Scattering Field (-8 Spaces, -64 Power)
- Hull
- 3x Hatches (-6 Spaces)
- Fixed Equipment 161
- 4x Large Railcannons (-80, -64 Power)
- 2 x White Shark Launchers (-20 Spaces)
- 4x Anti-Ship Missiles (-20 Spaces)
- 2 x VLS AA Launchers(-10 Spaces)
- 15 Flak Cannon (-30 Spaces)
Class Ships: Europa Unionale (Planned 2187, delayed, planned 2188; Canceled early 2189)
The rumours of a successor design for the Pallada sent waves of concern throughout the Outremonde Frontier Fleet and its Deep Space Fleet regional command; quickly an idea of Commodore Karl Lorient that proposed constructing a up-scaled and improved version of the Menendez de Aviles class in order to supplement Outremonde's defences and contribute to the upcoming offensive aganist Haraway was adopted. While the rumoured Pallada replacement never bore fruit ground work for the Europa Unionale did however get underway. However by the time the project was almost ready for pre-production it was decided to instead concentrate on smaller-ship production, which could be finished quicker, for the rest of the year. In 2188 when it was planned to begin construction technical difficulties delayed the project until early 2189 when it was canceled after the DSF(O) received its first new Drake Mark VII. The "Super" Menendez de Aviles was not to be. Some rumours, particularly in the shipyards where the ship was intended to be built, suggest that the battleship wasn't delayed in 2187 but was actually completed in 2188 to be kept in secret reserve. Other rumors hold that the ship was involved in a abortive coup in 2189 and had its official records (and crew) purged as a result. Externally the "Super" de Aviles resembles its parent design to such a extent its merely a somewhat bigger version with additional torpedo budges and Drake-style railgun turrets replacing the large naval rifle turrets and a medium turret. In reality had the ship been completed (or if more ships of the type were built) the impact would not have been as great as some would have hoped for; the Drake MK VII was generally a superior design.