Javelin Class Heavy Cruiser
DCNS Paragon in deep space
The Javelin Class Heavy Cruisers are the most heavily armed vessels in the DC Navy and are equipped to fire both high yield, long range missile barrages as well as high intensity laser strikes. The Javelin class was not designed in the Democratic Colonies, and for the most part are not built in the Democratic Colonies. The Javelin class has its roots in the Federation of United Citizens Republics, where the Columbia Conglomerate produced it as their first attempt to design a ship purposely for the export market. Design work was done by the Columbia Conglomerate Research And Design Division, while manufacturing continues to be centered at the Calliope Ship Yards of the Columbia Conglomerate Heavy Industries Division. While the Democratic Colonies' own Round Table Fleet Yards currently produces Javelin class vessels as well, the Columbia Conglomerate and the Calliope Ship Yards remain the primary builder and supplier of major spare parts for the Javelin class in DC Navy service.
The foreign design practices and technologies found in the Javelin Class Heavy Cruiser, including most particularly the relatively exotic usage of Nanocarbidium High Density Alloy and High-Tensile Multipolymer Tungsten Composite in the hull armour, and the usage of zero-point energy field technology for weapons system cooling purposes, has resulted in some difficulties in integrating the class into existing DC Navy logistical chains. The difficulties in integrating the Javelin class have been deemed a worthwhile effort however, particularly as the long range, high capacity missile salvos that these vessels are capable of serve to greatly augment the capabilities of the less missile-focused New Frontier Light Cruisers in larger scale engagements.
Javelin Class Heavy Cruisers in DC Navy service very rarely operate independently, and generally attempt to avoid closer range combat. In line with DC naval doctrine regarding anti-matter powered vessels, withdrawal from combat if even moderate damage is suffered is typical for vessels of this type due to the risk of sudden anti-matter containment loss and the resulting immediate destruction of the vessel in its entirety.
Armament
Immediately noticeable on any Javelin Class Heavy Cruiser are the 50 missile tubes on the front of the ship, capable of launching either torpedoes, missiles, or a mix of the two. The Type-400 High Explosive Anti-Ship Torpedo (HEAST) Mk.II, which is essentially a reformatted Type-346 Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, features a modular warhead design which allows for the mounting any type of warhead from antimatter to nuclear. The HEAST-II is equipped with standard flight-control software, enabling it to make minor course-corrections during its flight. However, as it is a torpedo, the HEAST-II cannot track fast-moving targets, and it’s recommended only for use against large targets such as enemy capital ships or space stations. A general rule is that the further the distance between the torpedo and the target, the larger and more precise course corrections it can make.
The forwards tubes of the Javelin class are also capable of firing the Type 203FL Rapid Tracking Anti-Ship Mk.VI missiles (RTAS-VI) which are state-of-the-art missiles that are suitable for destroying light-to-medium armored and shielded targets. Each missile has a gravity-compressed antimatter warhead that allows for much more antimatter to be used than one would normally find a missile of this size, and thanks to the triple-redundant detonation system, the missile is guaranteed to explode when it hits (or gets near) its target. Equipped with a sophisticated tracking system and tiny microthrusters embedded in the skin of the missile, the RTAS-VI is capable of pursuing even fast moving targets (like fighters or small corvettes) with startling accuracy, and boast a 94% accuracy-hit rating in certain situations.
The Javelin-Class’s primary missiles armaments are twenty L795-V Vertical Launch Tubes, variants of which have been used on numerous other vessels in the Federation of United Citizens Republics. Each launch tube is divided up into four actual launchers, giving the system a total capacity of eighty missiles. The system is actually purpose-designed around a brand new missile, the Type 39UG Active Long Range Pulse Missile Mk. VI (ALRPM-VI), a missile which was designed to tear through the heavy shielding and armor found on capital ships. Each missile is equipped with a dark-collapse warhead, which is a type of weapon that has been in the prototype stage for the past twenty years in the Federation of United Citizens Republics and is only just now being eased into active combat duty. Each warhead contains a small amount of magnetically-compressed dark energy, and a miniature graviton accelerator. Upon the missile reaching close proximity to its target, the accelerator fires a stream of gravitons on the dark energy, causing it to collapse and release a pulse of energy that forces the space around the missile to stretch outwards at great speed. This pulse causes incredibly damage to the target by literally tearing it apart at the quantum-molecular level, which in turn releases large amounts of energy, thereby making the target essentially explode itself.
