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After the USSF Razor Star received its Block 3 upgrades in 2035 AD, which included extendable radiators, engine improvements, combat AI, cruise missiles, torpedoes, and weapon/hardware upgrades, its main mission became to patrol all of cislunar space instead of just the Far Side of the Moon. In cislunar patrol, the crew of the USSF Razor Star commonly goes through engagement drills to make sure they are always at the ready. Its orbit would consist of loops around the Moon and the Earth in a figure eight similarly to the Artemis deployments. When engaging an enemy, it would halt its spin and fire bowside. EATA space forces commonly attempted to engage this ship by firing either swarms of kinetic kill vehicles or drone attacks all of which it was successfully shot down with the help of other ships in a carrier strike group, fighters from saber squadrons, or ships in gunship formation minus minor laser burns and multiple rounds side-swiping the hull.Even though the Razor Star had a good track record in combat, there was one incident that spooked high-ranking NATO and USSF officers. This incident would become known as the "Phantom Ships Engagement". The vessels that the Razor Star engaged had to be either extraterrestrial spacecraft with some kind of mass/inertia dampers, a hidden drill programmed into the ship's computer, or EATA ships with highly advanced radar spoofing technology. The incident was recorded ay the ship's black box.
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The USSF Razor Star begun its eighth cislunar patrol after its Block 3 upgrades. The ship was departing from the Far Side of the Moon back to Earth orbit when an unexpected visitor started approaching the ship.
"Captain Shepard, we have an inbound unidentified infiltrator approaching our engagement perimeter. 8 minutes to contact." A radar operator announced.
"Can we get an ID on them?" Asked the captain.
"No, sir. They don't seem to have an IFF transponder." Replied a CIC officer.
"Hail them please." The captain ordered.
"Channel open, sir." The CIC comms officer said, the deck's main screen displaying a spectrogram of the radio channel.
"Unidentified ship, this is Captain Jason Shepard of the USSF Razor Star. This is your only warning! Turn back now or you will be engaged." Demanded the captain.
Silence.
"No response, captain." Said the comms officer.
"Alert 2. Increased readiness. Continuing tracking the ship. See if we can get a visual from our telescope." The captain said.
"Aye, sir."
On radar, the ship split into multiple ships. The CIC radar operators were baffled. To them, this was likely a carrier vehicle of some kind deploying smaller drones. But something was off. The new ships had the exact same radar cross section as the first ship, meaning that it was either one ship morphing into multiple ships, or it was multiple ships hiding in one ship's radar shadow like how multiple cyclists draft behind each other to reduce air drag.
"Multiple contacts detected! There are 8 ships inbound." Announced the radar operator.
"Is there hostile intent?" Asked the captain.
"Combat AI predicts so. They haven't deployed any missiles or torpedoes, but they are still inbound. Sounding master caution." Said a CIC operator.
"I warned them. Arm fire group A. Alert 1. Sound general quarters. All crew to battlestations. Prepare to engage." The captain ordered.
The lighting in the ship turned red while an alarm sounded. All of the crew stopped what they were doing and jogged to their lockers to put on a pressure suit. As part of Rules of Engagement in space, USSF personnel are required to wear pressure suits during combat in case there is a massive decompression from a projectile impact or laser ablation of the hull.
"Fire torpedoes." Ordered the captain.
"Aye, sir. Firing torps." Said a torpedo fly-by-wire pilot.
A loud mechanical noise was heard throughout the ship. The launch bays of the ship opened and one torpedo after another floated out parallel to the ship and begun adjusting their orientation. Then one by one, each of them accelerated toward their target.
The main screen showed a total of 8 torpedoes heading toward one ship each. The crew had their hopes high as each of the torpedoes had countermeasures they would deploy before being intercepted by point-defenses in order to confuse them.
"Torpedoes are away. We have a radar lock on all ships." Announced a CIC operator.
"What are they doing?" Asked the captain.
The ships just stopped. It was almost as if they wanted the torpedoes to impact them. As the torpedoes approached the unidentified ships, the sensors on the torpedoes reported no CIWS fire or laser ablation.
"Sir, we have impact." The torpedo fly-by-wire pilot said.
"Did we hit them?"
"I don't think so. We haven't detected any nuclear flashes." A CIC operator said.
"Fire the KKV's." He ordered.
"Firing KKV's." The missile fly-by-wire pilot said.
