IRS Medusa

IRS Medusa
Type:	Gravrig-Cruiser
Place of origin:	Shireroth
In service:	1643 AN - Present
Used by:	Imperial Navy
Planned	1
Completed:	1
Commissioned:	1
Retired:
Designed:	Pre-1606
Manufacturer:	Ryker Airships
Length:	192 m
Beam:	30 m
Propulsion:	Mortis G.I.R. Engine (Gravitational-Inversion Rig)
Range:	4,150 km
Endurance:	5 days manned
Maximum Altitude:	6,100 m
Speed:	20 knots loiter speed 300 knots cruising speed 381 knots maximum speed 450 knots "do not exceed" speed
Complement:	781
Vehicles carried:
Armament:	155 mm Long Tom Autocannons x3 Launcher Modules x4 Scalper Cruise Missile x4 Goatse AIM x12 Swivel Gun CIWS x6
Sensors and Processing Systems:	Panopticon Suite Dokhtar-e Ahriman central processing unit Froyalan dual-mode Synthetic Aperture / Moving Target Indication (SAR/MTI) radar VERITAS encrypted telex-relay syste 2 × I-band Radar 1 × E/F-band Radar Electro-Optical Gun Control System
Cost:	319.1B Erb 3,500 Anunia Points

The IRS Medusa is a gravitational inversion rig in service with the Western Armada of the Imperial Navy of Shireroth since 1643 Ab Nortone. It is the latest iteration of the long-running Project Mortis an enduring attempt by Shireroth as well as, formerly, the Kingdom of Babkha and an independent Elwynn to reverse engineer and replicate the anti-gravity technology of Jasonia and Menelmacar.

The Medusa incorporates significant amounts of software lifted from the Babkhano-Elwynnese Panopticon programme, a suite of electronic hardware and programs designed to achieve total information awareness over the battlefield, although the Babkhans invariably abused the programme to create a system of domestic mass-surveillance.

Photograph of a Khalypsine caravan passing under the guns of a distant but loitering IRS Medusa.

The bustling Port Verion with the IRS Medusa loitering overheard during the visit of Kaiser Dominus to the island.

Development History

Main Article: Project Mortis & Panopticon