This is yet another Remix of the Nova Dreadnought. I named it, the Poseidon Class Assault Ship. Yepp, the God of turbulent and powerful sea’s. Its ways and means about its missions are pretty apparent and not apologetic if you’re familiar with Nova Dreadnought. There’s been a few upgrades here to consider it a light Carrier Vessel that would be in line with most Assault Ship Designs in modern day.

There’s a lot of sight seeing here, so lets break it down.

At the front, or Forecastle you’ll notice Starfurys have been replaced with Monsoon Gun Boats. The Hanger Superstructure has been vertically chopped and straightened to allow more room to accommodate a battalion of Gunboats. There’s no need for a fancy launch system either. Just send them out the front, or barrel role out the back. This is why the Omega rotational design was not used. Your typical Sensor or as I always thought would be cool, “ramming gear” array is kept but doubled, and mounted to the Starboard and Port sides. 2 more standard cannons up front and a crew shuttle only long axial launch and retrieval corridor running thru the central first third of the star-frame.

That’s just the front. It’s a Nova, lets have some fun!

Midship you’ll find an Explorer Class Rotational Section, this if for longer missions. Humans actually loose muscle strength in zero G environments. The show, didn’t really do anything about this issue for the Earth Minbari War times, so I took it upon myself. Yes there’s a Hybrid to fill the Gap from Nova to Omega I brought to the front, but there’s still room for more. And that’s never a problem for this star frame. CWIS style autonomous rotating, Fore & Aft facing smaller caliber Gatling cannons that can swivel 360 degree are also present. This just adds to the notion that a severe amount of defensive or cover fire can be provided. These would be firing with a rotation of 360 degrees whilst rotating 360 degrees with up to 80 degree elevation for these guns. That could rake forward and backward defensive vertices that normal war ships just couldn’t match. Think of them as combs of fire an attacking fighter wing would have to cut through to attack the ship. This collaboration of rotation, rotation and elevation really helps with the putting the “down range”
In “long range”.

This ship doesn’t have to “cross the T”. Think of this tactic these guns provide. If the ships were sweeping in in an arc turn, there is no enemy line left. No center Capital Ship left for smaller Vessels to try and defend. That’s a ton of physics, math and vectors to try to keep up with for anyone or anything.

You’ll find the Midship to Ventral Aft sections of the ship are extended allowing for 4 more cannons. The Midship had to be extended due to the elongated Shuttle Corridor. The extra 4 would help out blasting away anything big that hasn’t been paper shredded by the 8 Gatling Cannons. Engines were fine the way they were, so why change it. Finally right?

It doesn’t have the looks of a puppy dog, but honestly it strictly mission oriented. Neither does any other assault ship. It’s like a smaller Carrier, but packs assault craft. I was thinking it would be great with a missile variant of a heavy Hyperion Heavy Cruiser I have yet to upload but honestly, when your bristling with this level of gunnery, why have another ship in the way. So yes, it makes sense, if you’re thinking Bismarck or Tirpitz territory missions, you’d probably be right. I doubt mines would be a good idea either as the sensor sweeps from the Gatling Cannons combined with what it already has probably wouldn’t work either. So yes, this is the one way ticket trip. It’s the ship, the whole enemy Navy would be tasked with a search and destroy priority 1 level annoyance.

Enjoy!
-JH