A confidential report by the HCS Space Navy has been leaked online and has revealed some future plans for the service. The SN will soon complete their Soulaki fleet though there are no plans to extend the order. The Soulaki will form a core battle fleet of 30 ships which should form the backbone of that fleet until the 2120s. The Soulaki is likely to survive until 2130 with a new battlecruiser type expected to replace it sometime in the 2120s. The plans for that future type are very vague however.
Cosmos will complete production in the early 2110s though the oldest will already be approaching the end of their fatigue lives (the oldest are over 10 years old now, the design life is said to be 15). A rebuild programme will take place once new construction ends (so using the same production jigs) which is expected to give the ships another 10 years of life (taking them to about 2125). The SN expect to replace the Cosmos entirely with a new "standard combatant" in that decade.
This is known as Standard Combatant 2120 and will be "similiar to the Shark in size" but have "firepower and performance greatly exceeding that of a current Soulaki". The Clones have no wormhole drive plans and little likelihood in getting the technology until it is commercially available (likely to be no earlier than the 2130s) and have recently slowed their propulsion development and instead are putting their money and development time into weapons and defensive systems. The Clones are now working on multi-phasic weapons and say they should have weapons at least equivalent to DDS TPM-1s by 2115.
Shark figures large in future plans as it will replace the Kalahati Tuul family. The SN plan a "second generation" model to begin production by 2111 and should be the standard type for the second half of production. It will have improved propulsion as well as first generation multi-phasic weapons "both missile and beam".
More details will follow.
