Athena Class Light Battlestar (D8)

Athena Class Light Battlestar is a expertimental battlestar construction in secret by Admiral Arthur Wallace's faction.

History
The Athena Class was the smallest battlestar ever constructed, at only 512 meters. The designs primary purpose was to be used as the test bed for the plasma base shield and weapons under development at Camelot. It was also equipped with a new FTL drive and reactor.

Everything on Athena is tight. She carries 80 Vipers and 20 Raptors but this comes as a cost. Athena has horrible endurance forcing it to either stay close to a base/planet or depend on support ships for frequent re-supply. With reduced internal volume, everything is reduced including crew quarters, head, wardroom, sickbay, etc.

After Athena's shakedown cruise, she went in for minor refit, adding 4 Raptor landing pads creating more volume in the main hanger bay. All Raptors are now housed in a dedicated Raptor bay instead of the normal hanger bay which is now reclassified as the Viper bay.

All future Athena Class vessels, will be constructed to this standard.

List of Athena
Athena - Class prototype

Akira 

Andromeda - Under Construction 

Defiant - Under Construction

Excelsior - Plan

Galaxy - Plan

Miranda - Plan

Nebula - Plan

New Orleans - Plan

Norway - Plan

Saber - Plan

Steamrunner - Plan



'Note: According to Rear Admiral Kingman a second block of Athenas may be constructed depending on how Operation Downfall goes. Currently they are unnamed. '

Note
''Image is created by CanisD and base on Matthias Zarzacki's Athena Class Battlestar. ''