Destroyers

Tau Class Light Destroyer
Gamma Class Light Destroyer
Barracuda Class Light Destroyer
Corvus Corax Class Light Destroyer
Hyperion-R Class Medium Destroyer
Merr-Sonn Class Medium Attack Destroyer
Omega Class Medium Destroyer
Horus Class Medium Destroyer
Mars Class Heavy Destroyer
Omega-R MkII Class Heavy Destroyer
Killer Class Heavy Destroyer

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Gamma Class Light Destroyer
Engines: Three heavy impulse engines, several small impulse engines.
FTL drive: Jump drive MkII medium version.
Size length: 280 m
Size Width: 110 m
Armor: Poor capital ship armor.
Weapons: Ten Incinerator Beams, 17 light Incinerator Beams and two torpedo launchers.
Shields: Energy shields 20 000.
Special Equipment: None.
Fighters: 8 fighters.
Max. crew: 1 800
Norm. Crew: 400
Min. crew: 2
Cargo space: 30 m³
Capable of landing to planet: Yes.
Capable of atmospheric flight: Yes.
Reactors: One large Antimatter reactor and one large fusion reactor.
Info: Gamma is more like an upgraded version of the Tau destroyer. Gamma is faster and more maneuverable than Tau, but has little lesser weaponry, though does have quiet a lot of weaponry compared to its size. Gammas came into use during the Dominion war, to make smaller, faster, but still almost as powerful ship as the Tau. Gammas totally replaced Taus in the Lightness war. In the Lightness war Gammas served as a multi-role ship, sometimes they were used as a fighter killers, sometimes attack ships, sometimes defense ship and so on. Lots of Gammas were destroyed in the war, still many survived from it as well. Gammas have also been seen in the past conflicts, most notably in the GA-IPA conflict. Several Gammas destroyed and disabled several IPA outposts. Gammas are currently one of the main light capital ships in the GA military.

Here's picture of Gamma.

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Barracuda Class Light Destroyer
Engines: Two heavy impulse engines.
FTL drive: Jump drive MkII medium version.
Size length: 260 m
Size Width: 70 m
Armor: Poor capital ship armor.
Weapons: Two heavy Incinerator Beam, Eight medium Incinerator Beams, 12 light Incinerator Beams and two torpedo launchers.
Shields: Energy shields 30 000.
Special Equipment: None.
Fighters: None.
Max. crew: 4 000
Norm. Crew: 400
Min. crew: 2
Cargo space: 27 m³
Capable of landing to planet: Yes.
Capable of atmospheric flight: Yes.
Reactors: One large Antimatter reactor and one large fusion reactor.
Info: Barracuda is very old design. First Barracudas were introduced before the H'Vos war, so they are REALLY old. Several of them served in the Gorg war, but already there they started to become lesser used. Then again in the Dominion war, lots of Barracudas were used and lots of them were destroyed as well. In the H'Vos war, Barracudas played a great role, but in the wars after that, their role has become smaller and smaller and nowadays they are no longer used at all. Few have been converted into a museums; explaining the events that occurred during the war. Last Barracudas were either decommissioned or destroyed in the Lightness war. No Barracudas remain in active service anymore.

Here's a picture of Barracuda.

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Corvus Corax Class Light Destroyer
Engines: Four heavy impulse engines.
FTL drive: Jump drive MkI heavy version.
Size length: 560 m
Size Width: 130 m
Armor: Good capital ship armor.
Weapons: Five heavy Incinerator Beam, 16 medium Incinerator Beams, 30 light Incinerator Beams and two torpedo launchers.
Shields: Energy shields 65 000.
Special Equipment: None.
Fighters: 50 fighters.
Max. crew: 8 000
Norm. Crew: 700
Min. crew: 10
Cargo space: 50 m³
Capable of landing to planet: Yes.
Capable of atmospheric flight: Yes.
Reactors: Two large Antimatter reactors and one large fusion reactor.
Info: Corvus Corax is quite new ship actually, it was designed to be more powerful than the Tau, but still not to be too big or too slow. Corvus Corax has more weapons, better shielding, more fighters and better armor than the Tau, it's also a little faster and more maneuverable than the Tau destroyer. Still Gammas are used more than these, probably because Gammas are faster and smaller than the Corvus Coraxs. Corvus Coraxs were first introduced in the Lightness war. They had been mass produced before it so there were quite many of them when the war begun. They proved to be valuable asset to the Gigerdi Alliance and earned their place in the GA fleet. Even that they didn't become so widely used they still became more used than the Taus. After the war, more were built and pretty a lot of these ships were seen in the GA-IPA conflict, many of them were disabled as well. Corvus Coraxs are nowadays used most to patrol GA's borders, mostly because these ships have really advanced sensors, which have very long range as well.

Here's a picture of Corvus Corax.

