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Karma: 7 |  | SC-311 Exalibur-Class Super Carrier
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Designation: SC-311
Class: Super Carrier
Length: 1500 Meters
Mass: 100,000 Tons
Crew Complement: 850 (Fully-crewed), 100 (Skeleton crew)
Maximum Complement (Crew & Passengers): 1500
Armaments]
Rail Guns
Mark VIII & Mark IX Nuclear Warheads
Various Missile & Rocket Launchers
Ancient Drone Weapons
Asgard Energy Weapons
Defensive Systems
Cloaking Device
Ancient Shields
Propulsion
Ancient Hyperdrive
Sublight Engines
The Excalibur-Class Super Carrier class of spacecraft began development in 2009 and was completed in 2012. The first incarnation of the project essentially involved Earth scientists using plans from dispersed Ancients to build their own Aurora-class battleship. It was soon learned that Earth still did not possess the level of technology necessary to complete the design, similar to the issue revolving around the technology acquired after the Prometheus was completed.
The second incarnation was to become the completed product. In mid-2011, the United Nations Off-World Task Force commissioned a new Earth-based spaceframe to which the development teams were to implement as many advanced systems as possible. The result was the SC-311 Super Carrier.
At 1500 meters in length, the behemoth Excalibur is by far the largest spacecraft ever developed by Earth. The most noteworthy design feature was a series of internal cross bracings and honeycombs that made the ships surprisingly resistant to battle damage; ships of the class were able to remain operational despite sustaining breaches to all compartments and losing 90% of their armor.
Corridors on the Excalibur-class were segmented by several retractable containment bulkheads. In the event of an emergency, these bulkheads could be closed and affected sections sealed from the remainder of the ship. A potential application of this was during a hostile boarding action, whereas the atmosphere in the sealed sections could be vented via commands from the bridge, asphyxiating enemy troops.
Armories were located throughout the ship, holding a selection of small arms and their requisite ammunition. A number of service corridors ran the length of the ship. Although normally restricted to personnel, they could be accessed by lifts in main engineering or connecting passageways from the docking bays. The corridors served a secondary purpose of lessening the ship's considerable mass, thereby increasing acceleration.
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