Converse Class Dreadnaught
Virran Solar Empire
Current Flagship
VSE Juggernaught, also the name of the current king, who over threw Borrus, the old ruler



Weapons:

Phased Cannon: A massive energy weapon mounted on the nose of the ship. The ships most powerful conventional weapon, at long and medium ranges it can destroy a ship in less than a minute, and at short range it totally bypasses shields and armor, cutting right through the hull. One of the most powerful directed energy weapons to date.

Zero Point Manipulator: While not actually a weapon, it is a powerfull asset. This is the device comming down from the hull near the front. Its technology allows it to manipulate space to an amazing degree. Its most destructive function is to alter a small pocket of space, and warp reality there. This interfers with the Kanari Zero Point Energy System, which draw energy from the fabric of our universe. It forces the space around the ship into a slightly different universe, and the ZPES of Kanari ships cannot draw power anymore. Its like putting diesle fuel into a normal gas engine, it doesnt work. This disablies the powerplants on Kanari cruisers that it is directed towards. Also this device can supposedly warp space to allow intergalactic travel, but this is not proven.

Plasma Cannons: Located on the port and starboard sides of the hull, these guns fire massive balls of superheated plasma. They explode on impact, causing heavy splash damage, unlike Kanari versions of plasma weapons that compress the plasma into a beam which cuts right through the target. This weapon is most useful on large and stationary targets.

Shield Piercing Missles: While the exact workings are unknown, it is known though that the Virrans have developed an amazing missle type that is totally unaffected by shielding. Various warheads can be loaded on to it. While shields cannot stop them, normal anti-missle lasers will destroy them before hitting the target.

Heavy Turrets: 2 dual barrel turrets are located on both sides of the dreadnaught. Basically large railguns, but can be pointed in many directions making them especially dangerous. Shells like these can be equiped with the shield piercing adaptation.

Various Cannons: Making up the bulk of the ships armament, cannons and railguns of many different types dot the hull. Also several types of laser weapons dot the hull as well.

Various Rockets: There are missle and rocket launchers in some places on the ship. Can fire things from anti-fighter rockets to nuclear missles.




Defenses:

Heavy Shielding: Powered directly from the cruisers prototype Dark Matter Reactor, these shields regenerate incredibly fast, and provide strong defenses. The shield mitigation is extremely high, allowing it to negate weapons damage to it.

Hanger: The large part of the bottom of the ship is a hanger bay containing a large number of Gnat class fighters and Missle Boats. The Gnat is a small, fast, lightly shielded fighter. It uses its high speed and heavy missles to deal massive damage to targets. The Missle Boat is a slow, but heavily shielded and armed corvette. it has 2 cannons and 3 turrets. But its main weapon is its heavy shield piercing missle batteries. If this ship can close the distance to the target, damage is insured


VIRRAN RACE BACKGROUND

Thousands of years ago the Virrans were one of the most powerful races in the galaxy. At one point in there past they joined sides with a mysterious faction called the Ravagers, who have been know to consume entire galaxies. Together with them, they aggreed to divide up the universe 50/50, half for the Virrans to rule, half for the Ravagers to devour. Eventually one race or group stood up to them, a race with amazing genetic engineering abliities, The Modifiers, the creaters of the Kanari race. They fought back against the Ravagers and the Virrans. After more than a thousand years of war eventually the final battle took place in the Milky Way Galaxy, the Virrans home territory. All sides were loosing ships dramatically fast, but the Modifiers gained the advantage. They seperated the Alliance forces, pushing the Ravagers to the Center of the Galaxy, and pushing the Virrans back toward their homeworld, Vi. The Modifiers destroyed every Virran ship and colony, leaving just the homeplanet. Unwilling to destroy the species outright, they had an alternative. With their knowledge of genetic engineering, they created a special weapon and bombarded the planet with it. This re-engineered the Virrans' genetic stucture, forcing them to devolve back down into primative animals. All of their current knowledge was useless to these dumbed down animals, and the Modifiers left them to fight the Ravagers..... But the Virrans evolved once to be a dominant intergalactic power, and are doing so again...


After the over-throwing of King Borrus, high-tech Virran ships began to make an appearence on the galactic scene. Normal Virran ships are old and poorly armed, but now are becomming equiped with better weaponry and technology than currently was known. The technology of the race is rapidly advancing again, the effects of the bioweapon seems to have completely disappeared, and they advance a new, wanting to reclaim their old kingdom...