Theseus Class



The Excalibur Class is one of the largest ships in the fleet. The CV-311 is a heavy carrier which capable of fielding 100 support craft and has a crew of 1'200. Named after the legendary sword of King Author and was designed by British shipwrights to fill the need for a large carrier vessel. While almost all ships of the fleet are able to carry fighters and shuttles it wasn't until the CV-308 'Ark Royal' Class, also a British design, that the value of a dedicated carrier was discovered. The Excalibur is a design supported by the US and Russia but the first ship of her class was commanded by a British Royal Naval Commodore. The size of the class means that the run of ships has been limited to just 6 with no further planned as of 2055. Like all Earth ships, the Excalibur is armed to the teeth fielding Railguns, Guass cannons and Plasma weapons but her real power lays in the number of fighters she can field and the power of the shields. Only the BB-310 Hood Class, CC-313 South Carolina Class and CC-314 Paladin Class are equal in terms of fire power and shield power.

The ship was designed by a team led by Engineer Jason Matthews, a Captain with the Royal Navy who had a hand in designing half a dozen wet bottom ships as well as the Ark Royal Class. The one feature that no other ship can claim is the two frigates gunships which dock with the carrier in special recessed docking in the underside of the ship. Matthews designed the ship to be in deep space for up to a year without support or back up and still be able to engage in standard operations, this meant that all the ships power generators had to be efficient enough to not need massive amounts of fuel, and the water and oxygen supplies needed to be recycled better than they had currently been.