User:Delta Team Curt/Hood-class Battlecruiser

The 'Hood-class Battlecruiser was a line of cruisers commissioned in 2569 by the United Nations Space Command Navy. It mounts the most MACs of any ship to date, with three turreted Medium MAC cannons and a single MAC cannon.

Features
Perhaps the most unique weapons of the Hood-class are its three Medium Accelerator Cannon turrets. Designed to be used in closer ranges than the slow-to-fire MAC, MEACs deliver more firepower at close range. Depending on the amount of energy diverted to its capacitors, the MEAC can reach a firing rate of one fifty kilogram round every fifteen seconds. By staggering the fire from each barrel, the Hood can keep an enemy vessel under fire for a much longer amount of time, reducing the enemy's combat effectiveness.

The Hood-class Battlecruiser is also the largest warship to date mounting VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) propulsion drives. This gives it an acceleration rate unseen in conventionally-propelled light cruisers, which do not have anywhere near the mass of the Hood class. VASIMR combines the best of both worlds of chemical and ion propulsion, with the endurance akin to an ion engine. It also does not require the massive amounts of fuel that a chemical thruster does.

Engines

 * Dual VASMIR Engines
 * Reserve Ion Engines

Armament

 * 1 Heavy Magnetic Accelerator Cannon
 * 3 Medium Magnetic Accelerator Cannon Turrets
 * 44 Archer Missile Chemical Missile Pods
 * 35 M401 Cluster Laser Emitters
 * 2 Shiva Nuclear Missile Tubes

Complement

 * 20 D77H-TCI Pelican Dropships
 * 10 C709 Longsword Interceptors
 * 5 M808 Scorpion MBTs
 * 2 M85 Buffalo CEVs
 * 15 M12 Warthog LRVs