Hyperion-class battlecruiser

The Hyperion-class battlecruiser is a classification of cruiser in service with the Systems Alliance Navy. These vessels are most often deployed in attack and defense roles, serving as the backbone of Alliance fleets.
== Specifications ==
At 1000 meters (3,280 ft) long, Hyperion-class battlecruisers are more than twice the length of a typical frigate. Ships of the class are armed with a spinal mass accelerator, several batteries of plasma cannons, a missile delivery system and a network of GARDIAN lasers. The primary mass accelerator fires a 50-ton ferrotungsten slug at 5.2% of light speed.
Like all Alliance warships the Hyperion is equipped with an advanced drive core for faster-than-light travel. The core is designed to minimize static build-up, and transfers the remaining charge to specially designed capacitors attached to the core. The recycled electricity is used to run ship systems, reducing power requirements and lowering heat generation. Alliance drive cores are capable of gravitationally contracting space in front of the ship and shortening it behind, creating an Alcubierre waveform that allows the ship to rapidly traverse the space between star clusters, rendering the Alliance less dependent on the Mass Relays than the Citadel races.
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