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A quartet of Saint class Fast Battleships in a large scale fleet formation, 2673 AD

Saint class Fast Battleships
The St. Andrew class, also known as Saint class battleships was ordered in the early 2665 AD as a result for the search for a new Federation Mass-Production Fast Battleship design. As the previous John A Warden class Battlecruisers had already show their age, the demands for faster and bigger capital ship designs did not begin until the start of the First Batarian War.

Its main battery module and more sleek design used the technology and design philosophies previously applied to the Amagi class Battlecruisers. The St. Andrew is clearly an attempt by the Federation to apply the new technologies on the Amagi class but on a more simplified level and at a much lower cost for a mass production ship. The St. Andrew carried the same 8 guns layout like Amagi, but its physical armor scheme is more compact and better distributed to maximize the sub-divided compartments for better redundancy. The four stacked engines arrangement also represents a new shift in Federation battleship doctrines of the post Bug Wars era, from the more massive Star Battleship doctrines to smaller sized vessels with higher degree of mobility and firepower.

The ship could carry approx. 22 support crafts in its dorsal hangar module, with a built-in maintenance facilities and runways placed in an enclosed hangar layout. While such layout is more vulnerable to a well placed shot, numerous counter-measures have been devised. In case when such situation ever occur, the explosions can be vented through the radiators placed across the hangar module, or the entire hangar module can be ejected away, thus reducing damages to the ship.

Due to the priorities on carrier constructions and completion of the cheaper Lord Nelson class BBs, only 20 Saint class battleships are operational during the 2nd Batarian War, with the majority of them took part in the invasion of the Batarian Home Systems in the later stage of the war.

A/N: Tried out some new textures this time, hopefully it looks better than the dark grey one

Ship designs for for L4's Mass Effect and Starship Trooperscrossover fanfic on ff.net and alternatehistory.com, the current story arc can be viewed here:
FF link:www.fanfiction.net/s/12368590/…
AH link: www.alternatehistory.com/forum…

I do not own either Mass Effect or Starship Troopers, they are copyrighted by Bioware,EA and Sony respectively

Description
A quartet of Saint class Fast Battleships in a large scale fleet formation, 2673 AD

Saint class Fast Battleships
The St. Andrew class, also known as Saint class battleships was ordered in the early 2665 AD as a result for the search for a new Federation Mass-Production Fast Battleship design. As the previous John A Warden class Battlecruisers had already show their age, the demands for faster and bigger capital ship designs did not begin until the start of the First Batarian War.

Its main battery module and more sleek design used the technology and design philosophies previously applied to the Amagi class Battlecruisers. The St. Andrew is clearly an attempt by the Federation to apply the new technologies on the Amagi class but on a more simplified level and at a much lower cost for a mass production ship. The St. Andrew carried the same 8 guns layout like Amagi, but its physical armor scheme is more compact and better distributed to maximize the sub-divided compartments for better redundancy. The four stacked engines arrangement also represents a new shift in Federation battleship doctrines of the post Bug Wars era, from the more massive Star Battleship doctrines to smaller sized vessels with higher degree of mobility and firepower.

The ship could carry approx. 22 support crafts in its dorsal hangar module, with a built-in maintenance facilities and runways placed in an enclosed hangar layout. While such layout is more vulnerable to a well placed shot, numerous counter-measures have been devised. In case when such situation ever occur, the explosions can be vented through the radiators placed across the hangar module, or the entire hangar module can be ejected away, thus reducing damages to the ship.

Due to the priorities on carrier constructions and completion of the cheaper Lord Nelson class BBs, only 20 Saint class battleships are operational during the 2nd Batarian War, with the majority of them took part in the invasion of the Batarian Home Systems in the later stage of the war.

A/N: Tried out some new textures this time, hopefully it looks better than the dark grey one

Ship designs for for L4's Mass Effect and Starship Trooperscrossover fanfic on ff.net and alternatehistory.com, the current story arc can be viewed here:
FF link:www.fanfiction.net/s/12368590/…
AH link: www.alternatehistory.com/forum…

I do not own either Mass Effect or Starship Troopers, they are copyrighted by Bioware,EA and Sony respectively