The Terran Hegemony's Wotan-class Battleship and Thunderbolt-class Battlecruiser are practically relics in this day and age, but they were the first FTL-capable Warships able to enforce the will of the Terran Trade Confederation in the chaos of the breakup of the Confederation.

Though the Confederation lost that struggle when it's economy collapsed, it did hang onto most of the core worlds, and was left with just over 100 Wotan's and just shy of 400 Thunderbolts. It also had about a thousand other smaller warships that were deemed uneconomical to keep in the field or even in the reserve fleet. Recovery of the material in those other warships helped fuel the rebuilding of the economy in the three decades afterward ....

Though most are rarely pulled out of mothballs, Terra does keep three full squadrons operable and worked up, ready to deal with the occasional trouble spot.

Both ships have similar armament and heavy armor.

Each has heavy beam armament forward, significant laser turret capacity, and good broadside coverage for use against missile and drone barrages that tended to eviscerate small ship formations.

The sheer amount of armor on these ships puts them in a unique position, as few nations see the value of that much armor in comparison to the cost.

Wotan Class Battleship

Thunderbolt Class Battlecruiser

Tigran Scout Cruiser...

Nothing much yet, carry on....

Just an update of yesterdays graphic, spend most of my free time spit-balling rules.... 

I could bore you with the long tale of how I got to this point, since the first pages of anything usually suck...

....but lets try to keep the intro short.

The point of the collaboration is to have fun making a starship combat game BOTH of us would enjoy. We've both bought and paid for games that - frankly - sorta suck and aren't fun to play. I get the geeky thrill of piloting your ship to destroy the Khodan Armada, but the details too often wreck the game. A friend and I are writing a game, not the first game for both of us, but the first we've actively collaborated on.

I'll try to post some of our older stuff as well as newer stuff as things progress. Who knows, we might actually make a dime or two off this.

In the meantime, here's some artwork that may or may not (likely not, but it's generally of the style we'll start with) end up in the game....