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CONTENTS

ASCHEN SHIPS

1 Virtus-Class Starship
2 Peramen-Class Starship
3 Gladiator-Class Starship

ASCHEN SHIPS

VIRTUS-CLASS STARSHIP

-Type: Large hyperspace capable starship
-Role: Fleet Carrier
-Users: Aschen Confederation
-Length: 643 meters
-Width: 139 meters
-Height: 96 meters
-Capacity:
~Crew: 244
~Maximum Capacity: 9,000
-Powerplant:
~Unknown (probably advanced fusion)
-Propulsion:
~One large sublight ion drive
~Hyperspace window generator
~Inertial propulsion system
-Armament:
~Eight Heavy Ion Cannons
~One Coherent Energy Bomb Launcher
~Aschen Bio Weapons
~200+ Aschen unmanned fighters
-Defenses:
~Aschen shields
~Aschen absorbtion armor
~Aschen jamming technology
-Additional Technology:
~Aschen Beaming pads
~Unknown Subspace Variance sensors; High EMP
~Anti-explosion devices
~Bioweapons

~Technical and Historical Notes~

The first mention of Aschen warships comes to us from the records of the Goa'uld who first found their homeworld. Jupiter, a System Lord sorely vexed by the fact that some other Goa'uld had taken "Zeus" as his mantle, had vowed to overthrow the "pretender" and seize his empire. To do this, he located a group of Roman survivors on a world not too far from the edge of Gou'ald space, that had advanced significantly after coming to this world of their own volition. Like any other Goa'uld, Jupiter took the idea of humans using the Stargate for their own purposes as an insult, and personally went to their world with conquest and destruction on his mind in the Earth year 1789 AD.

He was never heard from again. Neither were any other Goa'uld who tried to find out what happened. But, a hundred years later, the Tok'ra managed to find some records from Jupiter's last transmission to his First Prime, who was at the time overseeing one of the Roman Goa'uld's few conquered worlds. It showed an image of a starship very much like current Aschen designs, before an energy blast left it and the picture was filled with static.

The Virtus-class mothership is only the latest in a long series of warships that the Aschen have kept within their borders, only acting in defense against the Goa'uld and other threats but always in secret. The Aschen Confederation preferred their power not be discovered before they had sufficient numbers to deal with any threat, and to pacify their populations via relatively benign methods. However, like their ancestors the Romans, the Aschen knew that a powerful space-faring navy was vital to the survival of their empire, alongside the rest of their extremely advanced and powerful technologies.

Virtus-class starships have (aside from size) a similar design to Aschen harvester vessels, which is the point-The Aschen are nothing if not practical, and if the design worked well for domestic tasks then it could certainly work for military matters. A huge ship, thanks to the Aschen's highly advanced technology it only requires a crew of a few hundred to run effectively. It's ion drive only provides maybe thirty percent of it's momentum-The rest is from an advanced intertialess drive, much like those used by the Goa'uld. As a result the Virtus is quite manueverable for a ship it's size.

Eight ion cannons are it's primary weapons, resembling Aschen laser drones they use for anti-personnel defenses. Combined with One Coherent Energy Bomb launchers and thousands of those same missiles, and a single Virtus is easily capable of destroying Goa'uld motherships with only a few salvos. Over two hundred unmanned fighters and the infamous Aschen bioweapons complete it's formidable arsenal. The only real flaw the Virtus possesses is it's slow hyperdrive. Unlike the rest of the Aschen's technology, their faster-than-light propulsion tech lags seriously behind that of their competitors. However, unlike the Ori or Goa'uld the Aschen did not use their starships for conquest, in the traditional sense, so speed is not as much of an issue.

Yet, even with vessels like the Virtus, the Aschen Confederation still lacked the raw numbers to crush the Goa'uld on their own. Therefore, they waited, lured innocent worlds into their clutches and exploited them to bring the Aschen homeworld's population into the tens of billions, and their industry equally as formidable.

