Red Dragon Prototype

Red Dragon Prototype

Union Space ship - One of a kind - No Class designation assigned

Length 423 m Width: 120 Height: 123 m

Max Acc: 600 km/sec Max Translight: 31,000 X SoL Range: 4200 Li

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Every decade or so and ever since the Union existed, a design challenge is made by Union Fleet procurement for a new prototype: Any class, any specialization and anyone can participate. While it is a famous Union School class activity where school kids design the next Battle ship and send in their results to a panel of Fleet Engineers for a prize and a trophy, companies also participate and hope their new ship is picked for a Union Fleet contract. Also Union Fleet Design bureaus and experimental engineering groups participate.

DeNoir hoping to break the SII and Enroe dominance at Union purchases went all out in producing a single Cruiser sized ship. They opted for a smaller type so they could use the project resources for systems and quality. After 9 years of tightly guarded development and research they presented the Red Dragon Cruiser Prototype at the Design Challenge of 4940. The ship was the first using foamed Ultronit Lattice frame, vibration absorbing Ultronit / Ceramic compound armor plating. The ship had improved Attikan Engines and was armed with the latest DeNoir Exocet 89 Ship to Ship missiles, 8 x triple barrel Quon Plasma-Tunnel Cannons  and a Kilo Load Long Range Translocator Canon with fast feed magazine.

The Red Dragon not only competed against the SII FIRMIR and the Enroe Galactic Eagle, but due to the secrecy that prevented other departments to know about the Red Dragon, against their very own De Noir Phobos Heavy Destroyer.

The Fleet ordered 200,000 Galactic Eagles, 200,000 Firmir but the Navy liked the Phobos so much they gave DeNoir an improvement contract and signaled that they wanted to replace 50% of all Union Destroyers with the Phobos Class. The biggest Ship building contract in De Noir history. The Red Dragon was never show cased and forgotten. The ship was bought and put into storage at a Bone Yard planet. It was discovered by Admiral Swybar who had local Oromals install new Attikan Engines (the original ones had been stripped) and other proto type weaponry found at the Bone Yards.

Recent developments point to the possibility that a Pirate uses this Prototype - Details classified

Thee Red Dragon Prototype is stored at Bone Yard 112. Much like the Rama Bots, a forgotten project, one of its kind and the pinnacle of Terran mil tech."