Lithium-Fusion Battery
Description
Introduced in 2531 by the Terran Hegemony[1]. A Lithium-Fusion Battery can be installed on JumpShips and WarShips to provide one additional charge for their Kearny-Fuchida Drive. It serves as an extension of the drive's energy storage and allows for a second jump without having to recharge the drive first. The battery can be charged (and quick-charged) in much the same way as the K-F drive. The increased range of a L-F equipped ship allowed a variety of new tactics including longer range raids and the ability to quickly evade ambushes.
Lithium-Fusion Batteries are used almost exclusively on WarShips. Only very few regular JumpShips, none of them a civilian-owned ship, are known to carry the expensive system (and then usually as a refit.) These refits are rare however as the L-F Battery is usually built into the ship's hull.[2]
The L-F Battery's only weakness is the amount of time it takes to recharge, typically charging the battery takes as long as charging the K-F Drive itself.[1]
Manufacturing
Lithium-Fusion Battery systems are manufactured on the following planets:
Brand | Planet | Company |
---|---|---|
? (for Agamemnon) | Atreus | Illium Shipyards |
? (for Chimeisho) | Altair | Kurita Combine Munitions Corporation |
? (for Eagle) | Ionus | Illium Shipyards |
? (for Fox) | Galax | Federated-Boeing Interstellar |
? (for Impavido) | Tamarind | Technicron Manufacturing |
? (for Inazuma) | Dieron | Terada |
? (for Inazuma) | Midway | DeHuego & Freshet WarShip Design |
? (for Kaga) | Midway | DeHuego & Freshet WarShip Design |
? (for Kirishima) | Midway | DeHuego & Freshet WarShip Design |
? (for Kirishima) | Togura | Stellar Trek |
? (for Kyushu) | Dieron | Terada |
? (for Kyushu) | Midway | DeHuego & Freshet WarShip Design |
? (for Suffren) | Terra | Titan Yards |
? (for Tatsumaki) | Dieron | Terada |
? (for Thera) | Ionus | Illium Shipyards |
? (for Yamato) | New Samarkand | DeHuego & Freshet WarShip Design |
? (for Zechetinu) | Ionus | Illium Shipyards |
Game Rules
A Lithium-Fusion Battery weighs 1% of the JumpShip/WarShip's total mass. It is considered a part of the ship's main body.[2]