New Model Navy Defences

Defences are near immobile stations designed to protect a single world or installation from attack. Their lack of mobility tends to be compensated for by heavy firepower and formidable defences allowing them to easily defeat any target within their size category. All worlds have a level orbital defences to provide a garrison that can defence against raids, but only worlds with major orbital industries tend to have heavy defences.

## Wall Class Heavy Weapons Platform

### Garrison

Normal: 4 Regiments, Max Capacity: 16 Regiments

## Weapons Platforms

The screen sized Weapons Platforms are deployed in clusters to add weight of fire to a worlds defences, and to ensure that there is enough coverage around a world to prevent any attempts to sneak landers onto the world.

### Airstrip Light Weapons Platform

A tiny defence station little over four hundred meters long in its longest dimension, the aistripe is primarily an Attack Craft Carrier, using a purpose designed hanger able to quickly launch its entire complement of two attack craft wings in quick succession. In an extended battle the Airstrip will quickly exhaust its initial compliment of attack raft, and become a repair and rearming station for attack craft launched from Wall Class Defence Stations, whose deep reserves allow them to keep on launching new squadrons.

## Bastion Class Defence Station

### Size

1.8km radius, 22km3 volume (Cr 2.5 BB 15)

### Garrison

Normal: 30 Regiments, Max Capacity: 180 Regiments

## Armament

### Weapons Batteries

33x Battleship Disintegrators, 20x Dreadnought Long Batteries

## Defences

### Palisade Weapons Platform

A refit of a Dark Age of Technology staggeringly durable weapons platform whose name has been lost to time, the Palisade class heavily upgrades the reactor to greatly overcharge its weaponry and arms it with the potent new disintegrator batteries as well as the now traditional among Trusts escort weight assets light cruiser grade hangar.

## Heavy Weapons Platforms

The capital scale Heavy Weapons Platforms increase the coverage of the heavier weapons for an orbital defence net and provide a significant portions of the defence networks firepower and durability. These stations are generally where a worlds attack craft flotillas are based. Unlike conventional fleets it is not the Heavy Weapons Platforms that tend to provide the majority of a defence networks firepower but the larger Defence Stations.

### Wall Class Heavy Weapons Platform

The Wall class Heavy Weapons Platform exploits stations four times greater attack craft wing capacity per hangar compared to ships as well as the efficiency of cruiser weight carriers to provide a truly staggering number of attack craft to Trust naval defences. Its remaining armament is designed to provide anti-capital firepower and allows it to act as one of the main deterrence against raids for most worlds.

## Defence Stations

The supercapital scaled Defence Stations are the heart of most worlds orbital defences, combining a staggering amount of firepower with extreme levels of durability, Most worlds have a comparative handful of Defence Stations that tend to anchor their defence network against major incursions, and are often some of the last defences to fall.

## Stronghold Class Defence Fortress

### Garrison

Normal: 400 Regiments. Max Capacity: 3,200 Regiments

### Other

Ultracapacitor, Tachyon Scanners (Lighthouse only)

## Armament

### Weapons Batteries

70 Phased Plasma (Stronghold), 60 Phased Plasma (Lighthouse)

## Defences

### HP

270 (Ultimate Overcharged Plasma Reactor)

### Void Shields

120 (Stronghold), 100 (Lighthouse) (Aegis Void Shields)

### Bastion Class Defence Station

The heaviest defence station size that the majority of Trust worlds can possess, the Bastion class focuses on burst anti-capital firepower via its Ion Annihilators and anti-supercapital secondary weapons. Unlike most defences they are not equipped with Ultracapacitors, instead relying on its Ion Annihilators for burst damage.

## Defence Fortresses

The hypercaptial scale Defence Fortresses are the largest defences used by the Imperial Trust, possessing enough firepower and durability to trade blows with hypercapitals and entire squadrons of supercaptials and come out on top. While most worlds in the Trust lack the orbital infrastructure to justify them, the most developed worlds tend to field four or more to provide proper coverage and the main shipyards can have dozens.

### Stronghold Class Defence Fortress

The Stronghold Class Defence Fortress provides a staggering weight of highly penetrating firepower in the form of massed Phased Plasma Projectors, with nearly double the firepower of a Trust warship of its scale. While formidable its defences do not compare as well to Trust Hypercapitals, due to not making use of Ultra Dense Material.

### Lighthouse Class Defence Fortress

The Lighthouse is a variant of the Stronghold that downgrades the ships and firepower a bit in order to allow it to mount a set of Tachyon Scanners. Most worlds will have a single Lighthouse at most, with those few worlds that might need the redundancy of multiple instead tending to field a Citadel.

## Citadel Class Heavy Defence Fortress

### Garrison

Normal: 1,200 Regiments. Max Capacity: 10,800 Regiments

## Armament

### Weapons Batteries

100x Phased Plasma Projectors, 20x Neutron Lances

## Defences

### HP

475 (Ultimate Overcharged Plasma Reactor)

### Point Defence Batteries

60

The Citadel class Heavy Defence Fortress is an awesome bastion of durability and firepower designed to multiply allied long to extreme ranged damage via its expensive and well protected Tachyon Scanners technology. Few worlds can however afford, or justify, such a colossus of a defence station.