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Goliath Mk I Class Battle Cruiser

The Goliath Mk I-class battlecruiser were a pair of battlecruisers built by Valhalla around the onset of the Inter-alliance War. According to the pre-war Nebucadnezan naval program, Plan Tango, the Mk Is were to operate in the Kaiser-Licht`s battleline along with two of the Goliath Mk II Class Battleship and four of the Predator VIA Class Warships. The Predator class warships were considered battlecruisers by the Pneumivian navy, but were designated as a Heavy Cruiser by the Kaiser-Licht Navy in the event of war.

All Goliath Mk I-class ships were lost during the Inter-Alliance War. Indomitable was intercepted and destroyed during combat with the Pneumivian Navy in 2496 on its sixth sortie against merchant shippings. The Kirov was hidden for most of her career in the Inner Rim System, acting as a listening station, threatening the Murmansk convoys. The PN made numerous attempts to sink her, and she eventually collapse while travelling outwards into the outer rims before being hit with Blackwidow Bombs from Pneumivian bombers in late 2497. The Simcis were later hunted down and were critically damaged up to the point where Goliath had to destroy her to avoid the technology from being used by the Pneumivian Navy.

Design history
The Kaiser-Licht Marine begun an unofficial study of two battleships in 2488, and preliminary design work on the 'Battleship CO8', 'Battleship C09' and 'Battleship C10' begun in 2490.Indomitable and Kirov, the main two ships of this class, were laid down in 2492 and launched 4 years later.

The two new Predator Warships dictated the choice of balanced speed, ordnance and protection. Great emphasis was on protection and stability because of the possibility of fighting a numerically superior enemy; the new ships had to be more powerful and better protected than their enemies' ship.

The Mk Is were designed after the Yorkton class, being quite similar in design, armor, and outward appearance; however, the Mk I were more heavily armored and better armed, making them full sized fast battleships.

The Indomitable, Simcis and Kirov were generally well-regarded ships, being a reasonable example of design compromise

Purpose
The original design for the warships provisionally dubbed C08, C09 and C10, Indomitable, Kirov and Simcis, respectively. The ships were also classified as Extra battleships and Emergency Battleship, as they were intended as replacements for the old Yorkton Class ship still in Valhallan service. Yorkton was a fast commerce raider with almost twice the endurance, and slightly thicker armour than was eventually used on Mk I, but later research shows some fatal flaws that are too costly to maintain or repair.