Omega-Class Battleship/Carrier Hybrid

After the near Collapse of the Centerfront Fleet of the Empire and some other Situations, the Empire faced a ugly Dilemma! Namely, their hole Carrier Doctrin was rubbish and the use of Carrier Groups itself! To understand, you have to go back to the infant Years of the Empire as young Galactic Power. Back in this time, the Fleet was focused on brutal strenght of their Battleship Fleet and adapted Carriers only on a slow pace into it. Carriers where hardly seen as a serious addition to the Fleet back then and even after Carriers where fully adopted, they would always stand in the Shadows of the mighty Battlefleet with their Shiny Battleships and Cruisers. To ad insult to injury, Carriers were only made in the fastest possible way, not Durrable and equipt with non Hyperdrive capable Fighter/Bomber, forcing Carrier Groups to get to close for Comfort to the Enemy. It took only nearly 2 Century's for the Void Born to see the Flaw in this...

During the Alliance-Void War, Hyperdrive capable Alliance Fighters and Bombers attacked Void Born Carrier Groups from far away without risking their Motherships. On one Occassion, a single Alliance Fighter (First Lieutenant Deli'A), took out Six "Scylla"-Class Carriers alone! Ironically, this Carrier's were about to comince a Attack on the Alliance Flagship and their Flightdecks where filled with fully fulled and Armed Bombers! Then in the Second War year, the near Centerfront Collapse happend and finally, every High up in the Void Born Fleet recognised that maybe, maaaaybe, something was not right with their Carrier Doctrin and usage...

But what to do? A new Doctrin was not easy to shake out of a Hat and New Carriers who could take Damage needed good planning and Time to build! A Solution was suggested by Jatrona Drive Yards, to use Hulls of not yet completed "Decima"-class Battleships for new purposebuild Carriers. But as things are, Traditionalists in the Navy where against it, not wanting their Shiny new Battleships taken away from them. After some back and forth, a compromise was made. The "Carrier" would keep all 5 of its Octuplet Turpolaser Turrets, but recieved a large new aftsection with two Launch decks on port and starboard and a big Landingdeck on top of it. The Hangardecks are protected by thick Battleship Armorplattings and strong shields cover the Launchbays. The upper Hangerdeck is reserved for Figthers, while the lower Hanger is used for Bombers. It was deemed the best solution, because of how Explosiv fully loaded Bombers could be and you could say the Hangar for the Fighters was seen as a additional Pufferzone. Some other thing taken over from the "Decima"-Class where the Repulsor Units, giving the new Class also the capabillity to operate in Atmosphere and act as a mobil Airfield during Planetary combat. The first new Warship was named "Omega" and the class's namesake ship. Even while only seen as an interim solution, "Omega" and her Sisterships proved as formidable Hybrid Ships and are the first succesfull Attempt of a Battlecarrier build by the Void Born Empire.

"Omega" itself was half a Year later caught in a Alliance Fighter and Bomber assault and destroyed, but not because she was a bad Ship, but simply her New Commander was not good at his Job he only got because his Father had influence....

Omega-Class Battleship/Carrier Hybrid
Lenght: 2000 Meters
Width: 480 Meters

Armament:
- 5 Octuplet Heavy Turbolaser Turrets
- 6 Triple Medium Turbolaser Turrets
- 41 Quad Point Defense Battery's
- 30 Heavy Missile Launchers, 15 on each side
-180 Fighters and 140 Bombers

Crew:
- 13, 367 Maximun
- 798 Minimum

Engine:
- 4 Hyper matter Reactors powering 4 Main Trusters and 2 Auxillery Trusters

Speed:
- 1.060 KP/H in Atmosphere
- 120 SLS (Sub Light Speed)