Hastings-class assault carrier

Hastings Class Assault Carrier
File:Hastings Class Assault Carrier.jpeg The IFS William on a high speed run.
Class Overview
Class name:	Hastings-class Assault Carrier
Namesake:	Battle of Hastings
Builders:	Rusino Heavy Industries - Heavy Craft Yards
General characteristics
Type:	Star Assault Carrier
Weight:	25,312,246 tonnes
Length:	16,216m
Width:	2,127m
Height:	1,079 m (Superstructure) 92 m (Masts)
Crew:	24,112
Onboard AI:	Yes
Complement:	3.5 million troops, thousands of ground vehicles
Power Generation:	2x Rusino PGUA-21B Antimatter Initiated Fusion Reactor 2x Secondary Weyville Co. Nuclear Fusion Reactor
Propulsion:	4x Rusino PS-215C Fusion Drives 4x Hurston-D'aarh Maneuvering Control Systems Rusino WFG-55D FTL Warp Drive
Sensors Systems:	Advanced Ranging - Targeting - Entanglement Mission Instrument System (ARTEMIS) Sensor Suite: - QES-51 Quantum Sensor System - QFC-8 Fire Control Sensors Other Sensors: - Mk 78 Secondary Sensor Suite - 20,000x Mk 56 "Crow" Sensor Drones
Electronic Warfare Systems:	ARTEMIS Sensor Suite: EWS-52 Electronic Warfare System 12,000x Mk57 "Puck" Deception Drones
Armament :	2x RAC-72 Antimatter Accelerators 3x EBP-65 "Cleanser" 1000x MLP-521 "Kwacha" Missile Pods 500x FLP-71 "Ruby's Glare" 5,000x MAG-543 Secondary Railguns 10x Reckoning Nuclear Missiles 2250x Reaper Nuclear Mines
Shielding:	Rusino DSE-152 Energy Shielding
Armor:	Hull: 3.5 m of Nanocarbon Composite Citadel: 27 m Turrets: 31 m Interior Bulkheads: 1m
Vehicles carried:	500x BX-21 Retaliator 450x BX-76 Blazer 750x AX-45 Trident 1000x FX-62 Fury 25x CX-121 "Galaxymaster V" Dropships Hundreds of thousands of boarding craft Hundreds of thousands of drop pods Thousands of ground and atmospheric vehicles

The Hastings-class assault carrier is a class of assault carriers in service with the Interstellar Navy. It was designed by Rusino Heavy Industries to supplement a role of heavy warship designed to assault the most fortified of locations (i.e. planets, space stations, installations, etc.) with ease and being able to take incredible amounts of punishment while doing so.

Characteristics

The Hastings-class is 16,216 meters from bow to stern and is 2,127 meters wide, with a height of 1,079 meters from the upper superstructure to the dorsal superstructure. If the masts are accounted into the measurements, the ship is 1,171 meters tall. The Hastings weigh 25,312,246 metric tons, hosting a crew of 24,112 personnel.

Power Generation & Propulsion

The Hastings are powered by two Rusino PGUA-21B antimatter-initiated fusion reactors with two secondary Weyville Co. nuclear fusion reactors that can supplement the main reactors for up to 68.21% of their primary output. The Hastings-class are propelled by four Rusino PS-215C fusion drives and four Hurston-D'aarh maneuvering control systems.

Armament

The Hastings are armed with a primary armament of two RAC-72 antimatter accelerators that propel approximately 250kg of antimatter/matter at 0.5c, able to cause massive amounts of destruction. The Hastings-class are also armed with three primary anti-fortification weapons, the EBP-65 "Cleanser" energy projectors. These fire a dispersed beam of plasma that is designed to glass planets from orbit. Glassing is the act of reducing a planet's surface to glass through vaporizing the atmosphere and superheating the surface. However, the EBP-65s are also able to be used against ships for devastating effect, as the extremely hot plasma can burn through even the heaviest or most resistant armours or shields with relative ease.

Defences

The Hastings-class is heavily armoured, necessary so that it can withstand devastating attacks while assaulting a fortified position. The energy shielding of the vessel is very efficient and strong, to withstand the full force of multiple shots of the main weapons from the Hastings. This shielding is reinforced with a Kinetic-Thermal-Oscillating Reclamation system that reclaims thermal energy from the firing of weaponry and the kinetic/heat energy from weapon impacts to recharge the shielding faster and even boost it in situations. The armour of the Hastings is also heavy, with a nanocarbon composite armour that is very strong and resilient, yet light. Reinforced at a quantum level, the nanocarbon is very resistant to all forms of damage, including heat, kinetic impacts, antimatter annihilation, etc. The lattice of the nanocarbon atoms form small, regulated, crystalline shapes that increase the effectiveness of the armour.

In the case of boarding, the Hastings-class has several hundred thousand sentinels that have self-autonomy but are mostly controlled by the ship's AI. Every sentinel is armed with a charged particle beam weapon that can pierce through heavy armour or shielding on vehicles and is devastating against all kinds of infantry targets, whether they be synthetics or organics. Due to control being handed to an AI, they are impossible to be hacked by enemy forces. In addition, the Hastings can seal off entire compartments of the ship, just like any other Interstellar warship with antimatter shielding, which can only be defeated by starship-strength weaponry. The ships detachment of 3.5 million troops can also be called to defend the ship.