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Description
The Canadians are renowned for their ability to adapt and overcome, as well as their ingenuity. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the plans for the Arthur Currie Class Battle Station.

This station was designed almost exclusivly by Canadian members of Homeworld Command's Lunar Research Division

Understanding the need for secrecy and the reasons for the pre-fab nature of all Tau'ri vessels, the Canadian design team used the schematics for the BC-304s and the EF-401s to design a functional battle station that could be constructed without the need for new infrastructure or drastically different parts being manufactured.

The AC-1 Class Battle Station acts as a semi-mobile defense platform and is not designed for solo heavy combat but instead acts as a forward deployment base for fleet operations or as the command unit for a system defense grid (involving several mobile defense platforms)

The Station is equipped with a new sublight propulsion system based off of the Ha'tak inertial drives. These drives are much slower than the Ion propulsion currently used by Tau'ri ships, but allow the Station to maneuver it weapons into position, and allow it to reposition itself in a system. However without any Hyper Space engines the Station must be toed through hyperspace by a BC-304 or larger ship.

The station has 3 F-302 fighter bays that can hold up to 6 fighters each. On top of each fighter bay is a flight control tower. The towers are mostly used to keep track of traffic in a system, each one tracking different targets (i.e. friendly ships, neutral objects, possible hostile objects, etc.) and in the event of attack each Control tower directs the actions of one of the 3 fighter squads as well as station weapon targeting in their area of coverage.

The station is powered by 3 Asgard Power Cores and 9 Mark IV* Naquadah Reactors. This provides more than enough power for the stations shields and weapons.

While not standard on all AC-1 Class Battle Stations, a Stargate can be installed on and utilized by the stations (they must be in orbit around a planet for the Stargate to work, and the gates used onboard stations can be deactivated so that they are not used against the stations)

In the locations where the bridge of the ships would be located, there are instead specialized decks. On the top of the station, there are 3 separate rooms that are botanical/hydroponic gardens (as space based operations began requiring longer duty postings away from Earth (or any planet) it was deemed psychologically necessary to have a "Green" space available for personnel to visit). On the lower part of the station, there is one large connected observation deck that travels down the 3 lower necks, which allows for viewing of the space around the station or any planet the station is orbiting. It should be noted that all of the decks have gravity in the same direction, so the Lower necks are essentially upside down from their original designs.

Armament:
39 (21 on the top side, 18 on the bottom side) Heavy Asgard plasma beam weapons (the original design)
111 Asgard enhanced Railguns (more accurate & faster targeting)
18 F-302s (3 squads of 6)
24 Missile launch tubes (missiles can be reloaded by beaming new missiles into the tubes, this allows for several types of missiles to be stored and used when necessary, and new missiles or at least missile components** can be fabricated at need using Asgard tech.)

*In the shows, only the Mark I and Mark II Naquadah reactors/generators were ever shown.
In my Head Cannon the Mark IV Naquadah Reactors are the pinnacle of solid Naquadah power generation technology. Each one of these reactors produces about 400% of the power of a Mark I (but are the size of a Car), with an operational life of 20 years. The Mark IV reactors operates at 96% power efficiency. This is the last model of Solid Naquadah reactors that the Tau'ri will produce, as they have begun research into Liquid Naquadah technology (Liquid Naquadah is a better power source than Solid Naquadah and produces more power with less material), and with both the Asgard Data Core and the Ancient Database of Atlantis, there are other options of power generation available for the Tau'ri to research.

**Some things cannot be fabricated by Asgard tech (i.e. Naquadah, Trinium, virtually all of the radioactive elements, and most violet elements and compounds {i.e. TNT, Nitro Glycerin, and other explosives}, and several complex molecules and alloys).

Description
The Canadians are renowned for their ability to adapt and overcome, as well as their ingenuity. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the plans for the Arthur Currie Class Battle Station.

This station was designed almost exclusivly by Canadian members of Homeworld Command's Lunar Research Division

Understanding the need for secrecy and the reasons for the pre-fab nature of all Tau'ri vessels, the Canadian design team used the schematics for the BC-304s and the EF-401s to design a functional battle station that could be constructed without the need for new infrastructure or drastically different parts being manufactured.

The AC-1 Class Battle Station acts as a semi-mobile defense platform and is not designed for solo heavy combat but instead acts as a forward deployment base for fleet operations or as the command unit for a system defense grid (involving several mobile defense platforms)

The Station is equipped with a new sublight propulsion system based off of the Ha'tak inertial drives. These drives are much slower than the Ion propulsion currently used by Tau'ri ships, but allow the Station to maneuver it weapons into position, and allow it to reposition itself in a system. However without any Hyper Space engines the Station must be toed through hyperspace by a BC-304 or larger ship.

The station has 3 F-302 fighter bays that can hold up to 6 fighters each. On top of each fighter bay is a flight control tower. The towers are mostly used to keep track of traffic in a system, each one tracking different targets (i.e. friendly ships, neutral objects, possible hostile objects, etc.) and in the event of attack each Control tower directs the actions of one of the 3 fighter squads as well as station weapon targeting in their area of coverage.

The station is powered by 3 Asgard Power Cores and 9 Mark IV* Naquadah Reactors. This provides more than enough power for the stations shields and weapons.

While not standard on all AC-1 Class Battle Stations, a Stargate can be installed on and utilized by the stations (they must be in orbit around a planet for the Stargate to work, and the gates used onboard stations can be deactivated so that they are not used against the stations)

In the locations where the bridge of the ships would be located, there are instead specialized decks. On the top of the station, there are 3 separate rooms that are botanical/hydroponic gardens (as space based operations began requiring longer duty postings away from Earth (or any planet) it was deemed psychologically necessary to have a "Green" space available for personnel to visit). On the lower part of the station, there is one large connected observation deck that travels down the 3 lower necks, which allows for viewing of the space around the station or any planet the station is orbiting. It should be noted that all of the decks have gravity in the same direction, so the Lower necks are essentially upside down from their original designs.

Armament:
39 (21 on the top side, 18 on the bottom side) Heavy Asgard plasma beam weapons (the original design)
111 Asgard enhanced Railguns (more accurate & faster targeting)
18 F-302s (3 squads of 6)
24 Missile launch tubes (missiles can be reloaded by beaming new missiles into the tubes, this allows for several types of missiles to be stored and used when necessary, and new missiles or at least missile components** can be fabricated at need using Asgard tech.)

*In the shows, only the Mark I and Mark II Naquadah reactors/generators were ever shown.
In my Head Cannon the Mark IV Naquadah Reactors are the pinnacle of solid Naquadah power generation technology. Each one of these reactors produces about 400% of the power of a Mark I (but are the size of a Car), with an operational life of 20 years. The Mark IV reactors operates at 96% power efficiency. This is the last model of Solid Naquadah reactors that the Tau'ri will produce, as they have begun research into Liquid Naquadah technology (Liquid Naquadah is a better power source than Solid Naquadah and produces more power with less material), and with both the Asgard Data Core and the Ancient Database of Atlantis, there are other options of power generation available for the Tau'ri to research.

**Some things cannot be fabricated by Asgard tech (i.e. Naquadah, Trinium, virtually all of the radioactive elements, and most violet elements and compounds {i.e. TNT, Nitro Glycerin, and other explosives}, and several complex molecules and alloys).