Talk:Enceladus Aerospace Fleet/@comment-11135771-20141030005501

In response to the attacks by the Prometheus Corporation and the terrible losses suffered by the EAF fleet, a new warship was developed to help combat the enemies of Enceladus.

The Ashfall-class battlecruiser is perhaps the most technologically advanced vessel in the entire EAF fleet, equipped with top of the line sensors, the best available propulsion systems, and an integrated warp disruption field projector. It is a true battlecruiser-type warship, sacrificing thick armor in favour of a massive missile battery and extremely powerful engines.

In addition to this, the Ashfall-class is armed with a newly developed electrolaser weapon mounted in the bow. The electrolaser operates by firing a high energy laser pulse at a target to create a channel of ionized air, which is then used to guide an extremely powerful electric discharge. Due to the airless nature of space, the weapon must utilize a small particle beam emitter to conduct the electrical discharge for use in exoatmospheric engagements. The electrolaser is capable of quickly disabling the subsystems of an enemy warship from long range, short circuiting the target's systems and wreaking havoc on its electronics, in addition to the immense thermal damage caused by the weapon. Firing comes at a great energy cost however, and it even with an antimatter reactor, it takes approximately 120 seconds to regenerate the energy needed to fire once at full power without having to disable some of the ship's other systems.