#ship file

While the design and technology is ahead of it’s time, The Courier was deliberately given various faults, as the scientists and engineers working on the ship were held against their will by the Republic Spec Ops group, known as [REDACTED]. Many of these faults are the occasional power fluctuations and overloads, faulty targeting systems, and the ever prevalent Gate projection failures. Aside from technical failures, the carrier was armoured lightly. While this does give it exceptional agility, it cannot survive for long when it shields are down. 

Despite these flaws, the Courier-Class is still an impressive ship, not only as a military vessel, but as a stepping stone for several technologies to become standardise on all ships in the future, such as the full use of Gravimetric plating for artificial gravity, the first ‘broken circle’ Gate Projector, and the first ‘reliable’ hard-light shield projectors.

The Courier was built with fire power and speed in mind, so unfortunately the armour is not that durable as it has the modern standard armour plating of:

-layered graphene carbon, and depleted uranium plates to absorb kinetic attacks. -a heavy layer of ceramic, crystalline composites to absorb plasma and laser attacks. -carbon sealing jell to seal any air depressurisation and temporary repair any damage.

As an assault carrier, the Courier class has a large array of weaponry sporting:

-6 medium rail-guns

-20 duel auto-cannons

-2 quad heavy torpedo launchers

-50 medium missile launchers [23 on port and starboard, and 4 facing the aft]

-1 Spinal mounted Particle Accelerator Cannon [PAC]

And lastly, the Courier can carry 6 interceptor drones, either for space or for ground assault. However, it is rumoured that the Starlight programme was also building new military robots to staff the ship.

Further more, the ship has a large perpetual Singularity Drive, fuelling the ship with energy and powering the carrier’s main Ion Accelerator thrusters, giving the ship an impressive level of acceleration and mobility.

Because of it’s intended design, all ships of the Republic have gone through various upgrades and refits to the modern year of 1753 AE, while still having the reliable and sturdy frame from it’s beginning.

The Barricade was intended to be a solid defensive wall and to strike their enemies at range, while working with a smaller escort fleet of faster vessels to protect it’s flanks. It’s very rare to see a frigate all on it’s own.

The ships frame has a thick, forward armour section to to ensure that can survive anything short of a heavy rail-gun head on. Most of the armour consists of:

-layered graphene carbon, and depleted uranium plates to absorb kinetic attacks. -a heavy layer of ceramic, crystalline composites to absorb plasma and laser attacks. -carbon sealing jell to seal any air depressurisation and temporary repair any damage.

The frigate had a fair balance of weaponry, with a focus on forward strikes and working in groups. The Barricade has:

-4 duel medium turreted rail-guns -4 large torpedo launchers -9 tubed medium Missile launcher -2 duel flack auto-cannons

While the frigate has an impressive array of full sized omni-directional PAT (Particle Accelerator Thruster) rockets, granting the frigate with an exceptional turning and manoeuvring speeds, it does not have the best acceleration for it’s size.

The refit project included the best technology of the time, including the very first artificial gravity plating and on-board ship AI, all of which has gradually been upgraded throughout the following years. However, it does not process any means of creating it’s own warp gate for ‘faster than light travel’, still having to rely on the system warp-gates.