@Jinx
I think I’ll settle with “Akula”, but call it’s class name “Chrysaora”.
Not quite sure what sorta ordnance my ship should have yet. I just know how it’d deliver or use them.
(“Frigate” acting as deployed “”Gun Bus[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_(warship)), “Bombers” acting as inertial “Missile Buses”, & “Assault Fighters” acting as interceptors against enemy assets.)
For conventional armaments to choose from, there’s;
lasers (
optical cavity or
phased nano-array,
heating beam or
pulsed explosive, & from
infrared to gamma-ray),
(|| could make an entire ship itself into the laser cannon, while still redirecting the beam via mirrors into turrets & distant ““reflection frigates[](https://www.orionsarm.com/im_store/zoneplate.png). ||)
kinetics (
ETC(ElectroThermal-Chemical),
Gauss,
Rail, & if compact forms of FTL-drive tech can apposite,
Spacetime guns),
(|| Rick Robinson’s First Law of Space Combat: “An object impacting at 3 km/sec delivers kinetic energy equal to its mass in TNT.” ||)
particle-beam bolters (free-electron for atmospheric lightning tentacles, proton for sterilizing craft through vacuum),
(|| too short-ranged and overshadowed by X-ray lasers for deep-space conflict, but ideal for planetary-orbit fighting, or as point-defense against fighters & boarding craft. Cannon-like guns even in man-portable albeit hefty size-ranges could work for this weaponry type, but the ideal versions would be several-hundred-meter wide circular “”Halo[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHe3fKHFcmQ) tracks, with firing ports distributed along the diameter of the ring. Of course, there’s also muons [with enough energy could incinerate large whole patches of an earth-like planet], and neutrons [leaves most obstructions unscathed, but obliterates anything bearing hydrogen, such as living things], but I consider those two kinda beam-types exotic “clarktech”. >_> ||)
missiles (inert
kinetic impactor ‘‘mines’’, long range computer-guided “torch missiles”, or even
relativistic killers),
(|| last of which are essentially the “ICBM”s of space, & since perception of their launch can’t travel faster than the speed of light they’re travelling at, it raises concern for superluminal early warning methods. [maybe gravitational radiation detectors & a nexus of “comm-guage” wormholes, or QE(Quantum Entanglement) qubit comm-equipped scout ships.] ||)
HEF(High Energy Fluid) guns (ship exhaust,
stream/spray guns,
plasmoid launchers, or even
magnetic-enveloped fusion beams),
and then of course a long list of esoteric stuff that’d make this go on for much, much further, going from the makeshift, to the eccentric yet niche, to
‘‘Thanos-snap’’ reality-bending. tho I don’t think that stuff’d even fit on the kind of ship I want.
>_>
@Chef Unionista ZGU @Cerebrate19
I can think of a way to make taking Equestria captive happen in 3-10 steps, assuming the invaders are either a
mature type I or nascent Type II civilization(Kardashev scale). The interesting part is how domains surrounding Equestria would react.
:P