The ship's vertical launch systems opened up and 16 kinetic kill vehicles in total floated away horizontally to the ship and accelerated to the ships after orientating themselves.
"KKV's away." The pilot said.
Two KKV's were fired at each ship. These KKV's would open and fire ball-bearings to ensure they would turn any ship into Swiss cheese. However, like the torpedoes, nothing happened.
"What happened?" Asked the captain.
"Sir, they appear to have no effect on the bandits. Either they are disabling them or lasing them without us detecting it. The ships are heading toward us again." The sensor operator said.
"Enough of this! Bring up fire groups B and C." Ordered the captain.
"Aye, sir. Diverting power to the Blitzers." Said the railgun gunner.
"Arming the Blazer." Announced the main laser gunner.
A droning sound was heard in the crew compartment as the railguns turned and aimed at the enemy ships. They each began firing green-tracer sabots in a gatling-gun pattern as the ship's main laser attempted to pulse-lase each ship with its violet laser.
Then something extraordinary happened. The radar operators saw the ships evading the railgun fire by zigzagging. Given the distance, it was possible to evade railgun fire but would require a constant burning of fuel. But their zigzagging movement was almost instantaneous and at the last second and was faster than the main laser turret's momentum wheels could keep up with.
"Sir, they're evading our fire. Their movements are like nothing I've ever seen. The combat AI is having hard time predicting their movements. They're now 1 minute to contact." The first officer said.
"Bring up fire groups D and E." Ordered Captain Shepard.
"Bringing up the Rasers." A gunner said.
"Powering up the Testudo CIWS's." Another gunner said.
"Engage."
The Rasers' rolling-airframe turned and then began moving erratically as it attempted to get a lock on the enemy ships. Every time the targeting AI and the gunner of each turret had a lock, the enemy ship would dart away faster than the turret could aim at it. The same was for the CIWS turrets as the 30mm fire missed them when they traveled just ahead of the turret's turning speed.
"Sir, we have a visual on the ships." The first officer said.
"Put it on the main screen." Shepard said.
The screen showed an outline of a 302-meter-long rod-shape vessel with golf ball-like appendages protruding from its edges. Its color was jet black and it had a flag insignia that was not from any NATO or EATA country. What baffled the crew the most was that it had no visible propulsion system and no exhaust plume.
"That's a strange looking ship." Shepard said.
"Sir, they're closing in! One is on a collision course with the ship! Master warning is lit!" The radar operator said.
"Brace for impact! Prepare to be boarded!" Captain Shepard shouted over the ship's intercom.
As quickly as the fight started, the fighting ended. The crew, after tensing up for a few minutes, untensed and realized nothing was on their radar screens.
"Where did they go?!" Asked the captain.
"I don't know, sir. There not on radar or visible on our camera feeds." Said a sensor operator.
"Are they jamming us?" The captain asked.
"No, sir. There's no interference with our comms or our sensors." The first officer replied.
Captain Shepard sat back in his chair with his right hand on his forehead.
"What just happened?" He said under his breath.
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Commissioned:
- 2035 AD
Class:
- Shepard-Class Guided-Missile Gunship.
- Generation: Block 3 Gunship.
Ship ID:
- GG-7001
Dimensions:
- Length: 235 m
- Hull Diameter: 48.1 m
- Cross Section: 8,760 m^2
Mass:
- Wet Mass: 41.6 kT
- Dry Mass: 8.58 kT
Thrust:
- Delta-V: 9.54 km/s
- Acceleration: 277 mg's
- Dry Acceleration: 1.34 g's
Heat Signature:
- Ambient Heat: 421 MW
- Peak Heat: 921 MW
Hull Armor:
- Outer Hull: Reinforced Steel-Steel Grade 301 [1.05 cm].
- Intermediate Hull: Proteus Aluminum Foam Whipple Shields [1mm layers].
- Inner Hull: PBO Fiber Spall Liner [1mm layers].
Radiation Shielding:
- Ionizing Radiation (X-Rays, Gamma-Rays, Alpha-Beta Decay): Selenomelanin Biopolymer Panels and
Crew Module Heavy-Water Bladders.
- Ionized Particles (Solar Wind, Cosmic Rays, Low-Power Particle Beams): 100 Gauss Hybrid
Electromagnet 'Force Field' (Artificial Magnetosphere).
