Project Horus

Project Horus was a military experiment in an attempt to created the world's first space based military force. This was enacted by the President in case of the Chinese attempting to launch a strike from low orbit and as a contingency plan to evacuate the United States Government and a select group of people to settle on a nearby planet should the united states itself fall to full scale invasion or hostile takeover by other enemies. The specifications were for a class of ships capable of traveling the moon or any other habitable planet within or out of the solar system and back to earth in a reasonable time period. Also for the ship to be armed with 18 heavy caliber artillery cannons of 16", numerous smaller anti-space craft artillery and machine guns and also capable carrying small fighter craft of its own.