Designation: Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs class Task Force Command Ship

Note: While Zentraedi ships have been assigned Terran naval/space type designators, it must be stressed that their size and armaments placed them in a class of their own, matched only by contemporary Tirolian and modern Terran construction of like designations. As such, their designations must be viewed as indicators of intent and use rather than absolute strength. In addition, the proper translation of the Zentraedi vessel designations into English was never completely agreed upon; for instance, some texts call the Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs-class task force command ship a 'light flagship' or 'subfleet leader'.

Names and Disposition:

These ships were built at numerous locations throughout the Robotech Mercantile Empire from 1268 through 1809 and on board the Zentraedi Factory Satellite from 1807 through 2009. There have been at least eight consecutive versions, with the first version having a very small production run (243) and obsolete units upgraded to the newer versions as they came in for refits. The total number of constructed vessels is 91,157.

Of this number, approximately 12,300 were destroyed or scrapped prior to 2010. The Ci'Vonian defection (1519) included 4,119 Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs command ships of which approximately 3,890 were confirmed as destroyed (this number includes units with action damaged assessed to be so heavy to become probable total losses) during subsequent offensives and skirmishes. The fate of the remaining vessels is unknown. The Imperial Fleet contained 25,110 Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs-class vessels all sharing in the "infection" of that fleet. Of the remaining Tirolian controlled ships approximately 43,650 were part of the Grand Fleet. After the Zentraedi Holocaust, an estimated 6,000 Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs-class ships remained intact or salvageable. Most of these failed or were decommissioned due to protoculture depletion prior to 2020.

Ship's Complement:

• Ships' crew (1150 men),
• Air Group (2000 men),
• Troops (2000 men),
• Life support limits are for a full combat complement and about 2250 supernumeraries (7400 Zentraedi total). Approximately four times this number can be carried for a limited period of time.

Dimensions:

Length	:	2017 m over all,
		2986 m over all with Queadol Magdomilla-Whouva-class vessel attached.
Height	:	752 m over all.
Width	:	980 m over all.
Mass	:	75,000,000 metric tons operational (typical),
		100,000,000 metric tons operational with Queadol Magdomilla-Whouva-class vessel attached (typical)
Fuel mass	:	36,800.000 metric tons maximum (typical),
		43,000,000 metric tons maximum with Queadol Magdomilla-Whouva-class vessel attached (typical).

Propulsion Systems:

• Main power system: Zorrelev-289-Trafla protoculture-fueled Reflex furnace cluster. The powerplant of a Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs class vessel can nominally deliver up to 73.8 Petawatts of power, and can operate for 75 minutes at maximum power before overheat initiates auto-shutdown.
• Maneuvering Thrusters (48): fusion-plasma reaction thruster clusters with steerable nozzles. One group of four rows of three clusters is mounted on each inclined central hull surface, six clusters are mounted around the nose, and six more around the tail, while a further twelve thrusters are mounted in the bottom.
• Reaction-mass Thrusters (4): One Varrelev Dillar-14p and one Varrelev Dillar-14s fusion-plasma reaction thruster cluster with protoculture energizer mounted in the upper part of the aft hull, one Varrelev Dillar-16p and Varrelev Dillar-16s fusion-plasma reaction thruster cluster with protoculture energizer mounted in the lower part of the aft hull. Each cluster has four subthrusters.
  There are no secondary thrusters; breaking maneuvers are made with the main thrusters using exhaust deflectors opening in the dorsal and ventral engine sections.
• Anti-gravity System (1): 150 Rastraz anti-gravity pods.
• Space Fold (1): Nolfantom-proldarlev 316 spacefold. This system generates a hull-conformal fold.
• Planetary Capabilities: The Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs-class has atmospheric capabilities through its reaction engines and anti-gravity systems. The hull has sufficient structural strength to make a cold landing.
  The ship will float in an ocean, but only the upper ingress/egress ports will open above the waterline, which greatly hampers access to the ship.

