Hawking class research ship

Hawking class research ship during research on Teekaha

USRS Hawking

The hangar on USRS Hawking

General facts

Hawking class battleship is a design of a big science ship for service in United Systems Fleet since 2169. It's designed as a very modern ship equipped with advanced on-board laboratories as well as very effective defence systems. It's engines make the ship one of the fastest ships in fleet.

Service History

A project of big and fast research ship appeared in 2164 after a lot of new technologic improvements were introduced during development of the Praeon class battleship. In 2166 the works started. In 2169 the prototype was ready. It's relation to Praeon class is obvious. A few months ago the USRS Hawking came into service. It's great abilities were tested on a scientific mission in Epsilon Eridani system. The defence systems were never used yet, but power of eight automatic medium cannons is expected to be very impressive.

However, the recently finished battleship is amazing achievement in shipbuilding. The only ship of it's class, the USWS Praeon, came into service in 2167 and since then plays important role in Solar system's defence against enemy operations. The most notable action was succesful attack on a lone Deneroth battleship on reconaissance mission deep in the Proxima Centauri sector in 2168.

Ships of the class

USWS Praeon

USWS Pangea (unfinished)

USWS Proton (unfinished)

USWS Pictor (unfinished)

USWS Procyon(unfinished)

USWS Pollux (planned)

USWS Passat (planned)

Specificatons

Length - 870m

Crew - 6140 crewmen

Prototype laid down - 4. march 2160, Earth

Prototype finished - 14. april 2167, Earth

Prototype Commissioned - 2. june 2167

Hangar capacity - 10 small spacecrafts

Armament

2x Krupp GPK-564K automatic heavy particle cannon

24x Narvik AVK-4D automatic medium particle cannon (not functional in Orbiter)

Shields

Shields are powered by a special shield generator in front part of the ship, and held together by series of emmiters and energetic rails along the entire hull. The main advantage of this configuration is shield 's own separated generator. If the ship's main generator fails, the ship still remains partially protected from enemy fire.

DOWNLOAD

The USWS Praeon is now a part of United Systems fleet v1.1 complete package, available at Orbithangar