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Description
The Mark 3 Reed Drive gave the ESF Red Dawn the capability to travel from the inner Solar System to Saturn's Moon Titan in a small fraction of the time when compared to the Mark 2 Reed Drive. EATA High Command ordered the Red Dawn to begin a scouting mission to Titan so that the EATA Space Force could find an ideal place to land on and set up an outpost. Titan was a promising moon as it had dozens of times the fossil fuel reserves in hydrocarbons than Earth did which was a great opportunity to replenish EATA's oil reserves.

By 2060 AD, the USNSC had already set up an outpost on Titan using SpaceX's Pioneer 1 ship so for the ESF, time was of the essence. The ESF Red Dawn would then act as an escort for EATA's cargo fleet to Titan to establish an outpost. After the Red Dawn arrived at Titan with a cargo fleet, NATO was not happy. The NSF Razor Star and NSF Athena of Steel were waiting for them when they arrived. When their orbits overlapped, they intercepted. The ESF Red Dawn had the thrust to outmaneuver the NSF Athena of Steel's torpedo and KKV fleets, but the Razor Star had no trouble keeping up with the Red Dawn. The two ships chased each other in a fierce engagement. For the NSF, that was the plan. The Razor Star would keep the Red Dawn busy while the Athena of Steel would destroy the ESF cargo ships.

However, the ESF had a trick up their sleeve: one of the cargo ships was hauling a huge asteroid. The NSF Athena of Steel found this confusing since it was mostly dead weight unless they wanted to use it for construction material in orbit. If the ESF tried to use it to orbital bomb their outpost on Titan, it would be hard enough to guide it assuming the NSF couldn't nuke it with torpedoes before it could even reach Titan's atmosphere. The Athena of Steel's gradar detected an abnormally low amount of ambient gravity waves bouncing off the asteroid compared other asteroids of the same size. This meant that it was almost hollow. The asteroid then blasted apart to reveal that it was a Trojan Horse. Inside were five ESF fast attack gunboats. The asteroid hid them from long-range infrared telescopes and quantum radars. The captain ordered his crew to fire on the gunboats, but they were very fast.

The NSF Athena of Steel had the firepower but not the speed. The fast attack gunboats forced the battleship to fallback while the cargo ships sped to Titan's orbit. The Red Dawn prevented the Razor Star from assisting the Athena of Steel which forced the two ships fallback and defend Pioneer 1 as it was completely defenseless.

...

Hiding in the distance was a long cylindrical object with geodesic domes. The object had an observation deck with a window. Inside was a man observing the battle over Titan dressed in a grey officer's uniform and a WW2-style officer cap with a straight-winged metal eagle on it.

"That's right fools. Keep playing your cat-and-mouse games." He said as he pulled out a cigar and smoked it, exhaling the smoke toward the window.

---

Commissioned:

- 2037 AD

Class:

- Guided-Missile Gaser Battlecruiser.
- Generation: Block 3 Perelman-Class Battlecruiser.

Ship ID:

- BBGN-36

Dimensions:

- Length: 300 m
- Hull Diameter: 40.3 m

Mass:

- Wet Mass: 18.7 kT
- Dry Mass: 12.3 kT

Thrust: Reed Drive

- Delta-V: 863 km/s
- Cruise Acceleration: 0.1 g's
- Supercruise Acceleration: 1 g
- Evasive Acceleration: 7 g's

Heat Signature:

- Ambient Heat: 421 MW
- Peak Heat: 951 MW

Hull Armor:

- Outer Hull: Reinforced Steel-Steel Grade 301 [2.05 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).

