Xiphos

The Xiphos was the first of the Aspis class heavy frigates to be installed with plasma weapons and the new bait and trap point defense control system. A month after being launched she was in dry-dock for 6 months having a false freighter shell installed on her outer hull in preparation for her first mission.

Power Generation

3 Cold fusion reactors
4 Nuclear backup reactors

Propulsion

2 MK IV Kintara dark-matter Transit Drives
6 MK XII Virona Plasma Sublight Engines
36 Maneuvering thrusters

Weapons & Armament

100m spinal mount railgun
7 Dual 9inch rail turrets
2 Plasma Turrets
12 5inch rail turrets
2 forward torpedo tubes
6 VLS missile silos
36 2in point defence autocannons
48 20mm rotary point defence guns
32 point defence missile launchers
Bait and Trap point defense configuration

Armor and defense

1.5m thick armor plating
Primary secondary and tertiary shield generators

Hangars & docked vessels

1 hangar
4 Multi role Space fighters
2 Marine assault Gunships
1 Shuttle

Class

Aspis class heavy frigate

Designation

HMSS

Motto

Forward unto the breach

Beam

70

Length

250

Height

50

Speed

1.5x the speed of light using transit drives 250,000km/h under sublight engines

Complement / Crew

140 Crew 40 Marines