Olympia-class Light Cruiser

See also Solar Republic Navy

Specifications
Class: Olympia-class Light Cruiser

Manufacturer: Gambrion-Musk Engineering

Role: Fast Battleline Ship; Fleet Escort; Fast Attack and Strike Vessel; PBAC Weapon Platform

Operator: Solar Republic Navy

Length: 2306.9 m (7568.57 ft)

Width: 497.4 m (1631.89 ft)

Height: 271.3 m (890.09 ft)

Mass: 10.2 million metric tons

Engines: 2x Simian & Beckett Primary Engines; 3x S&B Auxiliary Engines

Power: 3x Medium Venture Systems Manufacturing Dual Fusion/Antimatter Reactors

Complement: 4 Peregrine-class Assault Shuttles; 24 Shrike-class Exo-Atmospheric Strike Fighters

Crew: 840 enlisted and officers; 122 Marines and Marine Auxiliary Support Staff

Armor: Compressed Titanium/Ceramic and Graphene Type-22 Hull Plating

Spacewarp Drive: Class 4 547c Northrop-Grumman Alcubierre-White Warp Drive

Armament: 1x Experimental Mk I.N - Mk I.IV Particle-Beam Accelerator Cannon; 56x Raytheon Tech. Tetsudo Point Defense Railguns; 24x Longbow Nuclear/Pykrete Missile Launchers; 26x Raytheon Tech. HVK-34 Semi-Automated Railguns

Ships in class
CL 211-004 SRNS Athena

CL 211-002 SRNS Perseus

CL 211-003 SRNS Circe

CL 221-001 SRNS Odysseus

CL 221-005 SRNS Artemis

CL 221-006 SRNS Achilles

CL 221-007 SRNS Delphi

History
Designed by Gambrion-Musk in 2325 as a platform for SRN R&D Department’s experimental Particle-Beam Accelerator Cannon, the Olympia-class Light Cruiser has much smaller crews than is typical of its size. While revolutionary in its weaponry and highly computer-automated design, the Olympia-class quickly showed its faults, with the PBAC having a failure rate of 23% upon installation, a quickly mounting rate of failure with each consecutive use. As such, the Olympia production line was put on pause partly for budgetary concerns and partly to facilitate the upgrade of future PBAC designs without allocating funds for mostly functionless ships.

Designed around the PBAC Mk.I - Mk.I.IV, the ship was therefore required to devote most of its already limited hull-space to the creation and alignment of the PBAC. As such, little room was left over for a crew normally required for a ship of the Olympia’s size. The solution to this problem was to provide an unprecedented amount of control to the ship’s AI and mainframe, resulting in a leap forward in automated ship system design.

Upon the outbreak of the Solar-Colony War, and the sudden offensive by CCR forces, the Olympia-class line was hastily put back into production to combat the high level of technological prowess wielded by the Confederation. Most were put back into ready status with a huge keel mounted railgun instead of the PBAC, the design taken from weapon systems of orbital platforms.