The Expoletian Armada is a fleet of approximately 850,000 interstellar warships, 50,000 Battleships, 47 Battlecruisers and 5 command class vessels. Far from being the largest Armada, the Expoletian fleet gets its strength from the technology it possesses.
The Fleet is armed universally with Kodekai Enterprises Type XIV Turrets, which provide lots of firepower for little power consumption, even in mass numbers. Most vessels can shrug off the energy bolts they fire, yet these turrets deal massive damage to shields, and transfer all their energy when they hit to the opposing vessel, heating the hull gradually over time.
Once the enemy hull is weakened, the Expoletian Armada uses Hunter Demotions, a sub-division of Kodekai Enterprises, branded Torpedo Tubes to pierce and destroy the enemy vessel with high energy plasma balls. These weapons, easily absorbed by heat shielding, are standard on every vessel, although in severely reduced quantities as opposed to the turrets. Much like the turrets, these weapons use low power for the damage they can cause.
The larger Expoletian vessels are outfitted with large battery cannons, which fire large amounts of superheated metal at a high velocity. Due to the size of these weapons, they are stored inside the hull of the vessel when in transit, as they draw large amounts of power from the reactors, which limits most vessels to two of the light battery cannons.
Battlecruisers, the largest of the Expoletian vessels, are equipped with more firepower than any other vessel in the fleet, being equipped with the heavy battery cannons, which fire solid cylinders of metal at speeds capable of going through the entire hull of a cruiser class vessel. These cannons draw as much power as every other system on the vessel combined, which forces the vessel to redirect most engine power in order to fire these cannons.
Command Class vessels such as the Malevellum and Sonic Rupture, are the largest, most powerful war class ships in the entire universe, completely incapable of entering a planet's atmosphere due to the resources required to house them. They are equipped with specialist weapons along with the full firepower of a Battlecruiser. These vessels are also noticeably quicker in the middle of battle, having several more reactors than Battlecruisers, allowing most systems to run at full capacity when in full combat mode.
The most powerful Expoletian vessel is rarely used in battle, as the upkeep is highly expensive and inefficient for combat purposes. The Dreadnought Class vessel is a planet sized behemoth, possessing the prototype Incineration Cannon, a weapon so large, the Dreadnought was built around it. Two Dreadnoughts were built, although one, The Ultimate, was destroyed while covering the Expoletian Armada retreat from Earth, and these were funded completely by Kodekai Enterprises at a cost of $63 Octillion each, although neither was a significant loss for the company.
Three classes of fighter make the backbone of the Expoletian Armada. Many of these can be controlled by an AI that evolves during battle, saving billions of lives.
The Vorcha Fighter is an interceptor, designed for speed and agility. The fastest vessel in the Expoletian Fleet, the Vorcha does most of the dogfighting, although it is rather weak.
The Arclight Bomber is tough and slow, but is one of the few vessels capable of trans-atmospheric flight. It does not possess a turret for fighter-to-fighter combat, but it can deal rapid damage to enemy warships.
The Hg-X Fighter is the newest Expoletian fighter, and is a hybrid of the Vorcha and Arclight classes. The cockpit is no more than 80cm wide, and the vessel is heavily equipped and armoured. The fighter has a pressurizer, which provides the pilot with a comfortable atmosphere in the cockpit, which dynamically changes based on the conditions outside. Fast and tough, the Hg-X is a favourite amongst pilots, who say they prefer the control responsiveness and the ease at which tasks can be done, due to a dynamic AI which monitors and controls every system, allowing the pilot to focus on maneuvering and firing weapons in the heat of battle.
The AI installed on all Expoletian vessels responds to voice commands, and the video communicator is capable of contacting a commander's battle computer, which is integrated into their armour, removing the need for short range headsets or communicators, allowing the commander to freely fight while talking.
Battle Armour is hardened to respond to every atmosphere, and soldiers are not required to wear helmets, as the chest piece of the armour is outfitted with a high powered chemical convertor, which changes the current atmosphere - toxic or not - and converts it into the Expoletian atmosphere (60% Nitrogen, 30% Oxygen, 9% Sodium Hexafluoride, 1% other), allowing soldiers to easily breathe any atmosphere without fear of poison. Expoletian Battle Armour is one of the toughest things in the known galaxy, being able to take over 10 Expoletian atmospheres (~12G's) worth of force before cracking.
A small post, but this gives an insight to what the fleet of New Expoletia is actually like.
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Timothy Connor, Creator.
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