But, with the destruction of the Goa'uld AND Replicators by the Tau'ri, the Aschen's entire way of life, entire plan for domination of the galaxy, had changed. As the Tau'ri offered aid to former Confederation-held worlds and spread the truth about the Aschen's "generosity", the Aschen decided that the Tau'ri were to be their new enemy. Even when the Ori threat emerged, and the Aschen became even more deeply isolated, they still plotted for the day when Earth would be theirs. The Virtus-class motherships are a huge part of this plan.

Usually, Virtus-class motherships operate as part of a battlegroup, escorted by two to four Peramen-class cruisers (dubbed "battlecruisers" due to their armor and firepower ratios). The Peramen use light ion cannons in addition to heavy ones, which have a higher rate of fire than the larger ion cannons. This allows the cruisers to pelt an enemy with massive amounts of ion fire while the Virtus's bigger guns provide the knock-out blow. This is not to say that the Virtus is not able to take care of itself, but the Aschen prefer to think long term, and risking the loss of a single ship to one mission's success is not their style. It is also a tremendous weakness that the Tau'ri have been able to exploit.


PERAMEN-CLASS STARSHIP

-Type: Large hyperspace capable starship
-Role: Battlecruiser
-Users: Aschen Confederation
-Length: 470 meters
-Width: 230 meters
-Height: 90 meters
-Capacity:
~Crew: 163
~Maximum Capacity: 9,000
-Powerplant:
~Unknown (probably advanced fusion)
-Propulsion:
~One large sublight ion drive
~Hyperspace window generator
~Inertial propulsion system
-Armament:
~Two Heavy Ion Cannons
~Six Light Ion Cannons
~Four Coherent Energy Bomb Launcher
~80 Aschen unmanned fighters
-Defenses:
~Aschen shields
~Aschen absorbtion armor
~Aschen jamming technology
-Additional Technology:
~Aschen Beaming pads
~Unknown Subspace Variance sensors; High EMP
~Anti-explosion devices
~Bioweapons

~Technical and Historical Notes~

The Peramen class battlecruiser is a formidable class of warship. It was developed in 2024, during the hieght of the Ori's reign, by the Aschen Confederation as a detterent to these extra-galactic invaders. However, it was never used because the Ori never reached the worlds of the Aschen Confederation. While the Confederation Military prepared to fight, the Aschen Ruling Council prepared to hide. The Council created a law by which all gates in the Confederation were buried and only cloaked ships were to be used, thus avoiding any contact with other worlds. The Peramen was reserved for a worst case scenario, that the Aschen were discovered by the Ori. But, when the Ori were defeated by the Tau'ri, the Peramen's original purpose was gone as well. The Confederation, leery of the Tau'ri's now great strength, remained isolated and hidden for the next thirty years, as they watched the Tau'ri expand into the galaxy. The Aschen, remembering how the Tau'ri had nearly destroyed them with an address to a blackhole planet, were eager for the chance to conquer the Tau'ri for their resources and revenge, but until they had amassed sufficient military strength this was impossible.The Peramen Project was reopened for this purpose.

Designed to be for the assault and conversion of planets to the Aschen, at first specifically Jaffa planets as they were closest to the Confederation. The class was launched in 2030, marking the Aschen's return to the galactic stage, and soon several of these warships were prowling the galaxy in order to convert or "aggressively persuade" human cultures to the AC rather than join the Tau'ri. The Aschen wanted to create a split between humans, between those siding with them and those siding with Earth. The Peramen's large size and advanced technology allowed it to show the banner for the Aschen and won many gullible worlds to their cause.

The Peramen was well armed with particle-beam weaponry in the form of ion cannons. Firing streams of concentrated ions, these weapons have tremendous kinetic energy and can disrupt electronics and cause the armor of any unshielded Tau'ri ships they come in contact with to explode.

