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(Note: The Medusa Class
Battleship was orgionally going to be featured in AOG's Earth Wars supplement, but was deemed too
powerful for the Earth Alliance. I was not involved in the
playtesting of this ship, but I have pieced together what it might have
been like from discussions on the B5W Mailing List. Presented here is an
alternate history for the Medusa, one that doesn't end with her being
destroyed in dock.)
The Medusa Class Battleships were to be the most
powerful vessels the Earth Alliance ever built. Mounting Earthforce's
most powerful weapons, this ship would have been able to single-handedly
defeat most Minbari warships. Had it survived longer than the Battle of
the Line.
The Medusa was to be the epitome of EarthForce technology.
Armed with two of EF's largest weapons per side, and other assorted weapons on the
fore and aft, it was fully capable of destroying virtually
anything short of a First One's vessel. The first and only of her kind was started
shortly before the Earth-Minbari War.
EAS Medusa left spacedock twelve weeks before the
Battle of the Line. She immediately set course for Earth, where it
was determined she would be the most use. Seeing as how she was also
only two thirds complete, the final fitting out would be completed
in Earth orbit. She was completed only three days before the Battle
of the Line. During the battle, she was actually deemed a threat by
the Minbari and was neutron lasered to death by two Shargottis, seven
Sharlins, four Tinashis, and three Tigalins (neutron laser equipped
Tigara variants).
After her destruction, EarthForce decided to concentrate on
the Omega class as their main ship of the line. No more Medusas class were ever
built. The name Medusa was later reassigned to an Omega Class Command Destroyer.
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