Poltava-class heavy cruiser

### Manufacture:

Cromwell Manufacturing Corporation (Design and Hull Production) Presidia Fleet yards (Subsystems and Engineering)

## Ship Information

### Jumpdrives:

* 4x Presidia Spatial-Displacement Driver

### Armament:

* 2x Quad 400mm Batteries
* 1x Triplet 400mm Battery
* 2x Dual 400mm Batteries
* 1x 80mm Flak
* 12x 20mm PDT

### Crew:

* 1 Pilot
* 1 Sysop
* 1 Gunner (Optional)

## Chronological and Affiliation

### Launched:

Turn 8, Deployed to "Dauntless Squadron", later moved to "Resurrection"

## Workshop Link

### Workshop Link:

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*The Poltava-Class Heavy Cruiser is a medium-ranged artillery cruiser, Designed for frontal salvo exchanges and forward survivability. Produced by Cromwell Manufacturing Corporation as part of a PXC Corporate Subsidy program, she is the first Heavy Cruiser Hull built for the Coalition's Navy and served as the heavy backbone to PXC's Resurrection Squadron during the Supremacy War.*

## Design details

The Poltava-Class has an overall rounded profile, making her fairly unique among the Coalition's stock of angular former CDF vessels. Her Rear Thruster bank is composed of just 3 large Sublight drives, providing a better thrust ratio, but sacrificing her redundancy. She features 2 "Casemate" Dual 400mm guns on either side of most centerline forward battery. These are limited in operational view but are reinforced by their armored casing. Her centerline batteries are inlaid to provide a more protection, albeit at the detriment of firing arch. Operationally she is designed as a medium ranged shelling platform, opposed to a brawling role, so lack of firing arc is not as much of an issue when the ship is used in its proper role.

### Crew

An optimal crew for this vessel includes a Pilot, a Sysop, and a Gunner. She can, however, be flown with just a pilot, albeit with significantly reduced ability.

### Armaments

* 2x Quad 400mm Batteries
* 1x Triplet 400mm Battery
* 2x Dual 400mm Batteries
* 1x 80m Flak
* 12x 20mm PDT

## Operational history

### Pre-Supremacy War

The Poltava-Class Heavy Cruiser was commissioned by the Coalition's Naval Department, as part of a corporate subsidy program. its designer and producer, Cromwell Manufacturing Corporation, is a private weapons and ship manufacturer based out of PXC Malta and later the PXC HQ Cairo. Design tests initially supported the promise of a survivable brawling ship, but further examination showed a tendency to suffer large ammo racking incidents as well as frequent thruster stripping under simulated fire. After multiple design iterations and testing phases, the Mark II design was implemented, shifting her focus from brawling into that of a solid artillery platform, which neatly solved many of the previous issues at the same time.

 *Poltava MK I During Preliminary Testing*

### Supremacy War

* Battle of 2B (1st vs PXC)
* *No battle was seen due to 1st Retreat: **(Mass Jumpdrive Failure)***

* Battle of 2C (1st vs PXC)

The Repentence (a Poltava Mk II) served as the Heavy Asset for PXC Resurrection Squadron, (CH, CVL, DDK, DD and various Fighters). During the fight, Resurrection was outmassed against First Fleet's Crucible Squadron, (BC, CHW, CL, DD). After an underwhelming start, *Repentance* was forced fight both the 1st CHW *The World* and BC *Tyr* simultaneously while PXC DDK *Johnston* continued with its mission to destroy the 1st FOB, FOB Royal. After a prolonged slugging match, all three ships (*Repentance, Tyr* and *The World*) were left heavily damaged, though *Repentance* was able to safely make an escape, followed by DDK *Johnston*. Despite technically losing the engagement, the battle was considered a major strategic victory. It was a victory at a price, though- due to the large and extensive amount of damage done to the hull and internal structure, *Repentance* was returned to Cromwell Corp. for a repair and major refit.

*CH-01 Poltava "Repentance" after 2C battle*

### Post Supremacy war

In the aftermath of the Supremacy war the *Repentance* found herself in Malta's drydock undergoing a major refit after taking significant hull, and thruster damage during her last combat deployment. She would be the last ship to use Malta's Class-B Drydock before it was removed during Malta's own major overhaul.

Currently in the capacity of the flagship of Resurrection Squadron operating in the border region between the Inner and Outer system with rumor's that she would potentially receive a sister ship.

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## Ships of the line

* (CH-01) Repentance
	+ Deployed Shortly before the Supremacy War to PXC Dauntless before being Re-assigned to Resurrection as its heavy asset.
	+ Suffered heavy damage during a battle in 2C with 1st Crucible Squadron, she remained operational and retreated, receiving a major refit in the repair process.

## Trivia

* The Poltava hull was actually redone before it was officially deployed, making the hull a MK II by technicality.
* The Poltava hull was the first Heavy-Cruiser hull produced by PXC.

## Gallery

Poltava-classPXC poster with the Poltava-class