Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Jutland Cruiser

"Cruiser going to sea!"

-Jutland Cruiser

The Jutland Cruiser is the primary battlecruiser used by the Minutemen. This battlecruiser is planned to be voiced by Haviland Stillwell

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History
"Fire the main guns! Friendlies in Danger Close!"

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The Jutland-class Battlecruiser, or Cruiser as it is commonly known, was a sneaky way to keep Ferelden guns on the seas in spite of the Treaty of Valmont. Its operational weight is almost the exact weight that was allowed (legend goes that HMS Jutland needed to throw its mattresses overboard to save weight) and using as much of that weight as weapons. This was similar to the (insert)' "pocket" battleships, but unlike them, the Fereldens could build much more. Soon, the Ferelden regained their place as ruler of the seas with an entire fleet of these speedy, powerful ships, and would play a critical part when the GVAW broke out.

The Cruisers were one of the first responders in the GVAW, attacking Voshkod ships attempting to break out of the North Sea, and only the Voshkod Garlean-class Battleships and Limsa Lominsa-class cruiser were able to stand up to it. Until widespread submarine deployment, the Jutland would smash any Voshkod presence foolish enough to show themselves near the ocean. Even afterward the Cruiser anchored Alliance fleets wherever they went, and with proper escorts were nearly invincible, destroying anything the Voshkod had. Of the many "official" reasons as to why the Allies won against such odds, the Jutland-class and the naval superiority it provided is the most popular.

Even after the war, the Cruiser was a lynchpin of Allied naval operations. While rapidly being eclipsed by Aircraft Carriers like the Alliance's Von Esling-class and Aquila's Midway class, there were few better ways to fling metal into Voshkod bases. In the next years they provided fire support to many operations and provided escorts to convoys until it was replaced by the Trident, their true successor to the Jutland. Even now, many are in active duty, but an unsettling trend is happening; many of these ships are committing mutiny. Worse still, they're joining the fledgling Minutemen Navy in Embry.

The causes of this are many. Some crewmen and officers are simply too loyal to Embry to serve with the Guardians anymore, especially since their homeland was nuked to oblivion, and Cruisers are some of the most heavily manned ships in the Navy. A few believe all cruisers are due to be mothballed, and want to take the ships out in a blaze of glory. Most prevalent, though, is a sense of resentment over how the Allies "threw away" so many Embry Pennsylvania-class battleships in the Aionysus during the First Encantadian War, many of which the Encantadia destroyed. Regardless of why the mutinies did happen, with any loyalists left put on lifeboats. This means the Cruisers are woefully undermanned, but many Minutemen recruits have replaced them, and experience shows that the Minutemen are very quick learners.