Percutiens-class Battlecruiser

See also Solar Republic Navy

Specifications
Class: Percutiens-class Battlecruiser

Manufacturer: Gambrion-Musk Engineering

Role: Fast Battleline Ship, Capital Ship Escort, Flagship

Operator: Solar Republic Navy

Length: 1510 m (4954.07 ft)

Width: 598 m (1961.94 ft)

Height: 598 m (1961.94 ft)

Mass: 38.7 million metric tons

Engines: 2x Simian & Beckett Primary Engines; 2x S&B Auxiliary Engines; 5x S&B Maneuvering Thrusters

Power: 2x Large Venture Systems Manufacturing Dual Fusion/Antimatter Reactors; 1x Medium VSM Fusion Reactor

Complement: 48 Shrike-class Exo-/Atmospheric Strike Fighters; 8 Peregrine-class/N78 Assault Shuttles

Crew: 1403 enlisted and officers; 122 Solar Spaceborne Marines and Marine Auxiliary Support Staff, 7 ONI Operatives

Armor: Compressed Titanium/Graphene Type-20 Hull Plating

Spacewarp Drive: Class 4 515c Northrop-Grumman Alcubierre-White Drive

Armament: 2 Primary Hypervelocity Electromagnetic Accelerated Kinetic Railguns (HEAKR); 90 Raytheon Tetsudo PDC; 64 Longbow Nuclear Missile Launchers; 40 Raytheon Ship-to-ship Semi-automated Railgun Turrets

Ships in class
BC 924-000 SRNS Percutiens

BC 924-012 SRNS Hastings

BC 924-007 SRNS Orleans

BC 924-013 SRNS Waterloo

BC 924-014 SRNS Normandy

BC 924-015 SRNS Saratoga

BC 924-002 SRNS Gettysburg

BC 924-017 SRNS Stalingrad

BC 924-005 SRNS Thermopylae

BC 924-008 SRNS Changping

BC 924-016 SRNS Agincourt

BC 924-009 SRNS Antietam

BC 924-001 SRNS Yorktown

BC 924-003 SRNS Somme

BC 924-006 SRNS Syracuse

BC 924-004 SRNS Marathon

BC 924-010 SRNS Arbela

Overview
Designed as a compromise between the speed of a Heavy Cruiser and the armor of a Battleship, the Percutiens-class Battlecruiser was an experiment in the idea of creating a hybrid starship that could outrun what it could not kill. Using the basic design of the Borealis-class Heavy Cruiser, the Percutiens was scaled up, and refitted with better armor, larger engines, and more efficient reactors than its predecessor. At first meeting resistance from Fleet Headquarters, after the outbreak of the Core-Sol War it was quickly realized that a fast heavily armed and armored ship was needed. Built by the primary shipbuilders of the Sol Federation, Gambrion-Musk Engineering, the first Percutiens started space trials in 2312. Named after great battles of Sol’s history, it was quickly found that the Percutiens were perfect for the roles of both a battleline ship, and squadron flagship. Seeing action at nearly every major battle after its construction, the Percutiens became the go-to ship for fleet and squadron engagements.