Dominator Class Super Dreadnought
Overview
Massive Super-Dreadnoughts used by Kaukolastan as a command vessel and flag ship. Designed on a special trimaran hull, the central hull is approximately 400 meters long, and the outriding hulls are about 150 meters long. The main body of the ship sweeps over these three hulls to give it the shape of a manta-ray. The ship width is, at rear (widest point of slope), 450 meters. The ship is propelled by massive screws, and powered by sixteen pebble bed reactors (ten center hull, three in each outriding hull), which vent under the "arches" formed by the hulls. A massive superstructure emerges in the centerline of the vessel. Due to the three hulls, however, the draft is not as deep as a carrier, and the platform is remarkably stable.
The Dominator Class has four triple batteries of 6cm Naval Rail Guns located fore, another four batteries aft, and a triple battery alongside port and starboad wings, for a total of thirty 6cm Rail Guns, with the ability to fire eighteen guns forward or backward, or twenty one guns broadside. In addition to the primary 6cm armaments, the Dominator mounts a secondary armament of ten dual occluded batteries of 3cm Naval Rail Guns, located on the sweep of the ship and in recessed turrets, for a total of twenty 3cm Rail Guns, of which five to seven can be targetted on the same target.
The Dreadnought also mounts a tertiary armament of Vengeance HyStrike Missiles, located in a twenty-five dual-tube vertical launch surfaced along the wings. Defensive weapons include sixteen MTHELS projectors, four Millenium Gun batteries, twelve SAG NMG remote guns along the hull, with drop out boxes to target under the "arches" between hulls, and six SeaRAM boxes on section tracks. Below the sealine, four Hydrashock Launchers serve as anti-submarine and especially for Supercavitating Torpedo defense.
All of the offensive and defensive systems of the Dominator are linked to the center of the entire ship, and of the BattleNet, the ARES Core in the center of the ship. This sub-processor for the ARES AI Construct allows ARES to completely coordinate all activity in the vessel, linking the entire fire system into one singular function. In addition, the loading, cooling, and power systems are all also run through the ARES Core, so the ship can level massive, concentrated, and coordinated firepower. Even deprived of most of the crew, the Dominator can pretty much fight itself, albeit with a lack of damage control.
Not only does the BattleNet coordinate the activities of the ship, but extends through the entire Battlegroup assigned to each Dominator, allowing the entire fleet to coordinate to an impressive extent, and for vast leaps of tactical co-reliance and lack of blue on blue.
The Dominator Class has six VTOL pads, located aft of the observation flag bridge. Two of the landing pads are larger, designed to hold the V-30 transports, while the other four are designed to hold G-7 Wyverns, armed to supplement the anti-shipping and anti-sub warfare capabilities of the Dreadnought.
Another major strength of the Dominator is its stealth capabilities. It would seem dis-intuitive for such a massive vessel to be stealthy, but the Dominator possesses some ingenious systems. First, it possesses Active Sonar Cancellation, which uses sonic sensors to register and feedback reversed waves of they detected sounds, negating all sound and creating a "dead zone" on sonar. Second, it vents its heat under the arches, leaving little IR signature over the surface. Third, it utilizes the Athena System, designed by New Empire, which, upon recieving a radar pulse, refracts the waves back to give a false return. Finally, the Dominator is protected by a toggle-activated, center-superstructure Thermo-Optic Field, which uses the magnetic field to shift the visual and IR spectrums into the UV band, at great cost of power. The entire ship is EMP shielded.
The crew of a Dominator runs at 3,125 full, or 1,054 skeleton. The maximum speed is 27 knots.
Ships of the Line
- DSD-1 Dominator
- DSD-2 Magister
- DSD-3 Overlord
- DSD-4 Imperator
- DSD-5 Sovereign
- DSD-6 Leviathan
- DSD-7 Overseer
- DSD-8 Ascendant
- DSD-9 Basilisk
- DSD-10 Regnant
- DSD-11 Conqueror
- DSD-12 Preceptor
Dominators in Other Service
- DSD-A1 Operated By: Transnapastain
- DSD-A2 Operated By: Transnapastain
- DSD-A3 Operated By: Armed Lumberjacks
