Holy Empire of Capitol/Tech

## TECHNOLOGY

The technology of the Empire of Capitol is advanced and derived from an ancient, highly advanced precursor civilization the Empire was able to reverse engineer various technologies such as antimatter reactors, particle beam weapons, and the powerful energy shield generators. The armor used in the ships of the empire is Platinum armor is a strong, malleable metal. Platinum is stronger than titanium and steel, found mainly on volcanic planets, asteroids and moons, sometimes found on continental worlds, reached a good technology level, using reverse engineering on various technologies from an unknown precursor civilization.

The precursor technology was extremely advanced and is still being widely studied by the empire. Some precursor artifacts were known to precede most of civilization in their day. Several million years have passed and the precursors have also left a small number of mysterious artifacts in the known deep space. by the empire as pillars. They were generally antimatter energized and released radiation. They were generally considered unstable and dangerous. Imperial scientists recorded strange phenomena near the pillars, they released large pulses of energy, which would fry any approaching machine. Over time, they adapted this technology to suit them, with the precursor worlds becoming tourist spots for scholars and historians. The imperial technologie is based on precursor technology.

## Weapons

### Particle beam weapons

They are a family of advanced technology energy beam weapons. The empire's particle weapons use a high-energy beam of atomic or subatomic particles to damage the target, disrupting its atomic/ molecular structure, there are more powerfull models than neutral particle arrays such as the Spinal mounted particle beam, which is a unique gigantic particle emitter equipped mainly in the artillery cruisers, battlecruisers, battleships and the large 5km dreadnoughts.

A particle beam array was a weapon composed of a linear array of numerous emitters of neutral particles located in strategic areas of an imperial warship or battle station. During the firing sequence of some arrays mounted on imperial warships, the particle energies would travel along the range of the emitter and converge in the best position for firing, but warships can fire their emitters in dispersion mode, firing more than an emitter at the same time at higher firing rate.

### **Kinetic weapons**

The Magnetic Acceleration Cannon also called by the name of Gauss or Gauss Driver, also known as MAC, is the most powerful kinetic weapon available to the imperial navy. The MAC is the only non-energy weapon. This weapon consists of a giant cannon that fires a massive metallic projectile. To do this, it uses a linear system of magnetic fields, firing the projectile at absurd speeds and producing a great amount of kinetic energy. The fired projectile can reach incredible speeds of 30,000 km per second, approximately 20% of the speed of light. This weapon can also be equipped in smaller and less powerful versions such as the mass driver. The mass driver repeater is mounted on small and medium turrets placed in the leteral in the warships of the imperial navy, they have a very fast firing rate, firing 40 projectiles in 60 seconds. If the enemy ship gets too close, these mass drivers are the last line of defense for the warship used for short-range combat, it fires a 3-meter projectile, having the ability to shoot down shield.

**Mass driver** **repeaters:** Are kinetic weapons equipped in all Imperial Navy warships for medium and short-range combat. The mass driver's operating principle is essentially the same as a spine-mounted railgun, which magnetically accelerates a projectile at extremely high speeds. All existing mass drivers use energized electromagnetic coils and electromagnets, these weapons are mounted on double and quadruple batteries along the leteral of an imperial warship.

### Plasma Weapons

Plasma weapons are more robust and much more effective than laser-based weapons. They use an energy cell to supply energy to the internal components, these weapons use hydrogen as a fuel source, this fuel is then boiled and contained within a magnetic field until it changes from a cold liquid to an ionized gas. The plasma launchers used by the Imperial Navy ships are plasma-based explosive launchers, it fires a sequence of super-explosive, plasma projectiles.The Heavy plasma launcher (equiped in the capital ships) is also capable of overheating if its rate of fire is not controlled. The soldiers of the imperial army also have plasma swords, perhaps the most deadly weapon available to the imperial army, used mainly if the enemy gets too close.

The empire also uses plasma weapons on its main warships this weapon is called plasma turret. The Plasma turrets are very common weapons equipped in every warship of the imperial navy with the exception of fighters. The plama within the cannon of this turret is stabilized using magnetic fields. Without the field, the plasma dissipates too quickly for real use. The field controls and contains the plasma, without interfering with the shot, when fired, the turret fires a plasma ball that has a high proportion of damage towards its target.

## Armor and Shields

The defensive system of an imperial warship is divided into 3 lines of defense the Phaser energy shield, the Plasma barrier and finally the Platinum-Steel hull armor.

### Phaser **Deflector Shield (Active Defence)**

Phaser barrier also called Phaser Deflector shields, were a type of force field that surrounds a starship, space station to protect against enemy attacks or space anomalies. These shields create a layer, or layers, of energy distortion forming a kind of particle screen that contains gravitons around the object to be protected. Shield energies can be emitted from a Phaser barrier generator. The Phaser barrier can defend against particle weapon attacks,  plasma weapon, kinetic weapons and against other energy weapon attacks however, continuous or extremely powerful Particle Discharges can progressively dissipate the integrity of a shield to the point of failure.

### Plasma barrier (Passive Defense)

The plasma barrier, also called the plasma barrier generator, is a form of passive and secondary defense used by civil and military ships of the Holy Empire. This works based on plasma. These shields create a highly concentrated layer of plasma around the object to be protected. On ships, the shield contained several sections, depending on the size of the ship, ships have several plasma barrier generators at strategic points on the hull. The generators use the plasma generated by the ship's secondary fusion reactors, converting the plasma into a energy barrier for defense.

