Polaris-class Cruiser

Andromeda-class cruiser, subclass of the Polaris-class

### Users

Cornean Navy, ISAB Air Force, Nova Cannovan Navy (formerly), Wakondom Navy (formerly), New Calestinian Republic Air Force (formerly)

## Specifications

### Variants

Antares, Andromeda-class Cruiser, Kelpship

### Armament

2 to 6 automated laser weapons, 1 manual laser weapon, anti-TNT active protection system

he Polaris-class cruiser is a large air-superiority and air to ground fire support swastiship designed by XPH4N70MR34P3RX for the Cornean Navy. It is currently in use by the Cornean Navy and LeGrenadier7453.

## Development

The development of the Polaris-class cruiser was driven by the expected needs of future swastiships and the combat experience of corvette-type swastiships during the Third Asshole War.

The advancement of swastiship and command block weapon technology in early 2021 demonstrated an increased need for space for such systems. The Cornean Corvette had limited space due to the need to accomodate newly developed systems over time. The latest model, the E-class corvette, had nearly no interior space left for future needs, with only 1m^3 of usable space left for manually operable systems.

There were also inherent design flaws that needed addressing in future designs. From the beginning, it had improperly calculated clone/replace commands that left 1m of deadspace on the port and starboard sides. As well as this, there was a severe lack of forward and rear visibility due to the shape of the hull, forcing operators to fly at high altitudes, reducing the effectiveness of the laser weapon. The movement blocks of the ship were also exposed to the outside environment in all versions, and made even worse with the addition of the second gear to the E-class. While they were covered with posters to conceal the color and prevent activation from the outside, they were not waterproof and easily destructible.

During the Third Asshole War, the performance of the E-class swastiship CL4-1, highlighted these flaws, resulting in the near loss of the ship to Democratic Union forces and its' withdrawal from the frontline. While it would perform satisfactorily in the latter half of the war until it's destruction, it was apparent that serious revisions needed to be made.

In addition to the flaws of the corvette-type swastiship, the Cornean government was interested in larger, mostly defensive vessels capable of housing four to six automated laser weapons with overlapping fields of fire and coverage of each others' blind spots, which was not possible with a vessel as short as the corvette type. Another requirement was for these weapons as well as additional systems to be operable and maintainable from within the crew compartment, which was again not possible with the size of the corvette.

An early proposal was the conversion of the EC-class Bomber to a fighter ship, with it's bomb bay and diamonds cannons removed to make space for laser command block strings and their turrets. It already met most of the requirements, having a much larger interior space and good all-aspect visibility. However, this proposal was rejected because of interests in a new design as well as concerns for future space requirements.

The new design began construction in the Silent Sea, near the Cornean Navy aircraft carrier CNS Alice S. Jones. Due to increasing surveillance of the area by GramCanMineAway, further development was moved to Southern Antheum, the future site of Area 22. It's movement blocks were programmed and trials were conducted there, and it was found to function as intended. The ship moved under it's own power to MacVille, where it was outfitted with an initial loadout of four automated laser weapons, of which two were generally used at once. As well as this, a two-setting manual laser weapon was installed last minute after authorization of such a weapon was granted by moderation. Weapon function tests were conducted with the assistance of spirit250 and minecraft wizad.

Later on, the teleportation and reset systems for the lasers were optimized and a prototype active protection system was tested. It could not function exactly as intended due to the lack of direction of the TNT entity, but after modifications to the shape of the hull it was found to function adequately from every aspect other than from the top when an explosive was trapped in place. This was accepted into service and adopted as standard equipment of the Polaris-class.

## Operational History

Polaris-class cruisers in their base configuration were not used in any major conflict. They often saw use in border patrols, where they performed satisfactorily.

### Eighth Invasion of Tapfer

During the Eighth Invasion of Tapfer, the experimental swastiship Andromeda was used to defend Allahtown from the Graminican Army. However, due to all the untested experimental equipment added during trials, only one of the six weapon systems were functional. Fortunately for the Cornfederate forces, it was one of the modes of the manually-operated laser, which allowed the ship to provide fire support, though it was the less effective crystal laser instead of the effect laser.

