Xerxes-class

The Xerxes-class battleship is physically the largest warship in the system, following the United Nations Navy belief that bigger is, strictly, better. Measuring at exactly 500 meters in length, it edges out the MCRN Donnager-class equivalent by just over 24 meters.
Continuing the tradition of naming conventions, the Xerxes-class was named after a Persian king of renown. These capital ships are the third redesign of the same type— showing just how many times it took to get to the right design. The UNN still feels comfortable with these modifications decades later.
These battleships are packed to the brim with firepower and hangar bays containing their own complement of Phantom-class escort ships, Marauder-Type Dropship skiffs, and Tereshkova-type shuttles that can be released to form a small fleet. These massive numbers mean that the Xerxes-class never finds itself wanting and can not only make a stand in a fight but pushes the boundaries of aggression in ways that other ships can’t.
While truly enormous, one thing that the Xerxes-class specializes in is close-range combat using grapplers. The massive boat is built with the thickest hulls to take as many hits as it can if it’s incapable of taking out all of an opponent’s weapons first. With eight enormous Epstein Drives, ventral and dorsal keel-mounted Railguns, Point Defense Cannons, and 24 conventional rapid reload torpedo bays, the UNN has produced a truly horrific weapon of mass destruction.

Power Generation

Fusion Drive

Propulsion

8x Epstein Drive, thrusters

Weapons & Armament

• 24x Torpedo Bays - 6x fore-mounted, 6x starboard-mounted, 6x port-mounted, 6x aft-mounted
• 2x fore mounted railguns
• Full coverage PDC Network
• 4x Grapplers - 2x fore-mounted, 2x aft-mounted

Armor and defense

• Double-redundant hull plating
• 5x Hull thickness

Communication Tools & Systems

Wide and Narrow band communication antenna

Sensors

RADAR, LADAR, Radio receptor, optical telescopes

Additional & auxiliary systems

Advanced Communications, Advanced Targeting Systems, Emergency Batteries, Hangar Bay, Hull Plating V, Rapid Reload Torpedo Tubes, Redundant Hull (Double), Self-Destruct System, Sensor Scrambling

Hangars & docked vessels

• 4x Phantom-class Escort ships  
• 4x Marauder-Type Dropships
• 8x Insertion-Type Dropships

Designation

Battleship

Manufacturer

United Nations Navy

Owning Organization

The United Nations

Length

500m

Complement / Crew

280 (1400)