Plasmasphere Force Field:
- The ship can inject and trap plasma into its inner artificial magnetosphere (plasma magnetoshell) and make it dense enough to absorb laser light through the Inverse Bremsstrahlung Effect! This helps with deducing laser damage on the ship's hull. However, it is nowhere near as powerful as sci-fi shields as in vaporizing bullets or deflecting high-energy beams with zero damage.
Armament:
- Kinetic Weapons:
-- Flak Guns: 'Blitzers'
--- 4 30 MW 127mm Autofire Railguns: Fires 127mm Depleted-Uranium Tipped Green-Tracer
Steel Sabots at Mach 6.
-- Point-Defense Autocannons: 'Testudo CIWS'
--- 8 60mm Rolling-Airframe Missile CIWS Turrets: Fires 60mm Caliber Red-Tracer Rounds.
- Directed Energy Weapons:
-- Main Solid-State Laser: 'Blazer'
--- 1 25.09 MW Gimballed Ti:Sapphire Violet Laser (Pulsed, 100 MW Input Power).
-- Point-Defense Lasers: 'Rasers'
--- 8 50.5 kW Rolling-Airframe Ruby Red Lasers (Continuous, 1 MW Input Power).
- Guided Projectiles:
-- Short-Range Missiles: 'RAMs'
--- 16 Rolling-Airframe Missile Launchers: Each - 12 RIM-116 Missiles (CO2 Altitude Control
Thrusters).
-- Kill Vehicles: 'KKV's'
--- 16 Mark 41 Vertical Launch Systems: Each - 32 AI-Guided Kinetic Kill Vehicles.
-- Thermonuclear Torpedoes: 'Torpedoes'
--- 2 Ship Launch Bays: Each - 20 AI-Guided 2MT Thermonuclear Torpedoes (2 MT Shape Charge,
Nitromethane Rocket Motor, CO2 Altitude Control Thrusters).
Countermeasures:
- 4 Stern Mk-36 SRBOC Launchers:
-- Radar Tracking: Chaff Dispensers.
-- Heat Tracking: 500 MW Superthermite Flares.
-- Quantum Dot 'Perfect' Decoys.
Avionics:
- Insulated Wiring.
- High-Temperature Superconducting Wires.
- [Weapon Charge] Graphene Ultracapacitors.
Power Plant:
- 2 60.4 MW Thermoelectric Fission Reactor.
- Minimum Power Output: 100 MW.
- Maximum Power Output: 121 MW.
Thermal Control:
- 4 Large Amorphous Carbon Waste Heat Radiators: Cools the Reactors and Engine Reactors.
- 12 Medium Silicone Carbide Waste Heat Radiators: Cools the Ship's Weapon Systems and Crew Compartment.
Propulsion:
- Nuclear Thermal Propulsion:
-- 4 Gimablled Methane-7 Nuclear Thermal Rockets [6.05 km/s, 28 MN].
- Altitude Control Thrusters:
-- Methane Fuel (Chemical Burn).
Fuel Tanks:
- 11 3 kT Methane Fuel Tanks.
Refuelers:
- 12 38 MW Methane Auto-Refuelers.
Sensors:
- Omnidetectors: Detects All Particles in the Standard Model (Except Neutrinos).
- Multispectral Hull Cameras: View of the Ship's Exterior.
- Polaris-H Cameras: Highlights Radiation Zones.
- Terrain Mapping: LiDAR Scanners.
- Subterrain Mapping: TeraHertz Quantum Imaging.
- Magnetosphere Tracking: Sensitive Magnetometers.
Detectors:
- Infrared Bow Telescope: Detects Ship Heat Signatures.
- Active Long-Range Multifunction Radar: 4 AN/SPY-6 Phased Array Quantum Radar Antennas
[S-Band].
- Passive Long-Range Radar: 4 AN/SPS-48G 3D Air-Search Quantum Radar Domes
[E-Band and F-Band].
- Passive Mid-Range Radar: 4 TRS-3D Multi-Mode Surveillance Quantum Radar Domes [G-Band].
- Passive Short-Range Radar: 4 SPQ-9A Surface Gun Control Quantum Radar Domes [I-Band].
- Passive Close-Range Radar: CIWS AN/SPG-62C Fire Control Quantum Radar [I-Band and J-Band].
- GRADAR ('Space Sonar'): Detects Gravity Waves That Bounce Off Ship Surfaces Through
Hypersensitive Interferometry (Weber Bars).
