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S.S. Hannibal

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The S.S. Hannibal is a Colin Powell-Class Battleship, often used as a flagship and anchor of major battlefleets. The ships are tough, employ bleeding edge technology, and hit extremely hard. However, they are not designed for long cruises or long-term independent operations. They are designed to engage other capital ships, and can be swarmed by large numbers of fighters and light combat vessels, like destroyers and frigates, if unescorted.
Since the Protectorate has never been able to field much-vaunted "forcefield" technology to protect their ships, they went the opposite direction with the Powell-class and gave them incredibly durable armor, designed to deflect and dissipate radiation and kinetic energy across the hull.
The ships mount a gauss cannon that fires a two-ton armor piercing depleted uranium slug as their primary weapon. Inside the shell is two ounces of anti-matter in a magnetic bottle. When the shell impacts a target, penetrating its hull, the magnetic field fails, causing the anti-matter to interact with the shell and explode into millions of high-speed depleted uranium fragments.
The effect has been likened to a nuclear, armor piercing, anti-personnel device. The damage on a direct hit can be catastrophic. In battle, most enemy ships do their best to stay out of the forward firing arc of this ship, and some Powell commanders have discovered they can "herd" enemy ships in the direction they want them to go simply by pointing their bow at them.
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Your objects and rendering are breathtaking and your stories are Amazing!