Final Contingency-class cruiser

Final Contingency-class cruiser.

Length : 1.6 km.

Tonnage : 40 960 000 m3.

Also called 'Contingency-class' for short, Final Contingency-class cruisers were created as part of the European Federation Navy's Final Defence Protocols, and are in fact the last contingency measure on the list. They are simply the last option of the EFSN, when all else is lost. Their goal isn't to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat however, their sole objective is to make sure that if the Federation looses, then no one else will win, and reduce everything to cinders.

The Final Contingency cruiser are the most heavily stealthed ships in Earth human space by a huge margin, able to silently move through Sol with impunity as long as they avoid getting too close to Earth and Mars' massive orbital sensor arrays. Each is equipped with 6 missile launchers, and a carries a total of 18 missiles. A puny armament compared to virtually every warship, even lowly corvettes.

There is a simple catch however. Each of those missiles is a EFHA-OCSO-6 (European Federation High Admiralty - Omega-Class Strategic Ordnance) 'Armageddon' planetbuster missile, each made to wipe out all human life on an entire planet, and render it completely uninhabitable, even when using atmospheric domes, with sufficient stealth and defence network penetration aids to survive entry into Earth or Mars' Orbital Defence Grids.

The Final Contingency-class was originally constructed in response to the Martian Republican Navy's strategic bombardment missiles, created and advertised as a last resort measure in case of an Earth-lead invasion, whose sole goal was to eradicate all life on Earth, to act as deterrence against a potential invasion.

While the ships were several times given the order to be on high alert, usually during major conflicts, only once were they transmitted launch codes and told to stay on stand by for launch orders, during the height of the Europa Crisis. The rest, is history.

Author's notes :

These ships are heavily inspired by the MCRN Stealth C Ballistic Missile Platform from the expanse. Please note that the current file is incomplete, and will be filled out as the story progresses.