25th of July, 2081
Our fleet has just finished its modernization program for most of its ships except for those based in Danwinegar. Just in time for the next development in engine power to be developed. Rather then go through yet another SLEP for 50 combat ships, a new battle fleet will be built with the new technologies coming out of the research labs. This includes the new engines, two new missiles and a new design to go with them.
Sparrow MkV Speed: 16,000 km/s Endurance: 50 secs Range: 800k km Warhead: 6 Size: 6
Zues MkII PDM Speed: 16,000 km/s Endurance: 75 secs Range: 1200k km Warhead: 6 Size: 12
Monatana HC class Heavy Cruiser 9750 tons 970 Crew 1812 BP Signature 195-1092
5600 km/s Armour 1 Shields 30-300 Sensors 1/0/0/0 Damage Control 1-2
Magazine 600 Replacement Parts 5
Magneto-plasma Drive EE0.88 AR-1 (13) Power 84 Engine Efficiency 0.88 Armour 1 Exp 7%
Fuel Capacity 120,000 Litres Range 60.4 billion km (124 days at full power)
Gamma R300/20 Shields (15) Total Fuel Cost 300 Litres per day
Missile Launcher 06-045 (7) Missile Size 6 Rate of Fire 45
Missile Fire Control S04-160 (1) Range: 1600k km
Fleet Train Assets:
South Carolina Tug: 1 (+1 building at Earth)
Abriel Collier MkI: 5
Terraforming Assets:
Atmospheric Terraformer: 7
Freighter Assets:
Bulk Carrier MkII : 17
Long Haul Freighter: 3
Colonization Assets:
Luminus Mk II class Colony Ship: 5
Jump Gate Assets:
Construction Mk III: 2 (+1 building in Washington)
Survey Assets: 21 ships(finally! Precursors kept killing them...)
Enterprise MkII : 4
Enterprise MkIII : 3
Enterprise MkIV: 14 (+1 building at Earth, +1 building at Mars)
Combat Assets: 50 ships
Iowa Mk III class Heavy Cruiser: 10
Navajo Scout MkIV: 6
Portland Mk IV class Cruiser: 5
Portland Mk V class Cruiser: 5
Rapier JCA class Jump Cruiser:3 (+1 building at Earth)
Montana HC: 0 (+4 building at Earth, 2.2 year build time)
Spruance Mk V: 3 ( 1 is refitting to Mk VII at Danwinegar)
Spruance Mk VI: 3
Spruance Mk VII: 15
Fuel Support Assets: 12 ships
Texaco Mk II class Tanker : 4 ( 1 is refitting to faster Mk III at Earth)
Texaco Mk III class Tanker : 8
Ground Forces Assets:
Velvet Glove Transport: 1
Velvet Glove Transport Mk II: 2
We are continuing to survey warp chains leading away from our colonized systems, but this takes time. Our resources have been switched from building our naval might to modernizing our various units so that they have roughly the same fleet speed. Once the last of the Spruance Mk V's are upgraded our fleet speeds will be a universal 3000 instead of 1666. It is to be noted that this speed is the slowest of the modern units, the Spruance Mk VII.
Our tactical officers are impressed by the new missile designs as they are twice as fast as the previous models.
The Kingdom is continuing to move population to the colonies. In particular, New York and San Fransico. The two colonies in Petrina will be left alone for now, but they will be getting periodic population and infrastructure infusions. Much debate has been done about stationing fleet units in Petrina until the colonies have had time to build missile defenses. As of right now, the colonies do not have defenses of any kind except for Earths Battle Fleet which can be summoned through the jump gate system. Quite likely too late to do anything other then have revenge though.