There were several friendly fire incidents due to spirit250's usage of the Luke and Yoda skin instead of the smaller Yoda skin as well as the height of the swastiship causing difficulty in friend/foe identification, and the universally applied damage effect of the ender crystal explosions. This directly led to reforms made in command, organization, and IFF of Cornfederate forces which carry on in the Aurelian Federal Army and Navy.

The ship's movement combined with the large amount of players active, active combat, and mass use of creatives caused massive amounts of lag, mostly blamed on the ship, which in turn resulted in constant complaints and even proposals to ban swastiships from combat or even entirely. This prompted XPH4N70MR34P3RX to stop moving the ship after parking it in central Allahtown.

The ship was also involved in the one and only instance of swastiship to swastiship combat. During the war, the Graminicans deployed a Type I Swastiship to ram into and destroy the Andromeda. The pilot, GramCanMineAway was killed by the laser just moments before it would have collided. The pilot of the Andromeda, XPH4N70MR34P3RX, then boarded the Type I and destroyed the controls.

Following the war, the Andromeda was grounded and replaced in service with a Polaris-class cruiser.

The Andromeda returned to service after an extensive overhaul in which all experimental systems and two lasers were removed. After additional swastiship regulations were passed by moderation, it's armament was further reduced to one automated laser and the fixed two-mode manual laser. The Andromeda T1, generally referred to as the Andromeda-class, became the standard large swastiship in Cornean service, though due to the substantial amount of complaints from the last war, the F-class corvette has seen more combat action in recent time.

### Second Sped War

During the Second Sped War, the Andromeda-class cruiser later christened the Kelpship used by the Nova Cannovan Navy saw substantial usage, being the main weapon used against Spedolian forces by LeGrenadier7453 and Gramkorps, which was contracted for mercenary and technical work. During the war, in spite of colossal errors in judgement on Grenadier's part, weapons malfunctions, and repeated boarding attempts it remained functional and did not fall to enemy hands.

On the first day, it was used to bomb ground targets, mostly Grenadier's own property on the first day of the war. Also on that day, Grenadier flew the ship over his own man cannon, which was then used to launch TNT upwards at the ship. This incident seemingly convinced several people that fixed, stationary anti-aircraft guns were a good idea. Due to damage to the ship caused by attempts to destroy and board the ship, it was repaired with materials that were stored on the ship, much of it left over from experimental programs.

On the second day, the ship was moved into the bay to make boarding attempts more difficult and to prevent further destruction of Nova Cannovan land. The laser weapon was repaired at this time as well, and programmed not to target Grenadier. The APS was intermittently functional as well. With the repaired laser and competent piloting and defense of the ship, the ship set the world record for the most kills attributed to one ship, which is estimated at 30+ kills by the laser and accidental falls and an unknown amount by the crew in defense of the ship.

The ship also set the record for the most damage sustained, with a substantial amount of the full being completely replaced with other materials, principally netherite and glass blocks. By the first ceasefire, it hardly resembled the Andromeda-class cruiser from which it originated and was compared to the Ship of Theseus by many.

This ship also created many complaints from the Spedolian side, mostly echoing the very same ones made during the Eighth Invasion of Tapfer. These were the same people that attempted to create a city-sized swastiship (Zero2471166) and ships of over 36,000m^3, 42,000m^3, and even 49,000m^3 in volume (Colin0607).

## Kelpship

### Users

ISAB Air Force, Nova Cannovan Air Force (formerly)

## Specifications

### Armament

2 automated laser weapons, anti-TNT active protection system

* Polaris

The base model of the Polaris-Class cruiser used by the Cornean military.

* Antares

An unsuccessful prototype stealth vessel. It was colored all-black to blend in with the night sky at high altitude. It had less weapon systems than the base Polaris-class, as this ship was derived from the prototype before completion.

* Andromeda T1

A Cornean technology testbed, which was later forced into combat during the Eighth Invasion of Tapfer. It was intended to eventually become the standard Swastiship of the Cornean Federal Navy, but due its poor combat performance, the older Polaris-class remained standard for some time.