Endurance and mobility limits:

• The dry stores endurance is 17 months maximum; after that, the ships of this class need to restock. Water stores are recycled almost totally. If fewer or no auxiliary vessels are carried, the freed hangar space can be used to store additional consumables.
• The mecha consumables supplies (mainly missiles) are plentiful due to the volume of the ship; the Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs-class is able to sustain continuous combat operations for more than 20 days.
  The missile magazines for the ship's own launchers are typically empty after three major space battles.
• The Reflex furnace can function for about 35 years at normal usage levels before an energizer rebuild is necessary.
• At full power, the main propulsion systems can nominally produce up to 2.74 Teranewtons of thrust at a minimal reaction mass efficiency profile, or as little as 54.7 Giganewtons of thrust at a maximum efficiency setting. At lower power levels, these thrusts are commensurately smaller.
• Due to the habitual mounting of a Queadol Magdomilla-Whouva amphibious command ship forward of the Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs, all engine statistics are given for this situation.
  At full power, the Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs-class can nominally achieve a maximum delta-v of 362 kps at the cruising acceleration of 0.1 gees, a maximum delta-v of 72.8 kps at the battle acceleration of 1.0 gees, and a delta-v of at most 22.1 kps at the flank acceleration of 2.8 gees. At lower power levels, these ranges are commensurately smaller.
• The fold systems were not navigationally guaranteed for any single jump beyond 10 kiloparsecs. If longer voyages were required, the ship had to conduct multiple fold jumps.
• The maximum sustained atmospheric speed is Mach 4. The maximum hover time on the anti-gravity systems is limited only by the protoculture supplies and maintenance requirements.
  Note: due to diminished aerodynamic streamlining, the maximum sustained atmospheric speed of a Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs class vessel without a Queadol Magdomilla-Whouva vessel attached is Mach 1.7.
• Including regular refits, the hull is designed to have an anticipated lifetime of 640 years.

Weapon Systems:

(Note: only the types carried by the last version are mentioned. All older versions of the Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs were refitted with these systems).

• Makral Mossil 918 particle cannon (55): For centuries this combined particle beam and laser weapon has been the standard medium cannon armament on Zentraedi vessels. Two different beam weapons (variable frequency laser and particle beam cannon) are provided on one mount so that the discharge medium can be chosen as the optimum for the local target and environment conditions. Both weapons have the same yield at the muzzle. The laser can be fired in a low power mode directly before the particle beam fires, this setting is typically used to burn a vacuum path for the particles through an atmosphere. Because of the slow recharge time of the larger weapons, and the flexibility inherent in the double mount, this cannon turret is the weapon system most often utilized on board Zentraedi vessels.
  For ground support, it is the only effective weapon as the other systems are to heavy to be used around own troops.
  The cannon, as most Zentraedi beam weapon systems, has an effective range of 300,000 km. Each full-intensity shot has a yield of 1000 MJ, and the cannons can cycle through their firing sequence once every three seconds. Due to the shape of the hull and the connection linkages, these weapons are not concentrated forward, but rather spread out over the hull.
• Deuawhaug Rasar 89 (45): A reloadable Silo Launch System (RSLS), or as it is better known, a torpedo tube, capable of firing large anti-ship and ground bombardment torpedoes. The tubes can reload in 3.6 seconds, and have a 40 round magazine close-by. These launchers are mounted around the forward part of the hull, between the Gnerl hangars. A small number of launchers however can only be unmasked if the Magdomilla-Whouva section is decoupled.
  The missiles used are the SSA-1 Sniper (Lojredbeth Deuawhaugh) and the SSA-2 Scrapper (Letkes Deuawhaug) missiles. The former is a nuclear missile with a 326 kT reaction warhead, the latter is a conventional tipped missile with a warhead of 2.3 metric tons.
  Both missiles are optimized for anti-ship strikes in deep space, but can be used in orbital bombardment modes or in an atmosphere.
• Touwhaug Rasar 481 (115): A missile launcher mounted in a pop-up turret, firing anti-mecha/missile missiles, though the projectiles can guide on point-blank enemy ships. When the missiles are released they are already on their intercept vectors, or very close to them. Each turret has a reload time of 3.6 seconds and a magazine with a 100 round capacity. They are mounted for spherical coverage.
  The missile system used is the SAA-1 Granite (Gliquoun Touwhaug), a weapon with a conventional blast fragmentation warhead of 278 kg and an atmospheric range of 112 km. at a speed of Mach 7.5.

