VSE Çekan

The VSE Çekan, The Çekan, or occasionally called the "The Sheikh" by the UOC's CCC, is a powerful, Vondunke, interstellar, Vroten class, Heavy Battlecruiser Dreadnaught.

Composition
The ship as a whole masses 4,200,000 megatons (4.2e+16 kg) with a length of 60 km and a diameter of 20 km. It is comprised primarily of Boron-Nitride, Aramid, and Silicon Carbide with significant quantities of Tungsten alloy, and Niobium–Titanium.

Weapons
It is equipped with over four thousand secondary weapons each using multiple exawatts. They are powered by muon catalyzed fusion, consuming a few ten kilotons of hydrogen per second. The weapons are versatile and can be used to fire: Graser's; slow, guided, RKM volleys (either fusion tipped of kinetic); short range Kugelblitz bombs, or shovers.

These engines can also be used to power defenses, creating plasma waves, extreme radio interference, laser nets, debris clouds, and/or anti-volley nukes. The Çekan garrisons 30-40 quadrillion battle drones as well as docking 8 Cruisers, 2 last light Pulsars, and over a hundred void screamer frigates. The pulsars themselves are docked in such a way as to act as the primary ships weapons, giving the Sheikh four massive multi-zettawatt weapon engines. In addition to the Primary and Secondary engines many hundreds of thousands of tertiary weapons are also onboard.

Defenses
The ship is protected by a double hull, between the two hulls each around 150 meters thick, is a thin atmospheric pocket of ionized plasma. An electrical current is run through this and the hulls creating a magnetic/radio bubble. The hulls comprise about 10% of the ships overall mass.

On either side of the craft are two large baryonic shields, designed as a skeleton made of a series of 3-D triangle patterns, it has many compact shields, each around 2 meters thick, these can quickly unfold to cover the gaps between the bones of the shield. It also has many drone boxes that can let out anything from a 100 kg drone to debris meant to disable incoming weapons, Nodes on the beams of the shield can emit 2-D laser nets, radio interference, RKM killers, antimatter containment interference, waves of ionized plasma, relativistic grape shot, sniper drones, counter Kugelblitz, high albedo umbrellas, and short range anti volley nukes. The shields are connected to the main craft by sixteen 50 km beams, and four powerful pull/push magnets. They can also act similar to fins, which help when entering a Oyster type Battle station or a large celestial body such as the upper atmosphere of a gas giant. They are equipped with small rocket engines, and can also catch laser pushers. Their dimensions are 60 km long by 20 km tall and are arranged in a 3-D triangular pattern around a km in breadth.

Capabilities
The Battlecruiser is designed for quick fleet on fleet confrontation not lasting more than a few minutes. With the plan to completely overwhelm the enemy, during this time it may use 40,000 megatons of hydrogen and other elements or 1% of its total mass, Emitting 7.5e+24 Joules of energy, and releasing 5.e+20 calories of energy to the ship, quickly raising 840,000 megatons of coolant from 20 K to > 300 K.

In a stars inner system, the ship can go into a "substellar" mode, extending solar panels for auxiliary power and unfolding itself into a small battle station to oversee the star systems operations. When in this mode the main hull is shaped like a parabola, It's secondary engines become push lasers, and interplanetary laser relay's.

History
The VSE Çekan was created as one of five identical dreadnoughts during the grey wars (an interstellar conflict fought primarily in the Majestic Cluster). The five dreadnaughts together were unofficially dubbed "Glanorth's Battle Knights" by the members of the supreme directories of Energy and Transportation. Of the five three have been destroyed in subsequent combat, two during the grey wars, and one in the Sixth Bloom Uprising. Its only surviving sister ship is the VSE Paradigm which is currently in Substellar mode, having been outfitted for commercial use outside the Bæmiond Federate.

The VSE Çekan itself saw combat at seven different times, six of which were during the grey wars and the last during the Seventh Bloom Uprising. It has been commanded by four different 5th-Admirals during its service as well as a brief command under a 2nd-Captain of Commerce.

The Grey Wars
Main Article: Grey War

Assault on Eklith:
It's first glimpse of action took place at the legendary Campaign of Eklikth, as a part of the 17th Supreme Armada of Glanorth. It was critical in the defeat of the Swarms of Eesceen as it spearheaded the clearing of the systems Orbital Lasers. During its second combat experience, also in the Eklikth system, it took severe damage after a Kugerblitz snuck its way into one of the ships octants.

