Apostle-class carrier

ITNS St. Andrew pictured in 2010
Class overview
Name:	Apostle class medium carrier
Builders:	Fortuna Ironworks, Marvios
Operators:	Imperial Sea Legion
Preceded by:	Centaur-class aircraft carrier
In service:	2001 - Present
Building:	0
Completed:	2
Cancelled:	1
Active:	2
General characteristics
Type:	medium carrier
Displacement:	42,000 tonnes (empty), 53,000 tonnes (full)
Length:	262m
Beam:	62m
Draught:	8.4m
Depth:	25.6m
Decks:	2.5 acres
Installed power:	Combined diesel and gas 5 × Rollers 16 marine diesel engines, 6.2 MW (8,300 hp) each 4 × BioTech Decimas Gas Turbines, 23.0 MW (30,800 hp) each 2 × propeller shafts, 7-bladed controllable pitch propellers
Speed:	28kn+
Boats & landing craft carried:	4 x LCVPs
Complement:	1,200 not including air element
Sensors and processing systems:	Thanos SMART-S, Thanos SMART-L
Armament:	4x Mark XXI Block 3 CIWS equipped with RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile launcher
Armour:	steel shrapnel sheets, kevlar spall liners
Aircraft carried:	30-40, 2 x elevators, ski-jump

The Apostle class is a class of medium aircraft carriers in service with the Imperial Sea Legion, currently mainly used as anti-submarine and amphibious assault platforms, but retain significant ability to wield air power. With the advent of new fighters such as the UFC F-29 Hurricane, it was determined that the older and smaller designs would be unable to support 5th generation capable aircraft. Thus it was decided that a new larger carrier would be developed.

With the seaborne threat of Kadaria and the momentous task of protecting the Straits of Parma, it was determined that a new and far more capable design would be of necessity for the Sea Legion. The economic lifeblood of the Empire flowed through the Strait and its great city. With commitments to Yisrael and Nekor and the Rhynovian communist state at the forefront of naval planning, Naval High Command issued a requirement and a budget for the new design in 1993. The age of the Centaur-class aircraft carriers in service played a huge role in the priority and speed of the design period. The team at Fortuna Ironworks used years of knowledge gained from rebuilding and developing the older ships in order to have the first Apostle class ready for construction in 1996. The St. Andrew was launched in 2001 at the decommissioning ceremony of the Diocetus I, a prior carrier.

As originally designed, Apostle class vessels could serve extensively as helicopter cruisers, aircraft transports, and anti-submarines vessels during peacetime which allowed them to take on a variety of operations.They would operate in tandem with light cruisers and frigates to search and destroy the emerging threats that were nuclear submarines using its squadrons of helicopters.

Ships in class

Navy	Name	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Status
Imperial Sea Legion	St. Andrew	June 1996	April 2001	December 2003	In Service
Imperial Sea Legion	St. Peter	June 1998	March 2002	November 2004	Decommissioned in 2011 in order to make financial preparations for the future Hellenic class carrier. Sold to the Green Cross and converted to a humanitarian aid ship in order to raise additional funds.
Imperial Sea Legion	St. Paul				Originally to be laid down in 2019 but was placed on indefinite hold in early 2018. Any funding was transferred out of the program that same year.