Battle of New Ukraine
From Acw
In the early days of Faster-Than-Light travel, no FTL ships went armed. In fact, even conventional ships went unarmed, because of the massive expense of construction and the uselessness of armour on a vessel that only needed one weak seal to burst to kill the crew. It was not until the Soviets fit specially-modified ex-naval cannon and a particle accelerator in a turret to a small FTL ship, the Alexander Nevsky that the age of space warfare began.
An FTL Colony Ship was a massive undertaking to the already-strained orbital shipbuilding industry on earth inthe 2130s and 40s, and for the massively bloated Soviet shuttle fleets servicing the Mars-Earth run, it proved too much of a strain. The decision was therefore reached to produce a small, lightly armoured but heavily-armed ship, about the size of a modern cruiser, equipped with a Krasnikov generator. It was the reasoning of the Commissariat of extrasolar exploration that such a ship, if built in secret, coudl
