My proposition:
Date : 2175 CE. War between 'Loroi Union' and 'Umiak Empire' continuous to grow over the systems while neutral and allied "lesser" races struggle to survive. Human race consisting now of 8 planets (2 more were colonised) in strength of 29 billion people begun to realise that alliance itself cannot protect human race against death from Umiak hands.
For this reason, the high command of TCA rated priority one the building of new modern fleet to defend humanity. Objective was simple: New fleet, modern unique design, maximal possible modularity in both subsystems and hulls. Whole project named 'MIDGARD' was automatically made top secret, hidden even from Loroi union for time being.(in fear of unwanted reactions to boldly plans).
In 2176 CE, after much rivalry, small company named "Space tech" presented a whole family of "new" human ships. Project consisted of only 3 main core ships. However their modularity compensate lack of variety, and even provide better service since crew need only to know few designs of ships. Main vessels (not including attached designs of gunships and interceptors) were classed by size: smallest Destroyer, medium Cruiser, biggest Dreadnought.
Human Strike Cruiser
In 2177 CE The budget was accepted on secret vote and Space tech begun to work with all human research stations to design and assimilate the newest human tech in to new ships. In lack of advance energy source and constant refusal of the Loroi to give humanity such tech our engineers were forced to look for something new. In may of 2177 research team under a leadership of professor D. Anders developed substitute to energy problem. They focused on old, almost accident human concepts of cold fusion reactors and with help of far more advanced maths (Loroi gave us everything what they inherited from Soia, thinking it will take us centuries to work out octal mathematics) and new alloys were able to design fuel, reactors and highly effective ship's generators. Such technology still long behind Loroi's antimatter power sources was more than enough for humans at this point and was probably unique in whole galactic as many of new human tech.
The project "MIDGARD" was moving smoothly and at end of 2179 CE humanity possessed one 2tech fleet "Terra pride" in strength of: 2 Dreadnoughts(ECS-Midgard and ECS-Valhalla), 14 cruisers in different configurations (ECS-Guardian, ECS-Avenger, ECS-Victory, ECS-Valor, ECS-Apocalypse, ECS-Liberator, ECS-Warcry, ECS-Emerald, ECS-Sapphire, ECS-Diamond, ECS-Thor, ECS-Anubis, ECS-Odin, ECS-Zeus) and 6 destroyers (ECS-Loki, ECS-Seraphim, ECS-Dragon, ECS-Tiger, ECS- Chrome, ECS-Sparrow). Which gave 22 battle ready, advance vessels. Growing resources consumption and high military recruitment propaganda soon made supervising loroi twitchy. Mystery of the project would last longer if not incident numbered 135#199 in system Prabhu.
In year 2180 Terra pride was deployed in to the Prabhu system to make it's first real combat mission, however during mission they picked up SOS beacon from Loroi cargo convoy attacked but umiak client race's struggles. Human ships in command of Admiral Langford quickly arrived and engaged totally surprised and outgunned hostiles destroying 18 ships and saving 8 loroi vessels plus rescuing 971 passengers from damaged and crippled vessels. The word spread quickly and soon Loroi empire demanded immediate answer for having such fleet and technology at humanity disposal. (Loroi captains were astonished by human ships, their fire-power and overwhelming tactics thus they explained what happened very colourfully.)
Fearing for Union's collapse Loroi didn't initiate any hostile actions against member of union and decided to give humanity chance to prove itself in combat. Additionally they requested single ship to accompany battle drills to train against umiak. In deep negotiations it was agreed that removing barriers between two species and embracing more friendly relationship would bring stable peace and unity. New made strike cruiser ECS-Eglantine(named after the Space tech chairman's recently deceased daughter) was chosen for that role. Agreement was simple half crew human, half loroi and loroi captain. New era of Human-Loroi union was being born in pain.
Ship: ECS-Eglantine
Class: Strike cruiser
Length: ~400 m
Deadweight Mass: 755 kt
Crew: 350
Screens: Human Kinetic barriers Mark IV\III
Max. Acceleration: 16G
Armor Rating: 90
ECM Rating: 80/90
Weapon Mounts
04 Heavy torpedo launchers
08 Heavy HIAX laser
02 Missile launchers
10 Point defence auto cannons
Small Craft & Ordnance
03 Interceptors
03 Gunships
03 Shuttles
200 F&F heavy torpedoes
200 Hornet cluster Missiles
800 Laser tungsten hybrid charges
10 Mark XII heavy nuclear warheads 400MT
Technology:
ECS-Eglantine is powered by 3 fusion generators(mark III) and produces about 4,000,000 KJ/ms of pure energy which is far more than enough to supply ship that size. With turbo-ion thrusters it can accelerate to 16G and with unique COMBAT DRIVE installed it can make rapid movements to avoid enemy fire(simply it can direct thrust in to any directions, [as loroi say: only crazy creatures like humans can make a engine which can break ship it to half.]). As all humanity lvl2 vessels Eglantine is equipped with both main and secondary shields. Kinetic barrier as called by humans is unique design of loroi base lvl1 shielding technology. Instead transferring energy from generators on live time the shields are powered from individual generator with powerful capacitor (power of the shields depends on the charge of capacitor which will slowly deplete with enemy hits). Another important feature of kinetic barriers is that it creates invisible "bubble" around a ship instead of making small layer around vessel (Soia base shielding technology). Kinetic barriers are more stable, can stop far more powerful hit than equivalent Soia type shields.
Weapons:
As all strike cruisers Eglantine is armed with 4 Heavy twin torpedo launchers capable to fire high velocity F&F cluster torpedoes which can be deployed at once (effect of swarm missiles good against small approaching targets) or few seconds before impact to capital vessel to increase range of damaged sections.
The HIAX Magnetic-Hydrodynamic Laser is a human-developed, unique probably most advanced laser type weapon. It uses an electromagnetic field to shape and accelerate a stream of superheated molten metal in quark Gamma-ray vortex to relativistic velocities, which then impacts its target and deals horrendous damage. The weapons fire appears as a bright white beam(due to tungsten projectile), although powerful it cannot match more advanced plasma beam weaponry. In combat, the HIAX Cannon is strong enough to destroy a Umiak destroyer in two shots.
Today is 17 November of 2180 CE, the ECS-Eglantine departs from mother dock Sierra One orbiting Mars. Crew: 175. Mission: rendezvous with loroi strike team 71 in Prabhu system, quadrant 43#, resupply and under Loroi commander begin exercises.
Ufff that it.. Moe less, sorry for mistakes if I made any(probably many ;] don't worry I will fix them when I see them), the whole story need good writer to make in hold together I tried to present the facts. More\less it is my proposition.
The ship bases on old game which I used to play when I was young and had dreams of stars. I had shaped it in 3d max and painted. Hope you like it. Later I will make dreadnought and destroyer .
For RP probably needed
: Loroi new captain + few more prominent crew members,
humans: Flag officer(who commands the ship until relived by Loroi), boatswain(chief on ship), diplomatic officer, and of course crew. ;]
ps. I would take flag officer position. ;]