League of Non-Alligned Worlds Brakiri Tamunchkat Class Battleship Tamunchkat Class History (Note: This design may have been a joke to SJM, who initially came up with the idea on the B5Wars online forums, but I thought it was well thought out and deserved an SCS to be created. I present his description word for word.) From careful observation (spying) of the Minbari, Ly-Nakir Industries was able to obtain (steal) information on the Sheneleth class battleship. Im-Rehsa Technologies, always on the cutting edge of Brakiri technology, was able to purchase this information from a high ranking Ly-Nakir Director (blackmail). What they obtained greatly disturbed them. Looking around they saw the Vree slowly churning out the new, massive Xonn Dreadnought, and the EA was building some super ship for the ISA. The Directorship then looked at their own race's contribution to the dreadnought/battleship class. They did not like what they saw. As one Director put it "Those twits over at Ak-Habil reached for grandeur and ended up with a giant piece of space junk!" As far as they were concerned, they were the laughing stock of the League. The Directorship was determined to change this. Their goal was to turn out a new, more powerful battleship that actually was reliable and could be counted on when it was needed. First they compared Ak-Habil's Avioki class cruiser to the Corumai class dreadnought. They then looked at the deficiencies of the Corumai class. 1. It was slow. 2. Anti-fighter defense was poor at best. 3. It was ugly. 4. It had a severe power shortage. 5. It had no fighters. 6. It was really ugly. Im-Rehsa decided to build a class off battleship based off of their highly successful Tashkat class advanced cruiser. This new class would be christened the Tamunchkat class advanced battleship. The Tashkat was fast, extremely maneuverable and mounted a wide array of cutting edge technology. But one thing it lacked was fighter capacity. The Directorship looked at other race's heavy warships and came to the conclusion that including fighters would increase this ship's combat potential significantly. The only problem was all Brakiri fighters and carriers are made by Ly-Nakir Industries. So the head director of Im-Rehsa called up the head of Ly-Nakir and struck a deal. The Ly-Nakir would let the Im-Rehsa use some of their fighters, and in exchange Im-Rehsa would contribute money and resources to help rebuild Ly-Nakir's Cidikar shipyards, which were destroyed during the League Wars. Another problem was power. No problem there, as Im-Rehsa is also responsible for construction of the massive Ishtaka Techbases. Borrowing from the design sketches of the Ishtaka, they designed a new, bigger, more powerful reactor to go on their ship. And while they were ransacking the plans for the Ishtaka, they decided to borrow the general design of the bases's awesome grav shield, and improved upon the shield carried by the Tashkat. Another bonus was sensors. Im-Rehsa also makes the Shakara class scout cruiser. Because of the power available and the sheer size of the new ship, they were able to upgrade the Tashkat's sensor array. Unlike the morons at Ak-Habil, they weren't going to make their battleship less armored than their cruiser. They were going to improve on it. And finally they came to weaponry. Comparing the Avioki to the Corumai we see the following: Avioki: 4 Graviton beams 4 Graviton pulsars Corumai: 9 Graviton beams 5 graviton pulsars That an increase of 125% for heavy weapons and 25% for light weapons. The Tashkat has: 5 Graviton beam 4 Graviton pulsars 3 Gravitic shifters So they decided to do the following: 5 GB +125% = 11 GB (wee!) 4 GP +50% = 6 GP (+25% just blows) 3 GShift + 1/3 = 4 GShift and they decided to put on 6 grav cannons because it seems we have to have medium weapons and the grav cannon just rocks. From comparing the Avi's structure to the Corumai we get the following: Front: +50% Sides: ~+42% Aft: +50% Primary: ~+48% Armor we added two to everywhere (compared to the Tashkat). Comparing the Avi to Corumai for movement, we seem to get the Corumai as being one step worse in everything. So we'll do that for the battleship (compared to the Tashkat). Update: It is unknown if this ship was ever completed. Tamunchkat Class SCS