Alongside this were their advanced Coherent Energy Bombs. Essentially, each Peramen carried tens of thousands of tiny bombs with their own small powersources and computers, which were used to link them together into larger bombs. These larger bombs moved as one, and earned the nickname "bowling ball" by Tau'ri pilots due to their spherical shape. The larger the bomb, the faster it could move, the more accurate it's targeting thanks to the several computers linked together, and the more powerful the yield. The Aschen had all of their ships equipped with these weapons and often showed them off by using them to plow farmland on the worlds of potential victims.

The Peramen's shielding technology, while less advanced than the Earth/Asgard/Ancient hybrid technologies in use by Tau'ri ships, was perfectly effective and made up for it's relative crudity with ample power. Combined with hull armor based on the material used in the Kull Warriors created by Anubis, and the Peramen-class warships were easily able to take the same punishment as a comparable Tau'ri starship. The addition of 80 fighters gave the Peramen a potent power projection capability, and could easily dominate the aerospace surrounding it.

Beyond these facts little else is known about the Peramen-class starships. While encounters with them continue to increase as the Aschen push ever nearer to Tau'ri space, not even the ship's crew compliment is known. The Aschen's use of sensor jamming technology also makes accurate measurements of the ship's power output and weapons potential difficult.


GLADIATOR-CLASS STARSHIP

-Type: Large hyperspace capable starship
-Role: Battlecruiser
-Users: Aschen Confederation
-Length: 830 meters
-Width: 403 meters
-Height: 107 meters
-Capacity:
~Crew: 550
~Troops: 3000
~Maximum Capacity: 15,000
-Powerplant:
~Unknown (probably advanced fusion)
-Propulsion:
~One large sublight ion drive
~Hyperspace window generator
~Inertial propulsion system
-Armament:
~Six Heavy Ion Cannons
~Eighteen Light Ion Cannons
~Eight Coherent Energy Bomb Launcher
~20 Aschen unmanned fighters
~2-4 Aschen armed shuttles
-Defenses:
~Aschen shields
~Aschen absorbtion armor
~Aschen jamming technology
-Additional Technology:
~Aschen Beaming pads
~Unknown Subspace Variance sensors; High EMP
~Anti-explosion devices
~Bioweapons

~Technical and Historical Notes~

The Gladiator class is the main warship of the Aschen confederation and the symbol of it's power. It came into service in the year 2007 to patrol their borders against intruders and invaders, however as the years went on the Gladiator class found itself falling behind technologically compared to other Aschen warships and Tau'ri warships (though the intel recieved was never 100% accurate). Following the events of 2001 the Aschen had been building up forces and slowly expanding despite heavy casulties due to the hazardes gate addresses recieved. By 2007 the confederation had almost trippled in size and the Aschen were able to gain intel on all 4 corners of the galaxy. The news was unsettling the Ori were running rampant across the galaxy and the Tau'ri had built a substantial fleet. New laws were brought in to avoid discovery by the Ori but tabs were kept on the Tau'ri and major advancement continued within the confederacy. In the years following the Wraith attack on Earth which could have spelled the end of the MW the Tau'ri rapidly rearmed, expanded and advanced. To combat this the Gladiator class was extensively upgraded to meet the needs of the ever expanding confederacy.

With the most powerful weapons ever concieved by the confedaracy the Gladiator class was able to take the fight to any enemy in the known galaxy and the war began! The Gladiator served in every major fleet operation with over 300 of these produced between 2007 and 2044 (the end of the war). To help facilitate the war effort the Gladiator carries and extensive amount of troops and support vehicles to help conquer planets included some limited air support.

Due to it's size the Gladiator is very unmanueverable, relying on it's anti gravity wave generators to manuever but with it's huge amount of Ion drives it's the fastest ship ever recorded in a straight line! This enables it to intercept threats lightning fast.

There are three different versions of the Aschen warship in service: the old version, which is being upgraded and phased out of the fleet lines, and the type III or battleship version. This incorparates a larger weapons array and defensive systems on a slightly enlarged frame, it also has the first mark III Ion beam canons the most powerful energy weapons every designed by the Aschen roughly 20 of these are in service

With the Gladiator class the Aschen have begun their mission to conquer the galaxy.



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