Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Eclipse Star Voyager

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The Eclipse Star Voyager is the Celestial Viceroyalty of Corona's command airship. Planned to be voiced by Rae Lim.

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History
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With the ever-expanding Star Fleet, more and more powerful ships are needed. Chief among these are the "Defiant"-class escort ships, the larger "Eclipse"-class Star Voyagers and the immense "Galaxy"-class starships. Originally designed to literally destroy stars, the Viceroy pointed out that the design was too complex and would take too long to produce. The designer, a certain Lian Wexeng, was repeatedly ordered to scale down the size of the ship. The final size was eventually arrived at and the first of two Eclipse-class ships left the Xua Tu Drive Yards more than four years after the plans had been laid down and finalized. While work has begun on a third one, both the starship's size and the astonishing construction complexity mean that it will not be expected to reach completion anytime soon. Apart from that, there are also the logistical nightmares of supporting and supplying even one of these ships.

The Eclipse is designed to be a heavy command ship. Slightly larger than the Voshkod Zhukov War Zeppelin, the Eclipse is triangular in shape and radically different from other Corona starship designs. Perched high atop the ship is a large command bridge where the commander and all other high-ranking staff reside. Due to the position and wide view screens, the Bridge team can easily monitor all aspects of the battlefield while still remaining relatively safe from ground-based fire. In theory, the weakest part of any starship is directly behind it; however, this is not the case for the Eclipse. While there are indeed no armaments behind it, the engines radiate massive amounts of heat behind them when active, enough to utterly incinerate anything foolish enough to approach it from the rear.

Initially, the designers wanted to use a network of powerful tractor beams to pull enemies toward it and smash them against the Eclipse's powerful shields. However, they soon realized that no shield generator in the Celestial's arsenal would be able to withstand repeated hits without compromising shield integrity. So they came up with a compromise system; while the tractor beams drag targets towards the ship, a large array of point defense ray guns will tear enemies apart, piece by piece, until the target has been completely destroyed.

Despite the effectiveness of the tractor-beam system, the system only works against main battle tanks and heavy infantry like the Tesla Trooper. Superheavy units like the Voshkod EG-X-1 Elephant Tank, the Aquilan Leonidas, the ADI Kodiak or Order Cataphract Walker are immune to the effect because of their sheer weight and units like the Falcon Command Helicopter and Himmelhammer Van are immune because the tractor beams aren't calibrated for use on such targets. Infantry are also immune to the effect because they are too small for the tractor beams to lock on to.

The secret to all this power is a revolutionary Anti-Matter Power Core. The first core designed to power a ship, the Anti-Matter Power Core produces more energy in one hour than the entire city of Westwood consumes in 4 months. In an extreme emergency, the Eclipse can divert all the ship's power to a special device hidden deep in the bowels of the ship.

One word from the commander and a massive shockwave of heat is released, severely damaging all attackers in a wide area. However, the ship has yet to use this device, because it has yet to be called into action against surface targets. In the extremely unlikely event that the ship is catastrophically damaged, there is a distinct possibility that the Anti-Matter Power Core's containment system will suffer a catastrophic failure, resulting in an uncontrolled matter/anti-matter reaction. The effects of this are best left to the imagination.

Following a successful test on a Empire city and the commencement of full-scale production of the Eclipse-class, Lian Wexeng began drawing up plans for the largest project in the history of the Celestial Viceroyalty of Corona and possibly mankind, called the "Hundun Cannon", a colossal space station with a mass rivaling that of the Canthan continent, where the Viceroyalty would relocate. With a network of massive ray guns powered by an Amber Hyper Reactor, the Hundun Cannon could annihilate all life on Gaiaterra. However, after looking at the first concepts the Viceroy rejected the plans, reasoning; "The monumental undertaking to construct such a monstrosity would take several generations, and our revenge cannot wait that long."