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The Earth Alliance Nova Dreadnaught, Scaled for Full Thrust! This set lets you deploy 6 dreadnaughts at a cheaper price than buying one at a time.
Each Nova Dreadnought is 65mm long
And now for some fluff.
The Earth Alliance Nova Battlecruiser is the original design basis for the later Omega class destroyer and look like a Earth Alliance Destroyer without the rotating crew section. The first of this class was commissioned fifteen years before the Babylon-5 station came on line. The maiden voyage of one of the very first Nova Class Battleship, was into Minbari space and played a strong role in the tragedy that began the Earth/Minbari war. Until the introduction of the Omega class destroyer, the Nova class was the most powerful ship in the Earth fleet. The ship is also sometimes referred to as a Dreadnought due to the ships size when it is compared to the Roosevelt class heavy Cruiser.
Most of the Nova class battlecruisers were destroyed in the Minbari war but the remaining ships of the class have been heavily upgraded and the ship remaining are still very potent warships able to defeat ships of the same size of many of the other races.
The ships propulsion is by four Ion fusion engines that can put out a good thrust to weight ratio but the ratio is much less than the engines of the Minbari, Centauri, and the races of the Three Galaxies. This is not significant because without inertial dampening systems, high accelerations like those race's ships perform would kill the Nova's crew.
Because the remaining ships of this class have been heavily modified, weapons systems differ markedly between ships of this class. Standard retrofitting of the ship is 44 heavy pulse cannons and 6 particle guns for point defense. This makes the ship weak in terms of point defense but the ship is capable of holding its own against most ships its size. There are other configurations possible, most notably the missile variant. The ship also has an interceptor grid for defense of the ship against weaponry. The interceptor grid fires low powered energy beams to intercept incoming fire and uses electromagnetic fields to disperse energy that is fired at the ships. The interceptor grid also employs a system designed to decoy incoming missiles. The systems is more effective against plasma cannons and pulse cannons (Actually another style of plasma cannon - does not work as efficiently on weapon systems that simply fire in pulses) than the system is on other energy weapons. The system quickly get overloaded though and cannot operate continuously and is not as effective as the shields on Minbari and Centauri ships.
When the Nova Class went into service, the Earth Alliance had not yet perfected the drive shaft design required to build a rotating section on a ship. Thus Battlecruisers (unlike Omega Destroyers) do not have artificial gravity. The whole crew of the ship live in a "zero-gravity" environment. For long terms, this has a degrading effect on the human body. Because of this, these ships have been equipped with a special device referred by the crews as a "ferris wheel". This is a large ring inside the ship that rotates to provide 20 crew members an exercise area in an artificial gravity field produced by the centrifugal force of the rings movement. All crew members are required to spend at least one hour a day exercising in the "ferris wheel"
Each Nova Dreadnought is 65mm long
And now for some fluff.
The Earth Alliance Nova Battlecruiser is the original design basis for the later Omega class destroyer and look like a Earth Alliance Destroyer without the rotating crew section. The first of this class was commissioned fifteen years before the Babylon-5 station came on line. The maiden voyage of one of the very first Nova Class Battleship, was into Minbari space and played a strong role in the tragedy that began the Earth/Minbari war. Until the introduction of the Omega class destroyer, the Nova class was the most powerful ship in the Earth fleet. The ship is also sometimes referred to as a Dreadnought due to the ships size when it is compared to the Roosevelt class heavy Cruiser.
Most of the Nova class battlecruisers were destroyed in the Minbari war but the remaining ships of the class have been heavily upgraded and the ship remaining are still very potent warships able to defeat ships of the same size of many of the other races.
The ships propulsion is by four Ion fusion engines that can put out a good thrust to weight ratio but the ratio is much less than the engines of the Minbari, Centauri, and the races of the Three Galaxies. This is not significant because without inertial dampening systems, high accelerations like those race's ships perform would kill the Nova's crew.
Because the remaining ships of this class have been heavily modified, weapons systems differ markedly between ships of this class. Standard retrofitting of the ship is 44 heavy pulse cannons and 6 particle guns for point defense. This makes the ship weak in terms of point defense but the ship is capable of holding its own against most ships its size. There are other configurations possible, most notably the missile variant. The ship also has an interceptor grid for defense of the ship against weaponry. The interceptor grid fires low powered energy beams to intercept incoming fire and uses electromagnetic fields to disperse energy that is fired at the ships. The interceptor grid also employs a system designed to decoy incoming missiles. The systems is more effective against plasma cannons and pulse cannons (Actually another style of plasma cannon - does not work as efficiently on weapon systems that simply fire in pulses) than the system is on other energy weapons. The system quickly get overloaded though and cannot operate continuously and is not as effective as the shields on Minbari and Centauri ships.
When the Nova Class went into service, the Earth Alliance had not yet perfected the drive shaft design required to build a rotating section on a ship. Thus Battlecruisers (unlike Omega Destroyers) do not have artificial gravity. The whole crew of the ship live in a "zero-gravity" environment. For long terms, this has a degrading effect on the human body. Because of this, these ships have been equipped with a special device referred by the crews as a "ferris wheel". This is a large ring inside the ship that rotates to provide 20 crew members an exercise area in an artificial gravity field produced by the centrifugal force of the rings movement. All crew members are required to spend at least one hour a day exercising in the "ferris wheel"
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