The Future Tech nation of Tidan produces all of the equipment used by the Tidani Armed Forces.

Tidani Starship Classes

Rhoaltar Class Cruiser

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The Orca Class Cruiser is the largest ship currently built by Tidan. Heavily armed but very slow, it is more than capable of taking out anything it can hit. It's point-defence guns can deal with strike craft, but they do little damage to capital ships. Maneuverable capital ships like frigates and destroyers are often able to avoid the heavy turrets and cannons, this is why Orca's rarely are without escort.

Class Cruiser

Role Capital Killer

Operation Vacuum

Length 1000 m

Beam 300 m

Height 500 m

Speed 450 m/s (vacuum)

Complement 5000 ship's complement

Armament 6 large rail gun turrets, 2 large ion cannons, point-defence guns

Horizon Class Carrier

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The Horizon Class Carrier is the newest and most powerful Tidani ship design. The Horizon is capable of submarine and aerospace travel, as well as the transition between. They use a supercavitaion manipulating hull to enable it to travel at speeds of 1000 knots. Expensive to build and maintain, only three were ever planned. Only the Blue Horizon has been constructed to date. It's effectiveness has lead to a rethink of the Horizon class and the powers at be have decided to continue the class.

Class Air/Sub Craft Carrier

Role Strike Craft Base

Operation Vacuum/Marine

Length 800 m

Beam 500 m

Height 200 m

Speed 1000 knots (submerged), 500 m/s (vacuum)

Complement 3000 ship's complement, 2000 wing, Tidani Marine complement - 2000 wartime.

Craft 80 Storm Rider Subfighters, 40 Hurricane Subfighters, 10 launch tubes, 6 sublaunch tubes, 50 support craft

Armament 2 torpedo tubes, 2 small ion turrets

Sea Dragon Class Destroyer

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The Sea Dragon Class Destroyer is the one deadliest ship in the fleet. The predatory ship weilds tremendous firepower and is almost always found in pairs.

Class Destroyer

Role Anti-Frigate

Operation Vacuum

Length 500 m

Beam 200 m

Height 300 m

Speed 525 m/s

Complement 1000 ship's complement

Armament 2(2) rail gun turrets, 2 large ion cannons, point-defence guns

Harpoon Class Destroyer

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The Harpoon Class Destroyer makes sole use of heavy fusion missiles. To store a greater amount of ammunition, and prevent premature explosions from damage, the components are stored seperately inside the four pods. Missiles are automatically assembled in the pods and loaded into the firing magazines as needed.

Class Destroyer

Role Long Range Assault

Operation Vacuum

Length 500 m

Beam 200 m

Height 300 m

Speed 500 m/s

Complement 1000 ship's complement

Armament 8 missile launchers, 4 missile assembly pods

Narwal Class Frigate

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The Narwal Class Frigate is the workhorse frigate of the Tidani fleet. Their weapon arc is all focused forward. This allows them to lay down punishing fire ahead of them, but leaves a large blind spot behind the engine block. Narwals never work alone and are usually found in squadrons of three.

Class Frigate

Role Blitz Assault

Operation Vacuum

Length 300 m

Beam 100 m

Height 100 m

Speed 550 m/s

Complement 500 ship's complement

Armament 4 rail gun turrets, 2 missile launchers, point-defence guns

Trident Class Frigate

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The Trident Class Frigate is a slow, vulnerable ship. The ship is built around the massive ion cannon, the particle accelerator needed by the weapon barely fits in the frigate hull. Its primary purpose is taking out capital ships, and needs contant escort in a battle.

Class Frigate

Role Anti-Capital

Operation Vacuum

Length 350 m

Beam 100 m

Height 100 m

Speed 500 m/s

Complement 200 ship's complement

Armament 1 large ion cannon

Flare Class Frigate

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The Flare Class Frigate is a small, agile defensive craft. It uses 5 small ion turrets, one on the bow, top, bottom, and sides to track and destroy enemy strike craft. In groups Flares can provide devestating protective shield for capital ships.

Class Frigate

Role Anti-Strike Craft

Operation Vacuum

Length 300 m

Beam 100 m

Height 100 m

Speed 550 m/s

Complement 200 ship's complement

Armament 5 small ion turrets

Hammerhead Class Frigate

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The Hammerhead Class Frigate is lightly armed, its usefullness comes in its ramming head and boarding marines. During a battle Hammerheads ram capital ships breaching the hull and providing an entrance point for its marines.

