Gestalt Class Super Dreadnought (click to enlarge).

Gestalt Class Super Dreadnought

Originally project VN302 was created as a by-product of the ZMN naval think tanks studies in comparative naval psychology. Simply put without an answering Super Dreadnought of there own the ZMN would suffer from lowered moral when facing a force that did posses such a vessel no matter said vessels actual combat effectiveness, coupled with the perception by the opposing force that this would give them a tactical advantage project VN302 was to bare fruit. Given a year of fleet wide analysis and poling of non commissioned personnel and a flood of data supporting there claims the admiralty authorised a design study. The entire VN302 project is however highly suspicious with many believing it just to be a way to allow the ZMN to justify the vast expense and prestige a super dreadnought brings.

The suspicions however were to be ineffective and though opposition from the Citizens First party was raised upon the floor of the citizen shareholders council the admiralty presented both the preliminary design and the results of project VN302 to the naval acquisitions subcommittee. The sub committee for reasons never fully explained granted the vast 49 billion Rungs set up costs of what was now a fledgling Super Dreadnought construction program. Five years of heavy construction and a total of 392 billion Rungs over a staggering 830 billion rung original budget Hull ZMNVH 0393s first support sections began assembly in the SCAPA industrial section. Expected time to construction was a little over 3 years however a mere four months into the project the second city wide civil war broke out. As the Gestalt swept the last madness of the great shareholder families oligarchs into the dustbin of history with brutal efficiency hull ZMNVH 0393 suffered from vandalism and 2 arson attacks which destroyed the prow water jet array. The hugely expensive advanced synthetic alloys which made up her main support structures lay as a vast unfinished skeleton for a further four years as the transition of power and reconstruction of city vital services was carried out.

Under the ZMN transition expansion program initiated by the Gestalt hull ZMNVH 0393 was renamed with no small amount of hubris the Gestalt class SD. Completed 2 years later the ZMNV Gestalt with her sister ship the ZMNV Paramountcy in a crash construction program completed a year later the Gestalt Class SD was to become a major part of the ZMN's operations and a core support of its ability to project power in the post second civil war era.

Commisioned Vessels

001 Gestalt, 2018
002 Paramountcy, 2024
003 Hostile Takeover 2026
004 Celerity 2027

Specifications

Length 1666 metres
Draught:60 metres
Beam: 100 metres
Displacement: 7,480,000 tons
Maximum Speed: 37 knots
Endurance: Limited to crew support logistics
Crew: 13,700
Compliment split: 5800 Ships Crew, 5100 Aircrew, 600 Medical Staff, 2100 Marines.
Cost: 1,790 Billion Rungs

Powerplant

4 Fission pebble bed reactors (PBMR) generating 10 megawatts each.
8 High pressure fast breeder reactors (FBR) coupled to 18 turbines and the Nuclear Linear Thermal Water Expansion Drive generating 620 megawatts each.

Propulsion

4 Nuclear Linear Thermal Water Expansion Drive trains.
18 Lateral manoeuvring electric water jets.

Armaments:

5 Triple 25" ETC naval cannons
12 110 mm dual purpose rottary rapid fire mounts.
44 20mm Metal Storm pack mounts
1 160 Megawatt MASER
16 3.8 Megawatt quantum cascade lasers tasked to point defence
2 forward facing multipurpose 300mm sub surface launch tubes
80 broadside multipurpose 300mm sub surface launch tubes.
420 lateral multipurpose launchers in 20 21 cell arrays
164 vertical multipurpose launch tubes
6 combat orbiter /ABM/Satellite launch silos

Manned Aircraft Maximum Capacity

110 Combat Aircraft

Standard Manned Aircraft Compliment

8 ASW/Stealth helicopters
6 ASW/Land attack helicopters
4 Transport rotodynes
2 Prop driven tankers
2 Prop driven EW/AWAC platforms
8 EW jets
26 Interceptors
40 Fighters

Standard Unmanned Aircraft Compliment

40 JX-32 Multi role Air Combat drones
10 JB-12 Bombers

Standard Small Craft Compliment

8 Vauntic Naval Combat drones
16 Multipurpose submersible drones
2 DSRV’s
8 Launches
2 Assault Landers

Standard Armoured vehicle Compliment

4 CT-60 variant C APC’s
8 ATAC’s
4 TR29 Sasmson HBT’s
2 UED’s