Hyperion-Class Battle Carrier
History:
The Orion was created as a sign of the partnership of the OMF Naval and Space Forces. The ship is capable of sailing throught the stars as well as the seas. It was assigned to Fleet Admiral Mirumoto, OMF's Supremember Commander Nick Fury believed Admiral Yokoturi could command the ship in battle and lead it to victory. The Orion is the OMF's largest ship ever, it is also where most of the experiment vehicles are sent for testing, an example being Admiral Mirumoto's YF-19. The crew of the Orion is said to be some of the best and brightest the navy has to offer ranging from ace pilots to genius engineers.
Vehicle Type:
Large Sized Battle Carrier
Crew:
Operations
Ship Crew - 400
Officers - 26/Enlisted - 374
Combat/Support
Combat/Support - 1040
Officers - 68/Enlisted - 972
Gross Dimensions:
Height 504 meters
Length 1510 meters
Width 483 meters
Weight 7,770,000 metric tons Standard Operating
6,250,000 metric tons Empty
2,500,000 metric tons Gunship
Power Systems:
Main Power - OTEC/General Galaxy CA615 Reflex furnace cluster. The power plant of a New Macross class vessel can nominally deliver up to 33.82 Petawatts of power, and can operate for 75 minutes at maximum power before overheat initiates auto-shutdown.
Maneuvering Reaction Thrusters (10) - Shinnakasu Agar FPR10 Fusion-plasma reaction thrusters mounted two mounted forward and aft of each lower launch deck hull, two mounted in the rear of each side sponson, two mounted in the front of the large lower stabilization fin.
Reaction Mass Thrusters (2) - Shinnakasu Agar FPR121 fusion-plasma reaction thrusters with energizer, These engines are mounted in a single block in each leg/rear block.
There are no secondary thrusters; breaking maneuvers are made with the maneuvering thrusters using exhaust deflectors opening in the dorsal and ventral engine sections.
Anti-Gravity System - OTEC A60 Anti-Gravity System.
Space Fold - OTEC/General Galaxy/Shinnakasu CD129 Fold System.
Weapons Systems:
OTEC Model 4 Heavy Converging Beam Cannon (1); This heaviest of ship-borne weapons has an effective range of 600,000 km; at full power it has the effective yield of a 130 MT fusion weapon. Unlike the Zentraedi Monitor and Flagship, or the battle fortresses and their derivatives, this weapon, based upon the most up-to-date technologies, does not require a split-boom. The weapon is located in a detachable gunship style vessel that mounts between the two catamaran style hulls.
Mk. 8 Medium Converging Beam Cannon (30); Turrets with effectively two Zentraedi standard particle beam cannons each. There is fifteen turrets mounted in the sides of each hull just below the lower lip of the flight deck, they are mounted in a recessed well protecting them when not in use. Each barrel can fire 4,000 MJ of particle energy every 5 seconds, or less powerful discharges at a higher rate of fire.
The effective range is 300,000 km.
This was an improvement on the standard Zentraedi particle turret system, which suffered from no armor protection, as well as from unwanted hit dispersal on a target. The new design featured essentially three of the older cannons into one, heavily armored turret. This increased resilience and decreased hit dispersal greatly.
Oerlikon Model 486 Paladin Anti-Air/Mecha Defensive single-barrel light converging beam turrets (134); These weapons fire a 500 mJ burst every three seconds. These turrets are scattered over the hull of the vessel behind recessed panels.
Bofors Mk.8 Ballistic missile launcher box (4); there is the Mk.8 missile launcher is a huge dual-quintuple shot box missile launcher for the large obelisk missiles that has an on mount radar system, after firing all it's missiles it is retracted into the hull and manipulator arms reload the launchers, this takes approximately five minutes. One is mounted on either side of the bridge tower, and one is mounted on either side of the main flight deck. The ready magazine holds 100 reload missiles. These fire the large Obelisk missiles.