Plasma barrier are a very simple form of force field and yet are a reliable defensive form that offers protection against various types of weapons ,in addition, it is a simple defense system since it uses fusion energy

### **Platinum-Steel armor**

**Protection layer:** Platinum-steel is a form of ceramic material resistant to heat and shock that is widely used throughout the military arsenal of the empire. This metallic alloy mixes an alloy of Platinum A-9 which is a light transition metal, much stronger than titanium, has a glossy, corrosion-resistant metallic white color, and together with a titanium alloy interlaced with nano-carbon for flexibility. High-quality Platinum-steel is used in the manufacture of power armors of the imperial army and used also for the construction of the hulls of the warships of the Imperial Navy. High-quality Platinum-steel is also used for the construction of buildings. The Platinum-steel is is able to dissipate even the most extreme thermal and targeted energy attacks, and conducts many other forms of electromagnetic radiation in order to disperse it over a wide area. This makes Platinum-steel especially effective in providing protection against targeted energy and neutral particle weapons.

**Second layer:** The second layer of the hull of imperial ships is composed of an active cooling layer. To actively cool the armor layers by running some kind of coolant through it and to remove the heat. The liquid used in the active cooling layer for cooling and the thermal gel is responsible for dissipating the heat generated by the impact of enemy fire.

**Structural layer:** The structural layer is responsible for maintaining integrity and dispersing the impact throughout its structure and throughout the armor. The structural layer is made of extremely resistant materials but not of the same level as the protective layer made of Platinum-steel, as they need to be able to bend and deform along with the force of a impact.

**Third layer:** The third layer is composed of a Radiation Shielding responsible for protecting the ship and its crew from radiation. Radiation is a great threat to spacecraft and for this reason the second layer of the hull of imperial warships is composed of a Radiation Shielding which is used to protect Imperial ships against solar storm, radiation weapons or nuclear flashes.

## Power source

### Annihilation reactor

The Annihilation reactor also known as anti-particles reactor or simply anti-matter reactor is the main reactor used by the Empire of Capitol were a central power generation device that was used in space stations and other space navigation vehicles. These antimatter reactors generate anergy when a particle meets its antiparticle, they annihilate each other and their mass is converted into light energy. After that, the reactor uses antimatter to create a miniature star inside the reactor chamber to extract energy, thus generating energy for all systems and subsystems of a space station or ship. only one antimatter reactor is equipped in a warship becoming the heart of the ship, but imperial warships are also equipped with secondary fusion reactors.

This technology was developed by the precursor race and this technology has undergone several improvements over its 10,000 years of history. the first imperial model called MK-00 was built in the imperial year 27 of 1th era, over the years several improvements have been made in this turned this reactor each time more powerful. All of the warships of the imperial navy were equipped with different models of anti-matter reactor, the escort ships like the destroyers and frigates are equipped with the Naruman Nova-60 and while the big capital ships like the cruisers, battlecruisers, battleships are equipped with the Nova-300 (for cruisers), Nova-400 for (battlecruisers and carriers) and Nova-500 for battleships, dreadnoughts and other ships with 2km or more

### Fusion Energy

It is a secondary energy generation system equipped on Imperial Navy ships and civilian vessels, used mainly as emergency power generators in the event of malfunction of the main Solaric Annihilation reactor. These reactors use the nuclear fusion process, which is a process where multiple atomic nucleous come together to form a heavier nucleus. This is usually accompanied by the release or absorption of large amounts of energy, thus generating a gigantic amount of energetic plasma used to power the all systems and subsystems of a space station or ship.

In addition to employing nuclear fusion energy, the empire also dominated cold fusion as a viable source of energy. It is a nuclear fusion reaction that occurs under ambient temperature conditions, rather than the millions of degrees required for plasma fusion reactions, which is mainly used in nuclear power plants used to generate electrical energy.

## Sub-light propulsion

### Melson Drive

The Melson Drive or solar fusion engine unit is the Empire's main propulsion system used by Imperial Navy ships as well as civilian ships. The main component of a Melson drive is a secondary fusion reactor - these secondary reactors fuse atoms of deuterium and helium-3 to generate a stable and abundant supply of superheated plasma within a magnetic containment field generated by the fusion reactor. Since its invention 10,000 years ago, the Empire has perfected Melson Drive technology, making current fusion engine models capable of producing great acceleration even for a large 5.6 km dreadnought.

These thrusters also have the ability to utilize the antimatter generated by the Antimatter Annihilation reactor to generate more propulsion. The most modern and powerful Fusion-drive in the empire is the **Azure Division** **Elysium** **MK-7** is an advanced type of fusion drive serving as the primary sublight engine of the Imperator Mengsk Class dreadnought.

### Known drive models

* **Azure Division Elysium STS/MK-7:** The primary sublight engine of the Imperator Mengsk Class-dreadnought this is currently the most powerful and advanced drive used by the imperial navy.
* **Azure Division Nebulon RT-100:** The primary sublight engine of the Sovereign Class-battleship/light-dreadnought and Proteus Class-battleship.
* **Kora Drive Yards HF-80:** Used by the Praetor Class-fast battleship which was designed by Kora Prime and used by the imperial navy and Kora self-defence forces.
* **Eden Corp EE-T400:** The primary sublight engine of the Nemesis Class-battlecruiser, Lasas Class-mainline battlecruiser and Impetus Class-fleet carrier.
* **Eden Corp Starfire-V:** The primary sublight engine of the Solais Class-heavy cruiser and Gladiator Class-cruiser.
* **Eden Corp F-500:** The primary sublight engine of the Paladinus Class-destroyer, Pugione Class-destroyer, Nebula I Class-frigate and Nebula II Class-frigate