Manco Cápac-class cruiser
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| Type | Auxiliary light cruiser |
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| Displacement | 12,585 metric tons |
| Length | 125 metres |
| Beam | 35 metres |
The Manco Cápac is a class of auxiliary light cruiser ordered by Federal Navy of Nouvelle Alexandrie from the Pontecorvo Firm and ESB Armada, as part of the concerted Federal response to the threat posed by the Confederacy of the Dispossessed.
Emergency Shipbuilding Program
At the direction of the Department of Defense, the Pontecorvo Firm and ESB Susa were instructed to halt all ongoing work in order to refocus upon immediate naval requirements.
The initial order was for sixty ships to be built, with the work to be divided equally between Pontecorvo and the Honourable Company shipyards in Nouvelle Alexandrie, with these to be launched by the end of the year, with the fitting out of armaments, sensors, and command and control systems to be conducted by Javelin Industries and partners, utilising off-the-shelf systems available for use. Only existing technologies were to be utilised, with R&D work actively prohibited with regards to the program.
Commissariat agents from the National Ordnance and Procurement Board were duly dispatched, during the fourth month of 1719 AN, to establish a Department of Defense presence at the following shipyards:
- Pontecorvo Shipbuilding Yards (Pontecorvo, Alduria)
- Rothborne Shipbuilding & Offshore Industries Complex (Rothborne City, Alduria)
- La Fortaleza de Melusina Yard Complex (La Fortaleza de Melusina, South Lyrica).
- Port Tablot Shipyards (Port Tablot, Isles of Caputia)
- Aldurian Shipbuilding Yards (Alkhiva, Alduria)
- ESB Armada (Alkhiva, Alduria)
Accordingly, each yard faced the obligation to lay down and launch ten hulls within the space of a year. It was a task that was met with a certain level of scepticism in the industry as details first began to be made known. These doubts began in turn to be noted by the various trade press publications. This had the inevitable result that speculation began to appear in left and liberal leaning national news coverage as to the feasibility of the programme, and moreover what sorts of trade offs would be required in order to achieve the requisite number of hulls laid down within the stipulated time.
