Victory class destroyer

Infobox Fictional Spacecraft
name = "Victory" class destroyer

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caption = The IAS "Excalibur" with a White Star.
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class = Victory Class Destroyer
fighters = 56 Starfuries (both Auroras and Thunderbolts)
armaments = 1 Super Quantum Discharge Cannon
8 Heavy Quantum Discharge Cannons
12 Fusion Beam Cannons
Multiple AA Pulse cannons
Missile turrets
defense = 10 to 15 meter re-inforced hull with Plasteel / Crystalline Armor
Minbari stealth device
Gravitic Defence Fields
Vorlon Bio-Armor compatible
propulsion = Gravitic Drive
power = 1 Quantum Gravitic Reactor
unknown number of Fusion Reactors
length = 2990.31 metersThe "Victory" class destroyer is a heavy destroyer in the fictional universe of Babylon 5. The "Victory" class is the descendant of the "White Star" class starship and is the most powerful starship the Interstellar Alliance has. Two ships were built: the "Victory" and the "Excalibur".

History

The "Victory" class destroyer came about from the needs of one man: President John Sheridan, the first president of the Interstellar Alliance. The President believed the new-born alliance needed a large, heavy assault capital ship to replace the smaller White Stars, which made up the bulk of the Alliance fleet, to carry out the Alliance's military operations.

Design

Designed to have all the strengths of the White Star but none of the weaknesses, the "Victory" class destroyer was incorporated with the best and newest technologies from both Minbar and Earth plus some Vorlon technology. For a ship of its size, "(2,990.31 meters = 1.857 miles)" it is fast and maneuverable. The "Victory" can reach speeds in normal space of 3,000,000 m/s. For defenses, its armor is made of a Plasteel/Poly-Crystalline armor mesh which refracts about 80% of the heat from energy weapons. The "Victory"'s standard firepower is similar to that of a White Star, but it is also equipped with a loose approximation of a Vorlon Star Dreadnought's main armament. This weapon has an upper limit of 42,000 terajoules (10 megatons).

Since the "Victory" does not have the high energy capacity of a Vorlon ship that the cannon is designed from, firing this weapon will render the ship helpless for a full minute as it regenerates power.

Known Victory class destroyers

* "IAS" "Victory": Appears in the movie "" for the first and only time. Captain Anderson commands the "IAS Victory" prior to the Drakh attack against Earth. Stops the shadow planet killer by ramming a vital junction.
* "IAS" "Excalibur": Originally appears in the movie "", and is the primary setting of the "Babylon 5" spinoff series, "Crusade". President John Sheridan takes command of the "IAS Excalibur" prior to the Drakh attack on Earth; in the "Crusade" series, the ship is commanded by Captain Matthew Gideon.

See also

* Excalibur

External links

* [http://www.isnnews.net/hyperspace/inter/index.html Hyperspace]
* [http://www.babtech-onthe.net/alliance/excalibur.html Babtech-onthe.net]