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Communication channel opened... Encryption:Unbreakable Origin:Juneau Shipyard ID:Rear Admiral Nicole Prower Subject:Lessons of the past
Greetings,
Having learned much from the current mothballed vessels interned at our various shipyards, I had a feeling this evening that it's prudent to study the past, and learn from past failures. Not solely at the tactical level, but in a developmental level, especially regarding our warship technology. My curiosity for the past led me to the age old reminder of our losses during the Gallic War. After having fallen seven years ago, the Yukon and Betheny, the ships have been baking in the suns radiation. Thanks to patrols in the area, scavenging of the ships have been minimal. I've recorded several scans of the long-since silent behemoths, revealing structural failures and weakpoints, both ones that have been identified and corrected, and a couple that haven't.
Naturally, the Overlords free floating reactor is both incredibly safe, and very dangerous. It keeps the rest of the vessel safe in the event of a critical meltdown and explosion, but despite close watch, there are some improvements to be made. New breakthroughs in nano-crystal reinforce armor plating, a nano-crystal allow can be utilized to both fortify the reactor hull armor and the control shaft that keeps the reactor in place. These alloy improvements would make the Battleship's reactor more protected and lower the chance of catastrophic damage.
The next series of defensive weaknesses I found in the aged wreck have already been corrected by reinforcement of launch bays and munitions storage for bomber wings.
From the Betheny's perspective, despite having been in a battle-carrier configuration, and what we presume an aged design already, it suffered a critical meltdown that had shattered the ships internals, but at the time kept the vessel in one piece. Over time however, much like the Yukon, the ship's hull broke apart. We presume minor asteroid and comet strikes are responsible for breaking these ships apart, but under normal circumstances the ships would withstand those strikes to their external hull. From what I guess, the ship was laid down with the intention to be mounted with the fixed forward cannon as many other Gallic battleships of the time, but was changed into a battle-carrier configuration after the need arose from facing Allied carriers. Unfortunately, I can only surmise that this was a structural flaw that no doubt has been fixed by now, but it seems at the time, a critical containment failure of the Gallic forward gun's energy chambers could, under the right circumstances, result in an internal explosion and rip the host vessel apart.
Records show early variations of the Archer shared this design flaw but were long since repaired, and I have no doubt Gallia has also fixed their battleships from having such a fatal flaw. Still, the massive energy corridor, which I can only surmise from the damage of the remaining sections, was used instead for munitions storage of it's vast fighter and bomber squadrons. With a linked munition feed system to all hangar decks, a magazine explosion would devastate the vessel and render it inoperable. Although it appears bulkheads were used to contain damage between for and aft sections, a munitions detonation most likely occurred in at least one hangar deck.
My recommendation is that we move forward with the implementation of newer nano-crystal alloys in armor design to further tighten safety and survivability of our warships, ofcourse at the moment nanotube production for the necessary armor alloy plating is controlled by Rheinland, it may be worth contracting a domestic company for production of the new alloy.
Attached are records of my visit to the wreckage and scans.
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