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They are the single most awe inspiring, empowerment shattering examples of the creations of the Ascendants. Of them all, the five hundred kilometer masterpiece in warship design and construction, was only possible to the Ascendancy, because it was prebuilt over a billion years prior to the Gaian Ascendancy's existence.
The series of vessels were found, sitting in an Ascendant created Dock, one over tens times the size of this monolithic vessel. The entire complex hidden within a thick nebulae expanse, during an uncertain exploration mission. After a series of highly cryptic communiques, The Ascendant Dock transported enmasse, and with it, several other massive vessels of nearly equal size, from some two Parsecs away from the nascent Ascendancy, at the time. (Apparently even stationary complexes of Ascendant nature, had emergency Fold JumpDrives installed. The uses were as frightening to comprehend, as it was at the time, this was discovered.) However since then, the nebulae expanse had been absorbed into the Empire-Republic, during the Third Great Expansion. Several more discoveries have been made of this area, eventually called the Nebulae Cache Expanse.
After the vessel (and it's sister vessels) were transported to the original White Diamond System, it took the assistance of the creator Ascendants themselves, and over a decade, to understand the vessel and all it's properties. This was also the nascent time, that the Fold Drive, ZPC Cores, and dozens of other major technological standards, were unlocked, during the study of these monoliths. By the time everything was relatively understood, it was easily realized that they had a vessel that could easily be used as a weapon of terror, not of mention sheer intimidation, (or just a laughing stock, by other unimaginative civilizations.) The Excellency realized this, and quickly incorporated the mindset of the Ascendancy, into the operations of all parameters, of these mighty vessels.
The original core A-SSD itself, the Eternal Destiny was named after the Excellency's own foresight of his people, and the future that they held before them. The vessel at the time, was the most advanced vessel in their region of space, due in no small part to the newly christened Zero-Point Energy concept. At the time, the energy was derived from the knowledge that ZPM units already had 'separated', battery like Universes, created within them. However no battery was efficient enough for truly long term use, as the Ascendants came to understand such things. (Even economics, as one reasoning to the Avian Lords,) Instead of creating devices to siphon energy from other Universes, all extensional of their own right, ZPC units were made to draw from several forms of 'limitless' subspace energies, that had a tendency to regenerate themselves endlessly. (The eventual Hikari Subspace Net, unintentionally became one of these source layers.) The Zero Point concept, was of total energy efficiency, with zero waste, rather than any physics component. While actual deployment of a ZPC was not able to reach true zero point waste of energy usage, the amount of energy drawn, and then recycled back before entropy took too much out of the used energy, was where the limitless energy application, came to it's true own. Compliments of accelerators, amplifiers, and energy stabilizers, of evolving formats of technology, went a tremendous way, into making operation of these behemoths, even possible.
Other systems include Dimensional Cannon Superlasers,. capable of rupturing a star's corona, or even affect gravitation fields of large areas of space, causing massive distortion shears that can tear the spatial fabric apart. Added to the rest of the massive weaponry, it intends to stop battles before they begin by sheer power. However the defensive systems are incredible as well, as the vessel employs Dimensional type shielding, ones that rather than absorb/deflect the impact of an energy of ballistic weapon format, takes the energy, and shunts the Newtonian effects into hundreds of 'side' dimensions that the Computer Core is capable of 'sensing'. This allows the vessel to neutralize attacks before they become too damaging, even against superlaser class weapons. Computer systems on the vessel are immensely efficient, utilizing holo-light isolinear / bio-memcon nodes that transfer data at near the theoretical speed of light, on reference to data bandwidth speed. The vessel can also hold over sixty million souls in the nearly uncountable Cryo-Stasis Units, allowing for a mass transport of souls anywhere. This number was tripled, to accommodate the emergency measures, of the Second Exodus.
The Jump drive is very interesting, and the major reason the Gaian Fleet is considering a third StarFleet wide upgrade, as its, in simple terms, capable of Jumping a vessel to any 'physical' point in a Dimension in a single Jump. Also, it is theorized, more lauded by the Ascendants, that the vessel can leap between entire Dimensions. The ramifications of this theorem, called the Fold Jump Drive Quotient, is mindboggiling. While the rest of the fleets are entrenched in static jump physics, the Fold System can rip them apart to it's own ends. If realized, the limit of the Ascendancy may have no border in exploration.
The vessel is split into five major sections, or 'Planes', with the top most command sections, called the Command Core. The other Planes are separated by the level Plane the vessel portion sets upon. (Plane One through Four, with the lower most vertical-spine section being nomenclatured Plane Four.) Crew space is incredible huge and lavish, but much of the vessel is also dedicated to power leylines, normal corridors, Mech/Mobile Suit logistics corridors, Transporter Gates, Generators, Computer Core Mainframes, and the immense support function sections run in a open area span setup, ones in operational Sectors that are at places, hundreds of meters apart. More, many of the decks are not directly attached to each other, rather 'linked' with holo-gangways, light-bridges, and a powerful ship wide stasis field that's 'almost' immune to power shortage.
Along whole hundreds of meters of multiple decks are immense glasssteel viewports that round amid whole sections. The Primary Corridors however are directly connected to the hull, usually running between the Fleet Docks and Storage Zones. This allows for gargantuan-sized starscape-panorama views. In fact, entire sections of the Command Core Section has entire 'bridges' of multiple levels with the same effect. Added, the said decks on these levels don't interfere view from another, except where the hull obviously protrudes forward. This works for both forward and rear views, for immense displays. Some as wide/expansive as ten kilometers. The size of these views 'also' allow for expansive tactical eye-views.
