Name: SSV Melbourne

Race Design(s): Human

Crew: 180 [plus 24 marines]

Complete Armament:
Electromagnetic Shield Disruptor
6 MkI High Velocity Cannons (HVC)
4 Delta Mass Accelerator Cannons
GARDIAN defensive system
6 Medium "Sabre" Alliance Fighters

Description:
The Melbourne is 550x140 meters, more aerodynamic than standard Alliance vessels in the same class. The ship's lines are sleek, giving her the look as if she was a space born bird of prey. Unlike her sister ship, her side windows were instead designed as launch bays for her six fighters.

http://eveonlineships.com/eve-online-ship....XRvci0xLmpwZw==

Biography:

Designed in tandem with the SSV Vancouver, the two ships were released only six months from each other [the Melbourne being released later]. An experimental design to replace frigates, the Melbourne uses a new experimental weapon system consisting of what are known as High Velocity Cannons, or HVCs. These cannons fire heavy metal projectiles at extremely high rates of speed, causing great damage to unshielded ships and to ground targets if a surface bombardment was necessary.

Unlike the Vancouver, the Melbourne is armed with four older Delta Class MAC Cannons, along with six of the newer, HVCs. The ship's built in Electromagnetic Shield Disruptor fires a directed EMP blast at a ship, temporarily disabling the shields of the ship it strikes and wrecking havoc with all electronics.

For defenses, similarly to the Vancouver, the Melbourne is armed with the latest generation of GARDIAN systems. Using new techniques based off of Prothean technology that was further improved and tested, the Melbourne's shields are nearly impervious. When struck by kinetic items, the shield simply shunts the energy into another redundant shielding system, converting the friction into energy. With this system, the Melbourne effectively can withstand a hailstorm of MAC shells and come out unscathed, as long as her shield generators withstand the strain.

[[If The Unknown doesn't like me passing my ship as a sister to his, then I can change it. I just liked the idea.]]

The biography looks credible enough, so I'm fine with it.

An EMP doesn't temporarily disable a ships shields, it would kill every circuit board, computer, life support system, and electrical system on board....

Even systems these days are EMP hardened, with fast re-boot times.

If a naval ship is in the nearby blast radius of a nuclear weapon and somehow survives, it has multiple fallback points. Most of the computers should survive due to cutoffs.

The EMP would basically put the ship dead in the water for a few minutes while it reboots effectively.

I would think that several hundreds years in the future, they'd have better forms of technology than what we have now :P

Unless Ringo lied to me. Then I can easily amend my bio to say "kills electronics dead" in more diplomatic terms :P