This was unfortunately one of the most longest parts of the process. We reached a problem where we'd developed the armour system after we'd manufactured most of the stealth composite coatings and passive stealth systems. An oversight in its development is that there has been either incremental or drastic changes within its construction design.
But hopefully with most of them out the way... We can finally start changing this things looks.
Technical Specifications 10/10/24A.S.
Ship Name: “The-Zealous”
Ship Registry: “The-Zealous” - XU-001
Ship Class: XU-001 Spectre-Class Advanced Technologies craft
Power Plant: HTTB-9P
Engine Type: HNP-E3PS
Fuel: H-Fuel / Thorium MOX / MOX
Component Updates: Hull and Armour integrity upgrade,
Structure vitality and integrity overhaul
It wouldn't be long before I've had to remodel the entire ships hull for a suitable combat standard. The problem is with the current rendition of the liner is that if we're looking at mounting heavier weapon systems on board that they can at least take the general launch shock of a "acht-acht" firing; the turret would rip off an entire hull segment from the ship along with itself if these modifications weren't in place. These hull panels will go on the underside of the stealth coating, hopefully this won't impact the ships performance too much, possibly looking at a greater mass density, and a possible extension of the ship for increased equipment. Again, we're stripping everything out of it, this isn't looking like a liner anymore. Its almost comparable to the size light battleship. Not only that, the structure is also being bolstered to handle similar impacts from that class. This ship is not supposed to be seen, but not being prepared for capital ship combat can mean a hellish outcome from an idiotic act of ignorance to the inevitable.
This took quite some time since we had to meet the requirement that a shot from a high powered heavy canon commonly referred to as a "Heavy-Mortar" wouldn't cause a catastrophic decompression of the entire ship. Although its not as heavy as the Military's Bismark's battleship, the armour design has indeed one advantage.
Shape diffraction
Currently, the development of this liner is reaching a point to where the armour systems need to be applied first before we can finalize the installation of the Passive stealth applied technologies (PSAT). The armour has been specifically angled to counteract incoming long to medium range Radar and Lidar detection systems. This will hopefully reduce the radar cross section of the ship immeasurably with the addition of other technologies. A combination of deflection and absorption should be the key to help keeping this ship undetected. From a radar perspective, the spacecraft changes its shape from whatever angle its picked up from which can be confusing and most probably be seen as a forgettable anomaly
We've also gained another advantage from this, the heavily angled surfaces has helped increase the protection from broadside, frontal and rear attacks. This is due to possible deflection of incoming projectiles and the increase in depth that projectiles just penetrate to damage internals of the ships armour and hull. Although since space combat environments can vary in attack vectors. Although the ship does have a generally flat design, it is certainly wider in size than most light battleships, although with its role being a undetectable command and operations centre, combat should be a last resort as usual.
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