* Andromeda T2

A derivation of the Andromeda T1. The broken weapon systems were reprogrammed to work properly, and approximately half of its armament was removed for server combat balancing reasons. This class was briefly the standard vessel of the Cornean and later Aurelian Federal Navy until the Second Sped War, during which an export model later known as the Kelpship demonstrated flaws and improvements that could be made.

* Andromeda II

The latest derivation of the Polaris-class cruiser. Aside from the glass viewports, its hull and turrets were made entirely from Netherite and Obsidian, which served as mining and blast-resistant armor. Exterior non-critical/decorative elements had their colors changed to match the new color scheme of the hull. This class was generally successful, and was the pinnacle of swastiship design and technology on Calestine. (though as a result of iterative improvements, and not necessarily a particularly impressive achievement) This became the standard warship of the Federal Aurelian Navy and a downgraded model was a popular export ship.

* Curse of Allah II

An Andromeda II-class cruiser made for the ISAB Air Force by Cornea. Because of LeGrenadier7453's limited grasp of Minecraft and reality in general, he insisted to Aurelian authorities that his Kelpship (later renamed the Curse of Allah) be upgraded by hand to modern specifications, despite the original vessel having been destroyed completely after the war. Because of this, the Aurelians deceived him into believing that this replacement vessel was the original Curse of Allah. Unbeknownst to him, this ship was listed separately in the Cornean ship catalog and archive as the Curse of Allah II. This ship was identical to a standard configuration Andromeda II except in armament. At LeGrenadier7453's insistence, the ship was outfitted with one regular Wither effect laser and a Nausea effect laser rather than a second damage inflicting weapon, and no manually directed lasers. This made this ship even worse than the standard downgraded export model, and though he knew of the implications he insisted upon these modifications anyway.

* Kelpship

The Kelpship was an export Andromeda T2-class swastiship made by Graminica for Nova Cannova, which was used by LeGrenadier7453 to great effect against the Spedolian forces. It had the standard blue hull and yellow stripes instead of red. During the war, due to Spedolian attacks and LeGrenadier7453's own idiocy, it endured extreme amounts of damage. The usual methods used by the Spedolians were aerial elytra-borne boarding attempts, which all failed even when they successfully killed the pilot. Nevertheless, this resulted in many holes being torn into the ship by TNT or pickaxes. There was also a point during the war in which the Nova Cannovan vessel flew over their own man cannon, which Zero2471166 repurposed as a TNT cannon and successfully landed damaging, though not fatal hits on the ship. This all resulted in virtually none of the original hull being left, and LeGrenadier7453 took to using materials from his inventory and storage bins aboard the ship to repair it. This included kelp blocks, regular glass, and Netherite blocks. The kelp blocks were left over from a Cornean experimental weapon that never ended up being used, but the ammunition remained in the boxes and was copied unknowingly. Because of the use of this material, the vessel was christened "Kelpship" during the first ceasefire of the war. This ship would be used until the end of the war, when it was taken by Spedolia, stolen back by LeGrenadier7453, and refitted with full Netherite and Obsidian armor and renamed the Curse of Allah, in recognition of LeGrenadier7453's status as a devoted follower and prophet of Niglam.

It was later decommissioned and replaced by the Corneans without his consent. The reason for this was a chronic issue with command blocks aboard the vessel simply not working even when programmed correctly, which was confirmed by exact copies made to experiment with after the fact. Rather than keep an extremely dysfunctional and anomalous ship in the world, it was decided that it should be destroyed.

* NCR Cruiser

The NCR Cruiser was a modified Andromeda-class Cruiser made by Graminica for the New Calestinian Republic. It was completely unarmed, and even lacked the active protection system of the standard Polaris-class. It was also lazily half-painted in the NCR livery, and much of the ship remained the same blue color scheme of the Cornean Federal Navy. This ship was sabotaged by the Corneans and later was taken from NCR possession altogether by server administration due to the NCR's inactivity and swastiship rebalancing.