Uller Class iteration 1 (Idea: me Concept: Visual Machine) Lore: Due to the continuing threat of Vanduul incursions, discussions about a Militia Mobilization Initiative to counteract the threat started. Which basically meant military grade hardware could be offered for sale to civilian organisations. Some admirals and defense analysts were worried that not only fighters but also larger ships, including capital ships, would be sold to civilians. The Xian ambassador also criticized this. Despite all the critics, the Militia Mobilization Initiative was approved and got in full swing in 2946. Shortly thereafter, Admiral Juno Eclipse decided to take matters in to her own hands, to develop a new kind of ship to provide the means to what she believed would be the fight against pirate gangs and corporations with capital ships in the near future She founded the Special Command 143 of the UEE Navy without the permission of the UEE. Knowing that in an empire the size of the UEE had numerous special and secret departments involved in research and development and no one could have an overview of all of them. She requested financial resources, scientists, engineers and other required hardware. Due to the good contacts she had with the Xian Defense industry, a few clever Xian heads soon joined forces to work on this now joint project. This new ship should be able to handle pretty much anything an enemy fleet can throw at you, but not so much with bigger cannons like the Dreadnought classes, more with a “strength in numbers” philosophy and maneuverability. So far, fights between capital size ships are carried out like sea battles in the 2nd World War with broadside battles and torpedo attacks. The new ship was built to brake with that unwritten rule. Despite its planned size of 120-175m, the new ship should fight more like a fighter in a dogfight and be agile enough to fight off heavy fighters. Research, development and including of Xian technology into a UEE design went extremely well thanks to the hired technicians of MISC, Aegis Dynamics and the cooperation with the Xian. There were 3 prototypes built which were almost finished, but then there was a problem when a request list for showers for the bathrooms was rejected on the grounds that there was no Special Command 143 in the UEE. An investigation was initiated and the whole unsanctioned project was discovered and put on hold. After the Chief of Staff of the UEE Navy saw how far the project had come in 3 years, they let the program continue and finished the 3 prototypes. Admiral Juno Eclipse had to give an account and was demoted to captain. However, after completing the prototypes, she was given command of one of the ships. now officially designated as the Uller class, after the Nordic god of archery. It was followed by numerous system tests and test flights to test the abilities and the whole concept. simulated attacks on varous capital size ship were conducted with success. the ships were either destroyed or rendered incapacitated. Captain Juno Eclipse regained the rank of admiral and was given command of the prototype fleet 3 months later. Next step in the testphase should be a test under real conditions as soon as possible. In the infinite irony of the universe, the first mission was not against pirates but a smaller Vanduul fleet. The 3 prototypes responded to an emergency distress call from the BVS "Tyrolensis", a civilian ship of the Carrack class. out of the [REDACTED] system. During this mission, the 3 Prototypes destroyed several capsized vanduul ships plus their escort. One of the prototypes, 001, was lost, which included the entire crew including Admiral Juno Eclipse. Nevertheless, the project was seen as a success and the production of the Uller class was initiated, as well as upgrades to remove or mitigate detected weaknesses. For example, a point defense gun on the bridge structure was Installed and design changes to the area of the missile silos were done to get the ability to mount different Modules for example Exploration / Mapping, Command & Control or [REDACTED] modules. Buddy and I did a concept together couple years ago by now^^ this is the lower-tec civilian version. it is still WiP. (could use someone with 3d skills to do the high-tec version :-D) the idea was a ship concept very similar to the whitestar from babylon 5 3d concep model https://skfb.ly/6uFuQ