Feburary 2047
Illustrious 1 and it's accompanying 3 Resolution geosurvey vessels finishes the transit to Belfast and finds itself 660 Million kilometers from the primary. Belfast A is an average main sequence white dwarf with 1.42 solar masses and 3.6 times the luminosity, 4 planets and a handful of asteroids orbit within 1 billion kilometers of the star, however an extensive asteroid belt (>300) exists in the orbital region of 20-30 billion kilometers. A companion star to Belfast A is located 4 billion kilometers from the primary with an orbital period of 115 years, a red dwarf with a mere 97,000 kilometer diameter and a correspondingl luminosity of 0.00002. Belfast B has 4 planets including 2 gas giants.
The worlds of Belfast A don't appear to be too hospitable with many being too close to the star and several containing lethally high atmospheric pressure however one moon does look promising. Belfast B however has 8 large possibly colonisable worlds orbiting it's gas giants. Resolutioin 1 begins surveying the worlds of Belfast A whilst the other 2 of it's class set course for the worlds of its companion star, Illustrious 1 on the other hand begins the search for new jump points.
March 2047
Minerals discovered on Belfast B 1: Duranium 127,008 0.7, Tritanium 72,900 0.4, Corundium 544,644 0.6
Minerals discovered on belfast B III: Sorium 48k 0.5
Minerals discovered on Belfast B:III - Moon 11: Corb 3,459k 0.9, Boro 14k 0.5, Merc 608k 0.5
April 2047
Minerals discovered on Belfast B III - Moon 14: Corb 298k 0.7, Trit 2k 0.1, Urid 5846K 0.5
Minerals discovered on Belfast B II - Moon 5: Dura 168k 0.1, Neut 6,812k 0.1, Trit 11,316k 0.9, Boro 1,779k 0,1
Minerals discovered on Belfast B II: Moon 28 Neut 230k 0.9, Trit 1,016k 0.7
Minerals discovered on Belfast B II - Moon 7: Dura 127k 0.2, Corb 14,288k 0.1, Merc 3,896k 0.1
Minerals discovered on Belfast B III - Moon 32: Neut 2,190k 0.1. Boro 409k 0.1
Geo Survey of the planets and moons of Belfast is complete, due to the extreme range of the asteroids, survey of them will not be done to conserve fuel, the survey vessels will wait at the jump point untill grav survey is completed. Our survey officer strongly reccomends we build more grav survey vessels.
Due to budgetary and fuel concerns our planned fleet has been scaled back drastically, in the short term we cannot afford the new cruiser sized ships planned, as a result new destroyers are needed to fill the gaps in our fleets current capabilities as quickly as possible.
The design of the Duke of York jump escort destroyer has been altered to use our new long range resolution 1 sensor, the existing 2 ships were scrapped at 50% and 3% completed. As a result of the modifications its range will drop to a mere 7.1 billion kilometers, which si only 21 days at full speed. Retooling for this MOD A variant will require 4 months.
Meanwhile The Trafalgar class has also recieved a change to its sensor loadout, removing the long range capital ship sensor and uselessly short missile sensor and replacing it with a 23 million kilometer resolution 4 and a more capable 2 million kilometer range anti missile sensor which will require 3 months to research, the thermal sensor was dropped and a 50% increase in magazine space was also employed. The urgency of the class has been rethought, and even though Naval B is 25% finished retooling, it has been decided that greater long range offencive capabilities are needed, Naval B's 3 slipways will be needed for these new ships.
This new class has been designed to utilise the long range sensor previously included in the Trafalgar, and sports size 5 missiles and 75% reduced size launchers. Research on the launcher is expected to take 3 months.
King George V class Missile Destroyer 9,000 tons 228 Crew 1308.96 BP TCS 180 TH 675 EM 0
3750 km/s Armour 4-38 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 2 PPV 37.5
Maint Life 1.32 Years MSP 227 AFR 259% IFR 3.6% 1YR 139 5YR 2086 Max Repair 144 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 6 months Spare Berths 0
Magazine 498
75 EP Ion Drive (9) Power 75 Fuel Use 149.36% Signature 75 Exp 12%
Fuel Capacity 750,000 Litres Range 10.0 billion km (30 days at full power)
Size 5 Missile Launcher (75% Reduction) (10) Missile Size 5 Rate of Fire 150
Missile Fire Control FC72-R71 (2) Range 72.8m km Resolution 71
Falcon Medium Range ASM (101) Speed: 15,700 km/s End: 77.4m Range: 72.9m km WH: 9 Size: 5 TH: 52/31/15
Active Search Sensor MR72-R71 (1) GPS 10224 Range 72.8m km Resolution 71
Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposesAs this design uses sensors and missiles with 3 times the range of our Queen Elizabeth destroyers, our capabilities are expected to be significantly higher.
Naval C will be retooled to produce the New Trafalgar after finishing production of more Edward VII, 2 & 3 are currently in the slipways and at least 2-4 more should be required. The new fleet then only requires a tanker, a commercial design may be possible at Commercial A.
May 2047
New jump point discovered in Glasgow, the System has been named Newcastle, the jump point is located a mere 246 million kilometers from the star and is difficult to detect from a visual system map.
Retooling for Handy 20 C (colony ship) has been completed at Commercial A. As expected both the C variant and F freighter variant can be constructed at the yard, however the fuel harvester variant is too different, requiring extensive engine changes. 3 colony ships are imediately queued, they will take 2 years, the yard is then set to expansion, as the colony ships will take so long the mars express shuttle service ramps up production, 17 boats have been constructed, an expected 23 more can be constructed while waiting for the Handy C's completion.
June 2047
Maintenance Failures of our cruisers now approach 2 per month and costing 1000 maintenance supplies, replacing these cost 4.5% of our production. However with 17,000 supplies still in reserve, the situation is still minor.
July 2047
Reduced size 5 missile launcher research completed, research into 80% magazine ejection system begins. Retooling for King George V begins at Naval B
August 2047
Research into 300 EP ION drive finished.
While more fuel efficient versions of our destroyers could be designed, they shall be held off to save resources.
Research into reduced fuel consumption 0.7 begins.