In addition to the the main missile armaments, two other weapons systems are most notable aboard the Javelin class. The first are the XHU-97 Rapid-Fire Micromissile Launch Tubes, which fire Type 940 RFMM-VII “Swarm” Missiles. These missiles are vastly smaller than most other missiles on the market, and are loaded with a tiny antimatter warhead. Individually, these missiles are almost pitifully weak against anything larger than a corvette, but together, they have the power to destroy a battleship. Each missile is equipped with a highly sophisticated tracking and flight control system, which is special in that in communicates with every other missile around it, allowing the missiles to act as a “living” swarm. Once fired, the missiles are capable of swarming a target, overrunning the defense measures it has in place and simply impacting wherever they can, with the goal of causing maximum overall damage. Another use is to fire the missiles at incoming fighters or small ships. The missiles are as maneuverable as state of the art fighters, and so are capable of chasing down small vessels with remarkable ease.
The other most notable weapon is the CC-Armaments PEX-160 High Energy Positronium Annihilation Pumped Laser Cannon, a highly developed high energy, long range laser. Unlike other lasers that use a more traditional medium to generate the laser, the PEX-160 uses the energy created when Positronium is annihilated with normal matter to generate an intense and massively powerful gamma-ray laser. Upon impact, the laser flash-heats the target’s molecular structure instantly, causing the area of the target which was hit to violently explode. And thanks to the massive amount of energy behind the laser, the area that suffers this molecular explosion is vast, and the PEX-160 has demonstrated the ability to blow huge chunks out of a UCR Valhalla-Class battleship. The PEX-160 is also unique because it fires much cooler than most other lasers. However, heat is still a concern, and so the Javelin-Class uses highly advanced zero-point energy fields to contain and bleed off the heat as rapidly as it is generated, allowing the laser to perform sustained fire. The only real downside of the laser is the firing sequence. Because the laser runs the length of the ship and generates so much power so quickly, it requires a brief charge-time between shots to regenerate the Positronium. This charge-time depends on how long the laser was fired, but under standard protocol, the charge-time is around one minute and thirty seconds.
The foreign design practices and technologies found in the Javelin Class Heavy Cruiser, including most particularly the relatively exotic usage of Nanocarbidium High Density Alloy and High-Tensile Multipolymer Tungsten Composite in the hull armour, and the usage of zero-point energy field technology for weapons system cooling purposes, has resulted in some difficulties in integrating the class into existing DC Navy logistical chains. The difficulties in integrating the Javelin class have been deemed a worthwhile effort however, particularly as the long range, high capacity missile salvos that these vessels are capable of serve to greatly augment the capabilities of the less missile-focused New Frontier Light Cruisers in larger scale engagements.
Javelin Class Heavy Cruisers in DC Navy service very rarely operate independently, and generally attempt to avoid closer range combat. In line with DC naval doctrine regarding anti-matter powered vessels, withdrawal from combat if even moderate damage is suffered is typical for vessels of this type due to the risk of sudden anti-matter containment loss and the resulting immediate destruction of the vessel in its entirety.
Armament
Immediately noticeable on any Javelin Class Heavy Cruiser are the 50 missile tubes on the front of the ship, capable of launching either torpedoes, missiles, or a mix of the two. The Type-400 High Explosive Anti-Ship Torpedo (HEAST) Mk.II, which is essentially a reformatted Type-346 Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, features a modular warhead design which allows for the mounting any type of warhead from antimatter to nuclear. The HEAST-II is equipped with standard flight-control software, enabling it to make minor course-corrections during its flight. However, as it is a torpedo, the HEAST-II cannot track fast-moving targets, and it’s recommended only for use against large targets such as enemy capital ships or space stations. A general rule is that the further the distance between the torpedo and the target, the larger and more precise course corrections it can make.
