Siloship

Children of a Dead Earth is a hard science fiction space warfare simulator. It heavily, HEAVILY, emphasizes realistic physics and customization.

It is set in the relatively near future after a cataclysm made Earth uninhabitable and humanity has been colonizing the solar system.

The Siloship is a Republic of the Free People medium sized capitol ship built around a large payload of nuclear missiles.

Its primary purpose is long range (100 to >10,000 km) missile strikes against enemies within the same sphere of influence as the Siloship.

While it does have some railguns, these are not anywhere near enough firepower to go toe to toe against dedicated close range ships without heavily damaging them with nukes first.

Internal layout.

Weapon layout.

Flare Launcher Locations (This is in the same area as the Striker Missile Launchers).

Meta Information

Most non-text based pages will have color coding like this.

• Red box: Where the relevant information is.

• Red: Weapons and launched objects.

• Blue: Ship/missile manuvering

• Green: Armor and observability

• Uncolored: Miscellaneous information

If you don't know some specific term used in the RT, it might be defined in here.

In this RT there are a few sections about the material properties of the various armors the Siloship uses. If you don't know what stuff like "Young's modulus" or "Poisson's Ratio" means then look in this for the definitions.

Ship handling

Miscellaneous Ship handling details

• For interplanetary transfers additional fuel tanks are attached to the ship to increase delta-v. These tanks are ejected well before combat starts, generally when entering orbit of the target body, because they reduce the ship's max acceleration.

• The Siloship's total missile armament makes up close to 10% of it's mass. Expending missiles will noticeably increase the Siloship's maximum acceleration and delta-V.

• Taking battle damage, for instance getting the ship cut in half, can also improve maximum acceleration as long as the engines are not damaged.

• Engine Stats

  • Titanium Nitride

Armor/defenses/durability/endurence

Armor

Miscellaneous

• All other components also have some additional armor. The specifics depend on the component.

• As long as a crew module is attached to a section, the crew can continue using that section (assuming it has power) even if the other half of the ship has been blown off.

• The ship has enough supplies to last for at least six months if not more before needing to restock.

• The crew is prepared and likely trained to deal with boarding actions.

Flare Launcher

• *The launcher's full launch rate will never be used in practice. Flares are normally deployed in small groups of 5-10 as enemy missiles are within 10 seconds of intercepting the Siloship.

• †This module is armored very heavily because the explosive bolts used can cook off and deal considerable damage to the Siloship if they are hit directly with hypervelocity rounds or a high energy laser.

  • If the enemy capitol ships are closing into gun range it can be a good strategy to launch all the flares before entering close quarters combat (20-1000 km depending on enemy fleet configuration) as that will prevent a cook off.

13 MW 11mm Autofire Railgun

The 13 MW railguns can be used for point defense. But against anything smaller much smaller than drones (although this weapon isn't particularly effective against Children of a Dead Earth drones for a number of reasons), or missiles they will be extremely ineffective.

Weapons

The Siloship's primary weapons are its Devastator and Striker nuclear missiles.

Its secondary armament, the 11mm railguns, is would mostly be used for point defense against missiles and drones.

Missiles

The Siloship carries two types of missiles, Devastator and Striker Missiles.

Both use fission warheads though the Devastator is far more powerful than the Striker.

The missiles are guided by the Siloship's crew until they get within a ~10-50 kilometers of the target. After that they switch to heat seeking and will try to hit the largest heat source they can see.

These are usually deployed in pods of 10 or more missiles (depending on target). This is to so they can overwhelm the point defense of their target while also not firing so many missiles egregious numbers of them will be wasted due to the nuclear detonations mission killing nearby friendly missiles. These missiles are extremely safe in that it is extremely difficult to set them off without using the detonator. This of course has the downside that it is possible they can and will damage each other preventing the every missile in the pod from detonating on the target.

NOTE: The radiators for these launchers are located midship and a bit towards the stern (there are two on opposite sides of the ship, one provides cooling for the four Devestator Launchers and the other provides cooling for the six Striker Launchers) . If the launcher's radiator get damaged it will be unable to function. Additionally if the Siloship's power plant or power plant radiators (stern-most radiators) get sufficiently damaged the launchers will not have enough power to function.

• Additional Details

  • Devastator Warhead
  • Striker Warhead
  • Nuclear Chain Reactions
  • Sensors and Stealth
  • Homing and Countermeasures
  • Remote Control
  • Missile Guidance

13 MW 11mm Autofire Railgun

The Siloship's railgun is a hypervelocity weapon. Without getting too bogged down in the physics of what that means, the rounds instead of behaving like a solid object when they hit a target violently explode more like a high explosive.

The Siloship has a total of eight turrets but only one can fire continuously at any given moment due to the fact the railgun takes 13 MW of power and the Siloship's power plant can only supply 13.5 MW of power.

If the large aft radiators are damaged sufficently the Siloship's power plant will be unable to function. If that occurs then the Siloship will be unable to fire any of it's railguns.

• Additional Details

  • Hypervelocity
  • General Stats
  • Power Plant Stats

If you have any questions feel free to ask.