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
Class	Victory Class Destroyer
Fighters	56 Starfuries (both Auroras and Thunderbolts)
Armaments	1 Super Quantum Discharge Cannon 8 Heavy Quantum Discharge Cannons 12 Fusion Beam Cannons Multiple AA Pulse cannons Missile turrets
Defences	10 to 15 meter re-inforced hull with Plasteel / Crystalline Armor Minbari stealth device Gravitic Defence Fields Vorlon Bio-Armor compatible
Propulsion	Gravitic Drive
Power	1 Quantum Gravitic Reactor unknown number of Fusion Reactors
Length	2990.31 meters

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 Known Victory class destroyers
4 See also
5 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 some Vorlon technology. For a ship of its size, (2,990.31 meters = 1.857 miles) it is 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 refracts about 80% of the heat from energy weapons. The Victory's standard firepower is similar to that of a White Star, but it is also equipped with a loose approximation of a Vorlon Star Dreadnought's main armament. This weapon has an upper limit of 42,000 terajoules (10 megatons).

Since the Victory does not have the high energy capacity of a Vorlon ship that the cannon is designed from, firing this weapon will render the ship helpless for a full minute as it regenerates power.

[edit] Known Victory class destroyers

IAS Victory: Appears in the movie A Call to Arms for the first and only time. Captain Anderson commands the IAS Victory prior to the Drakh attack against Earth. Stops the shadow planet killer by ramming a vital junction.
IAS Excalibur: Originally appears in the movie A Call to Arms, and is the primary setting of the Babylon 5 spinoff series, Crusade. President John Sheridan takes command of the IAS Excalibur prior to the Drakh attack on Earth; in the Crusade series, the ship is commanded by Captain Matthew Gideon.