Project Big Fish

Big Fish Project

initiated Project Fish many centuries ago.

Central to this project was a new type of ship. While in theory it was to be built with the UDD in mind, only about 10% of the ships design followed it, because almost everything in this ship did not exist before, as far as we know it no Seenian concepts existed.

Almost everything was invented and developed for that ship. It took centuries to built it.

One reason was the the great secrecy and the other was the need to develop new production methods to turn never before realized concepts into parts and systems.

In 5020 the ship was ready and given to the most unusual crew our combined civilizations ever assembled and it is safe to say it will never be repeated.

This crew took the most advanced ship we could built and customized it, altered it and improved on it, throwing pretty much everything that was left of UDD out the window.

But Admiral McElligott saw in this ship the seed for our next era of ships and initiated  Project Big Fish

Building a battleship based on the USS Tigershark and keeping its base design philosophy as base line, take the best of what all our combined civilizations have to offer and throw any other rule of limitation out the same window.

McElligott never liked to put eggs into one basket.

He decried the Union's reliance on basically two weapon systems. The Translocator and the Loki torpedo. Yes we greatly improved on the original concept, but the base function is the same.

The arguments are the same as those against the Seenian route, plus our approach is by far the costliest. The Tigershark, her development and her three upgrades cost us as much as an entire battle group but the investment had been returned a thousandfold. Now the new ship didn't need to be built with the same level of secrecy or had to be developed over centuries, but she is still the most expensive battle ship we ever built and

Ninety percent of her systems are classified

Blue-Blue-Red

Project Big Fish is like the original Project Fish centered on a new type of ship but is also a collection of other elements. The development of a new Union Main Core weapon system, that either replaces or compliments the Translocator Cannon.

A new shipto ship missile that is not based on the Loki Torpedo (Long range Ordinance kill Instant) Research into a new or different shield system.Including research into improving the old Shimmer shields.

Alternative propulsion (Development of the Space Drill) New material technology, New sensors  and Psi tech.

Also improvement of repair and self repair technology. Research into the posibility of sentient AI.

The philosophy is to bring the Fleet up to TL 9 collectivley from bridge systems to recycling and support infra structure.