Victory class destroyer

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Victory class destroyer
The IAS Excalibur with a White Star.
First appearance	Babylon 5: A Call to Arms
Last appearance	Each Night I Dream of Home
General Characteristics
Fighters	Starfuries
Armaments	Quantum discharge cannon Pulse cannons Missile turrets
Defences	Reinforced hull Minbari stealth device

The Victory class destroyer is a heavy destroyer in the fictional universe of Babylon 5. The Victory-class is the descendant of the White Star-class starship and is the most powerful starship the Interstellar Alliance has. Two ships were built: the Victory and the Excalibur.

1 History
2 Design
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

The Victory class destroyer came about from the needs of one man: President John Sheridan, the first president of the Interstellar Alliance. The President believed the new-born alliance needed a large, heavy assault capital ship to replace the smaller White Stars, which made up the bulk of the Alliance fleet, to carry out the Alliance's military operations.

[edit] Design

Designed to have all the strengths of the White Star but none of the weaknesses, the Victory-class destroyer was incorporated with the best and newest technologies from both Minbar and Earth plus the advanced Vorlon. For a ship of 2,990.31 meters (1.857 miles) it is incredibly fast and maneuverable. The Victory can reach speeds in normal space of 3,000,000 m/s. For defenses, its armor is made of a Plasteel/Poly-Crystalline armor mesh which reflects about 80% of the heat from energy weapons. The Victory's standard caliber firepower is similar to a White Star's, but its main caliber however has an upper limit of 42,000 terajoules (10 megatons). Since the Victory does not have the energy capacity of a Vorlon ship that the cannon is based on, firing this weapon will render the ship helpless for a full minute as it regenerates power.