The forwards tubes of the Javelin class are also capable of firing the Type 203FL Rapid Tracking Anti-Ship Mk.VI missiles (RTAS-VI) which are state-of-the-art missiles that are suitable for destroying light-to-medium armored and shielded targets. Each missile has a gravity-compressed antimatter warhead that allows for much more antimatter to be used than one would normally find a missile of this size, and thanks to the triple-redundant detonation system, the missile is guaranteed to explode when it hits (or gets near) its target. Equipped with a sophisticated tracking system and tiny microthrusters embedded in the skin of the missile, the RTAS-VI is capable of pursuing even fast moving targets (like fighters or small corvettes) with startling accuracy, and boast a 94% accuracy-hit rating in certain situations.
The Javelin-Class’s primary missiles armaments are twenty L795-V Vertical Launch Tubes, variants of which have been used on numerous other vessels in the Federation of United Citizens Republics. Each launch tube is divided up into four actual launchers, giving the system a total capacity of eighty missiles. The system is actually purpose-designed around a brand new missile, the Type 39UG Active Long Range Pulse Missile Mk. VI (ALRPM-VI), a missile which was designed to tear through the heavy shielding and armor found on capital ships. Each missile is equipped with a dark-collapse warhead, which is a type of weapon that has been in the prototype stage for the past twenty years in the Federation of United Citizens Republics and is only just now being eased into active combat duty. Each warhead contains a small amount of magnetically-compressed dark energy, and a miniature graviton accelerator. Upon the missile reaching close proximity to its target, the accelerator fires a stream of gravitons on the dark energy, causing it to collapse and release a pulse of energy that forces the space around the missile to stretch outwards at great speed. This pulse causes incredibly damage to the target by literally tearing it apart at the quantum-molecular level, which in turn releases large amounts of energy, thereby making the target essentially explode itself.
In addition to the the main missile armaments, two other weapons systems are most notable aboard the Javelin class. The first are the XHU-97 Rapid-Fire Micromissile Launch Tubes, which fire Type 940 RFMM-VII “Swarm” Missiles. These missiles are vastly smaller than most other missiles on the market, and are loaded with a tiny antimatter warhead. Individually, these missiles are almost pitifully weak against anything larger than a corvette, but together, they have the power to destroy a battleship. Each missile is equipped with a highly sophisticated tracking and flight control system, which is special in that in communicates with every other missile around it, allowing the missiles to act as a “living” swarm. Once fired, the missiles are capable of swarming a target, overrunning the defense measures it has in place and simply impacting wherever they can, with the goal of causing maximum overall damage. Another use is to fire the missiles at incoming fighters or small ships. The missiles are as maneuverable as state of the art fighters, and so are capable of chasing down small vessels with remarkable ease.
The other most notable weapon is the CC-Armaments PEX-160 High Energy Positronium Annihilation Pumped Laser Cannon, a highly developed high energy, long range laser. Unlike other lasers that use a more traditional medium to generate the laser, the PEX-160 uses the energy created when Positronium is annihilated with normal matter to generate an intense and massively powerful gamma-ray laser. Upon impact, the laser flash-heats the target’s molecular structure instantly, causing the area of the target which was hit to violently explode. And thanks to the massive amount of energy behind the laser, the area that suffers this molecular explosion is vast, and the PEX-160 has demonstrated the ability to blow huge chunks out of a UCR Valhalla-Class battleship. The PEX-160 is also unique because it fires much cooler than most other lasers. However, heat is still a concern, and so the Javelin-Class uses highly advanced zero-point energy fields to contain and bleed off the heat as rapidly as it is generated, allowing the laser to perform sustained fire. The only real downside of the laser is the firing sequence. Because the laser runs the length of the ship and generates so much power so quickly, it requires a brief charge-time between shots to regenerate the Positronium. This charge-time depends on how long the laser was fired, but under standard protocol, the charge-time is around one minute and thirty seconds.
Protective Systems and Artificial Intelligence
In terms of defenses, the Javelin-Class is fairly conventional with thick armor and heavy-duty shielding. Numerous point-defense cannons provide for anti-missile and anti-fighter defense, but where the Javelin-Class truly stands out defensively is the fire-control and computer defense network. This system, known as “VEIL”, allows the ship’s onboard AI to control both the offensive and defense systems at the same time, and perform sophisticated counter-measures that normal systems would not be able to perform. Thanks to two separate computer cores, VEIL can deploy the active ECM suite, the counter-fire batteries and the offensive weapons all at the same time, and combat testing has shown that it is far more effective than any human at performing these functions. Also part of its defenses is the capability to deploy a wide variety of drones from the launch bays located all over the vessel.
