Agamemnon-class

"The Agamemnon Class Command Carrier is both the main fleet and taskforce command ship, as well as a heavy carrier able to carry twelve mobile armors with some even said to carry fifteen. Therefore these ships are to be a main target during any battle along with the Long Island Class Carriers."

- - A ZAFT Mobile Suit Instructor



General and Technical Data

 * Class: Agamemnon Class
 * Ships of the line: Agamemnon, Menelaos, Xerxes, Solomon, Alastor, Castor, Bellerophon, Minos, Cadmus, Achilles, Ajax, Daedalus, Nestor, Ixion, Andromache, Mydon, Machaon, Leonidas, Thermopylae, Weyland, Hektor, Creon, Argus, Krishna, Karna, Starkad, Rostam, Hengest, Lysander, Eurybiades, Phoebidas, Themistocles, Leodegrance, Ector, Cornwall, Constantine, Tiberius, Bedivere, Ivanhoe,Caradoc, Gaheris, Galahad, Gareth, Gawain, Lionel, Percival, Sagramore, Palamedes, Geraint, Lamorak, Mountbatten, Turner, Kinkaid, Brunswick, Wellington, Massena, Dearborn, Madison, Harrison, Liverpool (Agamemnon Main Class) Sasaki, Uesugi, Takeda, Minamoto, Akechi, Hattori, Kusunoki, Masamune, Magsaysay, Ortygia, Yamamoto, Nagano (Sasaki Sub-Class) Telemachus, Hardian, Telegonus, Roma, Latinus (Telemachus Sub-Class) Alexander, Remus, Romulus, Hannibal, Homer, Trenchard, Sueter, Strasser, Moneta, Renault, Fontaine, Chamberlain, Pakenham, Drummond, Taylor, Garfield, Stoddert, Hamilton, Eaton, Decatur, Bainbridge, Bingham, Rodgers (Alexander Sub-Class) Roosevelt, Kennedy, Wilson, Eisenhower, Doolittle, Washington, Jackson, Oda Nobunaga (Roosevelt Sub-Class)
 * Unit type: Command Carrier
 * Classification: CVC
 * Manufacturer: Alliance of Sponsor Nations
 * Operator(s): Alliance of Sponsor Nations; Earth Alliance; United Earth Federation
 * First deployment: January, CE69
 * Dimensions: 300 Meters
 * Wingspan: 115 Meters at its Widest
 * Weight: unknown
 * Propulsion: unknown
 * Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; 3 x Multi-Use Launchers
 * Fixed armaments: 2 x Type IX 215cm Duel-Barrel High Energy Beam Cannons; 8 x Type V 60mm CIWS Cannons; 6 x Missile Launchers (2 x “Godfrey” 220cm Duel-Barrel High Energy Beam Cannons, 10 x “Igelstellung” 75mm CIWS Cannons, 6 x Missile Launchers, for FSVRB-500A Refit Ships and Agamemnon Kai Class Ships Only)
 * Mobile weapons: 12 Mobile Armors/or Mobile Suits (15 Mobile Armors for Roosevelt Sub-Class)
 * Launch catapults: 2 (1 for Agamemnon Kai Class)

Technical and Historical Notes
The Agamemnon Class Command Carrier is a ship purposely built for the precursor to the Earth Alliance the Alliance of Sponsor Nations when it was first formed unlike the other ships in the Alliance Fleet which where from the member-states respective Space Navies. These large flagships where supposed to be the most modern ship of its day equipped with new equipment such as Linear Catapults and having heavy anti-ship cannons. While it was not as heavily armed as the Nelson Class Cruiser or Atlas Class Battleship, the new flagship was still powerful with its two main guns able to take down any enemy ship without fail. Even then, those weapons where not the main weapon of the ship, the true main weapon of the Agamemnon was the twelve mobile armors it could carry into battle.

Over fifty of these ships where produced over the course of the Bloody Valentine War, and would often serve as Flagships for Orbital Fleets during the war. Other times they would serve just as normal carriers, supporting other ships in their fleet with their complement of mobile armors. However, like any ship in the Alliance Fleet it was no match against determined mobile suit attacks on itself.

Like other ships in the Alliance Fleet over the course of the war many programs where started to modify or refit the Agamemnon Class to carry mobile suits, with various variants showing up throughout the war. It would be thanks to these prototypes and variants most specially the Telemachus Class, that gave experience and data on refitting the remaining Agamemnon Class ships to carry GAT-01 Strike Daggers with the FSVRB-500B refit program during the last months of the war. After the war the main class would be all refitted into the new Agamemnon Kai Class ships which refitted the ships with a new forward catapult that can equip Strike Packs onto Dagger Ls and Windams far more easily then the earlier converted ships of the First War.

Other ships would fall into the hands of various terrorist or pirate hands, with one or two being sold off to third-party interests. One such ship would be the Lionel which would be sold off to the Lunar Colonial Militia as its main carrier ship and later flagship. One major pirate controlled Agamemnon Class would be the former Cadmus which was renamed Red Haven and became the flagship for the Red Dawn Mercenaries who later turned pirate. Another far more noted pirate controlled Agamemnon would be the former Cornwall renamed to the Delphinus and would be the ship of the Blue Rouge Pirate Group though it should noted that they would be more anti-Earth Alliance then general pirate. While finally a major terrorist controlled ship would be the former Alexander turned Muruta Azrael the new flagship for the Blue Cosmos Terrorist Forces, which was just a cover for the Phantom Pain Taskforce.

All in all the Agamemnon Class ships were a long-lived design which would live through many refits and modifications. It would be the premier command ship for the Earth Alliance and would later serve the Alliance’s successor government the United Earth Federation. It would serve through two wars, and many small conflicts the throughout its long and distinguished career.

