Glorious Heritage class
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The Glorious Heritage class was a type of cruiser that featured in Andromeda.
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Overview
The Glorious Heritage class was a type of heavy cruiser that served as the bright star of the High Guard fleet and was the most visible symbol of their reach as well as the power of the Systems Commonwealth. The command of these ships was reserved for the best and brightest captains. They were noted for their high-endurance and independent operational capabilities with XMC's being often called upon to perform disaster relief as well as refugee support operations due to their spacious interiors along with their ability to ferry large quantities of emergency supplies and additional personnel. During peacetime, these vessels were often tasked with independent intergalactic exploration where they charted and documted the star systems of the Local Cluster. This made them prefered platform for first contact missions due to their formidable combat capabilities as well as their ability to operate without a battlegroup which can be critical in ensuring that potential Commonwealth members can be assured that the High Guard come in peace.
The ship cotained a compliment consisted of 4,132 with an officer list of 1/11.
Technical Specifications
Statistics
- Length: 1301m
- Beam: 976m
- Height: 325m
- Inertial Mass: 96,408,876 kg
- Max Speed: Classified
- Power Source: Fusion Reactors
- 1 AI command and control entity
Sensor systems
- PAS-37Q System Search Sensor
- HSS-114D Hyper-Spectral Scanner
- AIS-117M Advanced Imaging Sensor
- AIS-117I Advanced Imaging Sensor
- ES/A-9R Electronic Support & Attack Measure Suite
Combat systems
- 40 ELS missile tubes
- 12 50MW PDL turrets
- 12 AP cannons
- 36 RF-42 Centaur tactical fighters
- 76 RA-26 Shrike strike fighters
- 12 AF/A-29 Phoenix atmospheric attack craft
- 16 ES-115 Oracle heavy sensor/attack drones
- 8 ES-14 Janus light sensor/attack drones
- 6 Radiating Counter Measure generators
- 2 heavy combat robots for planetary assault
Weapon systems
- OM-5 Standard Offensive Kinetic Kill Missiles
- DM-5 Standard Defensive kinetic kill missiles
- PM-6 Star Arrow Smart Anti-Ship Missiles
- PM-6L Strategic Star Arrow Smart ASM
- PM-6LII Strategic Star Arrow (MIKV)
- SAPM-6III Strike Arrow Surface Attack Variant
- Nova Bombs
Personnel
Multipurpose Shipboard Robots
General Utility Androids
The General Utility Androids were human sized robots which performed a wide range of maintenance tasks. This included advising and helping the crew in the performance of their duties. In addition to this, they provided a more combat oriented duty by serving as guards and can be equipped with weapons to aid them in this task.
Typically, the captain's office contained two such as general utility android guards which held Force Lances.
- Its possible that these machines were customised according to the "gender" of the ship's AI meaning some can appear female while others male. Its also possible that the ships AI's avatar descends from this line of android.
Planetary Warfare Robots
The Glorious Heritage carried two ground defense robots that were equipped with an array of large gauss guns. These were typically used in the event of a full-scale pitched battle and can be deployed either in space or on a planetary surface. They were capable of firing on a large group of people or focusing their firepower to a single target. This allowed them to shoot down ships the size of fighters or cargo ships or mow down hordes of enemy infantry.
Their weapon systems consisted of arm mounted weapon modules that contained one to three groups of gatling guns and in addition to this they possessed shoulder mounted missile tubes. They apparently had the ability to walk on the hull of a ship without falling into space.
Hanger Bay
Slipfighters
Seamus Harper developed a new model of Slipfighter onboard the Andromeda which was superior to previous types and included splinter-image technology which created holographic duplicates of the fighter in order to confuse enemy sensors and visual scans.
History
By the time of the Fall of the Commonwealth, many of the Glorious Heritage class vessels were destroyed. The Andromeda Ascendant managed to survive but was trapped within the gravitational field of a black hole which froze it in time. The Pax Magellanic was another such ship that survived but was derelict after destroying the a planet. Many other ships were trapped powerless in a Neitzschean prisoner of war camp.
The New Systems Commonwealth attempted to rebuild more Glorious Heritage class vessels.
Known ships
- Andromeda Ascendant
- Pax Magellanic
- Million Voices
- Crimson Sunrise
- Midian Breach
- Lancer's Hope
- Magellan Melrow
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