The Shipyard: Earth Alliance Apollo-class Redux for A Call to Arms 2E
The Apollo class was designed and built following a Defence Estimate Senate Committee 'Whole of Fleet review' that was conducted in 2255. Earth force had been rapidly rebuilding following the war with the Minbari. The Omega-class had been built in very large quantities at the expense of any other classes of Capital ship. There were still Nova Dreadnoughts and Hyperion class Heavy cruisers in the fleet, and several of them were newer than the first Omega-class ships to be produced having been laid down during the war with the Minbari and completed after the first Omegas were launched. But Earthforce was a much diminished force and the concentration on building a Battle fleet with a single principal combatant meant that supporting roles had to be performed by much older and numerically restricted hulls such as the Oracle class scout cruiser and the handful of surviving Avenger class fleet carriers. This put a lot of strain on those ships and Omegas were forced to perform duties t...
