Paragon Class Dreadnought

undefinedThe Paragon Class Dreadnoughts were the standing flagships of the dominion navy.

Creation
The Paragon-Class was created using data recovered from the 95th Courdeel War in 1105DE, after discovering the methods by which they could bypass conventional 6th-generation gravitic interdiction and teleport scrambler fields. The ships were designed by Encino the Shipwright with the assistance of several high ranking cies working specifically on the ship's spacetime lattice generator.

The goal was to build up sufficient numbers of ships for the next attempted crusade into Courdeel Space. However the ships were extremely expensive and time consuming to build, and in the following century, only 9 were built. 7 Of these ships worked as the acting flagships of the 7 sectors while the 8th was given to the Galactic Admiral (Sulumai Luss) and the 9th kept on reserve at Kido Vista as an emergency replacement should one of them be destroyed or require heavy maintenance.

Most of this build time was attributed to building and testing the ship's extremely large main reactor (roughly 6km wide and considered powerful for its size) as well as the primary interdiction generator and induction scanner nodes. Assiduous Cooperative shipyards only having a handful of facilities and engineers rated to work on such elaborate components.

The ship was designed with the express purpose of denying an enemy the use of FTL travel or weaponry or the use of stealth vessels (two things which the Courdeel frequently exploited in order to attack or sow chaos, forcing them into a conventional confrontation.) It would function primarily as a command vessel for a large fleet that could command a battle over an entire solar system.

Interdiction Generator
The ship's 7th generation Tau'Noaesuruska Preon Hypercrystal Stabilization engine could project interdiction at a range of around 1,200 astronomical units. (Though the public was told the range was a somewhat more modest 1,000 astronomical units.) This range being orders of magnitude greater than typical interdiction while being even harder to bypass than that of a 6th generation interdictor. This interdiction field could force an attacking foe to travel for weeks or months at sub-light speed to reach effective combat ranges or to escape the range of the ship. This field could be dropped or re-engaged over segmented regions of space around one tenth of an AU across to allow some ships to jump or FTL weapons to be fired while the field remained mostly intact.

"Omniscience" Induction Scanner System
The ship's MK909 Induction scanner system is the most advanced iteration of induction scanner technology. Resolving the sensor range and resolution issues possessed by lesser systems. The scanner works by emitting ultra low energy oscillating exotic bosons through subspace.

These particles would arc across higher dimensions and return at massively FTL speeds. This allowed the ship to not only scan ships across three dimensions but preform the scans while interdiction was active. This was accomplished by emitting exotic bosons on a frequency which matched the preon rod spacing of the interdiction crystal.

This made the hypercrystal transparent to the radiation from very specific frequencies and angles which the sensor would operate while under interdiction, ensuring there would never be an interaction between the particle and the crystal and thus the scanner to function normally. There were in fact several such frequencies that this was possible. Seeing as this ability could expose a potential vulnerability within the interdiction system the frequency for doing so was considered above top secret.

Epyon Tessacomputer and "Faultfinder" Software System
The ship's primary computer core was comprised of an Epyon Tessacomputer system. This computer contained 1,073,741,824 roughly 10 cm cubed menger sponge superconducting processors arranged in a 1024x1024x1024 matrix, chilled inside a liquid helium active cooling loop with quantum entangled traces running between the cores. These traces meant that signals were sent between different operations in the processing core across four dimensions, in essence a 4 dimensional system with around 1 billion 3d layers.

The CPU was capable of 7x10^42 computations per second. This processing power could be sourced for a variety of uses, though the primary one was to be employ the faultfinder system. Utilizing the highly advanced simulations in conjunction with the induction scanner system the system could identify weaknesses in enemy ships or attack patterns and relay this information to allied forces. This allowed a form of "pressure point" attack against enemy vessels or installations, by hitting a select few subsystems very precisely destroy them.

Timeline C-88
8 of the 9 Paragons created were destroyed during the animus war, leaving only the original Paragon class (Named the Paragon, as it was the original ship of its class.) The ship was kept inside an asteroid base until the final days of war and used in Operation False God. Officially this ship had been listed as being cannibalized for parts to build the other ships faster, and this operation led to it being revealed to the public.

The Paragon was refitted extensively to carry Subspace Displacement weaponry, and three additional Paragon class ships were produced by the time of the Arvah War bringing the total number to four. Seeing as between 1105 and 1208; 9 ships were built (it taking 11.4 years to build each one, on average) and 10 ships were built between 1213 and 1223 (taking 3.33 years, though the ships were actually built in parallel) would seem to indicate the production process was streamlined considerably.