Class Frigate

Role Boarding Craft

Operation Vacuum

Length 300 m

Beam 100 m

Height 100 m

Speed 575 m/s

Complement 100 ship's complement, 500 Marines

Armament 1 small ion cannon

Northpass Class Transport

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Northpass Class Transport

Class Transport

Operation Vacuum

Length 400 m

Beam 200 m

Height 100 m

Speed 500 m/s

Complement 100 ship's complement, cargo or 1000 soldiers, their equipment and supplies.

Armament unarmed

Storm Rider Omnifighter

Class Omnifighter

Role Superiority

Operation All Theatres

Length 20 m

Wing span 15 m

Speed

Air: High Altitude Mach 10, Sea Level Mach 4

Sea: At shallow depth 1500 m/s, deep depth classified.

Powerplant Two hydrogen burning rocket engines each rated at 96,526 lb st.

Crew 2

Armament 12 air-to-air missiles, 2 interceptor torpedo tubes, 2 50mm 10 barrel gatling gun

Hurricane Omnifighter

Class Omnifighter

Role Anti-Capital

Operation All Theatres

Length 25 m

Wing span 12 m

Speed

Air: High Altitude Mach 8, Sea Level Mach 5

Sea: shallow depth 700 m/s, deep depth 500 m/s

Powerplant Two hydrogen burning rocket engines each rated at 77,300 lb st.

Crew 2

Armament 8 high yeild bombs, 4 air-to-air missiles, 2 high yeild torpedo tubes, 2 50mm 10 barrel gatling gun

Tidani Naval Classes

Righteous Tide Class Heavy Cruiser

Class Heavy Cruiser

Role Capital Ship Killer

Operation Marine

Length 400 m

Beam 250 m

Height 200 m

Speed 150 knots (submerged)

Complement 2500 ship's complement

Armament 6 torpedo tubes, 6 missile launchers

The Tidani Army

Tidani Marines

The Tidani Marines are the ground and submarine infantry of Tidan. They include many different classes and wield many different weapons to respond to a variety of threats.

Weapon Systems

Rail Guns

An electromagnetic cannon that fires projectiles at incredible velocities; a tiny solid object flung by such a weapon has striking power out of all proportion to its size. Tidani rail guns can be loaded with standard solid shot ammunition or charge shot. Charge shot ammunition is a mass with a high explosive charge embedded inside. The charge is delayed to explode in the seconds after impact. The hope is that the charge will detonate after the shot has breached the enemy hull and burst out in all directions causing massive damage.

Ion Cannon

Particle accelerators produce a powerful particle beam that can be directed and focused against a target. Built in two sizes, small cannons can be mounted on turrets or rotating lenses, large cannons must be fixed in most cases.

Missiles

The Tidani use a range of missiles from nuclear, hydrogen, and electromagnetic to chemical, biological, and conventional. Biological warheads, while they can carry diseases, this is considered dishonourable and not used under normal circumstances. Most biological payloads contain engineered bacteria designed for purposes like metal corrosion, electronic disruption, and paralysis.

Torpedoes

Torpedoes can carry as many payloads as their missiles. They use supercavitation to travel at speeds in excess of mach 8 under water.

Ship Systems

Propulsion

Hydrogen Fuel Rockets

Used for underwater travel, and smaller spacecraft.

Ion Engine

Used for larger spacecraft capable of generating and sustaining the power generation necessary to power the drives.

FTL Drive

Classified.

Power Generators

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Powered by hydrogen created by engineered bacteria that are supplied with necessities and produce hydrogen. This avoids the need for dangerous stores of volatile hydrogen. The hydrogen can also be extracted from the surrounding water when submirged.

Fusion Nuclear Reactor

Uses controlled nuclear fusion to generate energy. Fueled by hydrogen stored in the Fuel Cells.

Life Support

Atmosphere is produced aboard the ship by stimulating engineered bacteria into producing oxygen.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is used aboard all ships to improve efficiency, reaction time, and reduce crew needed to run the ship. They are given significant control and given a vast capacity for creativity and command. Their personalities are restricted so as to make treason or dereliction of duty theoretically impossible.

Personnel Equipment

Soldier Weapons

Soldier Equipment