Reliant class

Name: Reliant class Type: Battlecruiser Affiliation: Star Kingdom of Manticore Date Introduced: ~ 1900 PD Mass: 881,250 tons Length: 713 m Beam: 91 m Draught: 81 m Acceleration: 488.6 G (515.5 G maximum) Crew: 2105 – 151 Officers – 1362 Enlisted – 592 Marines Power: 3 Isler GM-4R Fusion Reactors Electronics: AN/SPG-29/b gravitic detection array AN/SR-14a Phased radar array AN/SL-14a Lidar array AN/CAT-23b(64) fire control AN/CDT-19(40) defensive fire control AN/ELQ-146 ECM Armament: 52 Mod 7b missile launchers 16 Mk73 105 cm lasers 2 Mk49 127 cm lasers 16 Mk15 140 cm grasers 32 Mod 5b countermissile launchers 32 Mk16(6) point defense lasers Magazines: 1352 Mk13 anti-ship missiles 9632 Mk21 countermissiles 10 Mk36 EW drones Auxiliary Craft: 4 Mk28 Condor-class pinnaces 2 Mk9 Albatross-class shuttles 4 C3 Dakota-class cutters

The Reliant class was the Royal Manticoran Navy's most modern class of battlecruisers during the early stages of the First Havenite-Manticoran War.

Origins and design notes

Built at the turn of the 20th Century PD, the Reliant-class battlecruisers were regarded as among the most advanced and powerful vessels in their classification, even surpassing the contemporary Sultan-class ships of the People's Republic of Haven, and still maintained superiority over the later Warlord-class developed by Haven. (HH3, HH7)

Ships in the later batches of the class incorporated faster-than-light communication systems during their construction, instead of being refitted with them after the fact. The class was equipped with the newest generation of GSN-designed inertial compensator.

The Reliant-class incorporated a private gym for use by a flag officer and their staff, which included a swimming pool that formed part of the consumable water supply.(HH3)

By 1920 PD, and despite the relative youth of the Reliants, they were regarded as obsolete and unsuitable in the modern, missile pod-heavy naval battlefield and some were actually decommissioned, but the resumption of hostilities with the Republic of Haven forced the Navy to retain them and recommission those that had been retired. (HH10, HH11)

The Grayson Space Navy named them the Hill class. (Companion)

Technical specifications

A Reliant-class battlecruiser's power requirements needed two of the three fusion reactors. (HH3)

Armament scheme

• upper deck: M-M-L-M-L-M-G-M-G-M-M-G-M-G-M-G-M-L-M-L-M-M
• lower deck: :M-M-L-M-L-M-G-M-G-M-G-M-G-M-G-M-L-M-L-M-M

Known ships of the class

Port view of HMS Nike

Energy signature of the Reliant class

• HMS Reliant – lead ship of the class
• HMS Achilles
• HMS Alcibiades
• HMS Amphitrite
• HMS Dauntless
• HMS Indomitable
• HMS Ishtar
• HMS Leutzen
• HMS Lysander
• HMS Nelson
• HMS Nike (BC-413) – later recommissioned as HMS Hancock Station
• HMS Retaliation
• HMS Royalist
• HMS Truculent
• HMS Venom
• HMS Victory
• HMS Viper
• HMS Warspite
• HMS Xerxes

Derivates

The Raoul Courvosier-class, in service with the Grayson Space Navy since 1905 PD, was based on the Reliant-class. (HH4)

External links

• Reliant-class battlecruiser ship layout - David Weber's post to infodump