By the end of the war, capital ship design had developed, with battleships becoming faster and battlecruisers becoming more heavily armoured, blurring the distinction between a battlecruiser and a fast battleship. This dismal showing led to a persistent general belief that battlecruisers were too thinly armoured to function successfully. British battlecruisers in particular suffered heavy losses at Jutland, where poor fire safety and ammunition handling practices left them vulnerable to catastrophic magazine explosions following hits to their main turrets from large-calibre shells. However, as more and more battlecruisers were built, they were increasingly used alongside the better-protected battleships.īattlecruisers served in the navies of the United Kingdom, Germany, the Ottoman Empire, Australia and Japan during World War I, most notably at the Battle of the Falkland Islands and in the several raids and skirmishes in the North Sea which culminated in a pitched fleet battle, the Battle of Jutland. The goal of the design was to outrun any ship with similar armament, and chase down any ship with lesser armament they were intended to hunt down slower, older armoured cruisers and destroy them with heavy gunfire while avoiding combat with the more powerful but slower battleships. The first battlecruisers were designed in the United Kingdom, as a development of the armoured cruiser, at the same time as the dreadnought succeeded the pre-dreadnought battleship. Battlecruisers typically had thinner armour (to a varying degree) and a somewhat lighter main gun battery than contemporary battleships, installed on a longer hull with much higher engine power in order to attain greater speeds. These were similar in displacement, armament and cost to battleships, but differed in form and balance of attributes. The battlecruiser (also written as battle cruiser or battle-cruiser) was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century. Overall, it was unspecialized - a jack of all trades but a master of none.HMS Hood, the largest battlecruiser ever built, in Australia on 17 March 1924 It was lacking in rear firepower, and the shields were of middling strength and were vulnerable to bursts of heavy damage. The Resplendent was not without its weaknesses. It boasted decent speed and very powerful forward-facing weaponry, as well as tractor beams for the immobilization of frontal targets. The Resplendent took from and/or improved upon different aspects of the Hapan fleet, notably the incorporation of Hapes' overlapping shield doctrine to provide excellent protection against long-term bombardment additionally, TI's targeting computers were far superior to most Hapan models, and a TI control brain allowed for semi-autonomous functionality.
Its only true weaknesses are less than average firepower on the rear firing arc and a lack of powerful shields, although the overlapping shield generators provided by Hapan construction schematics work to mitigate this somewhat. It's a large craft compared to other Hapan designs, which means longer time on the production line and fewer units, but it compensates for its lack of numerical superiority with an outfit of Tirannan Industries' powerful TI-CRC rail cannons - until now reserved for Tirannan Industries exclusive vessels - and heavy frontal firepower, along with the ability to hold enemies in place in front of it with an array of overclocked tractor beams.
Despite the setback of losing their capitol planet, after two years TI has finally come out with a design: the Resplendent-class. With the offer of a few billion credits, the Ducha commissioned TI to design a blueprint for a new, more powerful, more potent vessel for the Hapan fleet - and more specifically for the Ducha herself, to expand her own power. Realising the inflexibility of Hapan battle doctrine, Ducha Veronia AlGray - after witnessing one of Tirannan Industries' most impressive technological wonders, the Jericho - contacted Tirannan Industries with a proposal.