Bofors Mk.9 Ballistic missile launch tubes (40); recessed in the hulls of the vessel are forty single shot missile tubes that are reloaded by a large conveyor system and can be reloading in twenty seconds. The tubes are arranged in four dual rows of five, two deca's are mounted behind the bridge and there is a single deca mounted in each side of the main hull. Since this launch system uses a conveyor instead of manipulators to reload the system the ready magazines for each deca have 250 missiles stored. These fire the large Obelisk missiles.
PINPOINT BARRIER DEFENSE SYSTEM- Originally developed by researchers onboard the SDF-01 Macross during Space War One, the Pinpoint Barrier System is a standard defense system on board all UN Spacy starships, including the Algenicus Class Cruisers. The system generates four small disc-shaped force fields that can be positioned anywhere along the ship to deflect missiles, energy beams or projectiles. Each pinpoint barrier is about 200 ft (61 m) in length and can absorb up to 5,000 mJ in damage, which then regenerates within four seconds. The barriers can also be layered on top of each other to generate a field which provides 20,000 mJ and can even deflect heavy particle beams (usually).
The four barriers are controlled by operators in the command tower of the carrier. These operators are instructed to defend (1) the command tower, bridge, and sensor array, (2) main engines, (3) hangar bay, and (4) weapon systems, in that order. The operators primarily concentrate on defending the ship against larger spacecraft and leave defense against mecha attacking the carrier to the VF pilots.
Electronic/Sensor Systems:
ANTIGRAVITY PROPULSION SYSTEM- The ship is equipped with an anti-gravity propulsion system used for planetary landings and liftoffs. The system is good for vertical ascent/descent only and can lift the ship at speeds of up to 1,320 feet (400 m) per minute. The system will function so long as the main energy system (in the rear 1/3 of the ship) can supply energy to it.
HYPERSPACE COMMUNICATIONS- The ship is equipped with a hyperspace communications relay allowing faster-than-light communication between the ships.
LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS- The ship has sufficient life support to provide breathable air and comfortable temperatures for people for up to 20 years (air was recycled). In an emergency the life support system could support up to several times the normal amount of people at one time. The ship contained enough food and water onboard to support the crew for up to 5 years (with recycling).
LONG-RANGE TRACKING SENSORS- The ships command tower was equipped with a complex sensor system that could track and identify up to 1,500 craft simultaneously. The system had a 2,000 mile/3,200 km range.
SPACE FOLD SYSTEM- For FTL propulsion, the Algenicus was equipped with an fold system capable of propelling the ship through hyperspace at speeds up to 3.28x10^10 mps (5.25x10^10 kmps), or 1 light year per 6 minutes. The range of the fold drive is theoretically unlimited except by the life expectancy of the spacecraft (which is unknown).
SUBLIGHT ENGINES- As a backup to the Fold System, the ship was equipped with impulse engines that could propel the craft at speeds up to 0.24 speed of light (38,400 miles per second) in space. Note that these engines were mainly intended for rapid movement inside a planetary system and are not suited for long voyages between star systems. In a planetary atmosphere the ship is limited to speeds of Mach 2.0 maximum due to hull stress.
SUBSPACE MASS SENSORS- As part of the ship's sensor systems, the fortress was equipped with subspace sensors that could essentially instantly detect mass readings and movement of objects up to 1 AU (93 million miles) distant from the carrier. Readings taken with the subspace sensors are not very detailed (-25% penalty when trying to identify a detected object) and cannot detect objects of less than 60,000 kg.
There are circa 490~ Mecha
Circa 1~YF-19 Excalibur
Circa 20~F-204 Lightning IIIs
Circa 435~F-203 Dragon IIs
Circa 15~HWR-00 Monsters
Plus Circa 90~ Auxiliary Craft (Shuttles/Transport Craft)
Circa 60~ Recon Craft
Circa 18~ Transport Craft
Circa 12~ Liaison Craft
