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Description
The Republic Continent Class Dreadnought

Dimensions
Length:
1700m

Width:
542m

Height (Hull):
241m

Height (total):
395m

Mass:
75,000,000tons

Armament:
Spinal:
2x 2500mm/L031c mass drivers, 854.7 gigatons (1.7x10^26 W/shot), 4rpm
4x 1500mm/L042c mass drivers, 445.5 gigatons (1.7x10^26 W/shot), 10rpm

2x Heavy Particle Cannons (4.0x10^24 W/burst), 1s burst, 8rpm

Turreted:
30x4 in various configurations, including (figures for each gun in turret):
-304mm/L005c mass drivers, 94.0 megatons (1.6x10^23 W/shot), 13rpm
-Heavy Blaster cannons, 10.8 megatons (2.3x10^22 W/shot), 30rpm
-Light particle beam cannons, 41.8x10^15 W, 4s bursts in 7rpm
-Short-range (1 000 km) missile launchers

Missiles:
496 VLS cells with 50s internal reload capable of mounting various load-outs:
-496x Interplanetary Ballistic Missiles
-1488x Anti-Ship Missiles
-2976x Long-Range anti-craft missiles

Power Source:
Primary:
Dual Artificial singularity reactor

Secondary:
M/AM reactor

Emergency:
4x Gravitically enhanced light fusion reactors

Engines:
Primary:
3x Gravitically enhanced fusion torches, max. a: 1000g; 2.4x10^18W output each
max v: 0.69c

Secondary:
4x fusion torches, max. a: 210g; 6.5x10^16W output each
max v: 0.39c

Reaction Control:
15x Gravopulse thrusters, max. a: 81g; 3.9x10^15 W output each

FTL:
Primary:
Hyper-Space Interface Jump Drive (10000 x sub-light velocity)

Secondary:
5500c Alcubierre Drive, max. 200ly jump range

Protection:
Armor:
16m-9m ablative-refractive armor

Primary Shield:
1.7x10^18 W Gravo-Kinetic Screen (against matter)

Secondary Shield:
1.9x10^18 W Magneto-Kinetic Shell (against charged particles and matter)

Tertiary Shield:
9.6x10^17 W general shield (against all threats)

CIWS:
200x triple 20mm mass drivers (1000rpm)
150x short range light blaster guns
50x rolling-frame missile launchers

Carrier Air Group:
Typical complement:
100 fighters
60 strike craft
60 ground attack craft
40 bombers
24 ELINT craft
50 dropships
20 recce craft
23 repair craft
16 cargo shuttles
22 crew shuttles
2 semi-automated harvesters

Max. complement:
500 combat craft
240 support craft

Crew complement:
Ship Crew:
5000 officers and crew

CAG pilots and support:
1650

CAG complement, max:
2800

Troop, Deployable:
6 brigades

Troop, Transport:
70000

Max. Evac. Limit:
80000

Capacity
Endurance, fuel:
16 months
H, H2, He-3 extraction and refinement -capable

Endurance, consumables:
12 months

Cargo:
heavy

The Continent class dreadnought is one of the strongest ships of the line in service of the Republic Stellar Navy, forming the core of large battle navies. With its capacity for an army, it can perform planetary invasions of a continental scale by itself.

Passive defense consists of modular layered hull armor, which has been enhanced against energy weapons, refracting up to 75% of their energy. The hull is uniformly 4m thick. The armor is modular in nature, so it can be upgraded when need be. Further defense comes from a short-range EM shield, which disperses and spreads charged particles and objects, lessening their effect on the armor.

Active shield is three-layered. The closest layer is a general barrier, which deflects particles and waves with equal efficiency, though this is the weakest of all layers, and thus an "emergency" layer.
The second layer is a magneto-kinetic shell, which acts like a physical barrier against solid matter and charged particles.
The outermost layer is the gravokinetic screen, which pinches c. 2m of realspace into a 1mm layer. Any matter entering this layer is squashed and shredded, but the added mass is kept inside the pinched space until it has traveled the bent space as shrapnel, or until the shield is discharged. Beams of all nature are bent and refracted, messing with the targeting. However, the GKS is a fortress shield, meaning the effect acts upon both parties. The GKS can be used as a bubble shield or as quick "plates." These plates pinch a linear portion of space at any sector of the ship, giving protection. At peak capacity, a hundred such plates can be supported for 5s each at a time. Thus in battle captains must both defend against an aggressor and make sure he has an open firing ark.
Active defenses include hundreds of small mass accelerators, missiles and blasters providing a screen against incoming projectiles, guided munitions and hostile aircraft.

Supplies can last the maximum evacuation complement for one year. The ships cargo facilities carry most of the consumables, but there is also a significant synthmeat plant (where real meat is artificially grown in non-sentient blobs) and a large hydroponics bay. The food plants are redundant for biologies differing chiralities and special food requirements. AutAl (auto-alchemist) technology can reproduce most needed products, as long as raw materials are available (though some do not fully trust this technology, as even tiny errors can have drastic consequences). The autals can also produce munitions at a staggering pace.
The ship has the possibility of harvesting asteroids for usable raw materials for the AutAls and the capability of harvesting H, H2 and He-3 from multiple sources (e.g. upper atmosphere of a gas giant).