Notable Ships and Crew
AFS Cadmus, later renamed Red Haven (Captain Oliver Havoc)

The Cadmus was assigned to 4th Orbital Fleet as a straight out carrier ship instead of a flagship and would go rouge after the Battle of Nova with its full compliment of mobile armors. It would then be renamed Red Haven before becoming the flagship of the newly created Red Dawn Mercenaries. It would eventually be hired by Lord Unato Ema Seiran to destroy all witnesses of the Astray Project at the collapsed Heliopolis Colony, including the Serpent Tail Mercenaries who had been hired to take care of any hard evidence of the Project.

AFS Menelaos (Captain Robert Hoffman)

The Flagship of the 8th Orbital Fleet and before that was the Taskforce Flagship of Taskforce 43 of the Fourth Fleet still under the command of Lewis Halberton. It along with its crew would sadly be destroyed during the Battle of Orbit but not before taking out the Laurasia Class Frigate Gamow and severely damaging the Babylon Class Cruiser Atlantis.

Major Refits and Revisions

 * FSVRB-100
 * Minor Refit, took place soon after the deployment of the class. It made several tweaks and such to the linear catapults which at the time of deployment were still considered new. This refit gives the linear catapults of the ships 30% faster turn-around time.


 * FSVRB-200A
 * A very major refit, that took place soon after the CE69 Blockade and the introduction of the mobile suit to the modern battlefield. It upgrades the six CIWS Cannons to Type V and adds two more. This new refit was supposed to better protect the ships from attacking mobile suits, but as shown when the war started it was a major failure.


 * FSVRB-200B
 * A second major refit of the class weapons, which goes hand-in-hand with the 200A Refit. This refit gave the Agamemnon Class heavier main guns, in response to the ZAFT Capital Ships which would surprise the entire Sponsor Nation Alliance due to their heavy weapons. The refit gave the class a set of Type IX 215cm Beam Cannons, instead of the aging Type III 200cm Railguns that had been added to the design for use against other ships.


 * FSVRB-500A
 * This is a very major refit which is part of a package of refits planned for the Agamemnon Class ships for the build up for the new Space Counter-Offensive. This first refit of the package once again improved the weapons of the class. It would give the ships ten new 75mm “Igelstellung” CIWS Cannons to replace their almost useless Type V CIWS, and its main guns would be upgraded to “Godfrey” 220cm Beam Cannons vastly outstripping the older Type IX Cannons. However unlike the rest of the refit package this refit is considered too costly and only a handful of ships got this refit.


 * FSVRB-500B
 * The second major refit of the new refit package for the Agamemnon Class ships during the build up for the new Space Counter-Offensive. This refit changes the hanger equipment and catapults so it would be able to support and launch mobile suits, though this refit does not give the class the ability to change Strike Packs on A1 or Elite Daggers, due to the way the catapults are.


 * FSVRB-500C
 * A minor refit that is part of the new refit package for the Agamemnon Class ships during the build up for the new Space Counter-Offensive. This refit removes the complicated recovery equipment in the rear hatches, which mobile suits do not need during recovery.


 * FSVRB-500D (better known as the Peacemaker Special)
 * A very major refit that is technically part of the refit package for the class during the building for the new space counter-offensive, but it is only given to four ships of the class. These ships would be on the very ships that received the 500A refit, and would not receive the last two refits instead receiving this major refit. This refit would modify the hanger equipment to allow the support of Nuclear Missile equipped Moebius Mobile Armor. Technically, this was standard as part of the original plans, but was removed after N-Jammers made Nuclear Missile armed mobile armors sort of obsolete.
 * (Ships to receive this Refit: Washington, Jackson, Oda Nobunaga, Doolittle)


 * FSVRB-700 (Agamemnon Kai Class)
 * Also known as the Agamemnon Kai Class, this is not a single refit but yet another package or series of refits for the Agamemnon Class after the end of the war. It yet again modifies the hanger equipment so it can equip and remove Strike Packs from mobile suits, and adds a brand new front mounted linear catapult which makes equipping Strike Packs easier. Also the hanger has been pushed more towards the rear of the ship due to new linear catapult. This is thanks to removal of the Mobile Armor Retrieval Equipment, and several other not-needed pieces of equipment. This is the latest refit and it looks to have the longest deployment time.

Miscellaneous Information

 * Variants/Subclasses: 4
 * Telemachus Class, part of the Earth Alliance’s Mobile Suit Carrier Program alongside the Avenger Class and partly becomes the prototype for the later Archangel Class Mobile Assault Ship mainly with the hanger equipment and catapults. Only a handful ever produced due the regular Agamemnon Class being refitted for carrying mobile suits.
 * Sasaki Sub-Class, one of the first real sub-classes. The only real difference is that these ships are commonly operated and built by the other member nations of the Alliance. Therefore not a real sub-class due to the only difference lay in the owner of the ship. The vast majority of these ships have been destroyed by the time of the end of the war due to the majority of the Eurasian and East Asian Fleets destroyed.
 * Alexander Sub-Class, sometimes called just the Flight II, basically a few ships produced during the build-up to the Space Counter-Offensive. Unlike the remaining Sasaki Sub-Class and Agamemnon Main Class ships, the Alexander Class is built with mobile suits in mind.
 * Roosevelt Sub-Class, a very minor Sub-Class that was supposed to be a prototype for a new set of Agamemnon Class ships. Basically it has a slightly larger hanger which allows it to carry fifteen mobile armors instead of the usual twelve. Only a handful of this sub-class are ever built in the end.
 * Notes: Basically the same ship just made a dedicated sheet on it for it does not have the best of specs or history.