Goshawk Three

The Goshawk Three was a type of fusion reactor in use with the People's Navy before and during the First Havenite-Manticoran War.
It was a typical product of the prewar Havenite tech base: big, powerful, and crude. Unable to match the technical sophistication of the Star Kingdom of Manticore, the People's Republic of Haven had relied on hardware designed for brute strength and far shorter intervals between overhauls. The Goshawk Three was unusually crude however.
It represented a traditional phase between their prewar hardware and later more sophisticated designs created with the assistance of technology transfers from the Solarian League. It was substantially more efficient than it predecessors, producing twice the output for barely a ten percent increase in size. The Goshawk Three also possessed reduced failsafe redundancies to save mass and, in turned, ended up with an extremely dangerous glitch in their containment bottles.
The glitch resulted in two warships equipped with Goshawk Threes to suffer catastrophic containment failures while in parking orbits at standby power levels. ()
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