Sovereign Light - Class Advanced Cruiser
Incredibly powerful cruiser of the Hyperion Federation. The Sovereign Light class operates on a much higher energy level than other ships made with λ High-Energy Technology, and requires that level of technology at minimum to work.
It has a special module slot allowing it to become equipped with auxiliary generators, cloaking devices or Subspatial Starship technology.
Extremely fast and agile, while still maintaining a strong shield and armament, they have become a symbol of the Federation and the ingenuity of its armed forces.
They are very rarely seen however due to its running and production costs. They need a lot of energy to operate, but the real expense is the fact that it uses precursor archaeotech in its construction. While it makes use of several extremely advanced perpetual motion machines, the HF still barely understands that technology. Although they can only extract a tiny fraction of its true potential, it still easily exceeds antimatter annihilation cores.
The Sovereign Light, though extremely rare, has been known to change the outcome of entire battles by laying down very heavy fire on enemies or just providing a platform for exceptionally effective ewar. When its spinally mounted photon cannon is overclocked, it can punch very high above its weight class, even destroying ships several times its own size. Because of this, and its rarity, the mere prescence of the Sovereign Light can bolster morale significantly. Due to this, as well as typical HF military propaganda, the Sovereign Light has become quite iconic to the various cultures of the federation. This also makes them a high priority target by the enemy though, and would as such require escorts to battle with full effectiveness.
As the HF understanding of archaeotech improves, so does the performance they can gain from the Sovereign Light. Due to the use of perpetual motion machines, a Sovereign Light is relatively inexpensive to operate apart from when archaeotech is damaged and needs to be repaired. The immense rarity of archaeotech prevents many Sovereign Lights being made.
It is armed with some larger turret hardpoints around its midsection, with larger High Energy Turret Hardpoints at the frontal midsection (and underneath), as well as another 4 on the side of the midsection. The ship can easily engage enemies in any direction in this way. The ship also has a larger number of smaller turrets on the frontal section, 4 on each 'shard', and can target enemies in all directions except significantly backwards. The rest of the ships non spinal armament are mounted on the engine bays, which each carry 9 much smaller turrets (totaling to 18) which are normally used for support and defence roles such as for disc shields, ewar or CIWS turrets. It also has the large, powerful Starlight Energy Chisel which fires an extremely powerful beam of light through the center of the ship, able to cripple otherwise dangerous targets.
The lead ship of the Sovereign Light class, T.S. Sovereign Light, has one of the highest kill counts of any HF ship within its approximate weight class, excluding very experienced freelancers such as S.R.I.A. The crew have received many awards and the HF military even considered making an Ultra-Accelerative version of the Sovereign Light - class, but this idea was shelved as the aquatic species are more skilled at using ships like the Hyperluminal - Class Heavy Destroyer. The Sovereign Light has a fairly significant crew requirement because of its complex geometry and many turrets. A number of redundant crew members are also often kept as archaeotech is very expensive to replace.
They are very rarely seen however due to its running and production costs. They need a lot of energy to operate, but the real expense is the fact that it uses precursor archaeotech in its construction. While it makes use of several extremely advanced perpetual motion machines, the HF still barely understands that technology. Although they can only extract a tiny fraction of its true potential, it still easily exceeds antimatter annihilation cores.
The Sovereign Light, though extremely rare, has been known to change the outcome of entire battles by laying down very heavy fire on enemies or just providing a platform for exceptionally effective ewar. When its spinally mounted photon cannon is overclocked, it can punch very high above its weight class, even destroying ships several times its own size. Because of this, and its rarity, the mere prescence of the Sovereign Light can bolster morale significantly. Due to this, as well as typical HF military propaganda, the Sovereign Light has become quite iconic to the various cultures of the federation. This also makes them a high priority target by the enemy though, and would as such require escorts to battle with full effectiveness.
As the HF understanding of archaeotech improves, so does the performance they can gain from the Sovereign Light. Due to the use of perpetual motion machines, a Sovereign Light is relatively inexpensive to operate apart from when archaeotech is damaged and needs to be repaired. The immense rarity of archaeotech prevents many Sovereign Lights being made.
It is armed with some larger turret hardpoints around its midsection, with larger High Energy Turret Hardpoints at the frontal midsection (and underneath), as well as another 4 on the side of the midsection. The ship can easily engage enemies in any direction in this way. The ship also has a larger number of smaller turrets on the frontal section, 4 on each 'shard', and can target enemies in all directions except significantly backwards. The rest of the ships non spinal armament are mounted on the engine bays, which each carry 9 much smaller turrets (totaling to 18) which are normally used for support and defence roles such as for disc shields, ewar or CIWS turrets. It also has the large, powerful Starlight Energy Chisel which fires an extremely powerful beam of light through the center of the ship, able to cripple otherwise dangerous targets.
The lead ship of the Sovereign Light class, T.S. Sovereign Light, has one of the highest kill counts of any HF ship within its approximate weight class, excluding very experienced freelancers such as S.R.I.A. The crew have received many awards and the HF military even considered making an Ultra-Accelerative version of the Sovereign Light - class, but this idea was shelved as the aquatic species are more skilled at using ships like the Hyperluminal - Class Heavy Destroyer. The Sovereign Light has a fairly significant crew requirement because of its complex geometry and many turrets. A number of redundant crew members are also often kept as archaeotech is very expensive to replace.
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