Peninsular Class

The Peninsular class is possibly the oldest design used by Quantum Industries, with the exception of possibly the Salvation Class Destroyer. Now whilst there is several different variants of the peninsular class, they can general be split into 2 different versions: the M1 and M2. Both fulfil different roles, and are actually different classes, with the M1 being a frigate, and the M2 being classified as a corvette.

## **Fr-01-03 Peninsular Class**

QIS. Horizon patrolling the Iliso system, 2199

## Class Overview

### Succeeded by:

M1 Sovereign Class FrigateM2 Peninsular Class Corvette

## General Characteristics

### Firing ranges

5" gun: 0.8km, 3" gun: 0.7km, gatling gun: 0.6km

### Defence

Light armour with 1 strip of heavy armour going down the centre of the ship

The Peninsular Class Frigate was designed to be the cavalry of the fleet and as such had to be very mobile. However due to the lack of resources and technology the ship would often have very low survival rates compared to other ships in the galaxy of the same class. The ship was completely comprised of light armour apart from one strip of heavy armour that ran down the centre of the ship. The weaponry comprised of 3x dual mount 5’’ guns; 3x 3’’ guns and a small amount of gatling turrets. Whilst on paper the weaponry does not sound that bad the max range of the 5’’ was 0.8km with the 3’’ guns having 0.7km. to make matters worse, the gatling turrets had a maximum range of 0.6km. This would mean that the ship had to get within suicidal ranges to actually be able to attack anything and the gatling turrets were nearly useless at destroying any bomber squadrons that attacked the ship. However, at the time this was all that Quantum Industries could field and despite survivability being below 20% the ship was still mass produced. The Space core tried to increase the survivability of the vessel but would then be forced to ‘downgrade’ the armament to 3x single mount 5’’ guns in order make sure that it complied with Quantum Industries new weapons policies.

The Peninsulars would go on to serve in a number of notable battles, most of which centred around the Perimeter Campaign. This included the assault of the pirate defence post Alpha-19. The ships would go on to serve in several other sieges maintaining minimal loses in exchange for huge amounts of ground. It was however at the battle of Exilon 5, which gave birth to the most famous Peninsular class, “Freedom”.

#### Notable Ships

Freedom was captained by Quantum Industries leader, and founder, Commander James McCarson. Up until this point in the campaign the ship had not been extra ordinary in any way. But towards the end of the battle, with no reinforcements in sight, Commander McCarson gave the order to ram the “Freedom” straight into the pirate command ship. The force from this ram sent the command ship into the gravity well of the planet below, causing both ships to plummet to the ground below. It is believed that all hands were killed on impact. However, it was this decisive move (and controversial one) ended the Perimeter Campaign.

## General Characteristics

### Armament

2x 100mm plasma cannons, 8x dual 25mm mag cannons

### Firing ranges

100mm plasma cannon: 1.5km, 25mm dual mag cannon: 1km