Doomsought
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The Taurian Economy was essentially broken by the end of the war, with the Concordat operating more on grit and patriotism than an actual budget. However the Taurian economy had already experienced a major recovery by the point the armistice ended and trade resumed. As soon as the armistice began salvage from Star League wreckage was funneled into creating jumpships to restart civilian trade within the Taurian space. The repatriation of both prisoners and intact corpse found in wreckage opened avenues for limited trade with both the Capellan Confederation and Federated Suns. Once peace was officially declared, this trade rapidly expended turning the post war recovery into post war growth. It helped that the war had changed the reputation of the Taurian Concordat from that of a backwards periphery state to an equal of the Terran Hegemony.
Taurian technology also saw rapid growth after the Reunification War. While its smaller economy guaranteed that it never could be an equal to the Terran Hegemony in all fields, especially miniaturization, the field of naval technology had already become a Taurain specialty. The Naval technology experts the Taurian Concordat had developed during the war were soon joined by upcoming scientists wishing to work on cutting edge naval technology.
Naval Gauss Cannon were one of the most coveted naval technologies of the Terran Hegemony and the Taurian Concordat began attempting to reverse engineer them as soon as the first examples were salvaged in 2581. Though several oversized test prototypes were created earlier, the manufacturing technology for a fully functional Light N-Gauss were only developed in 2613, over a decade after the War's official end.
The Taurian Concordat also continued to do research into novel naval technologies through and after the war. Because of the extreme stress that the use of numerous machine-guns and light lasers for point defense put on fire control computers, proposals for heavier point defense weapons were seen in the Taurian navy as early as 2586. However these proposals did not give way to a research program until 2590 when the Taurain admiralty were both seen the utility of point defense bays proven and became dissatisfied with the current limitations on the technology. The first prototype point defense laser was demonstrated in 2597, the new weapon combined four light lasers with a common tracking system and focusing optics. While the technology was given over to engineers to be made ready for massed production, the scientists responsible for the project were moved Taurian's pulse laser program. The Point Defense Laser, later renamed to the Light Point Defense laser after heavier point defense lasers were developed, was ready for massed production in 2605 and prototype pulse lasers went into production over the course of the 2620s.
The medium point defense laser was developed in 2633 based on the MPL-P. Each medium point defense laser combined four medium pulse lasers to create a weapon capable of reliably fending off a White Shark missile on its own. Attempts to create heavy point defense laser stalled do the the coolant pumps and power feeds being to heavy for the turret to track capital missiles until Taurian pulse laser technology matured to match pulse lasers produced by the Terran Hegemony in 2659, allowing the heavy point defense laser to be deployed in 2673.
Taurian naval development was not limited to weapons. The modular mission pod was not the end of the Taurian adventure into experimental Kearny-Fuchida Drive technology, but rather the beginning. Most of the research during the war was theoretical, as the Taurian Concordat only had the spare budget to gamble on the K-F boom developments needed for the 150 kiloton modular Mission Pod. However the post ware economic boom at the start of the new century gave the House Calderon the budget to spare for further experimentation. This foundation combined with the talent poached from the Star League do to the Taurian Concordat's new reputation lead to a slow revolution in K-F drive technology over the course of the 27th century.
Most of the developments were incremental improvements reducing the cost of constructing a K-F drive within the Taurian Concordat by as much as twelve percent by the end of the century. However two inventions stood out above the rest. First was the Hyper Pulse Generator developed prototype in the Taurian Concordat in 2631, and independently invented by the Terran Hegemony in 2642. The second was the development of Germanium-Carbide Inductors in 2681, Germanium-Carbide Inductors were a complete replacement for standard K-F drive initiators that gave the Taurian Concordat the ability to store multiple jump charges like the Terran Hegemony's Lithium-Fusion Batteries, though at a much reduced cost. However most of the geniuses that started the Taurian jump drive revolution were aging into retirement by that point. Development of new jump drive technologies trickled to a stop, with only minor improvements to cryogenics and other support systems being patented in the 2690s.
With the pre-MMP warships being rendered obsolete, the Taurian Concordat continued to commission warship designs until its Navy was fully modernized. The Chihuahua class fleet tender is a yard-ship designed primarily for swapping out Modular Mission Pods. The Chihuahua was an incredibly unusual warships, it saved weight by using a station keeping drive rather than a maneuver drive, allowing it to carry eight modular mission pods on collars in addition to those carried in its naval repair facility. Despite their name, the Chihuahua class fleet tenders were incredibly large and their construction had to be spread out over multiple decades with one being completed in 2630, 2660 and 2690.
The Chihuahua class allowed the Taurian Concordat to develop and field the Navajo class corvette as a system monitor lacking its own jump drive. The Taurian concordat also replaced Arizona class cruiser production in 2639 with the Baja class cruiser, which had better weapons coverage and was designed to take full advantage of the recently developed Medium Point Defense Lasers. The reduction in jump drive costs in the 2680s by the Germanium-Carbide Inductors lead to the development of the Javelina class frigate. Existing Taurian ship classes also saw numerous improvements over the years, with Colt class being universally refit with light point defense lasers starting in 2604 up through 2625 and the Arizona class cruisers having their anti-fighter auto-cannons replaces with a mix of AMS and M-PDLs starting in late 2631. The Houston class battleships saw a complete overhaul in the 2690s receiving new jump droves, HPGs, several additional Dropship collars, naval Gauss cannon, and layered point defense bays.
