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OHS Centurion

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AirshipsEverywhere
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With the One-Hour Ship Challenge going strong with three submissions already, I figured it was high-time the creator of the challenge should do his.  I think I used literally every single minute.  For a while I've been thinking about adapting the submarine to space combat, but never managed to lock down a hard-ish sci-fi explanation for one, until now.  While this is a testbed boat with light armament, I do plan on making some bigger vessels later. (For you naval nuts, I chose the name "Centurion" because that was the original name given to the "Virginia-"class attack subs while they were being developed, so intentional parallel is intentional.)  Spec time!

Specs! 

Class: Centurion 
Type: Experimental Attack Submarine (Designation XSSNS)
First Flown: 1/18/2015
Length: 85 m 
Width: 18 m 
Height: 21 m 
Armament (Still more probably): 
  • 2 Electromagnetic Torpedo Tubes firing Warp Torpedos

Top Speed: 
  • Sublight: 0.50c 

  • FTL: 75c 

Powerplant: 1 Mk. X(s) Cold Fusion Reactor 
Thrust: 2 Zephyr Industries SIV-260 VASIMR Impulse Engines and 2 Zephyr Industries SIV-130 VASIMR Impulse Engines
FTL:  30 Brony Aerospace FTF-20 Warp Coils in Frame of Hull
Shields: Carbon Nanotube Skin 
Maneuvering System: Multi-Axial RCS Assemblies (20 all over hull) 
Displacement: 25,000 tons 
Commissioned Ships:
  • Skyship Centurion (XSSNS-01) 

Crew: 20 (15 Enlisted, 5 officers) 
Maximum Range: 20 light years without replenishment 
Cost: $4 billion Skylord Dollars ($8 billion USD) 
Auxiliary Aircraft: 
  • None

The Centurion was the product of Skylord enthusiasm for space travel as well as fears of an inadequate defense fleet.  Space Fleet wanted a starship capable of stealth raids and patrols around Skylord space capable of engaging opponents like a submarine, and Brony Aerospace jumped at the task.  The vessel creates a warp bubble around itself when "submerged," and can maneuver at sublight with this bubble to fire torpedos that either exit the bubble through weak points or maintain their own until impact.  While Centurion is a lightly-armed testbed boat designed as a proof-of-concept, her success so far has begun funding for the development of the Lysander-class attack submarines and Blackiron-class ballistic missile submarines.  Currently they maintain the designation of "submarine," but "sub-space ship" might be more appropriate.  As a testbed, Centurion has limited crew space and storage for fuel and provisions, thus leading to a small maximum range, but as she was never intended to be a formal warship unless as a last resort, this is of no concern.  The Skylords are eagerly watching their allies and enemies to see how they react to the new development.

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Bard Bard
03/22/2015 5:26 am
Level 43 : Master Dragon
the crew quaters are mind blowing, a Kernal would really struggle to see the perpose of such space
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AirshipsEverywhere
03/22/2015 7:05 pm
Level 50 : Grandmaster Unicorn
I know!  A place for crewmembers to sleep to ensure optimal performance on extended mission durations is truly inconcievable.
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Bard Bard
03/23/2015 3:16 am
Level 43 : Master Dragon
it is.
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Laserbilly
01/22/2015 1:00 pm
Level 51 : Grandmaster System
Oops, looks like a I missed this one! I like the interior, good build!
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Yarra
01/20/2015 1:30 am
Level 16 : Journeyman Farmer
Great looking build there. Nice to see somebody else give the ionic thrusters a go. VASIMR all the way. And about those "warp Bubbles": Are they meant to act as a stealth field generator, say from KOTOR?
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Sbia
01/21/2015 1:53 am
Level 48 : Master Botanist
asfbeabtaebtbeatuoabetbaeotbaebtbaeubtaeubtuobaet

you know, like, warp drive
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Yarra
01/21/2015 3:14 am
Level 16 : Journeyman Farmer
Sorry, I've been out of touch these last few days from the chat group. Work has been INSANE with all the back-to-school orders coming in.

Okay, so warp drives. Quite a development. Crap, now Alessia has to come up with some vacuum-capable warships.

Wait, not quite sure I get this... But spacesubs? That doesn't make any strategic sense unless they were capable of stealth. Unless the bubble are a stealth field, since it's implied they can be used at subspace speeds. Actually it's stated pretty clearly that;s how they work.

I'm a friggin idiot.
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Sbia
01/21/2015 3:26 am
Level 48 : Master Botanist
yeah, uh, most of the stuff has been set in space so far since fox joined

dw lol, happens to everyone ^-^
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GrayRemnant
01/19/2015 5:58 pm
Level 65 : High Grandmaster Senpai
Very cool!
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eagoy
01/19/2015 3:14 am
Level 27 : Expert Aesthetic
Nice to see you spend in that hour time on the interior.
I do have to say it looks in my eyes far more suited to lay in the water than flying in the air as an airship. Just my opinion.
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