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Area-defense ships (ADS) form the first line of defense against hostile missiles and to a lesser extent, dumb kinetics. They are equipped with some of the most powerful phased-array radars and various wavelength imagining systems, capable of spotting enemy hardware well beyond their effective engagement range. Most such ships carry at least 20 AAL cells, with rapid reloading systems, capable of selecting, programming and launching a new interceptor-missile every 15 seconds roughly. It is expected that at an engagement range of 30000km and standard engagement velocities, a simple ADS could take out toughly 120 enemy standby weapons per AAL cell.

While all ADS boost impressive long-range interceptor capabilities, they also carry a higher-than-usual arsenal of close-in-weapon systems, such as kinetic point defense, powerful solid-state lasers and can use their phased array radar as a powerful EWAR tool, with some variants boosting impressive IR and radar decoys as well. These measures are included to deal with the less frequent, but still deadly, 'cold missiles' which are dispersed, cooled to ambient and await enemy movement in standby mode.

Most ADS ships, since they are only deployed with large fleets, also act as makeshift logistic vessels: they carry material, fuel, spare weaponry and larger ones also boost some of the most impressive off-world medical facilities of such militaries. This extra mass means that ADS vessels employ higher ISP but lower thrust engines, but some variants are known to have 'boost' engines, capable of shifting between two such modes, if given enough time to shut down their reactor core.

Description
Area-defense ships (ADS) form the first line of defense against hostile missiles and to a lesser extent, dumb kinetics. They are equipped with some of the most powerful phased-array radars and various wavelength imagining systems, capable of spotting enemy hardware well beyond their effective engagement range. Most such ships carry at least 20 AAL cells, with rapid reloading systems, capable of selecting, programming and launching a new interceptor-missile every 15 seconds roughly. It is expected that at an engagement range of 30000km and standard engagement velocities, a simple ADS could take out toughly 120 enemy standby weapons per AAL cell.

While all ADS boost impressive long-range interceptor capabilities, they also carry a higher-than-usual arsenal of close-in-weapon systems, such as kinetic point defense, powerful solid-state lasers and can use their phased array radar as a powerful EWAR tool, with some variants boosting impressive IR and radar decoys as well. These measures are included to deal with the less frequent, but still deadly, 'cold missiles' which are dispersed, cooled to ambient and await enemy movement in standby mode.

Most ADS ships, since they are only deployed with large fleets, also act as makeshift logistic vessels: they carry material, fuel, spare weaponry and larger ones also boost some of the most impressive off-world medical facilities of such militaries. This extra mass means that ADS vessels employ higher ISP but lower thrust engines, but some variants are known to have 'boost' engines, capable of shifting between two such modes, if given enough time to shut down their reactor core.