Used stock material from ~DJBriedis 's site

Description
The Republic Continent Class Dreadnought

Dimensions
Length:
1700m

Width:
542m

Height (Hull):
241m

Height (total):
395m

Mass:
75,000,000tons

Armament:
Spinal:
2x 2500mm/L031c mass drivers, 854.7 gigatons (1.7x10^26 W/shot), 4rpm
4x 1500mm/L042c mass drivers, 445.5 gigatons (1.7x10^26 W/shot), 10rpm

2x Heavy Particle Cannons (4.0x10^24 W/burst), 1s burst, 8rpm

Turreted:
30x4 in various configurations, including (figures for each gun in turret):
-304mm/L005c mass drivers, 94.0 megatons (1.6x10^23 W/shot), 13rpm
-Heavy Blaster cannons, 10.8 megatons (2.3x10^22 W/shot), 30rpm
-Light particle beam cannons, 41.8x10^15 W, 4s bursts in 7rpm
-Short-range (1 000 km) missile launchers

Missiles:
496 VLS cells with 50s internal reload capable of mounting various load-outs:
-496x Interplanetary Ballistic Missiles
-1488x Anti-Ship Missiles
-2976x Long-Range anti-craft missiles

Power Source:
Primary:
Dual Artificial singularity reactor

Secondary:
M/AM reactor

Emergency:
4x Gravitically enhanced light fusion reactors

Engines:
Primary:
3x Gravitically enhanced fusion torches, max. a: 1000g; 2.4x10^18W output each
max v: 0.69c

Secondary:
4x fusion torches, max. a: 210g; 6.5x10^16W output each
max v: 0.39c

Reaction Control:
15x Gravopulse thrusters, max. a: 81g; 3.9x10^15 W output each

FTL:
Primary:
Hyper-Space Interface Jump Drive (10000 x sub-light velocity)

Secondary:
5500c Alcubierre Drive, max. 200ly jump range

Protection:
Armor:
16m-9m ablative-refractive armor

Primary Shield:
1.7x10^18 W Gravo-Kinetic Screen (against matter)

Secondary Shield:
1.9x10^18 W Magneto-Kinetic Shell (against charged particles and matter)

Tertiary Shield:
9.6x10^17 W general shield (against all threats)

CIWS:
200x triple 20mm mass drivers (1000rpm)
150x short range light blaster guns
50x rolling-frame missile launchers

Carrier Air Group:
Typical complement:
100 fighters
60 strike craft
60 ground attack craft
40 bombers
24 ELINT craft
50 dropships
20 recce craft
23 repair craft
16 cargo shuttles
22 crew shuttles
2 semi-automated harvesters

Max. complement:
500 combat craft
240 support craft

Crew complement:
Ship Crew:
5000 officers and crew

CAG pilots and support:
1650

CAG complement, max:
2800

Troop, Deployable:
6 brigades

Troop, Transport:
70000

Max. Evac. Limit:
80000

Capacity
Endurance, fuel:
16 months
H, H2, He-3 extraction and refinement -capable

Endurance, consumables:
12 months

Cargo:
heavy

The Continent class dreadnought is one of the strongest ships of the line in service of the Republic Stellar Navy, forming the core of large battle navies. With its capacity for an army, it can perform planetary invasions of a continental scale by itself.

Passive defense consists of modular layered hull armor, which has been enhanced against energy weapons, refracting up to 75% of their energy. The hull is uniformly 4m thick. The armor is modular in nature, so it can be upgraded when need be. Further defense comes from a short-range EM shield, which disperses and spreads charged particles and objects, lessening their effect on the armor.

Active shield is three-layered. The closest layer is a general barrier, which deflects particles and waves with equal efficiency, though this is the weakest of all layers, and thus an "emergency" layer.
The second layer is a magneto-kinetic shell, which acts like a physical barrier against solid matter and charged particles.
The outermost layer is the gravokinetic screen, which pinches c. 2m of realspace into a 1mm layer. Any matter entering this layer is squashed and shredded, but the added mass is kept inside the pinched space until it has traveled the bent space as shrapnel, or until the shield is discharged. Beams of all nature are bent and refracted, messing with the targeting. However, the GKS is a fortress shield, meaning the effect acts upon both parties. The GKS can be used as a bubble shield or as quick "plates." These plates pinch a linear portion of space at any sector of the ship, giving protection. At peak capacity, a hundred such plates can be supported for 5s each at a time. Thus in battle captains must both defend against an aggressor and make sure he has an open firing ark.
Active defenses include hundreds of small mass accelerators, missiles and blasters providing a screen against incoming projectiles, guided munitions and hostile aircraft.

Supplies can last the maximum evacuation complement for one year. The ships cargo facilities carry most of the consumables, but there is also a significant synthmeat plant (where real meat is artificially grown in non-sentient blobs) and a large hydroponics bay. The food plants are redundant for biologies differing chiralities and special food requirements. AutAl (auto-alchemist) technology can reproduce most needed products, as long as raw materials are available (though some do not fully trust this technology, as even tiny errors can have drastic consequences). The autals can also produce munitions at a staggering pace.
The ship has the possibility of harvesting asteroids for usable raw materials for the AutAls and the capability of harvesting H, H2 and He-3 from multiple sources (e.g. upper atmosphere of a gas giant).

Used stock material from ~DJBriedis 's site