Glorious Heritage Class

A Glorious Heritage Class Cruiser. Click to enlarge

The Glorious Heritage class Heavy Cruiser is the bright star of the High Guard fleet. As the most visible symbol of the reach and power of the Commonwealth, command of these vessels is reserved for the best and the brightest. Capable of high-endurance, independent operations, the Heavy Cruiser nonetheless operates most often as the central component of an HCBG. They are ideally suited for interplanetary combat, although they can play a significant role in planetary strike operations and logistics support for the HCBG as a whole. In addition, XMCs are often called upon to perform disaster relief and refugee support operations due to their spacious interiors and ability to ferry large quantities of emergency supplies and additional personnel. During peacetime, XMCs are most often tasked with independent intergalactic exploration, charting and documenting the star systems of the Local Cluster. They are also the preferred platform for first contact missions, given their formidable combat capabilities and their ability to operate without a battlegroup - often critical to assuring potential Commonwealth members that the High Guard comes in peace.

A typical ship of the Glorious Heritage class was the Pax Magellanic.

Technical Data

• Length: 1301m
• Beam: 976m
• Height: 325m
• Inertial Mass: 96,408,876 kg
• Max Speed: Classified
• 1 AI command and control entity

Manpower

• Ship's Complement: 4132
• Officer/Enlisted: 1/11

The maintenance droids don't count to the crew.

Sensor Systems

• PAS-37Q System Search Sensor (Phased Array)
• HSS-114D Hyper-Spectral Scanner (EO)
• AIS-117M Advanced Imaging Sensor (Synthetic Aperture/Moving Target Indicator)
• AIS-117I Advanced Imaging Sensor (Inverse Synthetic Aperture)
• ES/A-9R Electronic Support and Attack Measure Suite

Combat Systems

• 40 ELS missile tubes
• 12 50MW PDL turrets
• 12 AP cannons
• 36 RF-42 Centaur tactical fighters
• 76 RA-26 Shrike strike fighters
• 12 AF/A-29 Phoenix atmospheric attack craft
• 16 ES-115 Oracle heavy sensor/attack drones
• 8 ES-14 Janus light sensor/attack drones
• 6 Radiating Counter Measure generators
• 2 heavy combat robots for planetary assault

Armament

• OM-5 standard offensive kinetic kill missiles
• DM-5 standard defensive kinetic kill missiles
• PM-6 Star Arrow smart anti-ship missiles
• PM-6L Strategic Star Arrow smart anti-ship missiles (extended range variant)
• PM-6LII Strategic Star Arrow multiple independent kill vehicle (MIKV) variant
• SAPM-6III Strike Arrow surface attack variant
• Nova Bombs (default repository strengh: 40 EA)

Glorious Heritage Cruisers are endued with the possibility to gather via Nanobots new munitions from recycled raw materials (e.g. part of wrecks).

Ships of the Glorious Heritage Class

The old High Guard built 10 Glorious Heritage Cruiser:

• Pax Magellanic
• Andromeda Ascendant
• Million Voices

The new Systems Commonwealth continued to build this line of cruisers.

• Crimson Sunrise
• Midian Breach
• Lancer's Hope
• Magellan Melrow

Shipclasses

Commonwealth	Capital Ships	Heavy Cruiser Battle Group	Glorious Heritage Class	Righteous Fist of Heaven Class	Siege Perilous Class	Eternal Vigilance Class
		Planetfall Readiness Group	Atmosphere Attack Carrier	Victory's Crucible Class
	Dropships	Ung Tae Class	Victory's Crucible Class
	Smaller Ships	Patrol Crafts	Fingers of Dawn Class	Seven Pillars Class	Asceticism of Action Class
	Scoutcrafts	Slipfighter	To Seek, To Find Class	Major Tom Class
	Other	Alactritous Missive Class	Drones
Nietzschean	Capital Ships
	Smaller Ships	Garuda Class	Slipscout
Magog	Capital Ships	Worldship	Satellite ship
	Smaller Ships	Swarm Ship
Other	Capital Ships	Pyrian Torchship	Seraphim Carrier	Attrox
	Smaller Ships	Banshee Class	Restorian Destroyer