The Battle of Suns:
After being repaired in the nearby Bæmiond system, It was joined by its four sister ships as well as another thousand battlecruisers and a hundred thousand acers, in the temporary 2nd Supreme Armada Corp, to intercept the retreating Eesceen Command Fleet. Two of its sister ships were destroyed in the most intense battle of the war which lasted hours. The total power used in the battle nearly matched the luminosity of the sun, It ended with the destruction of both Eesceen battle-moons and the near complete annihilation of their command fleet, which effectively ended the war.

The Whirlpool Escort:
It's next mission was the escort of the Oyster Battle Station "VSE Whirlpool", The escort repelled an attacking drone swarm numbering 800 quintillion formed from a nearby rogue dwarf planet. During the swarm it lost one of its last light pulsars as well as 30 quadrillion drones and its port shield. It was once again repaired and renovated at Bæmiond along with it's sister ship Deçerakth.

The Assault on Escene
When it returned to action it formed part of the core of the new 23rd Supreme Armada of Glanorth as the Flagship of the 1st Fleet. The 1st along with the 2nd Fleet spearheaded the Escene System capital of the Eesceen. Its new port shield took a glancing blow from the systems premature Dyson beam, The fleets made ther way through the Oort cloud fighting small groups of some billion drones, the crawled their way ever closer towards the outer system, While the Vondunke held star of Varađeç and the two Eesceen core systems exchanged spouts of Dyson Fire, Eight more Armada's began the final crawl towards the heart of the Eesceen, over months of action the VSE Çekan led a campaign towards the star, staying behind the cover of the outermost gas giant. The worlds were not drone worlds rather industrial worlds, they barraged and cleared the already damaged defense fleet from orbit, before finally moving into the gaseous world. It stayed ever on the night side creating fusion candles capable of firing multi-zettawatt weapons non-stop each for nearly an hour. The star focused nearly a tenth of its energy towards the gas giant to clear it of infestation. Then the last Vondunke offense took place, beginning with the emergence of the 1st and 2nd fleets from the giant, The fleets acers and planet busters opened fire across light hours of space as attention was drawn towards this threat a especially large RKM barrage from Baradeç came in, Eesceen was not able to stop all of them and 1 in a 1000 homed in as the RKMs out numbered target habitats 50 to 1, 5% were destroyed, including one on their capitals primary moon sterilizing half it's population. The VSE Çekan while returning to Glanorth hunted down and destroyed an insurgent frigate.

The Seventh Bloom Uprising
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The seventh bloom began with the great merges, where over a hundred gas and ice giants were converted into fewer than three dozen giant bodies, most notable Siover which more than quadrupled in mass. The VSE Çekan was called to assist in the merging which would take place around the star Varađeç many Oysters and larger battle cruisers joined in on relaying laser highways as the civilization formed a temporary EK2.1. The Dyson Swarm made a single week long transmission into the depths of space towards a distant galaxy. After the mergers Çekan followed Glanorth towards its next allocation. the Federate had barely arrived when the Seventh Bloom uprising took place across three Federates out towards Varađeç over the span of two decades, The VSE Çekan and the VSE Paradigm along with notably four newer Valiok Class Dreadnaughts, the VSEs Magnetar, Koyvark, Depth, and Finale, among others, formed three Armada Groups to put down the uprisings.

The Çekan which had been updated during the sixth bluff was paired with the slightly lighter Koyvark leading the third armada group to put down the uprising in the Ŧrurm Federate, It fought against a small drone fleet led by the Cruiser the FŦĐÇ Blazer, the Blazer was knocked out when the Çekan superheated its coolant being released into space to cool, with the coolant at insufficient temperatures the cruisers weapon engines ceased to work and it was vulnerable to boarding by remote drone crews. The Çekan was ordered to stay with the Ŧrurm Federate until the next bluff while the Koyvark along with the neighboring Magnetar was called to help put down a fourth uprising system.

Current Events
The Ship is currently serving with the 4th Supreme Armada of Glanorth under the command of the Oyster Battle station "VSE Pioth" in the Glanorth System

8.4e+18 grams of hydrogen converted at 7 MeV per hydrogen atoms, a total of 5e+42 atoms for 3.5e+43 MeV or 5.6e+30 Joules. That should allow 2.2Gs for a very long time.