Andromeda: Glorious Heritage Class

**Name**: Glorious Heritage class
**Craft**: Systems Commonwealth / Newport News Orbital Shipyards Glorious Heritage class Heavy Cruiser
**Type**: Heavy Cruiser
**Scale**: capital
**Length**: 1,301 x 976 x 325 meters
**Mass**: 96,408,876kg
**Skill**: capital ship pilot
**Crew**: 4,132; skeleton: 413/+10 (Ship can be operated with only the autopilot at a +10 difficulty)
**Auto Pilot**: Astrogation: 4D; Capital Ship Gunnery: 4D; Capital Ship Piloting: 4D; Communications: 4D; Sensors: 4D; Starship Gunnery: 4D; Command: 3D
**Passengers**: 2,066; 800 troops
**Cargo Capacity**: 100,000 metric tons
**Consumables**: 1 year
**Slipstream Drive**: x0.04
**Nav Computer**: yes
**Maneuverability**: 1D+1
**Space**: 5
**Atmosphere**: 295; 850 km/h
**Hull**: 7D+1
**Battle Blades**: 3D+2
**Sensors**

* Passive: 50 / 1D+1
* Scan: 100 / 2D+1
* Search: 150 / 3D+2
* Focus: 5 / 5D

**Stealth Technology**: Difficulty +1D to detect ship
**Weapons**

* **12 Type X Antiproton Cannons**

Fire Arc: turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+2
Space Range: 1-12/30/60
Atmosphere Range: 2-24/60/120km
Damage: 6D
* **12 Type X Point Defense Lasers**

Fire Arc: turrets
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+2
Space Range: 1-6/15/30
Atmosphere Range: 10-600/1,500/3,000m
Damage: 5D+1
* **40 Electromagnetic Launch System Tubes**

Fire Arc: forward, but are self guided
Crew: 1
Skill: capital ship gunnery
* **Defensive Kinetic Kill Missiles**

Scale: capital
Fire Control: 4D+2
Space Range: 1-10/25/50
Atmosphere Range: 2-20/50/100km
Damage: 3D
* **Offensive Kinetic Kill Missiles**

Scale: capital
Fire Control: 3D+2
Space Range: 1-15/38/75
Atmosphere Range: 2-30/76/150km
Damage: 9D
* **Smart Anti-Ship Missiles**

Scale: capital
Fire Control: 5D+2
Space Range: 1-14/35/70
Atmosphere Range: 2-28/70/140km
Damage: 8D
* **Extended Range Smart Anti-Ship Missiles**

Scale: capital
Fire Control: 5D+2
Space Range: 1-40/100/200
Atmosphere Range: 2-80/200/400km
Damage: 7D
* **Multiple Warhead Missiles**

Scale: capital
Fire Control: 5D+2
Space Range: 1-14/35/70
Atmosphere Range: 2-28/70/140km
Damage: 8D; See Weapon Description
* **Ground Assault Missiles**

Scale: capital
Fire Control: 5D+2
Space Range: 1-14/35/70
Atmosphere Range: 2-28/70/140km
Damage: 6D; See Weapon Description
* **Nova Bombs**

Scale: death star
Fire Control: 5D+2
Space Range: 1-40/100/200
Atmosphere Range: 2-80/200/400km
Damage: See Weapon Description
* **10 Bucky Cables**

Fire Arc: 6 aft and 4 forward
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+2
Space Range: 1-2/5/10
Atmosphere Range: 1-4/10/20km
Strength: 4D
* **6 Radiating Countermeasure Generators**

Fire Arc: all
Crew: 1
Skill: sensors
Space Range: 1-20/50/100
Atmosphere Range: 10-2,000/5,000/10,000m
Effects: Enemy Sensors & Fire Control -2D
**Compliment**

* RF-42 Centaur Tactical Fighter: 36
* RA-26 Shrike Slipfighter: 76
* AF/A-29 Phoenix Slipfighter: 12
* ES-115 Oracle Heavy Sensor/Attack Drones: 16
* S-14 Janus Light Sensor/Attack Drones:8

**Description**: The Glorious Heritage class, also known as the "XMC", is the most notable class of Warship in the High Guard fleet, and one of the most recognizable and visible symbols of the reach and power of the Systems Commonwealth. These vessels are some of the most powerful in the fleet, considered so prestigious that command is reserved for the best and the brightest.

**Function**: Glorious Heritage class cruisers are capable of high-endurance, independent operations. XMCs were often called upon to perform disaster relief and refugee support operations due to their spacious interiors and ability to ferry large quantities of emergency supplies and additional personnel, as well as possessing large medical facilities. During peacetime, XMCs are most often tasked with independent intergalactic exploration, charting and documenting the star systems of the Local Cluster, and providing relief for patrols. They are also the preferred platform for first contact missions, given their formidable combat capabilities and their ability to operate without a battlegroup - often critical to assuring potential Systems Commonwealth members that the High Guard comes in peace. Their immense weapons payload makes the Heritage class very good at settling border disputes and conducting combat operations ranging from planetary depopulation to surgical strikes.

The Heavy Cruiser operates most often as the central component of a Heavy Cruiser Battle Group. They are ideally suited for interplanetary combat, although they can play a significant role in planetary strike operations and logistics support for the Heavy Cruiser Battle Group as a whole.

Examples of ships in the Glorious Heritage class are the Pax Magellanic and the Andromeda Ascendant along with the Lancers Hope, the Midian Breach, the Million Voices, The Fires of Orion, the Salient Debate, Vanguard, and the Continuation of Politics. The design has created other classes with some ships being the Twelve Centuries, the Renewed Valor, along with the C class ship known as the Typhoon along with others.

**History**: Most of the Glorious Heritage class vessels were built above Earth, in the human operated Newport News Orbital Shipyards. After the Fall of the Commonwealth, the Andromeda Ascendant was originally thought to be the only known surviving XMC cruiser, however the Pax Magellanic and other ships like the Million Voices were eventually discovered.

**Source**:

* The Andromeda Wiki: Glorious Heritage Class
* thedemonapostle