Majestic-Class Interdictor: Difference between revisions

| type                = [[Battlecruiser]]

| complement          = Multiple smaller Imperial ships,<br/>Multiple [[Gu-97]] squadrons

{{Quote|The Empire has always gone for opulence, style and quality with no expense spared. Their capital ships are not just warships, but also serve as roving embassies or giant yachts for their wealthy and powerful owners. Internally they are luxurious, at least in those parts used for entertaining, with the internal rotating ring providing comfortable artificial gravity for ambassadorial dinner parties. Guests would have little indication they were in space, let alone aboard a powerful warship.|''The Art of Elite Dangerous''<ref name=":0">The Art of Elite Dangerous, August 17 2016</ref>}}

The '''Majestic-Class Interdictor''' is a [[battlecruiser]] manufactured by [[Gutamaya]] exclusively for the [[Empire]]. As a [[Capital Ship|capital ship]], the Majestic serves as the backbone of the [[Imperial Navy]] and the core of each of its fleets. In contrast with its [[Federal Navy]] counterpart, the [[Farragut-Class Battle Cruiser]], the Majestic-Class prioritises opulence over firepower, as seen in its prominent artificial gravity centrifuge which houses the crew barracks, as well as luxurious quarters and amenities for officials and guests. Nonetheless, it is still a fearsome warship that enemies of the Empire provoke at their peril.

The Majestic-Class Interdictor is almost two kilometers long, armed with an array of 3 [[Beam Laser|beam lasers]] and 14 dual-mounted modular interceptor [[railgun]]s, and equipped with hangars capable of transporting multiple smaller Imperial military ships and [[Gu-97]] squadrons. It is equipped with a capital-class [[Frame Shift Drive]]<ref>[https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/uas-barnacles-more-thread-6-the-canonn.227901/page-390#post-4088631 Frontier Forums: UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn, post #7788]</ref> with an undisclosed jump range. The latest of the [[Imperial Navy]]'s long-running line of Interdictors, the Majestic-Class was introduced in the late 3200s and continues the Imperial tradition of capital ships serving as luxurious and technologically-advanced mobile embassies. The Empire is proud of its navy, and fleets accompany most colonial missions or important events.<ref name="EE">''[[Elite Encounters RPG]]''</ref>

 

 

 

 

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|Commanding officer Admiral Henry Paul Atherton<ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/626bbc55ff1c6e1fb55260c3 GalNet: The Sanderlyn Interviews (Part One)]</ref>

|Believed captured and operated by pirates

* [[David Braben]] describes the Majestic-Class Interdictor: ''"...where luxury comes is where you've actually got [[gravity]]. That's why this thing is spinning, it's using the centripetal force to actually give you the sensation of gravity as you move around. This ship is huge and that round section is also huge, and the point is even a low level of gravity is very comfortable, you know water settles...you actually see the contrast with the Empire where for the senior people, at least on this ship, they get gravity for their sleeping quarters, for where they eat and all that sort of thing..."''<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4-gyDLRMXg&t=219 YouTube: Elite: Dangerous Progress Diary #6 (3:39)]</ref>

* After destroying all of the Majestic-Class's Heat Relays the ship will escape from battle by activating its Frame Shift Drive.

* Most Capital Ships have an exclusion zone, and flying too close to one can provoke it into attacking even if the player is on friendly terms with its controlling faction. In these cases, the Capital Ship will issue warning messages to ships that invade its exclusion zone.

== Trivia ==

* The length of the Majestic-Class Interdictor (1,904 meters) is almost as long as six [[wikipedia:Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier|''Gerald R. Ford''-class aircraft carriers]] (337 meters) lined up end to end.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nDYYYqrhp4 YouTube: Elite ship scale 3.0]</ref>

File:Imperial-Navy-Fleet.png|Imperial Navy Fleet

File:Empire Imperial Navy First Fleet.png|Imperial Navy First Fleet

File:Empire Capitalship 01.jpg|Empire Capital Ship

File:ED-Majestic-Interdictor-combat.png|Majestic-Class Interdictor in combat

File:Empire Capitalship 02.jpg|Empire Capital Ship

File:Newsletter52 screenshot2.jpg|Majestic-Class Interdictor rear

File:008.jpg|The Majestic-Class Interdictor Xanadu

File:Sizes.jpg|Capital ship size

File:16840x7201.jpg|Forward deck top of an Interdictor

File:Bp-majestic-interdictor.png|Gutamaya Majestic-Class Interdictor Blueprint

File:Corsair and Majestic-Class Interdictor.jpg|Corsair and Majestic-Class Interdictor

 

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