Grade Atlastar-Class Battleship

The **Grade Atlastar-class Battleship** is a class of battleships designed, constructed and fielded by the Gra Valkas Empire, they are the largest surface vessels currently in service in the Gra Valkas Imperial Navy, and are some of the largest battleships in Elysia.

## Overview

The Grade Atlastar class strongly resembles its Terran counterpart, the largest battleships ever built in human history, the Yamato-class of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Hence why they are sometimes referred to by Americans as "Yamato clones".

Much like the Yamato, the Grade Atlastar-class is armed with nine 18.1 inch/46 cm batteries housed in triple mount gun turrets, 2 facing the bow and 1 facing the stern. These cannons have an effective range of around 42 kilometers at 45° degree elevation angle, they are capable of firing high explosive, armor piercing, as well as proximity fused anti-aircraft shells.

Despite their extreme similarities to Yamato-class battleships, the Grade Atlastar-class possesses superior anti-aircraft capabilities, including radar based fire control systems as well as proximity fuses. This makes it comparable to American late-WWII and early Cold War era AA capabilities.

Due to the massive amount of time and resources needed to construct a capital warship, the Grade Atlastar class is far less common compared to the Hercules-class or the Orion-class battleships. So far only 2 vessels of her class are confirmed to exist, the lead ship GVS Grade Atlastar and her sister ship GVS Valhalla.

## Specifications

Although the details of it are unknown, since the ship was almost identical to the final version of the *Yamato*-class battleships of World War II with some technologies that are not installed on the Yamato-Class Battleships, the specifications below could be considered to be almost correct.

* **Full length:** 262.8 m
* **Max. Width:** 38.9 m
* **Displacement:** 72,809 tons
* **Speed:** 30 knots
* **Armament:**
	+ 3 x triple-barrel 46cm guns
	+ 2 x triple-barrel 15.2cm secondary guns.
	+ 8 x triple-barrel 12.7cm tertiary guns.
	+ 38 x triple-barrel 25 mm AA guns
	+ Fire Control Radar
* **Aircraft carried:** unknown numbers

## Ships of her class

* GVS Grade Atlastar (lead ship)
* GVS Valhalla

## Chronology

### August 8th, 1639

The GVS Grade Atlastar was dispatched along with a sizable escort fleet to the Kingdom of Pagada in response to the recent lèse-majesté incident and the murder of a Gra Valkan royal diplomat. The Pagandan Royal Navy attempted to engage the Grade Atlastor but their ballistae and dated cannons inflicted no meaningful damage against the battleship's robust armor. Under the orders of Captain Luxtal, the Grade Atlastar made a dramatic entrance by ramming its way through the Pagandan fleet, destroying 3 of the 50 sailing ships in the process. The battleship proceeded to shell the Pagandan royal castle, presumably killing the kingdom's royal family.

In response to the attack on Pagada, the regional superpower Leifor dispatched a 43 ship fleet to repel the Gra Valkan invasion fleet. The fleet, however, encountered the lone, unescorted Grade Atlastar and faired no better than the Pagandan defenders. All Leiforian vessels and their wyvern lord escorts were subsequently annihilated.

### August 9th, 1639

The GVS Grade Atlastar made its way to the coast of Leifor's capital city and proceeded with indiscriminate shelling, causing severe civilian casualties. During the bombardment the Leiforian royal castle was demolished, killing the entirety of the nation's royal family. This incident raised the Grade Atlastar to the state of infamy as the ship that single handedly caused a superpower to capitulate.

### Diplomacy 2

Next was when the Holy Mirishial Empire sent in a few ambassadors to gauge the strength of the Gra Valkas Empire and to get them to become allies. When they encounter the Grade Atlastar sailing past their ship. They note its large guns and size

### World Conference

Next up is when the ship was shown at the world conference, where most nations bring in their best ships as a display to the world. The Gra Valkas Empire would send in a force comprising of their Grade Atlastar alongside 2 carriers.

### First GVS Valhalla mentioned in story

It was mentioned during the American missile attack where it sustained some damages but still operatable and only minor damages when the missiles took out majority of the GVE carriers and some other battleships.