Armament:

- Kinetic Weapons:
-- Flak Guns:
    --- 4 30MW 127mm Autofire Railguns: Fires 127mm Depleted-Uranium Tipped Red-Tracer
Steel Sabots at Mach 6.
-- Point-Defense Autocannons: 'Kashtan CIWS', 'Railgun CIWS'
    --- 8 30mm Kashtan CIWS Turrets: Fires 30mm Caliber Orange-Tracer Rounds.
- Directed Energy Weapons:
-- Main Gamma-Ray Laser:
    --- 1 1PW Hafnium-148m2 Catalyzed Gamma-Ray Laser.
-- Solid-State Lasers:
    --- 4 Gimballed 3.09MW Ti:Sapphire Violet Laser (Pulsed, 100MW Input Power).
-- Point-Defense Lasers:
    --- 8 573kW Rolling-Airframe Nd:YAG Green Lasers (Continuous, 13MW Input Power).
- Guided Projectiles:
-- Kinetic Kill Vehicles: 'KKV's'
    --- 16 Vertical Launch Systems: Each - 32 AI-Guided Depleted Uranium-Tipped Tungsten Rods
(Nitromethane Rocket Motor, CO2 Altitude Control Thrusters)
-- Thermonuclear Torpedoes: 'Torpedoes'
    --- Ship Launch Bays: Each - 20 AI-Guided 4 MT Thermonuclear Torpedoes (4 MT Shape Charge,
Nitromethane Rocket Motor, CO2 Altitude Control Thrusters).

Countermeasures:

- 4 Stern PK-3B Launchers:
-- Radar Tracking: Chaff Dispensers.
-- Heat Tracking: 500MW Superthermite Flares.
-- Advanced Decoys.

Avionics:

- Insulated Wiring.
- High-Temperature Superconducting Wires.
- [Weapon Charge] Graphene Ultracapacitors.

Power Plant:

- 1 121 MW Thermoelectric Fission Reactor.
- Minimum Power Output: 100 MW.
- Maximum Power Output: 121 MW.

Thermal Control:

- 8 Large Amorphous Carbon Waste Heat Radiators: Cools the Reactor and Fusion Drive.
- 12 Medium Silicone Carbide Waste Heat Radiators: Cools the Ship's Weapon Systems.
- 8 Small Aluminum-Ammonia Waste Heat Radiators: Cools the Ship's Crew Compartment.

Propulsion:

- Mark 3 Reed Drive: Hafnium/Antimatter-Catalyzed Fusion Rocket.
-- Fuel: Deuterium, Helium-3, and Protonium.
-- Reaction: Hf-178m2 + (P- + P+) -> y -> He-3 + D -> H + He-4 (18.4 MeV)
-- Exhaust Velocity: 2,060 km/s
-- Specific Impulse: 209,986 sec
- Altitude Control Thrusters:
-- Deuterium Fuel (Chemical Burn).

Fuel Tanks:

- 6 1 kT Deuterium Fuel Tanks.
- 8 50 t Helium-3 Fuel Tanks.

Refuelers:

- 12 38 MW Deuterium 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 Phased Array Quantum Radar Antennas
[S-Band].
- Passive Long-Range Radar: 4 Voskhod MR-800 3D Air-Search Quantum Radar Domes
[E-Band and F-Band].
- Passive Mid-Range Radar: 4 Fregat MR-710 3D Air-Search Surveillance Quantum Radar Domes [G-Band].
- Passive Short-Range Radar: 4 SA-N-6 Surface Gun Control Quantum Radar Domes [I-Band].
- Passive Close-Range Radar: SA-N-4 CIWS 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: Gaser.
- Group B: Torpedoes and Kinetic Kill Vehicles.
- Group C: Flak Railguns.
- Group D: Solid-State Lasers.
- Group E: Laser Point-Defense.
- Group F: CIWS Point-Defense.

Communications:

- Deep Space Communications: Quantum Radio Dish Antenna - 145MHz
- Encryption: Entangled Radio Pulses.
- Local Space Communications: 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:

- 95-Person Crew Module: 10 In-Airlock and At-Space Officer Cabins and 17 5-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.

Artificial Gravity:

- Since the ship's Reed Drive has a high enough fuel efficiency for interplanetary acceleration, 1g of artificial gravity can be simulated for the central crew cabin with floors perpendicular to the thrust vector for the whole trip. This means the crew compartment's ceiling faces toward the bow instead of the stern. When accelerating toward a destination, the ship performs a "Brachistochrone Burn": accelerates at 1g halfway towards the target planet and then flips and burns at 1g in the opposite direction for the rest of the trip, simulating artificial gravity.

