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E.N.S. Geneva

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-- This is only my second ship design; comments welcome :) --

(Design updated 17/11/2014)

This is an example of the largest and most powerful kind of ship in my sci-fi: the starship of the battle line, or, more colloquially, the battle-line ship, or battleliner.

These ships are a combination of heavy artillery support ship, spacecraft carrier and mobile naval fort. One can dominate an entire stellar system, at the core of a Battleliner Strike Group, just one can dominate multiple stellar systems at once.

This is the United Earth Naval Starship Geneva, the class leader of the City of Geneva-class battleliners, which features early-on in the first book.

The City of Geneva-class is a new-ish class of battleliner fielded by the United Earth Navy. As replacements for the extremely popular Mount Everest-class that came before, the Genevas are unjustly maligned by many in the UEN, as they are smaller and considered less capable individually. They remain exceptional vessels, though.

These are the mainstay battleliners for the UEN; there are other, smaller classes of larger ships such as the huge Ascension Island-class ships or the UEN's flagship, the ENS Pelagic.

ENS Geneva is 1,282 metres long, masses 3.414 megatons fully loaded, carries up to 92 small craft including strikers, gunboats and pinnaces, and can lay down a kinetic broadside of 80 300mm kinetic energy guns and 40 420mm lanced-plasma guns in any direction; her 160 multi-vector anti-shipping missiles can engage targets over a billion kilometres distant, each one carrying up to 24 independent attack vehicles. She can safely accelerate at a maximum of 400 G and can last for 52 weeks before restocking and refuelling.
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Interesting...:) (Smile)   I assume the ring section is somehow connected to the drive system?