Earth Alliance Aleph Class Battleship (EAS Atlantia pictured) (EAS Pacifica, left, on manuevers with EAS Numbers) Aleph Class History The Aleph was built as a quick response to the appearance of Alpha Class Battleships within the Army of Light's Liberation Fleet. After the encounter at Argos Station, President Clark's regime needed a battleship of their own to counter the new threat. The Warlock was deemed to experimental and unreliable as a prototype to mass produce yet, but an idea surfaced when a Nova Class Dreadnought pulled up alongside a Poseidon class supercarrier. The thought was to build a long endurance Nova variant using a Poseidon's rotating section. As the design progressed, other structural changes were needed to enable the ship to handle the increased stress due to the new rotating section. A Poseidon class drive section was added to enhance the ships mameuverability. The resulting ship was more than a match for any unlucky Alpha class ship that happened to stumble onto it. It was armed with six forward and four aft HLPA's, two forward and four side mounted LPA's, four SPB's, six MK II ints, and four Heavy Interceptors. She also carried two squadrons of Thunderbolts. The only recorded fighting between an Aleph and an Alpha before the war ended occured at the Wolf system, when the Alpha Class Battleship EAS Dueteronomy jumped in with her escorts and encountered the Aleph Class EAS Galactica. The two battleships attempted to square off one on one numerous times, but their escorts kept getting in the way. After about two hours of circling, the two adversaries finally exchanged volleys. The Dueteronomy took the brunt of the exchange, with continued sniping from the Galactica's escorts, and would have been lost had her sistership, EAS Genesis, not jumped in and rammed the Galactica. Both the Genesis and the Galactica were lost in the battle. A total of twelve ships were built before the Warlock was given the green light to go ahead with full production. Five survived to see Babylon 5 decomissioned. Aleph Class (Alpha Model) SCS