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Varauta Large Battleship (Gigile Colors)
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Varauta Large Battleship
Ship Type: battleship
Government: Varauta
Manufacturer: unknown
Dimensions: length 864 meters
Mass: operational mass 600,000 metric tons; empty mass 550,000 metric tons
Structure: open-style hanger gate (located in aft section); battroid launch port (located in forward bow)
Power Plant: OverTechnology Reactor
Primary Systems: macro nozzle cluster (main thrusters); vernier nozzle cluster; gravity control system; fold system cluster
Max instantaneous acceleration during combat: 1.70 G+
Countermeasures: shipborne pin-point barrier system; shipborne total barrier system
Combat Data Systems: large Aegis head sensor
Armament:
2 x supersize-bore anti-ship high-angle beam guns
numerous x small bore anti-ship high-angle beam guns
many x anti-ship large reaction warhead missile launchers
many x close-in defense high maneuverability missile launchers
Variable Mecha: 60-80 variable fighters (Fz-109A and Fz-109F Elgerzorene)
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The Varauta Large Battleship serves as heavy combat warship and command vessel in the Varauta forces. Featuring a large forward launching port for variable fighters and numerous heavy weapons, the Large Battleship is well suited to an assault role in ship-to-ship combat. The Large Battleship is based upon the design of the Standard Battleline Battleship but enhanced to strengthen its combined performance capabilities. Because the Large Battleship is equipped with large beam guns and double the energy conversion armor, the operational weight has become twice that of the Standard Battleline Battleship. Thus it was impossible to maintain a satisfactory speed utilizing the initially planned enhanced engines from the Battleline class. A newly desgined engine was adopted for the Large Battleship to compensate for an operational weight some three times greater than that of the Battleline class. The newly designed engine endows the Large Battleship with excellent performance but since the cost is said to be ten times that of the Standard Battleline vessel this class was produced in small numbers (the Varauta Fleet operates only 12 such ships). The armaments of the Large Battleship are mostly internal and the vessel has a stealth design via the long, polyhedron-like structure. The lenses of the large-bore guns are mounted amidships on the port/starboard sides and like all Varauta warship beam weapons, the beams are angled toward their targets by an energy field just after firing. The numerous fin structures located upon the dorsal and ventral rear part of the warship are heat sinks. Varauta spaceships are characterized by hull designs that use "planks" of Energy Conversion Armor (ECA). As previously mentioned, Gigile's personal battleship features double the normal amount of ECA (Macross Chronicle 2E M7 Mechanic Sheet 04B "Varauta Fleet"). The Large Battleship is also utilized as a command craft for small-to-medium scale Varauta fleets.
During the Protodeviln War in the mid 2040's, Gigile commanded a blue and white colored Large Battleship which lead a fleet of 18 other Varauta ships. This fleet was typically the primary aggressor against the UN Spacy during the early part of the war. Gigile himself would launch from his Large Battleship piloting an Fz-109F Elgerzorene variable fighter to engage in direct combat against the forces of the 37th Long-Distance Colonization Fleet lead by the Macross 7.
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Debut: Macross 7, Episode 3 (Gigile Colors, Episode 3)
Crew: Gigile
Other Appearances: none
Original mechanical designer: Kazutaka Miyatake
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Information Courtesy of the Macross Compendium: www.macross.anime.net/wiki/Main_Page
Additional Information Courtesy of the Wikipedia Japan: https://ja.wikipedia.org/
Images From - Macross 7 Animation Materials and other macross books
C. Wilson - Writer, Editor and Colorist
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