Earth Alliance Phalanx Class Battleship Phalanx Class History (See Dan Foxman's page for the history of the whole class) After the success of the Alpha thru Delta models, Earthforce decided to try and get one more bit of life out of the venerable hull. Unlike the Abel class Battleships which were all destroyed during the Earth-Minbari War, a handful of Phalanxes survived. "Survived" is really misrepresenting the actual condition of the majority of the vessels. They had been attacked and left for dead by the Minbari. The ships usually had thier engines and reactors disabled, if the hull managed to not buckle under Minbari Neutron lasers. Most of these vessels were repariable, however. Only one Beta variant, the EAS Sweden, survived the war intact. It was en route to the Battle of the Line and got lost in Hyperspace. It was able to jump back into normal space and find its way home, however. The Epsilon variant was created as a final refit for the survivors of the class to allow them to function at least into the late 2260's when it was thought that the Medusa II Class Battleships were to be in production (The Medusa II was cancelled in 2257). In order to make the new design easier to build, the box structure aft of the "sail" was removed, as most of the ships that were left had that area removed after damage usually sustainged to is during the E-M war. The first Epsilon variant, the EAS Canada, slipped its moorings on 25 September 2256. Phalanx Class SCS (Epsilon model)