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Hyperion-R Class Medium Destroyer
Engines: Four heavy impulse engines.
FTL drive: Jump drive MkI heavy version.
Size length: 2 km
Size Width: 400 m
Armor: Average capital ship armor.
Weapons: Three heavy pulse cannons, six heavy Incinerator Beams, 20 medium Incinerator Beams, 50 light Incinerator Beams, three missile launchers and six torpedo launchers.
Shields: Energy shields 260 500.
Special Equipment: Advanced sensors, cloak detectors and mine sweepers.
Fighters: 85 fighters.
Max. crew: 19 000
Norm. Crew: 2 100
Min. crew: 100
Cargo space: 400 m³
Capable of landing to planet: No.
Capable of atmospheric flight: No.
Reactors: Three large Antimatter reactors and three large fusion reactors.
Info: Hyperion-R Class, or maybe better know as the Hyperion-Rho Class destroyer, is quite new design. GA research& exploration wanted to make a more powerful version of the Hyperion class, but still remain the same hull design, just add more space. Hyperion-Rhos are a lot more powerful and bigger than the original Hyperions, but might be a bit more slower and less maneuverable. Hyperion-R didn't go straight into service, but went into a test phase first to prove that they are worth of becoming one of the destroyers in the GA military. They went through a secret test phase, but it couldn't prove how would they perform in real combat situations. First situation to test these ships came when the GA-IPA conflict started, only about five of these had been built at that time. Hyperion-Rhos did perform well in the GA-IPA conflict. They still yet weren't able to go to active service, even that it was really close that they would have gone. Then next time they were seen in battle when was the attack to Emissary control world, and about 10 Hyperion-Rhos had been built at that time. After that they went into active service, though not much of these ships have been built more will come soon. Hyperion-Rhos main job seems to be assisting Omega-Rhos because Hyperion-Rhos are faster and more maneuverable.

Here is picture of Hyperion-R class destroyer.

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Merr-Sonn Class Medium Attack Destroyer
Max. Crew: 1040
Min. Crew: 500
Length: 835 m
Weapons: Seven photon pulse turrets, one rail-gun launcher, Two capital ships missile launchers, four light laser turrets, two energy mine launchers, one medium meson gun.
Shields: 80 000
Special Equipment: None.
Fighters: None.
Cargo space: 100 m³
Capable of landing to planet: No.
Capable of atmospheric flight: No.
Info: The Merr-sonn destroyer was created during the border disputes between the Gigerdi Empire(Official government) and the Independent Gigerdian Federation (Independent state) at the end of the first Gigerdi civil war. The creator was the defected gigerdian ship designer Gerlus Devook who helped Kyle(the leader of the independent state) Gigerdi to bring their fleets up to date. The results were good, but one of the biggest one was the Merr-sonn class medium destroyer. It carried a lot of troops and equipment for a medium scale planetary invasion, these ships were deployed into the borders within the months and years. The ship also had a lot of cargo space for other needful equipment, it also stood it’s ground against several dominion invasion’s at a time. The primary energy source for the ship is a A-59 fusion reactor with a maximum generating output of 3,6 terawatts. Like most of the old GA military ships, the Merr-sonn uses a dry fusion plant. The basic fuel for the plant is a crystalline powder form of lithium hydride(LiH) the basic gravity of the fuel is 0,82 metric tons per cubic meter, making it extremely space efficient, avoiding the problems of cryogenic storage associated with civilian reactors fueled by heavy hydrogen isotopes such as deuterium and tritium. There were only a few of the Merr-sonns built, in fact only 93 of them were destroyed during the Dominion war and the rest of them were accepted into the GA fleets when it was formed. The Hephaestus republic acquired one of the older Merr-sonns recently and have begun to modify it to their needs.

Here's a picture of Merr-Sonn in space.

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Omega Class Medium Destroyer
Max. Crew: 550
Min. Crew: 130
Length: 820 m
Weapons: 12 Fix mounted pulse cannons, six medium pulse cannons, four particle beam cannons at front and at aft and Interceptor grid.
Shields: 65 000
Special Equipment: Only rotating section has gravity.
Fighters: 33 Fighters.
Cargo space: 70 m³
Capable of landing to planet: No.
Capable of atmospheric flight: No.
Info: The Omega class destroyers were also one of the many ships introduced at the beginning of the Third bacterian war. The Omega had a new (Or pretty new) rotating section which created the gravity to the ship. It was one of the many classes used in the Bacterian front in the war which was a good idea to do. Because of the Bacterians lack of strategic skills the Huge destroyers took several Bacterian ships with them when they were destroyed, the Omegas were supreme! After the Bacterian war the Omegas were used in the second Gigerdian civil war and finally in the Lightness war. There were at least 500 000 Omegas built, but all the recent conflicts have reduced the amount to mere 250 000 omegas and still dropping… The Omegas main weapons were particle beams located at front and aft of the ship. It also had several pulse cannons in it's defensive arsenal and an interceptor grid against swarms of Bacterian fighters. The Omega used the Hyperspace drive as its jump drive and ion engines as its other propulsion system. There are still some Omegas left, but pretty soon they won't be a part of the alliance's ship arsenal.

Here's picture of Omega in space.

