Fiction:Delpha Coalition of Planets/Fleet

"''They came out of hyperspace in their terrible ships, all guns blazing. The battle lasted just two minutes, and our entire fleet of 550 vessels around our colony turned to dust, and our world was immediately glassed. Then, our next colony was destroyed just as quickly, a Gargantuan Class decloaked and fired a strange weapon into the colonies sun, which then went Supernova, and whithin a day, the entire syastem was in chaos.  The next day, the Emperor's palace ship landed on our capital, and crushed it.  We knew then, that our empire was finished..."

- Dromanji survivor.

The Delpha Coalition of Planets and Grimbolsaurian empire has had many ships in service in its 300+ year history. Their warships are very powerful, and striked fear into the hearts of many empires across the Milky Way and Tigris galaxies.
 * You will probably notice (as many empires have remarked), alot of the latest ships have floating parts, and hovering balls and streams of pure energy. These are capable of manipulating space and time in some interesting ways.  Parts of the ships may even be composed of spacetime topological defects and electromagnetic fields.  This is an example of the DCP's advanced technology, which goes beyond normal materials.

Gallery
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About the fleet
The DCP has thousands of ships in its command, which are assigned to many different purposes.
 * Home fleet: Trade, missions and diplomacy around the Delpha Sector, the home of the DCP - 10,000 ships.
 * Science fleet: Science and testing new technologies - 738,000 ships.
 * Defense grid: Defends home worlds and major colonies in orbiting defense grids - A few thousand star fighters and defense satellites.
 * Attack fleets
 * Attack fleet 1: The usual DCP attack fleet, composed of Ion battleships, DCP attack cruisers and star fighters - 250,000,000+ starships.
 * Attack fleet 2: If the normal attack fleet runs into trouble - hundreds of thousands + ships.
 * Coalition navy: Composed of the member empires and allied ships - Thousands.
 * Emperor Wormulus II platinum fleet: The Emperors personnel fleet, composed of Dreadnoughts and the four Gargantuan classes. The fleet is led by the palace ship - 3005 vessels.
 * Admiral Kilnok's gold fleet: Admiral Kilnok is such a hero to the DCP and galaxy, he gets his own fleet - 1000 + ships.

Historical ships
The starships of the DCP are always being updated. The Double Saucer is the only ship that is still used from the earlier eras.

Fusion rocket - Early Exploration Era
An interplanetary starship, this was powered by primitive fusion reactors. It also used gravitational slingshots to increase its speed. They gathered much data, colonised Loranza and created a "wildlife sanctury", so that if Mirenton undergoes a global catastrophe, life still persists. The sanctury was not terrafomed, but was instead an enclosed ecosystem, much like the Eden Project in Cornwall, UK. It was later terrafomed however.
 * Task:To explore the Chilius system.
 * Size:150 meters in length
 * Weapons/defense:None
 * Tools:Scan/scientific instruments, radio, 1 colony pack
 * Significant events:The early exploration of the Grimbolsaurians home star system.

Star Cruiser 1 - Star liner
This is the first interstellar starship of the Grimbolsaurian race with low warp capabilities. However it pioneered in interstellar travel, discovering new species and colonising/terraforming star systems.
 * Task:Travel to nearby star systems.
 * Size:85 meters in length
 * Weapons/defense:Mini laser
 * Tools:Scan, Seti, later terraforming tools, 1 colony pack
 * Significant events:First contact with the Brawgles, Colonisation of 5 stars, terraforming, expedition to Lagross nebula, Ruined Planet

Star Cruiser 2 - BattleDriver
Things were going well for the Grimbolsaurians, until they met the Wub Alliance. They Conquered the young empire, but one of the battledrivers escaped, it was Cadet Kilnok, and he allied and united the Jarzo, Yoburt, Chibby and Brawgle empires. The DCP was formed, and eventually defeated the Wubs, Warzoleski and Quinels Alliance.
 * Task:Defend Mirenton
 * Size:124 meters in length
 * Weapons/defense:Mini laser, proton missiles, railguns
 * Tools:Scan, Seti, abduct
 * Significant events:The formation of the DCP, and defeat of the Wub Alliance.

Ion Prototype - Empire Era
This eventually gave way to the Ion battleship and other modern DCP ships.
 * Task:Perform missions, test new technologies
 * Size:456 meters in length
 * Weapons:Disrupters, proton missiles, antimatter missiles
 * Tools:Spore tools
 * Significant events:Many missions and adventures for the early DCP

Trauton Class Heavy Cruiser - Empire to Early Grox Resistence era's
This ship is now an abandoned class of warships, which while powerful in their own right, were cut to pieces by the more maneuverable Grox ships. They were replaced by Ion battleships and other later warship designs. However, a few are still in service, and some have been put back in commission as an extra force against the Xhodocto.
 * Task:Plays a defensive/offensive role
 * Size:347 meters in length
 * Weapons:Heavy blaster cannon, point and defense heavy turrets, railguns, proton missiles
 * Tools:Scan, abduct, Seti, troop transport
 * Significant events:Small wars, early battles with the Grox