The F-12 Avenger was part of the Fleet 2300 Project to upgrade America’s starfighter capabilities for the coming century. The primary goal was to build Earth’s first hypercapable starfighter and thereby place America on a more even footing with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The F-7 Hellcat starfighter entered service five decades after Contact, after we’d had time to learn more about the alien gravitic technologies quickly taking over both military and civilian starship design. She was designed and built by the best gravtech[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The F-4 Blackhawk was designed by one of the preeminent design teams of her day, responsible for five successful Pre-Contact space fighters. She quickly showed superiority to America’s first three gravtech fighters, and became the most common American starfighter of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another product of the Fleet 2300 Project, the Austin-class destroyer was designed to bring America to the forefront of small warship technology. While only mounting a single gravitic cannon, two capital laser cannons, and five capital missile launchers on each[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fleet 2300 Project’s goal was to distill a century of reverse engineering alien technologies into new designs built to incorporate those technologies from the hull nuts up. The Los Angeles-class cruiser instead spat those hull nuts out in every[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Product of the Fleet 2300 Program, the Empire-class battleship was the most powerful warship built by the United States of America when The War came upon us all. Three spinal-mounted gravitic cannons backed up by six forward anti-ship lasers comprised[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…