Lyrec II

The Lyrec II Battleship class is the second class of ships to be designed acording to the Uni Design II standards, and was the first to start entering in service.

Background
For more information see the background section in the Uni Design II article.

In 5045, the Capital Ship Development Bureau (CSDB) was tasked by Fleet Command to outline the next generation of Capital Ships. For the first time since the Uni Design had been adopted, Fleet Command requested that instead of restricting themselves to designs that would be just have incremental changes compared to existing capital ships, to also consider the idea of building Lyrec and Karmat class ships from scratch, as well as consider new designs the size of those two ships.

After a series of studies along with the results of some of USS Dominator's test flights as a Fast Reaction Force Carrier, the CSDB proposed a fundamental change in how the fleets would be organized - using a fast ship to carry a reaction force into combat.

The composition of the Fast Reaction Force was determined in late 5045 as 1 + 1 + 40 (One Karmat size Carrier, One Lyrec sized ship and 40 conventional battleships . The decision on whether to use large Uni Design ships, copies of Seenian ships refit to Uni standards or to develop a new standard was left to the CSDB.

After some additional studies, the CSDB began to develop what became the Uni Design II standard.

Lyrec II Class Battleship
The external appearance of the Lyrec II class was very similar to that of the nine Lyrec Class ships found on board the USS Dominator. Internally, while the basis of the Lyrec II class is the Lyrec Refit, there are considerable differences between the two.

Publicly it's compared to the USS Devastator, although the true capabilities are classed Blue-Blue-Red and Need to know.