Vesta
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Vesta Class Sa'arm Battleship
The Vesta is considered a "Battleship" simply because it is huge, it is ponderous, and it has a huge number of weapons.
Its weakness is the same thing: it is huge, ponderous, and has a lot of weapons. It is armed with the same Medium Particle Beam turrets as the Sa'arm cruisers, destroyers, and smaller warships, just more of them. It has no answer to the Confederacy Navy's newer long-range weapons. If it can be separated from its smaller escorts, any missile-, railgun-, or coilgun-carrying warship can sit out of range of its Particle Beams and slowly pick it apart. It certainly can't dodge out of the way.
Details known
- Has more than 30 Medium Particle Beam turrets. Maybe 72 (3^4)?
Story Usage
A textual analysis of the story repository, current as of 2018 and performed on 2019-09-06 identified the following usage counts for Vesta:
- Chosen Frozen II by lordshipmayhem 4 instances.
- Crisis at Ishtar by Allan Joyal 3 instances.
- Guerilla by Zipper D Dude 3 instances.
- Independent Command by Zen Master 9 instances.
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