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Revision as of 23:49, 20 February 2006

Agamemnon-class battleship
Agamemnon-class carrier, circa CE 71 Agamemnon-class carrier, circa CE 73 (refit version)
Overview Earth Alliance
Class type: Carrier
Ships of the line: Agamemnon, Menelaos, Ortigia, Doolittle, Roosevelt, Oda Nobunaga
General Characteristics
Length: 300 meters
Armament:
  2 Dual high-energy beam cannon
MS Catapults:
C.E. 71 2
C.E. 73 Refit 1
MS Contigent:
C.E. 71 12 TS-MA2 Moebius
C.E. 71 12 GAT-01 Strike Dagger
C.E. 73 Refit 12 GAT-02L2 Dagger L
C.E. 73 Refit 12 GAT-04 Windam

The Agamemnon-class carrier is a large, wedge-shaped warship that can carry up to twelve mobile armors or mobile suits and deploy them rapidly using the linear catapults on either edge of the ship. The Agamemnon class also defends itself with two beam gun turrets and has extensive bridge facilities for service as a flagship. Until the development of the Archangel-class assault ship, the Agamemnon class is the largest and most powerful warship in OMNI Enforcer.

In CE 73, the Agamemnon fleet has been heavily modified, with the formerly sleek wedge widened across the beam and split into a fork arrangement to accommodate the new thickened and lengthened superstructure amid ships for stand-up launch facilities for the GAT-02L2 Dagger L and GAT-04 Windam mobile suits. With the new arrangement, the former deck-edge linear catapults have been eliminated and all mobile weapons launch from the centerline catapult instead.

While this allows the Mobile Suits which launch from the carrier to equip Striker Packs, the downside of this design however is that the Agamemnon can only launch Mobile Suits one after the other, which cuts the deploying speed of this ship in half.

The Agamemnon and Menelaos are named for the Greek mythological heroes. The Ortigia is an islet in the gulf of Siracusa, Sicily. The Doolittle was named for General Jimmy Doolittle, the Roosevelt for United States President Theodore Roosevelt, and the Oda Nobunaga for the famed 16th-century Japanese warlord.

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