Tech Infantry Wiki
Explore
Main Page
All Pages
Community
Interactive Maps
Recent Blog Posts
Community
Recent blog posts
Forum
FANDOM
Fan Central
BETA
Games
Anime
Movies
TV
Video
Wikis
Explore Wikis
Community Central
Start a Wiki
Don't have an account?
Register
Sign In
Sign In
Register
Tech Infantry Wiki
686
pages
Explore
Main Page
All Pages
Community
Interactive Maps
Recent Blog Posts
Community
Recent blog posts
Forum
Editing
Stornoway-class
Back to page
Edit
Edit source
View history
Talk (0)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
[[File:Stornoway.gif|thumb|400px|Click for full size]] The '''Stornoway-class''' of Advanced [[Destroyer]]s was a one-off experimental modification of a [[Rota-class]] destroyer, the [[EFS Stornoway]]. The [[Chemlaser]] and [[Blackhawk Missile]] launchers from the Rota-class were removed and replaced by an experimental weapons system known as a [[Graviton Cannon]]. This device was an attempt to produce a far smaller version of a [[Gravitic Ram]] or [[Gravitic Lance|Grav Lance]], and was basically a super-sized [[Tractor Beam]] emitter. It produced a focused beam of asymetric gravity waves, pushing and pulling the bits of a target in different directions with [[Antigrav|gravity fields]] tens of thousands of times stronger than that of [[Earth]]. This tore apart starships and asteroids, although the effective range was very short. To compensate for the loss in point defense due to the elimination of the Blackhawk Missile tubes, the midships ring of [[Plasma Phalanx]]es were replaced by more powerful and longer-ranged [[Particle Phalanx]]es. The [[EFS Stornoway]] completed modifications in 2242, and its test cruise was captained by [[Erich Von Shrakenberg]], and the weapon was first fired by tactical officer [[Herbert Gergenstein]]. Despite successful tests, the short range was not judged to be effective enough to justify the high cost of the weapon system, and the program was cancelled. No other ships were ever modified in this way. The Stornoway continued in commision throughout the [[3rd Civil War|Third Civil War]], but was sent to the scrapyard in 2250. The Graviton Cannon was apparenty salvaged at some point and attached to a [[corvette]], but when it was used in an [[Imperial Fleet]] raid on the [[Elysia]] system during the [[Ascension War]] in 2265, the second time the Graviton Cannon was fired it malfunctioned and blew out the [[Antigrav|artificial gravity]] system on the ship, killing the entire crew. ==Known Ships== [[EFS Stornoway]] DF-1082 (first captained by [[Erich Von Shrakenberg]]) ==Behind the Scenes== The EFS Stornoway was the very first ship [[User:Martin The Mess|Martin Hohner]] designed for this game, specifically as the vessel of his [[History of the Game#Season Four (1999-2001)|Season 4.2]] character Eric Von Shrakenbeg. The Graviton Cannon concept was something he came up with for a Star Trek fanfic he never got around to writing, and the pulse-fusion drive was based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29 Project Orion] and the ships seen in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stone_Dogs The Stone Dogs] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._M._Stirling S.M. Stirling]. The other weapons systems on this class have gone through several retcons as the wider technobabble of this universe was more firmly established. [[Category:Starship Classes]]
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to the Tech Infantry Wiki are considered to be released under the CC-BY-SA
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Follow on IG
TikTok
Join Fan Lab