The Paladin-class battlecruiser—one had to admit that Salarian engineers were truly exceptional. I had originally believed that the Calamity-class battlecruiser's design could hardly be improved upon, but Arroyo Barlow of the Engineering Department always displayed his astonishing talent.
The Paladin-class was a new battlecruiser recently added to the Duchy of Dawn Navy's order of battle, an upgraded version of the Calamity-class battlecruiser. The Paladin-class battlecruiser had almost exactly the same basic appearance as the Calamity-class battlecruiser and was also 1,550 meters long. However, the Salarians assured me that the ship's internal energy supply structure had been almost completely redesigned, and that it used cutting-edge antimatter engines.
When I first attended the Paladin-class's maiden-voyage ceremony, I had not been interested in all those flashy displays. But they gave me one basic figure that clearly demonstrated the Paladin-class battlecruiser's excellence—its energy output was 2.15 times that of the Calamity-class battlecruiser.
Moreover, as the ideal platform for the Particle Beam Lance, the Paladin-class battlecruiser's internal energy supply structure had been designed almost entirely around this large-scale Energy Weapon. This had left me somewhat puzzled, so I asked Arroyo Barlow whether the Calamity-class's energy structure had not also been specially designed. He told me that the Calamity-class design had still involved quite a few compromises.
Very well. So now, the Paladin-class battlecruiser equipped with a Particle Beam Lance possessed far greater single-shot power than the Calamity-class.
But what concerned me most was its combat performance. After all, the Calamity-class battlecruiser's Particle Beam Lance had already begun to fall short when facing Knight-class Star Destroyers and Imperial-class Star Destroyers. This time, however, experimental data showed that a Particle Beam Lance fired by a Paladin-class battlecruiser would inflict devastating damage on an Imperial-class Star Destroyer.
Arroyo Barlow also told me that the Particle Beam Lance fired