4th Moon Of Xyth



The 4th Moon of Xyth was the biggest project thus far in the history of deep-space ship building. The two leading ship building companies Alpha and Rune, known concurrents, decided to combine forces for this project which should take mankind to the previously unexplored depths of the universe.

Alpha, known for their succesfull Vector and Nagato class ships, excelled in creating robust ships with amazing defensive and offensive capabilities and were responsible for the initial design of the outer hull and skeleton of the ship. Rune's ships excelled in manouvrability and their ship's internal electronics & computers were of the highest quality and most inovating. It was also Rune that created the basics for the cloaking technology, to be perfected later on by StarTech. During the 12 years it took to create the 4th Moon of Xyth, 2 new companies came into existence from specialized groups within both Alpha and Rune. Warbird was formerly the department within Alpha that was responsible for the design of deep-space engines, these became quickly superior to those that were created by Alpha, to the point that even Alpha and the several smaller ship building companies started buying the Warbird engines. The increased complexity and number of internal ship systems demanded a very reliable central computer that could contral all these systems and act quickly when needed or prompted to. The continous evolution of the already superior Rune electronic systems led to the development of the Startech MK 1 central computer, at the moment of the release of the first prototypes of this computer, the electronics department within Rune, created its own independent and specialized company, Startech.

Since the prime objective of this project was to create a base that could maintain itself and provide a few 1000 inhabitants of living conditions similar to those on Earth while in orbit around any planet, the 4th Moon Of Xyth was firstly designed as base, not as deep-space ship. Once the base was finished after the 12 years of work it was dismounted and reassembled as deep-space ship. After testing and one more dismount and reassembly to double check all ship systems the ship was ready for it's journey.
The change from ship to fully funtional base and vice versa only took one week to complete, and while in base version, all defensive and offensive systems and the engines will remain online all the time in case of emergencies.

While in ship version, the 4th Moon Of Xyth has the following dimensions : length = 1672 metres (5485 ft), width = 369 metres (1212 ft), heigth = 566 metres (1857 ft). It has 4 main spherical modules with a diametre of 340 metres (1115 ft) and height = 120 metres (394 ft), during flight, one of these is used as control center and holds half of the stasis-sleep cells, the second holds the other half of the stasis-sleep cells while the 2 remaining modules contain 25 Nagato MK 1 fighter class ships and 75 Vector class ships. The ship is also equipped with 2 bays containing 8 Nagato MK 1 fighters and 24 Vector ships which can be deployed during flight. Other defensive systems include 8 laser turrets and the offensive include 4 Lance-lasers. Finally the ship has 6 huge containers with enough material to set up a base on the surface of a planet.



When transformed into base, the structure has the following dimensions  : diametre = 960 metres (3150 ft), heigth = 870 metres (2850 ft).
The four modules now serve different purposes compared to when in ship mode, two of these holds all rooms for the onboard crew and stationed pilots as well as a medical center and various basic shops. The two others are directly connected to the 8 docks and contain refueling centres, repair bays and a ship construction yard and the academy. The small fighter bay and the main energy cells and engines from the ship mode are still present as well. This base allows all basic functions to maintain a medium sized fleet and protect the planet below. It's built so it can be easily expanded as it's still a relatively small base.