Air Group and Mecha Complement:

• 3 Quel Quallie EW/assault craft,
• 9 Liewneuatzs shuttle craft,
• 6 Frandlar Tiluvo trans-orbital transports,
• 16 Nauglar Nodral airborne tankers,
• 1000 Regult infantry mecha (four versions) ,
• 300 Nousjadeul-Ger cavalry mecha,
• 50 Glaug ground/air command mecha and aerospace sleds,
• 1250 Gnerl fighters.
  Note: a very few ships had some of their Nousjadeul-Ger and Regult mecha hangars replaced with hangars for a smaller number of Quaedluun-Rau mecha. There were plans to do this on all ships, but lack of resources delayed this indefinitely.

Design Notes:

The name Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs is officially assigned only to the rearmost and largest part of the Queadol Magdomilla combination. However, because the Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs operates with the Magdomilla-Whouva section attached, the name Queadol Magdomilla is the common name for the docked vessels, and shall be used as such in this section where appropriate.

Externally, the docked vessels are formed from a large diameter aft section (the Magdomilla-Luhoutzs) and a smaller lengthwise nose section with a protruding bow (the Magdomilla-Whouva section). The Magdomilla-Luhoutzs hull narrows very gradually to the top, and the side armour extends below the vessel's ventral hull, forming two strakes protruding diagonally. The armour also extends forward of the couplings to the Magdomilla-Whouva section, giving a Magdomilla-Luhoutzs without forward section a hooded appearance. The four main engine clusters are to the rear, while large hangar doors are mounted in the lower hull, opening downwards. Seven sensor pods and fins are mounted directly aft on top of the hull.

The Nauglar Nodral tankers are located in four of the larger Gnerl hangars, which circle the forward part of the Magdomilla-Luhoutzs. These hangars are equipped with dedicated mecha launch tubes for a faster launch cycle, a definite necessity given the sheer number of Gnerl mecha. The infantry mecha holds are more to the rear, adjoining the lower hangar. However, these holds do have airlocks as the Regult and Glaug battlepods also serve as spaceborne mecha.

As a combined vessel, the Queadol Magdomilla carries a very effective armament. However, the component vessels do not divide these amongst the two in an effective manner, though design criteria made this unavoidable. The main anti-ship cannons are mounted on the Magdomilla-Whouva section, which does not generate enough power to charge these cannons effectively on its own. The Magdomilla-Luhoutzs section on the other hand mounts all the torpedo tubes, which drain negligible power levels, even though this section generates plenty. In compensation for the loss of the main guns, the torpedo battery has been made rather large for the size of the ship. But as it was intended to fight space battles with both sections combined, this has rarely been a problem. The nose-on battle attitude of the Zentraedi standard tactics does however expose the Magdomilla-Whouva section to far more enemy fire, which occasionally lead to the total loss of the nose ship while the aft section remained operational. Consequently, the losses (and hence produced numbers) for the Magdomilla-Whouva are larger than for the Magdomilla-Luhoutzs. Both sections mounted standard (for their size) batteries of medium cannons and defensive missiles, though the hull shape of the Magdomilla-Luhoutzs section makes a forward concentration (as used in nearly all other Zentraedi ships) of the medium cannons unfeasible.

Internally, there are thirteen deck levels. The upper levels are the troop and crew quarters, the middle levels carry the engineering and command systems, and the lower levels are mostly used for hangarage of the larger auxiliaries and infantry mecha. As stated, the Gnerl hangars ring the forward section. Far more of the relative mass of the Magdomilla-Luhoutzs is dedicated to reaction mass stowage than on other Zentraedi designs, and the opposite holds for the Magdomilla-Whouva. This is because the Magdomilla-Whouva is intended mainly for atmospheric flight, where the engines can function in a plasma-shock expansion mode, in effect using the atmosphere as reaction mass. Consequently, its fuel requirements are far lower and more of its mass is dedicated to cargo and weapons (such as the large particle beams). This of course meant that, in order for the Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs combination to reach the delta-v requirements set for Zentraedi ships, the Magdomilla-Luhoutzs section had to carry more than its relative share of the fuel. The fuel situation also accounts for the relative low number of troops given the size and mass of the Magdomilla-Luhoutzs, and for the relative large troop complement on the Magdomilla-Whouva section. Combined these two ships mostly cancel each others weaknesses out, and form a better balanced vessel. Unfortunately, the independent capabilities of the Magdomilla-Whouva, and the connected requirement to carry deadweight (such as inactive engines in the nose section and far heavier engines capable of propelling the entire combination in the aft section) in docked condition give the Queadol Magdomilla combination the lowest mecha/armament-to-mass ratio of all Zentraedi ships. It is a tribute to the designers that these drawbacks had little to no operational consequences.