Taurian technology also saw rapid growth after the Reunification War. While its smaller economy guaranteed that it never could be an equal to the Terran Hegemony in all fields, especially miniaturization, the field of naval technology had already become a Taurain specialty. The Naval technology experts the Taurian Concordat had developed during the war were soon joined by upcoming scientists wishing to work on cutting edge naval technology.
Naval Gauss Cannon were one of the most coveted naval technologies of the Terran Hegemony and the Taurian Concordat began attempting to reverse engineer them as soon as the first examples were salvaged in 2581. Though several oversized test prototypes were created earlier, the manufacturing technology for a fully functional Light N-Gauss were only developed in 2613, over a decade after the War's official end.
The Taurian Concordat also continued to do research into novel naval technologies through and after the war. Because of the extreme stress that the use of numerous machine-guns and light lasers for point defense put on fire control computers, proposals for heavier point defense weapons were seen in the Taurian navy as early as 2586. However these proposals did not give way to a research program until 2590 when the Taurain admiralty were both seen the utility of point defense bays proven and became dissatisfied with the current limitations on the technology. The first prototype point defense laser was demonstrated in 2597, the new weapon combined four light lasers with a common tracking system and focusing optics. While the technology was given over to engineers to be made ready for massed production, the scientists responsible for the project were moved Taurian's pulse laser program. The Point Defense Laser, later renamed to the Light Point Defense laser after heavier point defense lasers were developed, was ready for massed production in 2605 and prototype pulse lasers went into production over the course of the 2620s.
The medium point defense laser was developed in 2633 based on the MPL-P. Each medium point defense laser combined four medium pulse lasers to create a weapon capable of reliably fending off a White Shark missile on its own. Attempts to create heavy point defense laser stalled do the the coolant pumps and power feeds being to heavy for the turret to track capital missiles until Taurian pulse laser technology matured to match pulse lasers produced by the Terran Hegemony in 2659, allowing the heavy point defense laser to be deployed in 2673.
Taurian naval development was not limited to weapons. The modular mission pod was not the end of the Taurian adventure into experimental Kearny-Fuchida Drive technology, but rather the beginning. Most of the research during the war was theoretical, as the Taurian Concordat only had the spare budget to gamble on the K-F boom developments needed for the 150 kiloton modular Mission Pod. However the post ware economic boom at the start of the new century gave the House Calderon the budget to spare for further experimentation. This foundation combined with the talent poached from the Star League do to the Taurian Concordat's new reputation lead to a slow revolution in K-F drive technology over the course of the 27th century.
Most of the developments were incremental improvements reducing the cost of constructing a K-F drive within the Taurian Concordat by as much as twelve percent by the end of the century. However two inventions stood out above the rest. First was the Hyper Pulse Generator developed prototype in the Taurian Concordat in 2631, and independently invented by the Terran Hegemony in 2642. The second was the development of Germanium-Carbide Inductors in 2681, Germanium-Carbide Inductors were a complete replacement for standard K-F drive initiators that gave the Taurian Concordat the ability to store multiple jump charges like the Terran Hegemony's Lithium-Fusion Batteries, though at a much reduced cost. However most of the geniuses that started the Taurian jump drive revolution were aging into retirement by that point. Development of new jump drive technologies trickled to a stop, with only minor improvements to cryogenics and other support systems being patented in the 2690s.
With the pre-MMP warships being rendered obsolete, the Taurian Concordat continued to commission warship designs until its Navy was fully modernized. The Chihuahua class fleet tender is a yard-ship designed primarily for swapping out Modular Mission Pods. The Chihuahua was an incredibly unusual warships, it saved weight by using a station keeping drive rather than a maneuver drive, allowing it to carry eight modular mission pods on collars in addition to those carried in its naval repair facility. Despite their name, the Chihuahua class fleet tenders were incredibly large and their construction had to be spread out over multiple decades with one being completed in 2630, 2660 and 2690.
The Chihuahua class allowed the Taurian Concordat to develop and field the Navajo class corvette as a system monitor lacking its own jump drive. The Taurian concordat also replaced Arizona class cruiser production in 2639 with the Baja class cruiser, which had better weapons coverage and was designed to take full advantage of the recently developed Medium Point Defense Lasers. The reduction in jump drive costs in the 2680s by the Germanium-Carbide Inductors lead to the development of the Javelina class frigate. Existing Taurian ship classes also saw numerous improvements over the years, with Colt class being universally refit with light point defense lasers starting in 2604 up through 2625 and the Arizona class cruisers having their anti-fighter auto-cannons replaces with a mix of AMS and M-PDLs starting in late 2631. The Houston class battleships saw a complete overhaul in the 2690s receiving new jump droves, HPGs, several additional Dropship collars, naval Gauss cannon, and layered point defense bays.
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