Tanager the Great Class Battleship

The Tanager the Great Class Battleship is a class of nine (originally 8 prior to the gifting of the former BBG(S)-39 to the CMF) heavy attack stealth battleship in service with the UCR and CMF navies. The Tanager class is a development of the previous Island Mk.III Class Stealth Attack Battleships, and as a result is alternatively known as the Super Mk.III Class and unofficially as the Mk.IV class. They are the most powerful space combatants currently in service with the UCR Aerospace Forces, second only to the conceptual Defender Class Super Battleships.

Technologies and Combat characteristics
The Tanager Class incorporated new technologies in power generation and weaponry, the most notable being the extremely powerful Fold Reactor, a device that extracts exotic energies from fold space to use for the ship's various systems, resulting in a abnormally huge boost for energy used for all systems of the ships, allowing weapons previously meant for the Mk.IIIs but written off due to insufficient power, to be used in this new class of warships. One such weapon is the Mk.I Series II Heavy Quantum Energy Cannon, a powerful general purpose direct energy weapon that utilizes heavy quantum as a catalyst. A heavy quantum reaction gun uses a resonance fold pattern to excite heavy quantum in fold space such that it loses its stability and thus its mass collapses into three-dimensional space (real space). The collapse crushes the heavy quantum past the fusion threshold at which point the reaction produces a powerful nuclear fusion plasma beam. The intense heat and force produced by the cannon itself was known to obliterate warships in simulation and limited combat use in Andromeda even before the beam hit them. Other weapons include four Emora-Type IV Heavy Energy Cannons in two turrets located on either side of the ship, and two magnetic accelerator weapons.

Development
Research and development into the Tanager class battleship did not begin until 2567, although research into several of it's weapons and systems began after the Wraith Incursion in 2558 as equipment to be refitted to the Island Mk.III Battleship. However, the program it's self ran into issues during simulation testing, as the Thermonuclear Heat Pile Cluster system in the Mk.III's, while powerful, could not generate enough energy to fully power all of the new weapons and efforts shifted to the creation of a new power source for the equipment.