Felling Class Galactic Super Battleship

## Felling Class Battleship

The Felling Class Galactic Super Battleship was a large military spacecraft developed by Kananjata prior to the United Coalition Confederacy war.

## Development

Not much is known about the development of the Felling class Super Battleship apart from the fact that Kananjata, at the time an independent sovereign empire, created it to wage war against other nations in its galaxy. It is also known that the battleship was named after a Kananjatan naval captain that died in battle long before the ships went into service. When Kananjata was admitted into the United Coalition Confederacy, many of the ships were given to the Confederate core navy. These ships and the research put into them were the primary driving force behind Kananjata being a part of the 'Incumbents', the 7 most influential members of the Confederacy.

## Service History

Nothing is known about the Felling class' service history before the Confederacy war apart from the fact that it was highly successful in combat. While a part of the Confederacy, the Union fought many of these ships, flying both the Confederacy and Kanajatan flag. They were extremely hard to destroy, usually requiring an attack from several different fronts utilizing Phoenix Class Heavy Cruisers or an act of sabotage from the inside of the ship by United Imperial Special Operations troopers. Many were destroyed, with 28 Kananjatan ships being destroyed by the Union, 13 Confederate ships destroyed and the 1 sole Redhun ship destroyed. This was to a great cost on the Union side for each victory. Once Kananjata switched sides and aligned itself with The United Empire, the Felling Class ships in the Kananjatan fleet fought the Coalition Confederacy. The remaining 4 Confederate Felling-Class ships were subsequently destroyed and no Kananjatan Super battleships were lost while fighting alongside the Union, primarily due to the fact that Kananjata played a much smaller role in the war after they switched sides. The 9 remaining Felling-Class ships served until the end of the Coalition Confederacy war. When the war was won by the Union, an immediate downsizing of the Kananjatan military was ordered if they were to keep their (partial) sovereignty. As such, 8 of the 9 ships were retired. The last operational Felling-class ship still serves with the newly-titled "Kananjatan defense force". The 8 previously retired ships provide salvage parts for the repair of the aging survivor.

## Design

The Felling-Class is essentially a huge cavernous space-faring military metropolis. It has a self-sustaining atmosphere inside and a 3 gargantuan "walls" of armor built over the cylindrical exterior. To the untrained and inexperienced eye, the ship may look extremely messy and disorganized, but a trained starship engineer can see that it is a massive technological marvel, that operates in harmony and resonates with all of its parts and features. At the rear is 10 massive Mass-Kindle "hard-mass drive" translight engines, very similar to the United Empire's "Fujara/Johnson" ion engines. However, ship uses solid fuel (CDE-11) instead of ion power like Union ships. These engines are much like the USA's space shuttle rocket boosters, but the Felling burns 500% more efficiently. the bridge/conning and control tower is located on the right top section of the ship and it is almost impossible to see from most angles and while far away from the ship. At the very front of the ship is a massive gaping entrance, where the ship's artificial atmosphere fades into the blackness of space and hundreds of communications, radar and sensing antennae and equipment reside, similar to the United Empire's Galactic Battlecruiser design. Amidst this equipment at the front rests 4 massive Ultra-heavy contra-rotation belt gattling cannons. These are essentially weapons with the destructive capability of a magnetic accelerator cannon in one round, that can fire 30 shots a minute, due to their fast-paced rotation and reloading process. These cannons are longer and larger than most starships alone and can devastate a single ship in one or two shots and a fleet in a single barrage. 4 other examples of this cannon reside along the sides and rear of the ship, guarding almost every angle of attack. There was one major design flaw, the cannons are extremely exposed and Union MAC guns could easily destroy them. This is where the Union's larger ship numbers came into play, against the fewer, but much more powerful Confederate ships. Within the ship resided several highways, roads, decks and massive cavernous living areas. Huge neon signs lit up the inside of the ship and massive skyscrapers towered into the artificial atmosphere, dense with fog and clouds generated by the ships' exhaust system routings warming the inside. While the artificial atmosphere did get quite hot, the ship had ample air conditioning systems and creature comforts. Many civilians did live on these ships, primarily select crew members' families, as the very core of ships were deemed mostly safe from enemy attack as once the hull was penetrated, the atmosphere could still hold together. Only in a complete ship breakup would the atmosphere rapidly dissipate. Massive hangars and invasion/battle staging areas existed on the ship as well. While the Felling-Class was extremely powerful and represented the peak of Confederate military research, when it was all said and done, the ship was used ineffectively and its design flaws were not patched accordingly due to the demand that the war brought on. With proper usage, the Felling could have changed the tide of the war for the UCC, but they let it slip by them.

## Trivia

* The first Felling Class Super Battleship destroyed was the sole vessel granted to the Redhuns, one of the smallest and most remote states of the Coalition Confederacy. This transfer was done because the UCC recognized the Redhuns' significance as the Confederacy's first line of defense. It was disabled by EMP and heavy cannon fire in-atmosphere over the Great Redhun Desert. Since it was only around 1,000 ft. above the ground when it began to lose altitude, the Redhun ship did not suffer much damage from the crash. As a result, a subsequent battle was fought on the ground between Union forces and the surviving crew, which resulted in a Union victory. This particular conflict later became known as the Battle of the Redhun Desert.