Crew: 89 Personnel

- Administration: 10
-- 1 Captain.
-- 1 First Officer.
-- 1 Yeoman.
-- 4 Logistics Officers.
-- 2 Cooks.
-- 1 Doctors.
- Operations: 21
-- 6 Sensor Specialists.
-- 6 Comms Officers.
-- 6 Astronavigation Officers.
-- 1 Waste and Water Technicians.
-- 1 Air Circulation Technicians.
-- 1 Deuterium Refueler Operators.
- Engineering: 31
-- 1 Chief Engineer.
-- 1 121 MW Fission Reactor Technicians.
-- 2 Nuclear Reactor Engineers.
-- 9 Nuclear Reactor Technicians.
-- 1 1PW Gaser Technician.
-- 1 100MW Ti:Sapphire Violet Laser Technician.
-- 2 13MW Nd:YAG Green Laser Technicians.
-- 2 30MW 127mm Autofire Railgun Technicians.
-- 2 Radar Technicians.
-- 3 30mm Kashtan CIWS Technicians.
-- 3 Radiator Technicians.
-- 2 Engine Technicians.
-- 3 Deuterium Refueler Technicians.
- Weapons: 23
-- 2 EW Specialists.
-- 1 1PW Gaser Gunner.
-- 2 100MW Ti:Sapphire Violet Laser Gunners.
-- 4 13MW Nd:YAG Green Laser Gunners.
-- 4 30mm Kashtan CIWS Gunners.
-- 2 30MW 127mm Autofire Railgun Gunners.
-- 2 Vertical Launch System Technicians.
-- 2 Launch Bay Technicians.
-- 1 Thermonuclear Torpedo Technician.
-- 3 PK-3B Launcher Technicians.
- Space-Wing: 4
-- 2 Tactical Pilots.
-- 1 KVV Fly-by-Wire Pilots.
-- 1 Thermonuclear Torpedo Fly-by-Wire Pilot.

Description
The Mark 3 Reed Drive gave the ESF Red Dawn the capability to travel from the inner Solar System to Saturn's Moon Titan in a small fraction of the time when compared to the Mark 2 Reed Drive. EATA High Command ordered the Red Dawn to begin a scouting mission to Titan so that the EATA Space Force could find an ideal place to land on and set up an outpost. Titan was a promising moon as it had dozens of times the fossil fuel reserves in hydrocarbons than Earth did which was a great opportunity to replenish EATA's oil reserves.

By 2060 AD, the USNSC had already set up an outpost on Titan using SpaceX's Pioneer 1 ship so for the ESF, time was of the essence. The ESF Red Dawn would then act as an escort for EATA's cargo fleet to Titan to establish an outpost. After the Red Dawn arrived at Titan with a cargo fleet, NATO was not happy. The NSF Razor Star and NSF Athena of Steel were waiting for them when they arrived. When their orbits overlapped, they intercepted. The ESF Red Dawn had the thrust to outmaneuver the NSF Athena of Steel's torpedo and KKV fleets, but the Razor Star had no trouble keeping up with the Red Dawn. The two ships chased each other in a fierce engagement. For the NSF, that was the plan. The Razor Star would keep the Red Dawn busy while the Athena of Steel would destroy the ESF cargo ships.

However, the ESF had a trick up their sleeve: one of the cargo ships was hauling a huge asteroid. The NSF Athena of Steel found this confusing since it was mostly dead weight unless they wanted to use it for construction material in orbit. If the ESF tried to use it to orbital bomb their outpost on Titan, it would be hard enough to guide it assuming the NSF couldn't nuke it with torpedoes before it could even reach Titan's atmosphere. The Athena of Steel's gradar detected an abnormally low amount of ambient gravity waves bouncing off the asteroid compared other asteroids of the same size. This meant that it was almost hollow. The asteroid then blasted apart to reveal that it was a Trojan Horse. Inside were five ESF fast attack gunboats. The asteroid hid them from long-range infrared telescopes and quantum radars. The captain ordered his crew to fire on the gunboats, but they were very fast.

