Christ... will you two drop it already? Who FREAKING cares?!

I've got a great idea, why don't one of you buy a plane ticket, fly to the other's home, and then shoot each other. It'll save us from reading this crap.

Ha ha ha! You think I was gone for good, eh! BOO!!!

Now that I've gotten my internet provider issues, and other things, squared away, at long last I present the oldest of the Confederacy's battleships:

Kyushu-class Battleship



Although the youngest ships in this class are over fifty years old, the Kyushu-class battleship is still a potent weapons platform.



Although she carries fewer and smaller guns than the Mars, the Kyushu is only a few hundred meters shorter than the newer vessel. However a great deal of the vessel's length is taken up by an extended ram bow. The extra long bow helps insulate the critical areas of the hull from the force of a collision with an enemy vessel, and allows the heavily reinforced and armored bow to penetrate deep within a target.



Stern view. The exposed engines with flared bells is going to be a common feature on older vessels.



Dorsal superstructure centered on the main bridge and gunnery control tower. Like all Confederate battleships the Kyushu supplements its larger turrets with lighter guns for use against smaller targets.



Ventral superstructure.



Closeup of the dual 180mm air defense gun. These coilguns are the standard small-scale AAA defenses on most Confederate warships.

Notes:

I've been toying with the idea of shortening the Kyushu's ram, but haven't decided for sure yet.

The main turrets are also slightly smaller than the main guns of the Mars and Trafalgar, with an internal bore of 500cm rather than 570.

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Comparison shot of all three Confederate battleships (sillouhette).



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Kyushu? What, did you figure most people wouldn't know what that was?

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You tell 'em, Spuer.

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I like it. Never really realized how large the Trafalgar was before that comparison diagram.

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Super: What?!

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I'm asking if, by choosing something obscure for the name, you figured you could fool people into thinking you INVENTED it.

Kyushu: One of the Japanese home islands. No I don't expect anyone to think it's a made-up word. I chose it BECAUSE it was a real place, and all ships of this class are named for countries/continents/oceans/etc.

If I'm going to use made-up names I won't use something obscure and try to pass it off.

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Whatever, I was just trying to find something to do. Besides, HAD you actually done that you would probably have pulled it off.