Virbus Unitis-class Dreadnought

Virbis Unitis Class Dreadnought
Class Overview
Class name:	Virbis Unitis-class Dreadnought
Namesake:	Mottoes & Mythological Battles
Builders:	Deimos Steel Works, Enlis Drive Yards, and others
General characteristics
Type:	Dreadnought
Displacement:	1,147,184 tonnes
Length:	1,675 m
Beam:	218 m
Height:	350 m (Superstructure) 630 m (Mast)
Complement:	9,450
Power Generation:	40x Beranek Mk V LP Furnaces Quad bank Kampon-Wahl Coronatite Expansion Engine
Propulsion:	8x D-c10f Impellers 15x D-c5a Impellers
Maximum FTL Speed:	21.5 Kampes
Sensors Systems:	2x KW/SY-17A Heimdall-II Omnisensor Arrays 1x Mk II Kugelblitz Strike Craft Director System 7x Mk VI Argus Fire Control Sensors 50x Mk XXI Panoptes Sensor Drones
Electronic Warfare Systems:	3x KW/SL-15A Hermes Panspectrum Electronic Warfare System 40x Flight 5C Dixie Decoys
Armament:	27 x Mk V Reiger Lances (9x3) 48 x 60 cm SK/50 Kadwell Macrocannons (9x4, 6x2) 6x L/50 Torpedo Tubes (6x1) 270x Mk IX 40 kg DP Reinhold Guns (122x2 ,26x1) 528x 8.8 cm FlaK-80 (264x2) 12x 8 cell Point Defence Missile Launcher
Shielding:	Mk XXI Priwen-II Ravelin Array
Armor:	Hull: 67 cm Belt: 200-650 cm Turret: 625 cm Barbette: 625 cm
Small Craft carried:	12x J.25 'Caracole' 12x J.17 'Hussar'

The Virbus Unitis class dreadnought is a series of dreadnoughts constructed for the R.u.B Navy constructed for and in service since approximately 1135 P.L. The Virbus Unitis class dreadnoughts are the most massive ships constructed fro the R.u.B Navy, being the first type of ship with a mass greater than one megatonne. The class carries the heaviest armament of any R.u.B Navy warship, with a stand off battery of twenty-seven lances, a primary battery of forty-eight 60 cm macrocannons, a secondary battery of nearly three hundred Reinhold guns and more than five hundred flak cannons, along with multiple missile launchers and torpedo tubes. In addition, the class can operate several squadrons of strike craft from its ventral hangar structure, along with a variety of shuttle craft.

The Virbus Unitis class was designed to serve as a command and control ship for R.u.B Fleet Groups, as well as providing a centrepiece unit for the battlefleets of R.u.B Navy Fleet Groups. The large size of the ship, combined with its extensive internal space provides room for the large staffs required to provide coordination for large fleets, without relegating fleet staff and officers to station or planetary installations.

Characteristics

The Virbus Unitis class dreadnought is one thousand six hundred and seventy five (1,675) meters long, with a beam of two hundred and eighteen (218) meters. The vessel's height measured from dorsal to ventral superstructure has a height three hundred and fifty (350) meters, while the measure from tip of dorsal mast and ventral mast reach six hundred and thirty (630) meters. The Virbus Unitis class is the largest class ever launched by the Imperial & Federal Navy, with a standard load mass of one million one hundred and forty-seven thousand, one hundred and eight four (1,147,184) tonnes, making it the first class of vessel launched by the R.u.B Navy with a standard mass of greater than one megatonne. The ship's crew consists of nine thousand four hundred and fifty (9,450) officers and voidsmen.

The class features two hexapodal fore masts, one on each of the ventral and dorsal side, with a tripodal main mast on the dorsal side. Each of the six legs of the two foremasts is equipped with an elevator system to allow access to the various structures along the mast. The rear tripodal mast is not equipped with an elevator, and is instead only accesible via ladder system within and without of the mast.

Power Generation & Propulsion

The dreadnought's primary power generation is found in forty Beranek Mk V heavy phlog furnaces. The furnaces are arrayed into four seperate furnace chambers, with two chambers located in line both fore-to-back and port-to-staboard.