Earth Alliance Browning Class Heavy Escort Browning Class History The Browning was an attempt to build a ship with as many heavy interceptors on it as possible. The proposed version at one time had as many as 24 heavy ints and 6 LPA’s on board. After the apparently possessed project manager was removed from the planning meeting, it was decided to attempt to build a ship with 8 heavy ints, a number of SPB’s, and two of the AEGIS pods that were beginning to see deployment aboard the Hyperion Lambda. The proposed design underwent heavy simulation. The heavy ints could not be properly targeted or fired with the AEGIS pods on in the simulation. (A strange quirk that the engineering staff could never explain other than “I dunno.”) The design was shelved again and redesigned into the Beta model. The Beta model saw the removal of the AEGIS pods, as well as two of the heavy ints. The resulting ship, while able to fire its remaining heavy ints effectively, now was basically superfluous in its role as escort. There were many other vessels that could do the role, at much less cost. The ship would have managed to draw fire from the Poseidons it was assigned to escort, but was unable to provide adequate escort. No Brownings were ever completed, though one hull was laid down, later scrapped. (Note: This design was one of "Grand Inquisitor Dask's" and it's on CanisD's site. He never made an SCS for it, so I decided to finally make one up. My version probably differs from what he originally had in mind. The picture for the ship can be found on Wolf's Shipyards.) Browning Class SCS (Proposed model) Browning Class SCS (Alpha model) Browning Class SCS (Beta model)