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 (both Auroras and Thunderbolts)
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 that of a White Star, 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.