These behemoths of illogical size and sanity, have seen every battle campaign, from the time of the Neo Zetan incidents, of ancient note, all the way through the Archonis Guardianship, the Eternal War, the First Exodus into the Antaran Campaigns against the Dark Ascendancy, all the way back past the Second Exodus, and even as recently as the Gaian Civil War, the Hive Invasion, and now are a part of all Four Ascended Realms, as a staple of the various Grand Fleets.
Class: Ascendancy Class Super-Star Destroyer
Size Ratios:
Length: 500 Standard Kilometers Width: 275.52 Standard Kilometers Zenith/Nadir Depth: 205.73 Standard Kilometers
Crew Compliment: 5 Million Gaian ; 7 Million AI-Type Sentient Synthetic-Droid/Machiner
Jump Drive: Boson Class-XXVIII/A.3 Hyper-Fold Drive
Power Cores: Six Ascendant Class Fusion Zero-Point Cores
Computer Cores: 32 Holo-celeniar Tetra-quadradic Comp-Cores
Shield Generators:
~ 20 High-Ion Yield Dimensional Distortion Field Generators
~ 40 Standard High-Amplification Gravity Distortion Fields
Weapons Systems:
~ 1.000.000 Heavy Naval Lasers
~ 500.000 Heavy Naval Zero-Point Fusion Torpedo Launchers
~ 500.000 Naval Ion Pulse Cannon Batteries
~ 250.000 Medium Anti-Capital Vessel Pulse Laser Batteries
~ 250.000 Torpedo Launch Tubes (8,000 Tons of Torpedo Ammo)
~ 15.000.000 Close Support Capital-Ship/Starcraft Pulse Laser Batteries
~ 8.500.000 Anti-Starfighter/Mobile Suit X-ER Pulse Laser Batteries
~ 5.000.000 Heavy Zone-Field Tractor-Energon Units
~ 80 Nominal Gravity-Blast Cannons (50 Turreted ; 30 Fixed)
~ 16 Heavy Gravity-Blast Cannons (10 Turreted; 6 Fixed)
~ 9 Dimensional Cannon SuperLasers
Standard Fleet Compliment Assets: (Capable Docking Compliment)
~ 6 Super Class Star-Destroyers (8km length)
~ 30 Imperial Class Star Destroyers (1.6km length)
~ 25 Victory Class Star Destroyers (900m length)
~ 15 Dreadnought Class (600m length)
~ 10 Modular Task-Force BattleCruiser Class (1150m length)
~ 20 Escort Carrier Class (500m length)
~ 10 Jump-Interdictor Class (600m length)
~ 40 Strike Cruiser Class (450m length)
~ 1.000 Assorted smaller Capital Class
~ 15.000 Assorted Non-Combatant Classes
~ 100.000 DropShips (50,000 DropShip Dock Ports External ; 50,000 Dock Ports Internal Docking Bays)
~ 350 Star-Universe AeroWing Starfighters/Mobile Suits
Standard Compliment Ground/Tourman Assets: (Capable Onboard Compliment)
~ 5 Galaxy Groups (Infantry Type)
~ 7 Galaxy Groups (BattleMech ; Mobile Suit Type ; Infantry ; Conventional)
~ 3 Standard OZ-DropShip CoreBases (6 Standard Kilometer Size Each)
Standard Compliment Support Assets:
~ 5 Modular StarDocks
~ 3 Class-D StarBases
~ 5 Molecular-Recomposition Foundries(each can make hundreds of millions of ships, weapons, munitions, superweapons in moments or generate infinite amounts of any material in existence, whether it be organic, artificial, energy or even raw material)
~ 15 Planetary Scale Zero-Point Energy Capacitor-Reserve Batteries
~ 60.000.000 Cryo-Stasis Support Nodes (Capability tripled in emergency situations)
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The massive fleet that was docked in the Ascendant Yard Dock with the Eternal Destiny. If not for the heavy use of automated systems and droid assistance, the vessels would be all but impossible to operate, as the needed crew population amounts simply don't exist in the Ascendancy. The Gaians have no illusions about that fact, and only have deployed these vessels mainly as sector control bases for other forces to deploy from, and to act as command control for strategic operations in an entire sector.
However the Gaians in time will learn to not only operate all these vessels at once, but be able to build new ones as well. As it is, the vast gains made from these ancient vessels, is the technology laden within. The benefits have long since been applied to the far smaller Fleet vessels in the Republic StarFleet Commands. Of current note, all primary CAG-FACAF Fleet Commands are seen in everyday use by more than just the military, but the commerce and transport fleets as well.
~ A-SSD Fleet Compliment: (Four Realms Ascendancy catalog.)
~250 - Ascendancy Class A-SSDs (500km Length)
~500 - Hikari Class A-SSDs (260km Length)
~750 - Emperor Ascendancy Class A-SSDs (100km Length)
~1.000 - Multiverse Class A-SSDs (70km Length)
~1.250 - Star Shield Class A-SSDs (65.5km Length)
~1.250 - Star Sword Class A-SSDs (44.7km Length)
~1.250 - Star Armor Class A-SSDs (43.6km Length)
~1.500 - Unity Class A-SSDs (40km Length)
~1.500 - Excellency A-SSDs (35km Length)
~2.000 - Lionheart Class A-SSDs (11.6km Length)
~25.000 - Lady Excellency Class A-SSDs (10.4km Length)
~35.000 - Heaven Class SSDs (9km Length)
~45.000 - Executor Class SSDs (8km Length)
~50.000 - Concordia Class SSDs (7.6km Length)
Total - 166.250 vessels
