Courageous Class Heavy Cruiser

Courageous Class Heavy Cruiser
Basis	Alaska Class Large Cruiser
Armor	30,000 Hitpoints
Shield System	Mark 120 Mod 0 Aegis Shield System (30,000 Hitpoints / 6,000 Regen per Minute)
Computer Cores	4
Sublight Acceleration	30 G
FTL Speed	20 c
Armament
Mark 10 Mod 0 PDC	50 twin turrets (DPM per gun: 79.92 → Per turret: 159.84 → Total DPM: 7,992)
Mark 15 Mod 0 Heavy PDC	40 twin turrets (DPM per gun: 120 → Per turret: 240 → Total DPM: 9,600)
Mark 50 Mod 0 Ion Gun	12 twin turrets (DPM per gun: 375 → Per turret: 750 → Total DPM: 9,000)
Mark 120 Mod 0 Ion Gun	8 triple turrets (DPM per gun: 864 → Per turret: 2,592 → Total DPM: 20,736)
Total Point Defense / Interceptor DPM ≈ 47,328

The Courageous Class is a powerful heavy cruiser with strong layered point-defense and significant ion beam firepower, backed by solid shielding and armor. It serves as an excellent fleet escort or capital ship screen while retaining considerable offensive punch at medium ranges. Grendel Class Battleship The Grendel Class is the pinnacle of human capital ship design—an immense, heavily armored battleship engineered to dominate the battlespace through overwhelming defensive firepower, resilient shielding, and raw survivability. Drawing inspiration from the legendary Iowa-class battleships of Old Earth, the Grendel embodies the doctrine of the "unsinkable fortress": a vessel that can anchor a fleet line, absorb punishing assaults, and eradicate threats at close to medium range while protecting allied ships under its defensive umbrella. Key Characteristics

Role: Fleet flagship, line-of-battle anchor, missile/drone interceptor, planetary siege support Displacement: Massive (exact tonnage classified, but comparable to mobile orbital fortresses) Crew Complement: Several thousand (officers, enlisted, technical specialists, and Marine detachment) Powerplant: Advanced fusion torus with multiple redundant cores for sustained high-output operations Defensive Suite: Base armor rated at 46,000 hitpoints of advanced composite/ceramic lattice Mark 160 Mod 0 Aegis Shield System (46,000 hitpoints, 9,200 regen/min baseline) Extensive point-defense grid capable of engaging hundreds of simultaneous inbound threats

Propulsion: Sublight: 30 G sustained acceleration FTL: 20 c cruise velocity

Armament Overview (Standard Mod 0 Fit) The Grendel’s weaponry is entirely defensive/offensive in the point-defense and medium-beam envelope, with no heavy spinal or long-range coilgun/railgun batteries—its purpose is to close with the enemy, survive everything thrown at it, and delete threats before they reach the fleet.

100 × twin Mark 10 PDC turrets – Rapid-fire kinetic interceptors for close-in defense against missiles, drones, and torpedoes 70 × twin Mark 15 Heavy PDC turrets – Higher-caliber point-defense for engaging armored threats or saturating missile volleys 20 × twin Mark 50 Ion Gun turrets – Medium-range focused ion beams for drone/fighter interception and light anti-ship work 8 × triple Mark 160 Ion Gun turrets – Heavy ion beam arrays delivering devastating focused damage at medium range

Total baseline DPM (Mod 0): ≈78,504 This creates one of the densest defensive envelopes in known space, capable of neutralizing entire missile barrages or drone swarms single-handedly while providing overlapping fire support to escorting vessels. Operational Doctrine Grendels rarely operate alone. They serve as the armored heart of battle fleets, advancing under their own shield umbrella while screening carriers, cruisers, and logistics ships. Their presence forces enemies to either commit overwhelming force (risking attrition) or resort to long-range standoff weapons—which the Grendel’s point-defense grid is specifically designed to defeat. When flagshipped by exceptional commanders (such as the legendary Captain Conor Cullen), performance multipliers can elevate a single Grendel to the combat equivalence of an entire battle group. The class motto, etched on every hull: “We are the shield that breaks the storm.” The Grendel Class remains the ultimate expression of human naval power: not the fastest, not the longest-ranged, but the ship that simply refuses to die—and makes the enemy pay dearly for trying