Lusitania Class Battleship

APON Lusitania was a battleship (Battleship, dreadnought or superdreadnought?) of the Axiom Prime Offworld Navy that revolutionized naval power. Her entry into service in *insert date here* represented such a marked advance in warship technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships. She was the first Battleship ever constructed by Virtis, Axiom prime or any planets associated with them, and also the first to be built under the long lasting Virtis-Axiom alliance. She was the first fighting ship to have escape pods with fighting equipment of their own, the first to have fighter-refueling docks, the first to carry the "all big gun armament" which would be standardized on later ships, and the first to use the "Y plan" engine layout that would be featured on almost every alliance ship afterwords. She was the second ship of any class to be completed by an alliance planet, beaten out only by the APON Exter, an experimental fast cruiser built by Virtus and Axiom in Axiom shipyards

Lusitania kicked off a naval race which climaxed with the launch of the VON Spirit, the Longest and heaviest alliance ship to ever be manufactured.

Lusitania participated in almost every major naval action Axiom Prime ever undertook. Her career was so long and so varied that no alliance ship has ever been able to match her days-fielded or battles-participated record. However, whether or not her ships destroyed record holds is a matter of great debate-being contested by the VON Spirit and APON Destroyer. She was relegated to coastal defense duties in low orbit after the launch of the APON Kettenkeroude reduced her to a second-class battleship, and was retired in *insert date here*. Lusitania is now a museum ship, moored at the Atonan naval base and museum in Whittner, Axiom. Her original nameplate is memorialized in Kel, Axiom, Axiom Prime's capital and largest city.