Flagship Terminus

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After the loss of the original Terminus, the most advanced Osiris class battleship in the Edge Nebula, Cerberus invested in another project, the AXN-4P Experimental Battleship, simply known as Terminus. The wreck of the old Terminus is located somewhere in Omicron Lost.

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Terminus Background Sound

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Cerberus AXN-4P Experimental "Osiris" Battleship
Ship Class	Battleship
Built by	Cerberus
Technical information
Guns/Turrets	0 / 12
Hull strength	CLASSIFIED
Cargo space	1,000 units
Nanobots/Batteries	1500/1500
Max. impulse speed	80 m/s
Max. thrust speed	80 m/s
Power output	186.000.000 u
Power recharge	2600000

This is a player owned ship.

Description

The old Terminus

After that the original Terminus (AXN-3) was lost in Omicron Lost, due to an ambush organized by the bounty hunters, in which two of their heavy battlecruiser class vessels engaged the Terminus on the dark side of the Pink Princess. Before the Terminus could even arm the first battery deck, several mortar shells destroyed the engine room, thus making the ship ungovernable, while another shell hit the bridge section, destroying and killing everyone and anything inside. Against all odds the Terminus managed to activate the secondary battery deck, but a rapid-expading conflagration onboard, and the lugubrious shape of the Pink Princess that was about to suck the Terminus into its atmosphere, forced the crew to abbandon the ship. Little they knew that the Pink Princess' gravity well caught the Terminus, making the wreck of the ship a new sort of moon. The casualties were great, but luck has it that the Colonel, Jack Aubrey, and other senior officers of Cerberus were on a reconnaissance mission deep within the Kingdom of Gallia. The task force didn't knew what was happening back in the Edge Nebula, due to the great distance, but when they came back, three months later, they heard from the Zoners of Freeport 11 that the Terminus was destroyed, and that the wreck was floating in orbit around the Pink Princess, in Omicron Lost. Jack Aubrey, and a few trustworthy senior officers went towards Omicron Lost. After almost of week of countless scouting around the system, the wreck of the Terminus was found. The docking port of the small hangar-bay was still operational, but the oxygen levels around the Terminus were very low, the whole place was a mess, the elevator towards the brige section was offline, since the whole bridge section was cut-off from the ship during the first mortar hits. The bar section had a gloomy atmosphere, with some dust over some old meals, the crew was caught unprepared. The wreck of the old Terminus is still floating around the Pink Princess, all the valuable equipment still intact was stripped from the ship, is approximated that in about four years, with the current elliptical orbit, that the Terminus, or what is left of it, will be sucked into the gas giant's atmosphere.

The new Terminus

With the loss of the Terminus, and almost half of its crew, Cerberus was doomed to crumble. But the Cerberus remnants disagreed on abandoning Cerberus. Some rumors has it that ExoGeni, a leading genetical research corporation in Bretonia is heavily backed up, if not controlled, by Cerberus. That should explain from where the funds of Cerberus are coming from.

On the 23rd of November 818, Cerberus commissioned the AXN-4P prototype, the future Terminus. The new project would fix all the previous issues that were found on the old Terminus. The ship was costructed by an engineering team of almost one hundred people, that worked relentlessly to bring the new project to life. An infiltrate within the Liberty Security Force managed to get a copy of the original blueprints of the famous Spyglass, some of the technology used on the Spyglass were implemented into the new Terminus.

The new Terminus was almost twice the size of the original one, but with the same external shape. A sort of a small Liberty Dreadnought. The new Terminus, in a record time, was finished on the 24th of December 818. The hull of an old Osiris was used, an old and outdated Osiris, the OCV Interception. All the standard equipment was removed and replaced with the most technologically advanced equipment available in Sirius.

Structural Updates

The new Terminus is equipped with a highly durable and reflective hull plating, useful against the deadly space radiation present in the Edge Nebula, the hull armor was codenames GARDiAN. Rheinland-made GARDiAN armor can resist even the tremendous heat and kinetic energy of warship weapons. The armor is nearly unsurpassed in strength because its central material, carbon nanotube sheets woven with diamond Chemical Vapor Deposition, are crushed by mass effect fields into super-dense layers able to withstand extreme temperatures. That process also compensates for diamond's brittleness.

The shield generator of the Terminus was updated too, with an unique CBT Shield Generator. Cyclonic Barrier Technology (CBT) attempts to solve the higher-end limitations of traditional kinetic barriers. Traditional barriers cannot block high-level kinetic energy attacks such as disruptor torpedoes because torpedo mass effect fields add mass. The CBT violently slaps aside rather than halting incoming linear force. By rotationally firing their mass effect field projectors, ships create rapidly oscillating kinetic barriers instead of static ones. Shooting through the CBT is like trying to shoot at a target inside a spinning ball.

Engine Updates

The Terminus is equipped with the newest FTL engine currently available in Sirius, some blueprints were stolen from an enigmatic Gallic corporation, Solar Engineering, the new FTL drive is a revolutionary piece of equipment, that grants the Terminus an incredible speed when the cruise engines are activated. The engines are powered using a high ammount of Element-0. FTL drives are devices connected to the main cruise engines which allow ships to travel at FTL speeds through space. FTL drive cores work by exposing element zero to electric currents, creating mass effect fields. It reduces the mass of an object such as a starship to a point where accelerations faster than the speed of light are possible. With a mass effect drive, roughly a dozen light-years can be traversed in the course of a day's cruise.

The precise maximum speed and the time this acceleration can be maintained varies depending on the exact type of FTL drive being used. In general, the larger the drive, the longer the ship can run at FTL.

Weapon Systems

Even the weapon systems were updated, little is known though of what updates were implemented. The original Terminus counted two battery decks: deck one housed the primary weapons, while deck two housed light or secondary weapons.

The new Terminus consists of four battery decks, A through D:

The first deck - battery deck A - holds all the heavy weaponry of the Terminus.

The second deck - battery deck B - is equipped with pulse weaponry, capable of disrupting the shields of enemy warships.

The third deck - battery deck C - is armed with anti-fighter and anti-bomber systems.

The fourth deck - battery deck D - is armed with missile launchers, capable of engaging enemy capital ships at extended range.