Space Battleship Andromeda
Class/Model/Name: Space Battleship Andromeda
Tech: Clan
Vessel Type: WarShip
C-Bill Cost: $33,564,036,000.00
Magazine Cost: $88,680,000.00
BV2: 408,475
Mass: 2,500,000 tons
K-F Drive System: Compact K-F drive
Safe Thrust: 3
Maximum Thrust: 5
Armor Type: Lamellor Ferro-Carbide
Armament:
80 Light Naval PPCs
30 Heavy Naval PPCs
30 Medium Naval Guass Rifles
4 AR-10 Launchers
8 Thunderbolt-20 Launchers
4 Large ER Pulse Lasers
6 Medium ER Pulse Lasers
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Class/Model/Name: Space Battleship Andromeda
Mass: 2,500,000 tons
Equipment: Mass
Drive: 450,000.00
Controls: 6,250.00
Thrust: Safe Thrust: 3
Maximum Thrust: 5
Compact K-F Drive: Integrity 48 1,131,250.00
Jump Sail: Integrity: 9 155.00
Structural Integrity: 150 375,000.00
Total Heat Sinks: 7,841 Double (15,662) 6,838.00
Fuel & Fuel Pumps: 3,060.00
Fire Control Computers: 59,125.00
Cargo and Consumables: 220,494.90
Armor Type: Lamellor Ferro-Carbide (8,250 total armor pts) 7,500.00
Capital Scale Armor Pts
Location: L / R
Fore: 1390
Fore-Left/Right: 1390/1390
Aft-Left/Right: 1390/1390
Aft: 1390
Cargo:
Bay 1: Fighter Bays (24 Fighters) 3,600.00
Small Craft Bays (12 Small Craft) 2,400.00
Cargo (86,031 tons) 86,031.00
6 Doors
Escape Pods: 50 Escape Pods, 50 Life Boats (7 tons each) 700.00
Crew and Passengers:
4 Docking Collars 4,000.00
121 Officers-1st Class Quarters 1,210.00
615 Crew, and Bay Personel-2nd Class Quarters 4,305.00
Weapons and Equipment Loc SRV MRV LRV ERV Heat Mass
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8*10 Light NPPCs Nose 70e 70e 70e 70e 8400 112,000.00
3 Heavy NPPC Nose 45 45 45 45 675 9,000.00
3*Medium NG Nose 25e 25e 25e 25e 45 16,500.00
3 Heavy NPPC FL/R 45 45 45 45 675 18,000.00
3*Medium NG FL/R 25e 25e 25e 25e 45 33,000.00
2 AR-10 Launchers FL/R ** ** ** ** ** 1000.00
3 Heavy NPPC LBS/RBS 45 45 45 45 675 18,000.00
3 Heavy NPPC LBS/RBS 45 45 45 45 675 18,000.00
3*Medium NG LBS/RBS 25e 25e 25e 25e 45 33,000.00
3*Medium NG LBS/RBS 25e 25e 25e 25e 45 33,000.00
2 Large ER Pulse LBS/RBS 20(2) 20(2) 20(2) 26 24.00
3 Medium ER Pulse LBS/RBS 21(2) 21(2) 18 12.00
3 Heavy NPPC AL/R 45 45 45 45 675 18,000.00
3*Medium NG AL/R 25e 25e 25e 25e 45 33,000.00
3 Heavy NPPC Aft 45 45 45 45 675 9,000.00
3*Medium NG Aft 25e 25e 25e 25e 45 16,500.00
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Ammo
Medium Naval Gauss Rounds-2400 960.00
Killer Whale Missiles-40 2,000.00
White Shark Missiles-40 1,600.00
Barracuda Missiles-40 1,200.00
Thunderbolt 20 missiles-900 300.00
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Other Equipment
Large NCSS 500.00
Communications Equipment (15 tons) 10.00
Mobile HPG 50.00
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Explanations:
Since people seemed dissatisfied with, this design uses my next idea for how to represent the wave motion gun. The Andromeda carried a dual dispersion wave motion gun though (double the fun), so this system gets pretty big. For each half I decided to use 4 bays of 10 Light Naval PPCs. Each bay hits for 70 capital damage. Just 2 bays does more damage than a single heavy mass driver (though it doesn't threshold as high), and since I am have having 4 bays represent each half, this has 8, for a total of 560 capital damage, just from this system. For those who want a giant gun, I'll point to the total weight of the system, including the weapons and the massive fire control system needed to put more than 80 capital weapons in a single fire arc, the system all together out-weights a heavy mass driver. Further, since it is made up of multiple bays it can target multiple enemies, and since it has multiple weapons per bay they can bracket fire, which in this case is as close to AoE as anything like this can get. It also happens to be energy based rather than projectile based.
The rest of the ship is mostly an upgrade from the Yamato, gaining an extra grouping for the shock cannon analogs (HNPPC and MNG bays). It does lower the number of anti fighter weapons. It also upgrades the sub-capital missiles to AR-10s. There is a price for all that though, the ship had to drop Naval C3, and lower the cargo capacity to possibly dangerous levels. This ship really wants to stay close to support. Without the C3 I traded the dropshuttle bays for a bunch of small craft bays, and I took the liberty of adding 4 docking collars.
Unlike the original, this version of the Andromeda has a larger crew than the Yamato. With a massive influx of gunners due to the 80 Light Naval PPCs used to make up the dual dispersion wave motion gun.
Fluff:
Developed by the combined efforts of the House Yamato personnel from both Universal Exports and the Belter colonies, this design was created as a theoretical replacement for the Space Battleship they currently have paroling deep in the outer oort cloud of Sol. None have currently been built at this time, and the Belters do not have the capacity to build one one there own. Universal Exports is currently deciding whether to help the belters develop a navy, or only maintain enough to defend themselves. Currently the Board of Directors is evenly split on the matter.
Loyalty to the Republic and placing a possibly serious threat so close to them is of no concern to the Board. The issues under consideration are being drawn into a side in a possible conflict within Sol on one side. The other side is the benefits that could come from stronger ties to the belters, and a foothold in the system if it comes time to take Terra away from anyone. Part of the resistance is that some on the board are wary of their Sea Fox allies, and it has yet to be determined if they are behind the push to militarize a group so close to Terra as some convoluted scheme to claiming Terra as their own.
As it stands the debate in the Board continues, and the ship remains a design built only in engineering simulations.