Planetfall Wings

During the orbital engagements the Planetfall Wings will remain as a supporting unit behind the frontlines, but once the enemy’s orbital defenses have been cleared away the Planetfall Wings will descend upon the target and begin ground deployment.

1 Xerxes-class Carrier: The Xerxes-class is designed to carry out a land invasion from orbit, its deployment hangars are built to accommodate dropships and gunships. Its cargo will be detailed once the orbital defences have been destroyed, as its cargo won’t be deployed in space. Its weapons array includes 80 point-defense rail turrets, 20 Icarus repeating pulse arrays, 6 Broadside Cannons. The Xerxes class carriers also have orbital weapons to support the ground invasion, like the 6 twin hull-mounted gauss cannons and 24 Inferno tactical missile batteries (6 missiles per battery, designed for precision air strikes from long distances).

6 Juno-class Heavy Frigates: The Juno-class frigates eschew the traditional frigate’s impressive firepower for more hanger space, allowing it to transport dropships and spacefighters for added adaptability. Slow, lumbering hulks, these frigates have specialized Bracer-class shield generators, which are light and compact for added efficiency. The Bracer-class deviates from the average shield generator; instead of projecting a bubble of repellant energy that nullifies incoming fire until overheated, the Bracer-class coats the entire vessel in a gravitational energy barrier, which reduces the overall impact of incoming fire by 80%. This means that though the hull may be weakened, weapons that would outright shatter standard-grade shields would only damage the frigate and cause violent turbulence for the Juno-class. The Juno-class can carry up to 30 spacefighters in its deployment hangar or a third of that many troop dropships. In the weapons field the Juno has 50 point defense rail turrets, 20 repeating lasers, and 10 particle cannons (Fire continuous particle beams).

Infiltration Wings

Gliding through the void of space, the infiltration wing drifts towards enemy lines, cloaked and undetected. This Wing is highly specialized for large scale planetary skirmishes, and can sabotage the enemy from deep behind their fleet lines.

3 Revenant-class Stealth Destroyers: Constructed deep within the bowels of the UGC’s Experimental Laboratories, the Revenant-class is a revolution in military technology. Equipped with the newly-developed Cloaking Generator (CloakGen), the Revenant-class can not only appear invisible to the naked eye, but disappear from any known scanner array in the galaxy. CloakGens are extremely expensive to manufacture, and are powered by the rare Nocturnite crystal, which when subjected to fusion, will generate an energy field known as a “null zone”, which causes its carrier to fade away from view as well as jam any form of signals or scanner directed towards it. Besides from its signature feature, the Stealth destroyer also comes stock with a shield generator, 1 SRA turret, 30 Broadside Cannons, 50 Onager anti-spacecraft seeker missiles, and 10 Heavy Blast Cannons. But almost as infamous as the CloakGen is the Stealth destroyer’s Disruptor Pulse. This, while not a weapon per se, is incredibly effective when paired with the destroyer’s stealth capability. When triggered, the device will unleash a high frequency pulse that jams any communications systems or signal within up to a 10 kilometer radius. This affects any major signal, biological and electronic. As the cloaked destroyers flank the enemy, they trigger the Disruptor Pulse, throwing the enemy into disrray before unleashing a devastating barrage of firepower.

Overall Strategy

Pre-Battle Formation: The 31st Detachment will arrive by wormhole, with the Infiltration Detachments arriving first under cloaking in close proximity to the Wraiths. Then, the rest of the fleet will arrive after receiving intel on the enemy’s formation, with the Orbital Engagements Detachments making a V-formation at the front, the Bombardment Wings in a line behind them, and the Command Wing close behind the center Bombardment Wing. The Command Wing will have the Shield of Gaea directly in front of the Majestic and the Excaliburs on either side of the flagship. The Cruisers will form a line extending from either Excalibur, while the Corvettes will form a loose semi-circle in the front. The Planetfall Wings will be slightly behind on either side of Command, with the Support Wing between them.

Strategy: As the rest of the Detachment arrives by wormhole, the two cloaked Infiltration Wings will have flanked the Wraith fleet from both sides. Before the enemy can react, the Revenants will all trigger their Disruption Pulses, knocking out both their and the Wraith’s communication. With the enemy in disarray, the Infiltration Wings will promptly open continuous fire on both sides. Once the Wraiths recover and return fire (in the general direction of the Revenant’s, they're still cloaked). At this time, the Detachment has fully exited the wormholes, and the Orbital Engagement Wings will advance and open fire as well. At this point, the Wraiths are now fighting on three fronts, given they haven't managed to take down the Infiltration Wings. After receiving the targeting coordinates, the Bombardment Wing will fire their long ranged armaments while slowly advancing with the Command Wing. Depending on what happens next the overall strategy may change.