The NSL religion is opposed to p-tech, but little else.
The leadership is less "faithful" than you'd think. Note the part about the meeting.
NSL tech.
NSL ships rely for the most part on railguns and lasers. Both are fairly conventional in design. Many ships have missiles, which they use in intercepts. Ships being sent on intercept missions are often provided with strap-on boosters, strap-on missile pods, and similar fixtures.
NSL ships have no tach drives, instead relying on wormhole punchers in Solar orbit between Jupiter and Saturn.
Because they have no tach drives, they have more room for armor and realspace engines, and are thus faster in realspace than any other ships of their class.
Because the NSL considers p-tech heretical, they do not use inception fields. Instead, they use heavy refletive/ablative armor and specialized composites. Recently, deflector fields (known as the "Holy Aegis" system) have been put into operation. These project a negative gravity well onto the ship, making projectiles curve away from it. The field is actually "flat" in the center, preventing it from tearing apart the ship. These fields also make it difficult to aim weapondry, unless it is fired perpendicular to the shield. They are also difficult to power for long periods of time, and are best employed in fast strikes.
Ships too small to use defector fields use a variety of "zapper" fields, which negatively charge the ship to the point that any projectile approaching it not similarly charged will be instantly struck by an electrical arc. Most projectiles will either explode or melt instantly, although some are big enough to be unaffected. It does nothing for lasers and other energy weapons. Plasma is also unaffected.
Certainty fields are used to shut down enemy p-tech devices including inception fields, but are difficult to power for long periods of time. With these in operation, no ships in the combat have inception fields, although the NSL is better prepared for the lack of fields than their opponents. These are one of the NSL's key advantages.
NSL corvettes have missile racks mounting a wide variety of missiles, small phased-array lasers (can fire in pretty much any direction), and light railguns.
NSL frigates and destroyers (destroyers are slightly bigger) are equipped like the frigates, but with heavier railguns and more lasers.
NSL cruisers have similar weapondry to the destroyers, but mount 3 fricking massive spinal-mounted 700mm railguns, known as "David's Slings" for their ability to destroy very large targets. They can only hold so much ammunition, though.
NSL carriers have 4 700mm railguns, and more ammunition than the cruiser, although they can exhaust it fairly quickly. They also have tons of the little lasers, and a whole bunch of fighters.
NSL fighters have a small (50mm) railgun and 2 rather powerful lasers.
Pharris will handle non-ship tech.
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