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Invincible Reason with regenerative armor and automated weapons

An alternative Gloriana design separates internal structure from armor and combines redundant drives with repair systems and automated loading.

Notes

Dragon's alternative starts with Invincible Reason because the Gloriana hull offers space and existing capabilities. It retains the adamantine internal structure but proposes replacing the exterior with neutronium armor from Glynn Stewart's fiction, admired here for surviving antimatter detonations of one gigaton. A regenerative lattice would add repair capability. Phasers supply secondary armament, while Wave Motion energy remains an attractive option for heavier weapons. Propulsion combines the recent Space Battleship Yamato drive, described as making rapid and precise galactic jumps, with a slower standard warp drive as backup. Droids or Men of Iron provide automation, subject to the explicit condition that the latter do not want to kill humanity. Mechanical loading and automated maintenance are part of making the huge hull usable.