Detector Range:
- Ship Heat Signatures: ~ 3 AU.
- Long-Range Radar: ~ 1,000km.
- Mid-Range Radar: ~ 500km.
- Short Range Radar: ~ 100km.
- Close-Range Radar ~ 10km.
Engagement Range:
- Long-Range Combat: ~ 10,000km.
- Mid-Range Combat: ~ 1,000km.
- Short-Range Combat: ~ 500km.
- Close-Range Combat: ~ 100km.
- Close-Quarters Combat: ~ 10km.
Fire Groups:
- Group A: Torpedoes and Cruise Missiles.
- Group B: Flak Railguns.
- Group C: Main Laser.
- Group D: Laser Point-Defense.
- Group E: CIWS and RAM Point-Defense.
CIC Alert System:
- Alert 1: battlestations, gunners at post, ready to engage in 1 minute.
- Alert 2: sound general quarters, weapons ready to engage in 2 minutes.
- Alert 3: heightened readiness, weapons charged, ready to engage in 3 minutes.
- Alert 4: heightened awareness, weapons charging, ready to engage in 4 minutes.
- Alert 5: raised awareness, weapons idle, ready to engage in 5 minutes.
Threat Classes:
- Class A: potent and immediate threat.
- Class B: immediate threat.
- Class C: potent threat.
- Class D: neither.
Warning System:
- Master Warning: an enemy weapon system or ship fault directly threatens the ship and requires
immediate attention.
- Master Caution: enemy radar is tracking the ship or ship fault that requires attention but does not
threaten the ship.
- Memos Advisory: abnormal ship function or unusual movement near the ship that does not pose a
threat to the ship.
Communications:
- Deep Space Communications: AN/URN-25E Quantum Radio Dish Antenna - 145MHz
- Encryption: Entangled Radio Pulses.
- Local Space Communications: 4 QE-82 Quantum Radio Dish Antennas.
- Radio Receivers: 5 Fractal Metamaterial Antennas [Best Possible Radio Receiver Surface Area].
- Ship ID: Optoelectronic Coherent Laser Array (IFF Transponder).
Crew Module:
- 160-Person Crew Module: 10 In-Airlock and At-Space Officer Cabins and 25 6-Person Crew Cabins.
- Life Support: Algae Bioreactor Units (Food-Oxygen Recycling), Shungite Wastewater Treatment, and
Graphene Air Circulation and Filtration.
- Ambient Noise Dampers: Acoustic Metamaterial Noise Cancellation.
Crew: 107 Personnel
- Administration: 10
-- 1 Captain.
-- 1 First Officer.
-- 1 Yeoman.
-- 4 Logistics Officers.
-- 2 Cooks.
-- 1 Doctor.
- Operations: 23
-- 6 Sensor Specialists.
-- 6 Comms Officers.
-- 6 Astronavigation Officers.
-- 2 Waste and Water Technicians.
-- 2 Air Circulation Technicians.
-- 1 Methane Refueler Operator.
- Engineering: 54
-- 1 Chief Engineer.
-- 3 60.4 MW Fission Reactor Technicians.
-- 7 Nuclear Reactor Engineers.
-- 24 Nuclear Reactor Technicians.
-- 1 100MW Ti:Sapphire Violet Laser Technician.
-- 2 30MW 127mm Autofire Railgun Technicians.
-- 2 Radar Technicians.
-- 1 1MW Ruby Red Laser Technician.
-- 3 30mm RAM CIWS Technicians.
-- 3 Radiator Technicians.
-- 6 Engine Technicians.
-- 3 Methane Refueler Technicians.
- Weapons: 20
-- 2 EW Specialists.
-- 1 100MW Ti:Sapphire Violet Laser Gunner.
-- 4 30mm RAM CIWS Gunners.
-- 2 1 MW Ruby Red Laser Gunners.
-- 2 30MW 127mm Autofire Railgun Gunners.
-- 2 Mark 41 Vertical Launch System Technicians.
-- 2 KKV Technicians.
-- 1 Launch Bay Technician.
-- 1 Thermonuclear Torpedo Technician.
-- 2 Mark 37 SRBOC Launcher Technicians.
-- 1 OLDC Decoy Launcher Technician.
- Space-Wing: 4
-- 2 Tactical Pilots.
-- 1 KKV Fly-by-Wire Pilot.
-- 1 Thermonuclear Torpedo Fly-by-Wire Pilot.
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