shifters lore page# 18 . new ship class and type



its now been 315 years since the end of the zanthium consordium wars and new ship types have been in devlopment such as the sv iron clad class heavy cruiser more lightly armed but with more powerful weapons like compressed plasma beam cannons compressed laser cannons as well as high powered quantum coil rail guns for fighter bomber interceptor and capital ship combat capable of taking any shot with in a 900 km range with pin point acuracy but minimum engagement distance beeing 75 km for more precice and garunteed shots the sv iron clad heavy cruiser is capable of engaging inside and our side of planetary gravity unlike other ships witch need specialy designed booster engines to fight in a gravity field as most ships are designed for the light gravity of earths moon and andelia prime

along with the newer weapons the engines power systems life support and armor are far more advanced withe the 315years of peace the rnd facilities have had more time to focuse on detailed and well planed research instead of rushed research during war time the engines once a modified class 7 ion drive were switched over to the nibirius 4 zeta fusion impulse drives witch offer far better thrust manuverability and handiling and are far more powerful cappable of near instand dead stop were as most other ships out in th univers take up to 10 or more minutes to come to a dead stop

the armor of the ships are now vitronium witch can withstand shots from weapons like what youd see in the unsc infinitys main mac guns with only suffering moderate deformation but but no major damage to ad onto its battle durability nanites are infused with all ship systems and un cases like the life support or power redundancies are in place in the rare event of a enemy with equal or moe powerful firepower to the shifters