ACS-1 Stratocarrier "Percival" "The beauty of a luxury yacht with the firepower of a battleship." An elegant, mighty ship designed to be a floating fortress whether on land, sea or air. This ship is Victor's base of operations when not at Lexington Estate, can sustain up to fifty people and various vehicles comfortably and is more than capable of defending herself in most any situation. Outfitted with cutting edge, navigation, communications, radar, sonar and medical equipment as well as powerful shields and a durable titanium hull. Percival's aesthetics are simple, pleasing and clean cut with a distinct lack of gaudy adornments.
Percival was armed with massive firepower enabling it to face otherwise superior ground, naval and airborne threats as well as enemy structures several times it's size including railguns, missile batteries, mortars and anti-air flak, zeta laser and flak gun emplacements as well as a host of VTOL fighters and UAV drones. Percival's main guns were based on main cannons of the battleships of World War II and could deliver blistering firepower on target from land, sea or air.
NOTE: Following Dark Reign the Percival is being overhauled to serve as an Excalibur mobile base. It will ultimately see it's arsenal standardized to smaller, cruiser-comparable batteries as well as having it's main battery of four triple 510mm cannons completely removed to reduce weight. Percival will no longer have an alternate warship mode instead being used solely in it's base configuration with weapons at the ready as needed.
Displacement: 68,200 long tons (69,300 t) trial 69,988 long tons (71,111 t) standard 72,000 long tons (73,000 t) full load.
Length: 256 m (839 ft 11 in) at water-line 263 m (862 ft 10 in) overall Beam: 36.9 m (121 ft 1 in) at Waterline, 38.9 m (127 ft 7 in) at Overall
Draught: 10.4 m (34 ft 1 in)
Propulsion (Naval): 2 Zeta Reactors 450,000 shp (335.564 MW) four 6-bladed propellers, 8 m (26 ft 4 in) diameter Propulsion (Flight): 4 Zeta Reactors 900,000 shp (671.130 MW) four VTOL turbines 14m (45 ft, 15 in) diameter
12 x heavy AA gun batteries (3x3) 18 x light AA gun batteries (x4) 8 x anti-armor zeta guns (x2) 10 x anti-personnel zeta guns (x2) 4 x 510 mm Behemoth (20 in) main guns (x3) 16 x large zeta missile racks 8 x small zeta rocket pods 10 x laser drone launchers
Armament: As of September 2015 Refit:
12 x 5"/54 caliber mark 45 gun 10 x Phalanx CIWS 4 x M242 Bushmaster Typhoon 2 x large zeta missile racks
Note: All of the guns can fire standard or zeta infused rounds
Armor: As built: 650 mm (26 in) on face of main turrets 410 mm (16 in) side armor 200 mm (8 in) armored deck 230 mm (9 in) hull armor Shields: Medium Strength Zeta Shields
Armor: As of September 2015 Refit: 200 mm (7 in) side armor 200 mm (7 in) deck armor 300 mm (11 in) hull armor Shields: High Strength Zeta Shields
Percival was designed as VTOL multirole vessel fitted with advanced cloaking and stealth capabilities. She was initially designed with the armor and firepower of a battleship with limited carrier abilities and served well in this role during Dark Reign.
Following HAMMER's collapse she has been drastically overhauled to serve as a mobile base of operations for Excalibur. In preparation for her new role Percival had much of her firepower and armor stripped for mobility effectively removing her from frontline combat. She has also had her hangar size reduced allowing her to take on a limited number of smaller ships such as Raptors or Quinjets necessary to deploy team members unable to fly on their own volition.
Price's decided to overhaul Percival in order to expand Excalibur's effective response range across the country.