Cathedral Mitura-Everest Class Dreadnought

MSS-Cathedral Mitura-Everest Class Dreadnought

## Offensive and defensive specs

### Armament

2 400cm coil guns, 8 80mm-B2-C cannon, 32 35mm point-defense guns, 4 CF-12 halberd laser cannons, 120 Helios missile pods, 40 destroyer missile silos

## General information

### Power system(s)

2 Fusion reactor supplemented by multiple PM cores

### Additional systems

ATD, hydroponics, long range communications systems, long range scanning device

## Overview

The Cathedral Mitura is a modified Everest class dreadnought. It uses less heavy cannons and a larger engine set for maximum mobility. Despite its lessened over all weapons it still was more then a match for most ships in Aetherian.

## History

The Cathedral Mitura is the Mitura's one and only dreadnought, built to act as a fleets worth of fire power in one ship. The Mitura commissioned the Mass Alliance to build a Everest class dreadnought for the Mitura's defense fleet in 125 DoS, the defense fleet was largely made up of long ships. The Mass Alliance decided to impress their allies and protect them from the Grand Duchy of Juilthar if they were to ever to act on their dislike of Mitura. When it arrived in Mitura the Miturans were in awe of their new war ship and the Mass Alliance had to spend 5 months teaching the new crew how to properly pilot the ship. The crew embraced Mass Alliance culture and many traditions were born for the crew that were steeped in Mass Alliance culture. Such as one of the shuttle craft always holding the name of Lady Cassandra.

## Differences from the Everest

* Smaller hull design (Everest 871m long by 490m tall - Cathedral 850m long by 295m tall)
* No 15cm B4-A cannons
* 2 Less B2-C cannons
* 4 Less Halberd laser cannons
* No KS missile launchers
* 32 more Helios missile pods
* 12 more 35mm point-defense guns
* Engine layout is much larger on the Cathedral (3 larger engines compared to the two on the Everest)
* Forward section is curved on the Cathedral as appose to flat
* Hangar bay is located in the mid ship on the Cathedral but rear on the Everest
* Max crew is 50 personal less on Cathedral as well as 100 less passengers

## Offensive and defensive specs

### Armament

2 400cm coil guns, 4 240mm A-11 ultra heavy cannons in 2 double turrets 6 150mm B4-a cannons in 2 triple turrets, 8 CF 31 laser cannons in 8 single turrets, 36 35mm point-defense guns, 204 Helios missile pods, 40 destroyer missile pods

### Shields

Heavy shielding with redundant layers around the bridge and reactor

## Absolute Liberty Refit

### Why the need for a refit

After the Debt collector war/War of awakening captain Chia Shatomin wrote a detailed report about the use's and limitations of the Cathedral Mitura and how the 80mm B2-C cannons had poor accuracy at orbital bombardment and they had to use their laser cannons in order to get accurate orbital fire and many other issues. His ultimate conclusion was that of a large scale refit of the Cathedral Mitura to improve her performance as a support platform and combat ship. This was deemed to expensive to pursue for the time by the prime minister. However the Grey Fleet Crisis in 11 DoS made the Mitura people anxious over a war with the Grand Duchy and under the Mass Alliance's defense pact bill the Mitura used the funding to vastly improve the Cathedral Mitura under project "Absolute Liberty". The project took from 153 DoS until 164 DoS to complete.

### Upgrading

In addition to captain Chia Shatomin's report the Mitura also developed several requirements of their own for the refit, such as improved ship to ship weaponry. This included lengthening the spinal mounted coil gun, the removal of all the 80mm cannons, the addition of two 240mm cannons bought from the Republic of Judecen, the 8 CF 31 laser cannons and two 150mm cannons bought from the Mass Alliance. Other changes included two flight catapults attached to the sides of the ship to carry a small wing of fighters.

Most famously was the new engine's which were advanced fusion engine which could output over 300% the power of an ion drive of the same size. In order to find the most powerful engine design the Mitura held a privet racing competition that had ship requirements that could be translated for the refit size and shape. The race would be an sub-light race between the moons of a gas giant in the Avveros system of the Federation of Cathlium. The winning team was Avarock Research and Development a team of collage students who put together an experimental engine. After their decisive victory they were contracted by the Mitura navy to build three capital ship sized version of their engine. Well fully capable of designing a capital ship sized engine they had to team up with Novadora drive yard heavy industry in order to build them.

Due to the Cathedral Mitura being the only capital ship in the Mitura navy it could only be in port for so long before it was required to be back on patrol, for both moral reasons and to show the Grand Duchy and Kingdom of Nodith that the Mitura was ready to fight. Over the course of 11 years the Cathedral Mitura would be in an out of port constantly, the upgrades had to be pre-fabricated and pre-shaped to fit in perfectly and they would have to swap/add new parts as quickly as possible, doing their best to not have the ship in port for more then a couple months. In some instances it would leave port with engineers still aboard installing systems.

### Completion

In March of 164 DoS the last of the planed refits were complete and the Cathedral Mitura Absolute Liberty left port on March 3rd 164 DoS to undergo her shakedown run. The pride of the Mitura was back in full force and on full display for her neighbors and allies to see. One Mass Alliance Grand Navy admiral commented that:

> "This ship could glass a continent." -Grand Admiral Mara Endula 165 DoS
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In 174 DoS after the election Prime Minister Charlotte Vituralian made it one of her first acts to tour the Cathedral Mitura as the pride of Mituran navy. Famously after her tour she said:

> "She's a strong ship. A beautiful ship. But I hope she never has to bare her fangs in anger."- Prime Minister Charlotte Vituralian
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### Serpent war

In 177 DoS the Serpent Empire arrived into the Aetherian system and quickly began a war of conquest. The Mitura were unsure whether to send their military as aid or maintain a defense of their small nations territory. Their hand was eventually tilted by the Grand Duchy joining the war against Serpent, ensuring that they would not have to leave forces to guard their boarders. During the war the Cathedral Mitura was only sparingly used, as the pride of the Mitura navy and their only capital ship they were very cautious about losing it. However it did participate in the pivotal battles of Judecen, second battle of the portal and second battle of the Shield.

## MSS-Sanctuary

During the opening of the Serpent war in 177 DoS the navy put forth an acquisitions request for a new dreadnought ship in the same type as the Cathedral Mitura (absolute liberty). At first the request was to be denied due to expense. However in June of that year a Talnora heavy freighter was attacked by Serpent forces on its return to the Mitura system. After this the request was fast tracked and the Mitura got to work. Cannibalizing parts from their merchant fleet to begin the construction of a second Cathedral dreadnought under the code name: Sanctuary. As this work project was much bigger then the refit of the Cathedral this project was expected to take 17 months at minimum. Even with the cannibalizing of Talnora heavy freighters to help with the construction its exterior armor needed to be manufactured independently. Though she largely missed out on the war the MSS-Sanctuary was needed in the event that the Cathedral was damaged or destroyed.