The NSF Athena of Steel had the firepower but not the speed. The fast attack gunboats forced the battleship to fallback while the cargo ships sped to Titan's orbit. The Red Dawn prevented the Razor Star from assisting the Athena of Steel which forced the two ships fallback and defend Pioneer 1 as it was completely defenseless.

...

Hiding in the distance was a long cylindrical object with geodesic domes. The object had an observation deck with a window. Inside was a man observing the battle over Titan dressed in a grey officer's uniform and a WW2-style officer cap with a straight-winged metal eagle on it.

"That's right fools. Keep playing your cat-and-mouse games." He said as he pulled out a cigar and smoked it, exhaling the smoke toward the window.

---

Commissioned:

- 2037 AD

Class:

- Guided-Missile Gaser Battlecruiser.
- Generation: Block 3 Perelman-Class Battlecruiser.

Ship ID:

- BBGN-36

Dimensions:

- Length: 300 m
- Hull Diameter: 40.3 m

Mass:

- Wet Mass: 18.7 kT
- Dry Mass: 12.3 kT

Thrust: Reed Drive

- Delta-V: 863 km/s
- Cruise Acceleration: 0.1 g's
- Supercruise Acceleration: 1 g
- Evasive Acceleration: 7 g's

Heat Signature:

- Ambient Heat: 421 MW
- Peak Heat: 951 MW

Hull Armor:

- Outer Hull: Reinforced Steel-Steel Grade 301 [2.05 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).

Armament:

- Kinetic Weapons:
-- Flak Guns:
    --- 4 30MW 127mm Autofire Railguns: Fires 127mm Depleted-Uranium Tipped Red-Tracer
Steel Sabots at Mach 6.
-- Point-Defense Autocannons: 'Kashtan CIWS', 'Railgun CIWS'
    --- 8 30mm Kashtan CIWS Turrets: Fires 30mm Caliber Orange-Tracer Rounds.
- Directed Energy Weapons:
-- Main Gamma-Ray Laser:
    --- 1 1PW Hafnium-148m2 Catalyzed Gamma-Ray Laser.
-- Solid-State Lasers:
    --- 4 Gimballed 3.09MW Ti:Sapphire Violet Laser (Pulsed, 100MW Input Power).
-- Point-Defense Lasers:
    --- 8 573kW Rolling-Airframe Nd:YAG Green Lasers (Continuous, 13MW Input Power).
- Guided Projectiles:
-- Kinetic Kill Vehicles: 'KKV's'
    --- 16 Vertical Launch Systems: Each - 32 AI-Guided Depleted Uranium-Tipped Tungsten Rods
(Nitromethane Rocket Motor, CO2 Altitude Control Thrusters)
-- Thermonuclear Torpedoes: 'Torpedoes'
    --- Ship Launch Bays: Each - 20 AI-Guided 4 MT Thermonuclear Torpedoes (4 MT Shape Charge,
Nitromethane Rocket Motor, CO2 Altitude Control Thrusters).

Countermeasures:

- 4 Stern PK-3B Launchers:
-- Radar Tracking: Chaff Dispensers.
-- Heat Tracking: 500MW Superthermite Flares.
-- Advanced Decoys.

Avionics:

- Insulated Wiring.
- High-Temperature Superconducting Wires.
- [Weapon Charge] Graphene Ultracapacitors.

Power Plant:

- 1 121 MW Thermoelectric Fission Reactor.
- Minimum Power Output: 100 MW.
- Maximum Power Output: 121 MW.

Thermal Control:

- 8 Large Amorphous Carbon Waste Heat Radiators: Cools the Reactor and Fusion Drive.
- 12 Medium Silicone Carbide Waste Heat Radiators: Cools the Ship's Weapon Systems.
- 8 Small Aluminum-Ammonia Waste Heat Radiators: Cools the Ship's Crew Compartment.