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Horus Class Medium Destroyer
Engines: Four heavy impulse engines.
FTL drive: Jump drive MkI heavy version.
Size length: 2,5 km
Size Width: 625 m
Armor: Average capital ship armor.
Weapons: 10 heavy Incinerator Beams, 35 medium Incinerator Beams, 65 light Incinerator Beams, three missile launchers and three torpedo launchers.
Shields: Energy shields 300 000.
Special Equipment: None.
Fighters: 80 fighters.
Max. crew: 15 000
Norm. Crew: 2 400
Min. crew: 20
Cargo space: 400 m³
Capable of landing to planet: No.
Capable of atmospheric flight: No.
Reactors: Two large Antimatter reactors and three large fusion reactors.
Info: Horus is quite new design, which has been designed only for combat purposes. First Horuses were introduced in the Lightness war, though the ship itself wasn't designed to fight only against Lightness, but to possible new threats that GA might encounter, Lightness just happened to be the first. Horus had extremely heavy weaponry, good shielding and quite good speed and maneuverability so it was an excellent combat vessel. The bad side with Horus is that it has quite bad long range sensors, which doesn't make it so good patrol ship or scout ship. In the past conflicts Horus has played quite big role, several of them were at the Gigerdi Prime when the Emissaries attacked and few of them were also destroyed there. Horuses have earned their place in the GA fleet and are used as one of the GA's destroyers.

Here's a picture of Horus.

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Mars Class Heavy Destroyer
Engines: Eight heavy impulse engines.
FTL drive: Jump drive MkII heavy version.
Size length: 4 km
Size width: 1,4 km
Armor: Good capital ship armor.
Weapons: 15 heavy Incinerator Beams, 50 medium Incinerator Beams, 90 light Incinerator Beams, 20 medium pulse cannons, 120 small turrets, 70 light pulse cannons, 15 missile launchers and 8 torpedo launchers.
Shields: Energy shield 400 000.
Special Equipment: Advanced sensors, mine laying capabilities and point-defense systems.
Fighters: 20 fighters.
Max. crew: 38 000.
Norm. Crew: 5 000
Min. crew: 900
Cargo space: 600 m³
Capable of landing to planet: Yes.
Capable of atmospheric flight: Yes.
Reactors: Three large Antimatter reactors and Four large fusion reactors.
Info: Mars Class is also a new addition to the GA military fleet. It has been modified quite a lot from the Human Steamrunner class. Mars Class was designed to fight against Lightness, even that two Mars class vessels were already built during the Dominion war, however they were weaker than the current versions. Mars is really powerful ship and has only been meant to serve as a warship. Mars classes are one of the most powerful destroyers currently in service, but even that they are really tough and have excellent firepower they are not so much used, currently there's about 30 Mars Class destroyers in the GA military. Mars class is also even quite fast and quite maneuverable. In the Lightness war only about seven Mars classes were seen and even those proved that the Mars class is a formidable warship that can resist even Lightness vessels. In the GA-IPA conflict lots of Mars class destroyers were destroyed, about 20 of them were destroyed and about 29 came out of the war alive, some of those had a lot of damage though. Later Mars hasn't been seen in any of the other conflicts, but might be seen in the future wars and conflicts.

Here's a picture of Mars.

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Omega-R MkII Class Heavy Destroyer
Engines: Four Heavy impulse engines.
FTL drive: Jump drive MkII heavy version.
Size length: 4 km.
Size width: 1,6 km.
Armor: Average capital ship armor.
Weapons: Two heavy pulse cannons front and two at back, eight heavy Incinerator Beams, 35 medium Incinerator Beams, 50 light Incinerator Beams, Four heavy particle disrupters, Four missile launchers, Eight torpedo launchers.
Shields: Energy shields 420 000.
Special Equipment: Advanced sensors, mine sweepers, cloak detector and sensor jammers.
Fighters: 100 fighters.
Max. crew: 30 000
Norm. Crew: 5 100
Min. crew: 1 000
Cargo space: 700 m³
Capable of landing to planet: No.
Capable of atmospheric flight: Yes.
Reactors: Two large Antimatter reactors and three large fusion reactors.
Info: Omega-Rho MkII class is quite new design. The MkI version of it wasn't the kind of ship that the GA research & exploration wanted so they decided to do a MkII version of it. The MkI later became the Hyperion-Rho class. Omega-Rho class is more powerful than the original Omega or the Hyperion-Rho. Omega-Rho class first came out after the Lightness war for testing phase. Omega-Rhos were then first seen in the GA-IPA conflict, where about five of them were seen. Omega-Rho when straight after that to active service, but Hyperion-Rho still had to stay in the testing phase. Omega-Rho has the heavy pulse cannons, which are extremely powerful, but require a lot of energy to fire them. Omega-Rho also no longer has the "rotating section" which the original Omegas had to provide gravity. Currently only about 11 Omega-Rhos are in service, but it is predicted that more will come into service soon.

Here is picture of Omega-R MkII destroyer .