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{{Quote|I know there are some who would question the need for this vessel. To those individuals, I say this: just how safe do you feel? We live in an age in which even Emperors can be murdered. An age in which our enemies' faces are not known to us, and betrayal and deceit are encountered at every turn. The need for a strong, battle-ready navy has never been greater.|Lieutenant Severin of the Imperial Navy, urging support for the construction of a new Majestic Class Interdictor<ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/5718dce99657bae75b24c983 Community Goal: Expanding the Imperial Fleet]</ref>}} | {{Quote|I know there are some who would question the need for this vessel. To those individuals, I say this: just how safe do you feel? We live in an age in which even Emperors can be murdered. An age in which our enemies' faces are not known to us, and betrayal and deceit are encountered at every turn. The need for a strong, battle-ready navy has never been greater.|Lieutenant Severin of the Imperial Navy, urging support for the construction of a new Majestic Class Interdictor<ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/5718dce99657bae75b24c983 Community Goal: Expanding the Imperial Fleet]</ref>}} | ||
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 ships and [[Gu-97]] squadrons. It is equipped with a capital-class [[Frame Shift Drive]]<ref>[https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?p=4088631&viewfull=1#post4088631 Frontier Forums: UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn, comment #7791 (Michael Brookes)]</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> | 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 ships and [[Gu-97]] squadrons. It is equipped with a capital-class [[Frame Shift Drive]]<ref>[https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?p=4088631&viewfull=1#post4088631 Frontier Forums: UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn, comment #7791 (Michael Brookes)]</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> | ||
From 3278 to 3302, the construction of Majestic Class Interdictors as well as other capital ships was restricted by the terms of the [[London Treaty]], which was created to prevent an arms race between the superpowers that was projected to occur with the introduction of the [[Frame Shift Drive]]. Imperial Senator and Fleet Admiral [[Denton Patreus]] publicly spurned the London Treaty on October 21, 3302 in a speech in which he declared he would build as many capital ships as the Empire needed for its defence, marking the Empire's withdrawal from the treaty and heralding its dissolution.<ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/57ada8c69657baeb6e876c6d Galactic News: Economic Turmoil Ahead?]</ref><ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/5809dff79657baf8216962ee Galactic News: Patreus Rails against London Treaty]</ref> | |||
Since the outbreak of the [[Second Thargoid War]] in 3303, multiple Majestic Class Interdictors have been destroyed by [[Thargoid Interceptor]]s due to the former's vulnerability to [[Thargoid]] shutdown fields. Since the anti-xeno countermeasures developed for smaller ships have proven prohibitively difficult to scale-up for capital ships, the international research and defence organisation [[Aegis]] has declared that capital ships are ineffective at protecting outposts, planets, and shipping lanes from Thargoid attacks at present. Instead, anti-Thargoid efforts have been spearheaded by militias of personal-scale craft.<ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/59f30dd4826c1776ca623242 GalNet: Galactic News: Capital Ships Vulnerable to Thargoid Attack]</ref><ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/59fb5178adf339781710741f Community Goal: Operation Andronicus]</ref> | Since the outbreak of the [[Second Thargoid War]] in 3303, multiple Majestic Class Interdictors have been destroyed by [[Thargoid Interceptor]]s due to the former's vulnerability to [[Thargoid]] shutdown fields. Since the anti-xeno countermeasures developed for smaller ships have proven prohibitively difficult to scale-up for capital ships, the international research and defence organisation [[Aegis]] has declared that capital ships are ineffective at protecting outposts, planets, and shipping lanes from Thargoid attacks at present. Instead, anti-Thargoid efforts have been spearheaded by militias of personal-scale craft.<ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/59f30dd4826c1776ca623242 GalNet: Galactic News: Capital Ships Vulnerable to Thargoid Attack]</ref><ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/59fb5178adf339781710741f Community Goal: Operation Andronicus]</ref> | ||
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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
* [[David Braben]] describes the Majestic Class Interdictor: ''"Where luxury comes is where you actually got [[gravity]]. That's why this thing is spinning 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. The point is even a low level of gravity is very comfortable, you know water settles. The contrast with the Empire is 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</ref> | * [[David Braben]] describes the Majestic Class Interdictor: ''"Where luxury comes is where you actually got [[gravity]]. That's why this thing is spinning 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. The point is even a low level of gravity is very comfortable, you know water settles. The contrast with the Empire is 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</ref> | ||
* After destroying all of | * After destroying all of the Majestic's Heat Relays the ship will escape from battle by activating its Frame Shift Drive. | ||
* Capital Ships have an exclusion zone | * 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 == | == Trivia == | ||
* The Majestic Class Interdictor | * 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 Elite ship scale 3.0]</ref> | ||
== Videos == | == Videos == | ||