Battleship - Pegasus Class

#### The Pegasus class

With the old Saturn class carriers being in service for over 60 years, the military leaders of the UMS, LRN and MRN decided to put aside their differences and craft a new and fresh main battleship as a state-of-the-art backbone for all their fleets. The concept of combining a heavy and powerful dreadnought with a space carrier should be continued, but the flaws of the Saturn class eliminated. Even tho being slightly bigger in size the Pegasus class ships are much more agile and faster than their predecessors. They feature advanced ablative hull armour and provide an extra hangar for 1 supporting Artemis class destroyer and a large squadron of 100 attack fighters. Admiral Duganova was one of the leading designers of this new class, she was promoted to Vice Admiral after the class' first battle successes.

#### Features

* 6 sublight engines, dozends of Maneuvering thrusters
* 1,9 km in length
* Quantum super-computer MK X aided FTL computation and general computer network
* Advanced ablative hull armour MK VI (nuke-proof)
* 4 MK IX Fusion reactors
* 30 anti-missile / anti-attack craft twin cannons
* 1 heavy rail gun cannon
* 4 forward ultra-heavy main battle arrays
* 2 aft ultra-heavy main battle arrays
* 10 missile/torpedo tubes
* Can carry up to 100 attack space fighters and 1 Artemis class destroyer

#### Jules Vernes Variant (LRN Jules Vernes)

The Jules Vernes variant is a military-scientific oriented variant of the Pegasus class, solely developed by the Luna Republic Navy. The hangar bay intended to fit 1 Artemis class ship was redesigned to contain multiple scientific decks. That way the Luna Republic, and thus humanity, has it's first joint military-scientific spaceship capable of both scientific and military missions, and as such allowing first true deep-space exploration missions...

The Jules Vernes variant has a crew made up of 60 % military and 40 % scientific personnel.

#### Features

* 6 sublight engines, dozends of Maneuvering thrusters
* 1,9 km in length
* Quantum super-computer MK X aided FTL computation and general computer network
* Advanced ablative hull armour MK VI (nuke-proof)
* 4 MK IX Fusion reactors
* 20 anti-missile / anti-attack craft twin cannons
* 4 forward ultra-heavy main battle arrays
* 2 aft ultra-heavy main battle arrays
* 6 missile/torpedo tubes
* Can carry up to 50 attack space fighters

#### Ingame References

**Freely acceccable in the Interplanetary Net (IPN):**

"If we would have had the Pegasus class 100 years ago, we could've had a real chance at defeating the Skaarj's mothership earlier, but better late than never, the Pegasus class battleships will become the backbone for all of humanity's space fleets, even setting us in the position to finally take offenses against the abomination that are the Skaarj and their clan-based fleets.", stated (then) Commodore Duganova during a press conference at the MR Ministry of Foreign Affairs at New Berlin, Mars on 21st February 2317.

**During the Quest "A severed dream..."**

"On this day humanity can finally, and without fear spread out it's wings into deep, unknown space. Taking the base design concept of the new and popular Pegasus class battleships we redesigned it into a single-ship variant of the LRN Jules Vernes. The Jules Vernes can carry out BOTH military and scientific missions, and thus can fiercely defend itself when surprised in deep space by any hostile force. Therefore I can't imagine a better name for this ship than Jules Vernes.

Not for one republic, not for Luna, but for all of mankind we can finally uncover secrets beyond known space! The Jules Vernes will be launched to it's first deep space mission somewhere around Fall this year. My team and me can't express how much we're looking forward to this opportunity...", said Dr. Frank Geisler during a press conference at the LR Ministry of Science of Education, Lunagrad, on 3rd April 2322.

"Good Morning everyone. I... I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but as of today I have to sadly admit that most rumours about the loss of the LRN Jules Vernes are... true. We lost contact more than 3 months ago. We tried everything: Search & Rescue Missions, FTL Probes, listening to ANY possible signal... Nothing. The Jules Vernes and its brave crew of over 800 professionals, scientists, officers and soldiers has vanished without a sign. On behalf of the LR Government and the LR Navy we want to deeply express our condolescence to all involved families.

As of this day the Jules Vernes will be declared as officialy lost in space [...] Please send direct questions and requests regarding the fate of the Jules Vernes to the LR Ministry of Defense or Ministry of Science and Education", Julie Shore, senior press officer Luna Republic, during a press conference at the Luna Republic Press Center, Lunagrad, on 18th November 2323.

#### Know ships of this class

* MRN Pegasus, the namegiving prototype vessel
* MRN Persephone (Cpt. Kowalczyk's Battleship)

* UMS Hades
* UMS Titan
* UMS Osiris
* LRN Jules Verne