Propulsion:

- Mark 3 Reed Drive: Hafnium/Antimatter-Catalyzed Fusion Rocket.
-- Fuel: Deuterium, Helium-3, and Protonium.
-- Reaction: Hf-178m2 + (P- + P+) -> y -> He-3 + D -> H + He-4 (18.4 MeV)
-- Exhaust Velocity: 2,060 km/s
-- Specific Impulse: 209,986 sec
- Altitude Control Thrusters:
-- Deuterium Fuel (Chemical Burn).

Fuel Tanks:

- 6 1 kT Deuterium Fuel Tanks.
- 8 50 t Helium-3 Fuel Tanks.

Refuelers:

- 12 38 MW Deuterium 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 Phased Array Quantum Radar Antennas
[S-Band].
- Passive Long-Range Radar: 4 Voskhod MR-800 3D Air-Search Quantum Radar Domes
[E-Band and F-Band].
- Passive Mid-Range Radar: 4 Fregat MR-710 3D Air-Search Surveillance Quantum Radar Domes [G-Band].
- Passive Short-Range Radar: 4 SA-N-6 Surface Gun Control Quantum Radar Domes [I-Band].
- Passive Close-Range Radar: SA-N-4 CIWS 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: Gaser.
- Group B: Torpedoes and Kinetic Kill Vehicles.
- Group C: Flak Railguns.
- Group D: Solid-State Lasers.
- Group E: Laser Point-Defense.
- Group F: CIWS Point-Defense.

Communications:

- Deep Space Communications: Quantum Radio Dish Antenna - 145MHz
- Encryption: Entangled Radio Pulses.
- Local Space Communications: 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:

- 95-Person Crew Module: 10 In-Airlock and At-Space Officer Cabins and 17 5-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.

Artificial Gravity:

- Since the ship's Reed Drive has a high enough fuel efficiency for interplanetary acceleration, 1g of artificial gravity can be simulated for the central crew cabin with floors perpendicular to the thrust vector for the whole trip. This means the crew compartment's ceiling faces toward the bow instead of the stern. When accelerating toward a destination, the ship performs a "Brachistochrone Burn": accelerates at 1g halfway towards the target planet and then flips and burns at 1g in the opposite direction for the rest of the trip, simulating artificial gravity.

Crew: 89 Personnel

- Administration: 10
-- 1 Captain.
-- 1 First Officer.
-- 1 Yeoman.
-- 4 Logistics Officers.
-- 2 Cooks.
-- 1 Doctors.
- Operations: 21
-- 6 Sensor Specialists.
-- 6 Comms Officers.
-- 6 Astronavigation Officers.
-- 1 Waste and Water Technicians.
-- 1 Air Circulation Technicians.
-- 1 Deuterium Refueler Operators.
- Engineering: 31
-- 1 Chief Engineer.
-- 1 121 MW Fission Reactor Technicians.
-- 2 Nuclear Reactor Engineers.
-- 9 Nuclear Reactor Technicians.
-- 1 1PW Gaser Technician.
-- 1 100MW Ti:Sapphire Violet Laser Technician.
-- 2 13MW Nd:YAG Green Laser Technicians.
-- 2 30MW 127mm Autofire Railgun Technicians.
-- 2 Radar Technicians.
-- 3 30mm Kashtan CIWS Technicians.
-- 3 Radiator Technicians.
-- 2 Engine Technicians.
-- 3 Deuterium Refueler Technicians.
- Weapons: 23
-- 2 EW Specialists.
-- 1 1PW Gaser Gunner.
-- 2 100MW Ti:Sapphire Violet Laser Gunners.
-- 4 13MW Nd:YAG Green Laser Gunners.
-- 4 30mm Kashtan CIWS Gunners.
-- 2 30MW 127mm Autofire Railgun Gunners.
-- 2 Vertical Launch System Technicians.
-- 2 Launch Bay Technicians.
-- 1 Thermonuclear Torpedo Technician.
-- 3 PK-3B Launcher Technicians.
- Space-Wing: 4
-- 2 Tactical Pilots.
-- 1 KVV Fly-by-Wire Pilots.
-- 1 Thermonuclear Torpedo Fly-by-Wire Pilot.