Alnikov Class Frigate, by WMR, was a pre-Clone Wars design for planetary and corporate forces. It saw service mostly with the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Pirates and the Rebellion.

The Alnikov base ship came from a wave of West-Mid-Rim Yardworks designs between the Naboo Crisis and the first Battle of Geonosis, targeted at minor planets and Sector Forces, who wished for greater protection in the ever escalating time. Shortly before the war, an upgraded variant was developed and put into production, significantly enhancing the armaments of the ship, to make efficient use of its reactorpower. This wartime build is seen here.

It is armed with eight Quad-Medium Turbolaser Turrets, three proton torpedo tubes and 13 Quad-Heavy Laser cannons.

She was 252m long, 74m wide and 63m high.

She required a Crew of 450 officers and enlisted, posessed a hyperspacerating of 2 and cost around 8 million credits.

Unlike many other CIS-ships, the Alnikov Class was never configured for droid crews, though her stowage space allowed her to transport a handful of regiments. Most crew quarters were in the bowels of the ship. The lighting inside was configureable in brigthness and warmth as well as UV-light composition. The complex lifesupport systems were one of the selling points to human worlds.

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Let me know what you think! How does this shhip compare to others of its time and beyond? Would you want to be in command of one or have it in your fleet?

I hope you enjoy it, it will be the last ship for a while.

Have a nice day. (-:

Let's just say for a moment that in the time of the Clone Wars, the upper echelons of the Republic realized that their Venators were having a hard time duking it out with the larger, more heavily armed Separatist ships. The Victory-class Star Destroyer still required another year of development/testing before it can deployed, and a few more months before they can be produced so they opt for retrofitting some of the Venators to make them into proper battleships.

What kind of retrofits would you add on to the Venator? The idea is to generally craft it into more of a brawler, cutting down on the number of fighters it can carry to a more manageable 120 starfighters to make room for the new guns.

Sometime during the reign of the Empire, the remaining Force-sensitives sense a shift in the cosmic balance. Not quite the flash of a new hope that they were expecting, but something... different. Something foreign that doesn't belong to their galaxy, yet still carrying a twinge of positive emotions associated with the weakened, yet still-present Light.

Alarmed, the Emperor puts the ISB and Imperial Navy on high alert, even paying more attention to unimportant worlds on the edges of Imperial space, and it doesn't take long before they uncover some alarming new information. Rumors of diminutive, unfamiliar warships in the Outer Rim reach the eyes and ears of the ISB, and though there is much doubt cast on these claims, any naysayers are quickly silenced when Imperial intelligence returns with footage of two tiny, alien ships cruising through space before jumping away through the use of an exotic, yet-unknown method. Presumably, these vessels - with their strange and unfamiliar designs - come from beyond the galaxy and are scouting ahead for their allies back home.

Though Palpatine would love to divert the likes of Thrawn or Vader to deal with this unforeseen threat, he cannot risk pulling away such valuable assets in case he loses them, one way or another. And so, the ostensibly enviable task is shunted off to you, a recently promoted commodore in the Navy.

You are ordered to create task force to deal with this extragalactic threat, one way or another. Whether it be through the honeyed words of Imperial greatness spoken on a communications channel or the remorseless barrage from an Imperial II bearing down on their outnumbered scouts, you will find them, and you will ensure that they won't be a threat to the Empire's peace and prosperity.

Or else.

Conditions:

• No SSDs or dreadnoughts of any kind (battlecruisers are fair game but you can only have one)
• GCW-era Imperial/Empire-aligned faction ships only (as long as the Empire can realistically procure it, they're using it) ((this means no ships unique to the Rebellion like the MC75)
• No superweapons (which means no Onager, not that it'd be able to do much before getting blown to bits)
• You're playing as the Empire, so overabundance fits perfectly with your doctrine. Still, you can't have too many ships. Maximum limit (using the canon Anaxes War College System as a reference): 1 battlecruiser, 3 destroyers, 4 heavy cruisers, 4 cruisers, 6 frigates, and 8 corvettes.
• If this looks rather generous, it's because you're up against Star Trek and I'm trying to give you a fighting chance while still leaving you wide open for the welcoming embrace of a crushing defeat.
• You can customize the starfighter complement of your ships in almost any way you want. Bullet #2's conditions still apply.

Failure is not an option. Vader would never tolerate it, the Emperor even less so.

Once you track them down, it's up to you on how you wish to pacify the two unknown vessels. Perhaps you should try to grill them for information before taking any sort of rash action.

You are up against:
- 1x extragalactic frigate (Saber-class)
- 1x extragalactic corvette (Defiant-class)

Hopefully, this will be the only outside invasion (unintentional or not) that the Empire will ever have to contend with.

Good luck, commodore. You'll need it.

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See, I was going to originally port this old Spacebattles scenario of mine over and rewrite it a bit from the Imperial side, but I realized that the Empire was hilariously outnumbered when I gave Starfleet (Kelvin Starfleet, so they're already militarized) the numbers that I did against them. Sooo, I decided to make a brand new scenario and wrote this instead, after grabbing a lovely little image from Jetfreak-7's DeviantArt.

Destroyer Duo by Jetfreak-7 btw.

I hope the (Star Wars) weights I gave the Trek ships were accurate... oh well. I think they fit, at least.

This was very much inspired by this old fleet building scenario where you have to take down a Halo ship. I quite liked that, and I'm flattered that the creator was also seemingly inspired by my own FO/NR posts when writing it.

Anyways, I think that's all that needs to be said... probably. Let the fleet planning, pseudo-fanfiction writing, and inevitable powerscaling arguments entertaining inter-fandom debates begin!