In terms of defenses, the Javelin-Class is fairly conventional with thick armor and heavy-duty shielding. Numerous point-defense cannons provide for anti-missile and anti-fighter defense, but where the Javelin-Class truly stands out defensively is the fire-control and computer defense network. This system, known as “VEIL”, allows the ship’s onboard AI to control both the offensive and defense systems at the same time, and perform sophisticated counter-measures that normal systems would not be able to perform. Thanks to two separate computer cores, VEIL can deploy the active ECM suite, the counter-fire batteries and the offensive weapons all at the same time, and combat testing has shown that it is far more effective than any human at performing these functions. Also part of its defenses is the capability to deploy a wide variety of drones from the launch bays located all over the vessel.
Production Information
Designer: Columbia Conglomerate Research And Design Division
Manufacturer: Columbia Conglomerate Heavy Industries Division
Primary Place Of Manufacturing: Calliope Ship Yards (Kensington System, Planet Calliope)
Technical Data (for vessels in DC Navy service)
Length: 1950 Meters (6397 ft)
Height: 530 Meters (1738 ft)
Width: 600 Meters (1968 ft)
Crew: 40 Marines, 680 Crewmen, 60 Non-Commissioned officers, 20 Officers
Powerplant:
Propulsion (faster than light): 1 x Perim Space Systems Series 1000 FTL Jump Drive
Sensors:
- Type 400H HEAST-II Torpedoes (1x Weapon Per Tube)
Designer: Columbia Conglomerate Research And Design Division
Manufacturer: Columbia Conglomerate Heavy Industries Division
Primary Place Of Manufacturing: Calliope Ship Yards (Kensington System, Planet Calliope)
Technical Data (for vessels in DC Navy service)
Length: 1950 Meters (6397 ft)
Height: 530 Meters (1738 ft)
Width: 600 Meters (1968 ft)
Crew: 40 Marines, 680 Crewmen, 60 Non-Commissioned officers, 20 Officers
Powerplant:
- 1x CC-Energy Division Type 2RYN-7X Exotic Matter Collapse Reactor (180,000 EW Output)
- 1x CC-Energy Division Type 25KUZ Heavy-Duty Dark Fusion Reactor (15,000 EW Output)
Propulsion (faster than light): 1 x Perim Space Systems Series 1000 FTL Jump Drive
Sensors:
- Perim Space Systems NF1 DRADIS
- ConAm Interstellar EagleEye Optical Sensor Suite
- 3.2m (125 inches) Nanocarbidium High Density Alloy, sandwiched between two layers of High-Tensile Multipolymer Tungsten Composite
- CC-Defensive Technologies Division XVG-94-LKF-26 Graviton-Particle Barrier w/ Exotic Matter Cyclonic Barrier Sheath
- 600 x Starlight Chaff Canisters (300x Deployment Tubes, 2x Canisters Per Tube)
- 40 x Perim Space Systems Point Defense Laser
- 80 x Tesla-Beam Teleforce Point Defense Emitter
- 40 x DARDO Point Defense Turret
- 20 x dorsally mounted CC-Armaments L795-V Vertical Launch Tubes Firing Type 39UG ALRPM-VI Missiles (4x Missiles Per Tube)
- 50 x bow mounted magazine -fed CC-Armaments VGD-56 Forward Launch Tubes firing:
- Type 400H HEAST-II Torpedoes (1x Weapon Per Tube)
- 224 x magazine -fed CC-Armaments XHU-97 Rapid-Fire Micromissile Launch Tubes Firing Type 940 RFMM-VII “Swarm” Missiles (28x Launch Cells, 8x Launch Tubes Per Cell)
- 1 x Spinally Mounted CC-Armaments PEX-160 High Energy Positronium Annihilation Pumped Laser Cannon
- 3 x ConAm Interstellar Quebec Class Transport
- Universal Equipment Pod