Lbbnalanab - Class Battleship

Powerful battleship of the Tranal Nomads.   The Lbbnalanab class is a relatively large for a battleship despite its level of technology. This is to allow TN engineers to fit larger weapons to it, as well as a large number of large missiles. This is designed for long range fire support, and can fire its weapons at targets that wont change trajectory (such as stations or planets). Against targets that can accelerate under their own force (such as starships), the Lbbnalanab uses its missiles.   It has also been constructed to be fast. The TN requires this speed for their doctrine, and they can deploy a Lbbnalanab in many locations rapidly. However this means it is lightly armoured and likely isnt capable of taking many hits. It does have a shield and several laser CIWS weapons in turrets though, giving it the ability to intercept enemy missiles. It also has a powerful railgun CIWS that behaves similar to a Hyperion Federation 'Sarissa' Railgun System. This is to destory missiles and strike craft at much longer range than would otherwise be possible, sometimes also destroying missiles that would otherwise destroy other friendly contacts.   Its high speed is provided by a 32 powerful fusion drives mounted to its rear. The sheer number of drives provides a lot of redundancy in case one falls, so despite its lack of armour, the Lbbnalanab can be surprisingly survivable. Many of its systems are built like this. The fusion drives are fueled by the same hydrogen tanks as those used to power the ship through its proton-proton chain fusion reactors, which can produce a lot of power. There is a large number of these reactors as well, each of them built in various locations of the ship, making it difficult to cut its power.


Cover image: Atmospheric Frigate by Tankium

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