Pestiscidium class Raider 12 000 tons 445 Crew 3915. 65 BP TCS 240 TH 2520 EM 0
10500 km/s Armour 1-46 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 4 PPV 36
Maint Life 1. 03 Years MSP 816 AFR 288% IFR 4% 1YR 765 5YR 11482 Max Repair 461 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 6 months Spare Berths 0
Taiga Amazonas Turbo-840 Ion Drive (3) Power 840 Fuel Use 145. 85% Signature 840 Exp 17%
Fuel Capacity 1385000 Litres Range 14. 2 billion km (15 days at full power)
Instituto Angra AP-9 mod. 1 (4) Range 150 000km TS: 10500 km/s Power 22-4 ROF 30 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
Sistemas Campos CT-307200/10 (4) Max Range: 614 400 km TS: 10000 km/s 98 97 95 93 92 90 89 87 85 84
Instituto Angra Microreator 20t 2. 07 (8 ) Total Power Output 16. 56 Armour 0 Exp 12%
Narvais Sensor Ativo 80-16S8 (1) GPS 800 Range 20. 2m km Resolution 10
ECCM-3 (1) ECM 20
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
The original design, made to confront hundreds of biomechanical abominations swarming across Alpha Centauri by hopefully outrunning and outranging them with particle beams, had a tragic and short-lived existence. Back when it was designed, the Imperium had a relatively small population and lacked the infrastructure to confront such a threat with even numbers of ships, and likewise had no technology to develop space fighters yet, nor time to build enough missiles or even an iota of R&D for such, thus superior range beam weapons and superior speed were the only options. The only Pestiscidium ever created proved to too slow to outrun the swarms of xenos it could outrange but never outgun, and was wiped out with no survivors. Perhaps it was luck these aliens did not try to invade Sol after that, but a response was quickly set up as research continued to find a solution and clear the Alpha Centauri system for colonization. It had no armor because it didn't take long for the Imperium to realize these aliens had weapons that made any armor obsolete, a feature all successors designed specifically against such threat would share. Its sacrifice was not in vain, for it gave the knowledge of how much speed a ship needed to outrun such things, and that would be even more expensive in terms of fuel with Ion engines, resulting in the following successor design:
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Pestis Excidium class Space Bug Purger 12 000 tons 503 Crew 3644. 65 BP TCS 240 TH 2880 EM 0
12000 km/s Armour 0-0 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 4 PPV 54
Maint Life 0. 93 Years MSP 759 AFR 288% IFR 4% 1YR 817 5YR 12261 Max Repair 480 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 1 months Spare Berths 2
Taiga Amazonas Turbo-960 Ion Drive (3) Power 960 Fuel Use 203. 65% Signature 960 Exp 20%
Fuel Capacity 1 305 000 Litres Range 9. 6 billion km (9 days at full power)
Instituto Angra AP-9 mod. 1 (6) Range 150 000km TS: 12000 km/s Power 22-4 ROF 30 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
Sistemas Campos CT-307200/10 (3) Max Range: 614400 km TS: 10000 km/s 98 97 95 93 92 90 89 87 85 84
Instituto Angra Microreator 20t 2. 07 (1) Total Power Output 2. 07 Armour 0 Exp 12%
Instituto Angra Microreator 30t 3. 105 (7) Total Power Output 21. 73 Armour 0 Exp 12%
Narvais Sensor Ativo 80-16S8 (1) GPS 800 Range 20. 2m km Resolution 10
ECM 20
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
The first truly successful warship of the Imperium, with over forty decades of History, the Pestis Excidium remains in active service by 2020 as a Liturgia Ex Malleus class warship after many refits and modernizations. It wiped out the swarms of aliens in Alpha Centauri in an epic battle, culminating with the crew of the Pestis Excidium facing death very closely when the alien mothership surprised them with spare swarm crafts in its hangar which quickly got in range to shoot it before it could pull back, when it was trying whittle down very powerful shields. It survived, wiped out all small alien crafts and emerged back to Sol with the realization of one shortcoming in its role: it could purge the smaller space bugs given enough time by outrunning and outranging them, but it could not overcome the shields of their mothership. Thus a relatively quick refit after some intense R&D finally gave birth to the immediate predecessor of the Liturgia Ex Malleus:
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Pestis Decimationis class Space Bug Purger 12 000 tons 254 Crew 2904. 58 BP TCS 240 TH 2880 EM 0
12000 km/s Armour 0-0 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 3 PPV 63
Maint Life 0. 52 Years MSP 492 AFR 354% IFR 4. 9% 1YR 950 5YR 14250 Max Repair 480 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 0. 5 months Spare Berths 4
Taiga Amazonas Turbo-960 Ion Drive (3) Power 960 Fuel Use 203. 65% Signature 960 Exp 20%
Fuel Capacity 1 352 000 Litres Range 10. 0 billion km (9 days at full power)
Instituto Angra AP-9 mod. 1 (6) Range 150 000km TS: 12000 km/s Power 22-4 ROF 30 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
Eletronbras MAP-90km Microwave (3) Range 90 000km TS: 12000 km/s Power 3-3 RM 9 ROF 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
Sistemas Campos CT-307200/10 (1) Max Range: 614 400 km TS: 10000 km/s 98 97 95 93 92 90 89 87 85 84
Instituto Angra Microreator 30t 3. 105 (10) Total Power Output 31. 05 Armour 0 Exp 12%
Instituto Angra Microreator 20t 2. 07 (1) Total Power Output 2. 07 Armour 0 Exp 12%
Narvais Sensor Ativo 80-16S8 (1) GPS 800 Range 20. 2m km Resolution 10
ECCM-3 (1) ECM 20
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
With this refit, the Pestis Excidium microwaved the shields of the Alien Mothership, its fire controls and sensors, crushed it with particle beams, then liberated Alpha Centauri at last, wiping out about ten times its own tonnage in hostiles. Over forty decades later it still is considered the greatest warship of Terra, with a matching hunger for fuel. Its latest form is also very effective in point defense against missile focused threats and five of such vessels triumphed against such menaces, speed compensating the lack of turrets (the turret tracking speed tech of the Imperium Amazonensis remains very outdated)