Commonwealth Aspiration Class

## History

Developed in secret at *LV-799*, outside Galactic Commonwealth space, the *Commonwealth Aspiration-Class* is the most powerful battleship ever developed by the Galactic Commonwealth, designed as a response to the Avalid Empire with research obtained by the U.S.S. Wynter Life on the Avalid Metamorphosis Syndrome, the *Aspiration-Class* is primarily designed to nullify worlds irreparably damaged by Avalid infection.

Controversial, even to the Commonwealth Government and kept secret to even President Aaru Dedef’ti himself, the *Aspiration-Class* was developed by chosen members of the Interstellar Alliance in agreement with partners from the Anthropians, Black Eye Consortium and Aventis Empire who all agreed that the current Galactic Commonwealth Fleet was unable to protect the Black Eye Galaxy from the coming Abyss War.

The ship itself is secondary to the most impressive weapon ever developed, with some forward-thinking members of the Qox'cotel Protectorate unofficially contributing to it's design.

The result is the *Main Gun Valkyrie Cannon*, more commonly referred to the *Valkyrie Cannon*, an extremely powerful beam of *Transphasic Enzymes,* biologically engineered by the Gloreen Commune and Gradis Collective. This weapon, when fired will break apart individual biological cells at the atomic levels as *Enzymic Radiation* within the beam and can completely engulf an entire planet. The most unique feature of this weapon is that the Enzymic Beam can be coded to specific DNA samples and will not affect other biological species as a result.

In addition to this, the beam can be set to a *"General"* mode, allowing the *Valkyrie Cannon* to do significant damage to structures other starships with the additional effect of the Enzymes breaking down the hull of vessels caught in the beam.

The *Aspiration-Class* also possesses an extremely powerful Biolinear Control Matrix with a sophisticated *"Avatar"* computer system developed from Nora Mandy (Battlestar Normandy) of the Normandy CBS-61944, which allows the ship to fly itself and continue operations even if the vessel is overrun with Avalid infection, killing the rather small crew of only 500.

The *Aspiration-Class* is 1500 meters in length, only slightly smaller then the mighty Normandy CBS-61944 or U.S.S. Claidheamh Mòr and possesses a completely new *Ascendant-Class Coaxial Trajector*, greatly increasing the jump range of the ship to over 5,000 lightyears per jump and additionally allowing the vessel to scan the location the vessel will jump to, detecting enemy vessels and allowing the crew to plan strategically where the ship will land.

The *Aspiration-Class* also fields an *Enhanced Cold Plasma Armor,* which allows the vessel to use the technology with less power consumption and shielding the plasma conduits from various electro-magnetic weapons which have been used in the past to disable the Normandy CBS-61944's armour.

More controversially, the vessel was developed with the remaining Umojan Empire survivors in the Black Eye Galaxy, incorporating some of their advanced starship construction techniques in the design and donating some of their *Antiproton Weapon Designs* which use considerably less power then standard pure Antiproton weaponry.

Due to the enormity of these vessels, only three have been scheduled for completion and have since been made public with the full details of their designs retained as military secrets.

## Commissioned Vessels

* *G.C.S. Akko Kratz*
* *G.C.S. Tannith LeChance*
* *G.C.S. Orion Windwalker*