History:

Along with the Tou Redir, the Queadol Magdomilla was among the longest Zentraedi designs in continued production. The vessel was conceived in 1265 as an amphibious assault and command ship, but this requirement was expanded early on in the design process to include task force command duties as well. The task force command facilities were not integrated with the amphibious facilities in the Magdomilla-Whouva section, but in the Magdomilla-Luhoutzs section proper. In addition, the envisioned armament was upgraded as well; additional heavy cannons were added to the Magdomilla-Whouva section, and the medium cannon and torpedo batteries of the Magdomilla-Luhoutzs section were increased as well.

The resulting vessel was an efficient combination of amphibious and fleet command ship. The effective firepower of a Queadol combination was second only to Nupetiet Vergnitzs fleet command ships, not counting those vessels fitted with a Reflex cannon. Consequently the class, although receiving numerous upgrades in electronic and weapon systems over the centuries, remained in production up until the end of the First Robotech War. The class was the heaviest design of the 'fast wing' of the Zentraedi fleet, capable of maneuvering alongside the smaller Thuverl Salan cruisers and the nimble Tou Redir scout vessels. As a fleet command ship the Queadol Magdomilla excelled due to its roomy command facilities and high flank acceleration, while it was of course the vehicle of choice (barring availability of a Nupetiet-Vergnitzs) during planetary assaults. Typically, a Zentraedi task force was made up of about sixty ships of all types, lead by one Queadol Magdomilla. Not all Zentraedi ships however were organized in task forces; the system guard forces and recon vessels often operated independently from the task force structure. Hence, the percentage of Queadol Magdomilla ships was lower than the task force structure and total number of Zentraedi ships would lead one to believe.

Because the Magdomilla-Luhoutzs section would not descend to the planetary surface in an invasion, its combat tasking and thus mecha complement differed as well. Rather than the large Regult percentage of other ships, the Magdomilla-Luhoutzs carried a far larger part of Gnerl fighters. The Magdomilla-Luhoutzs, in orbit, was eminently suited to act as a large orbital base. Regult pods would have been of relatively little use in such a situation, but with the large fighter group the Magdomilla-Luhoutzs could launch airborne strikes and support missions from outside the atmosphere, and fly better aerospace defense missions as well. This did not mean that the Magdomilla-Luhoutzs carried few infantry mecha; indeed, it was about as capable in this respect as the Thuverl Salan even without the Magdomilla-Whouva forward section. However, these troops used Frandlar Tiluvo transports to travel to the surface rather than being delivered by the ships themselves, or they double packed with the amphibious forces in the Magdomilla-Whouva vessel.

As with the majority of the Zentraedi, this class was mostly destroyed in the Solar System during and after the Zentraedi Holocaust. Although numerous Queadol Magdomilla-Luhoutzs ships survived the fighting, those that didn't leave the system with non-assimilated Zentraedi were among the first vessels drained of whatever protoculture remained and placed in reserve. This was because there was relatively little demand for their specialized taskings in the RDF Zentraedi fleet, as these were stationed in the Solar System exclusively, with the inhabited planet in friendly hands. The ships outside the Solar System soon met the fate of their other brethren and lost generator power at such a rate that almost none remained after 2022. Those vessels that were mothballed and stored in the Sol System are effective total losses after the Invid scavenged and wrecked them.

The design philosophy and combat records of the Magdomilla-Whouva section of the vessel combination are described in the section on that ship.

See additional design notes.

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