Borneo-Class Command Carrier (CVC)

Borneo-Class Command Carrier [CVC]

Smaller than even the escort class carriers the Borneo was designed to act as a command vessel for carrier fleets but to seem less threatening so that enemy vessels would be less likely to target it. This design was dropped after eight years in favor of the larger and more armored Fleet Carrier design.

The Borneo class is 1250 meters in length with a beam and height of 750 meters, with a crew of 26,000 it is able to support a brigade of marine infantry and can support an Air Command from the main hull and the two carrier hulls can support an entire Air Corps and carries 6,750 Fighter/Bombers, Numerous Corvettes, and 235 Auxiliary craft and shuttles and over a battalion of mecha.

The Ship is armed with 100 missile pod ejectors with a magazine capacity of 500 pods, 198 Type III point defense turrets and 198 point defense missile tubes.

Due to the fact that the ship is carrier vessel it eschews the use of a mass driver for the room needed to support the Fleet Air Arm personnel but is still armed with 173 triple-barrel Type III PBP turrets and has 98 VLMS sub-capitol missile launch tubes.

Any remaining vessels were stricken from records and scrapped, used for gunnery practice, or sold after 5460.

Only eighteen of these vessels were ever built and served as task force commanders another six were partially completed of those six all were stricken in 5460 C.E. with four being used gunnery practice at different times and destroyed, the fifth was scrapped by the Theban Cluster Fleet with the sixth being sold to a private scrap firm.

Of the eighteen completed vessels the Borneo and Bosporus Strait were stricken in 5460 C.E. with the Borneo being used for gunnery practice and the Bosporus Strait being scrapped.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Bering Sea, Berlin, and Border were destroyed at the battle of Aries Minor [also referred to as The Defection] in 4698 C.E. by Abernathy loyal forces.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Belmont and Bellevue were built and purchased by Theban Heavy Industries and later placed in reserve once they reached their hull lifetime endurance.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Five of the remaining vessels were stricken in 5460 C.E. and sold either to other less advanced military forces [the Boston, Bethesda, and Bel Air] or to private concerns and stripped of weaponry [the Bangladesh and Bentine].

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Bethlehem, Birmingham, and Bellville defected to Abernathy’s forces in 4698 C.E. and were later destroyed at the Battle Of Thebes in 4761 C.E.

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