Earth Alliance Delta Class High Endurance Cruiser EAS Knox and EAS Commander pictured Delta Class History The Delta Class had its roots in the project that gave birth to the Omega Destroyer and Poseidon Supercarrier. These ships were designed to meet the requirement that if the Hyperion was to be replaced as the workhorse of EarthForce by the Omege, something had to replace the ancient Oracles that were still used for patrol duties. A smaller ship than the Omega was desired, considering the Omega suffered from standard EA maneuverability. The Delta had a rotating section like the Omega, except smaller, with most of the mass at the end of two rotating arms. She was equiped with two, eight ship hangars on either side (p/s) of the ship (six fighters, two shuttles), two forward MLC's, two forward MPC's, two additional MPC's per side, and four SPB's, this small Capital ship could dish out as much punishment as the average raider she was designed to run into could through at her. Unfortunately, the ELINT abilities of the Oracle could never be sucessfully integrated into her sensor array, so this ship became every anti-raider captain's dream to command, ie, almost guranteed to never engage heavier, main line ships due to the ship's other flaw of thin armor (by EA standards, of course). This ship would have had an unremarkable career, had it not been for the Shadow War, EA Civil War, Telepath War, and Drahk War. The ship eventually did get used in fleet to fleet engagements, and did fairly well, until a larger capital ship noticed how easy they were to destroy. (This ships is based on the Jovian Chronicles "Poseidon" Class Battleship. I saw the mini and just had to have one, er, two for the EA.) Delta Class (Alpha Model) SCS