Avalanche Dragon

“Whoa that bullet was the size of the titanic!”

-Grand Alliance pilot commenting on the size of the Avalanche Dragon’s rounds

Classification: Mega siege ships

Length: 1100 meters

Shielding: Aegis plasma shields x 10

Armour thickness: 30 cm of duratanium

Powerplant: 50 x Anti-matter reactors

Top speed: Mach 2

Cruising speed: Mach 1

FTL drive: Yes (multiple uses)

Interdimensional drive: yes

Crew: 500

Weapons:

1 x Dragon class mass driver (10,000 kg round, acceleration to .1C), up to 12 x Dragon class missile pods (nuclear, biological, anti-matter, non nuclear high explosive, etc)

The physical weapon equivalent to the Lightning Dragon, the Avalanche Dragon had the same strength and weaknesses. Able to pound fleets into scraps in seconds this vessel was usually used to bombard planets into submission. Even more slow and lumbering then the Lightning Dragon, the escort fleet had to be that much better.

The main gun fired a massive 10,000 kg round at .1C this was enough force to pound a good portion of a planet into dust. Unfortunately the round had too much penetrating power and when used against fleets it would rip thru ships in a destructive linear path but the damage potential was extremely low. It passed thru ships too fast and did not spread its potential damage over a large area. Thus a round that could have large chunks blasted off of a planet would need an equivalently sturdy ship to do the same. Another bad thing was the 2 minutes charge time to power up the mass driver. The missile pods were the real reasons the Avalanche dragon was used. Able to throw a swarm of capital destroying rounds in seconds it could pound thru armada with little trouble. Or it could turn its destruction on a planet and bomb any opponent back to the Stone Age