Osiris Class Space Dominance Vehicle SDV-9W

The design of the billion dollar Osiris class Space Dominance Vehicle is influenced by firepower, combat performance and operational efficiency. With the price of Nuclear Pellets at $50K per ton, burning pellets for interplanetary travel is too expensive - it would cost M$ 150 per trip in fuel costs alone. Instead a large magsail is used for interplanetary trips and a high-thrust Nuclear Pulse drive is used only in combat. The use of a magsail gives it system-wide mobility. It is able to go anywhere without worrying about refueling - an important military consideration.

Its 10,000 ton (SM +10) hull is 300ft long and 75 ft in diameter.

Combat Performance

The high thrust fusion pulse drive gives it 0.04G of combat performance for 20 hours.

The main turret weapon provides a deadly 3GJ particle beam.

The ten secondary weapons turrets comprise:

• 4x 300MJ UV lasers
• 2x 30MJ Improved RF point defence lasers
• 2x 16cm Coil gun with 25kt XLMP and Kinetic ammo
• 2x 8cm RF Coil gun for engaging smaller targets

Design

Front Hull Systems

• 1-5 Magsail (0.005G/375mps)
• 6 External Clamp for 4x100 ton Naiad class AKVs

Central Hull Systems

• 1 Nanocomposite Armor (dDR50)
• 2! Major Battery (turret: 3GJ Particle Beam)
• 3! Secondary Battery (10 turrets: 4x 300MJ UV lasers, 2x 30MJ Improved RF point defence lasers, 2x Coil gun with XLMP and Kinetic ammo, 2x RF Coil gun for engaging smaller targets)
• 4 Habitat (3 luxury cabins, 8 cabins, 8 bunkrooms, 2 briefing rooms, 2 minifacs, 2 offices, 2 cells, 4 bed sickbay with one automed, 1 ops center, 80 tons steerage cargo)
• 5-6 Fuel Tank (Nuclear pellets, each 500 tons, 3mps)
• core Control Room (Complexity 9, Comm/Sensor 9)

Rear Hull Systems

• 1 Nanocomposite Armor (dDR50)
• 2 Fusion Pulse Drive (TL9, High thrust, 0.04G for 20 hours, 18mps)
• 3-6 Fuel Tank (Nuclear pellets, each 500 tons, 3mps)
• core Fusion Reactor (2 Power Points)

It has a Dynamic Chameleon hull.

TL10, dST/HP 150, Hnd/SR -4/5, HT 13, Move NP:0.04G/18mps;magsail:0.005G/375mps, LWt 10,000, Load 86.2, SM +10, Occ 62ASV, dDR 0/50/50, M$ 977.1

Trip Time: Earth-Mars median distance (1.8 AU) = 54 days.

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