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With the previous bulk transport* as a base (in a very loose sense, as only the spine was kept, and even that was cut in many parts) here's the warship. Of course any sensible or normal nationstate wouldn't be resorting to anything this ghetto but once again it's a post apocalypse space opera. These are idiots with whatever they got in their neighborhood.

The idea is that in the STL (i.e. real space aspect) part of travel the ship will switch its orientation halfway through the trip (with the whole acceleration/deacceleration thing), thus the main defensive armaments (the 6 massive laser turrets) need to be able to fire directly forward and backward (or rather, upward and downward from the orientation of the crew at hand). The missile VLS cells (total of 64 cells) are the main offensive armaments, while the smaller missile launders are just... whatever, IDK. Plenty of sensors all over the place pointing at all directions. There's a shuttle bay and the hab/crew sections are buried deep in the hull.

Most of the mass at gross tonnage is due to propellant/fuel, because in hard scifi in space one has to carry all their own medium of propulsion, rather than move through another medium (whether it be ground, water, or air).

*www.deviantart.com/markpoe/art…

Description
With the previous bulk transport* as a base (in a very loose sense, as only the spine was kept, and even that was cut in many parts) here's the warship. Of course any sensible or normal nationstate wouldn't be resorting to anything this ghetto but once again it's a post apocalypse space opera. These are idiots with whatever they got in their neighborhood.

The idea is that in the STL (i.e. real space aspect) part of travel the ship will switch its orientation halfway through the trip (with the whole acceleration/deacceleration thing), thus the main defensive armaments (the 6 massive laser turrets) need to be able to fire directly forward and backward (or rather, upward and downward from the orientation of the crew at hand). The missile VLS cells (total of 64 cells) are the main offensive armaments, while the smaller missile launders are just... whatever, IDK. Plenty of sensors all over the place pointing at all directions. There's a shuttle bay and the hab/crew sections are buried deep in the hull.

Most of the mass at gross tonnage is due to propellant/fuel, because in hard scifi in space one has to carry all their own medium of propulsion, rather than move through another medium (whether it be ground, water, or air).

*www.deviantart.com/markpoe/art…