Ship details

The Yorktown was always intended to be the warship counterpart to the Orville, remaining in the bubble due to the Corvette's much shorter jump range. The FSD was still boosted as much as possible, but the heavy shields and armor of a warship keep it from being good for deep space exploration.

Originally slated to be named the Agamemnon on it's shakedown cruise, and fitted with 2x gimbal mounted class 4 multi-cannons, 2x gimbal mounted class 1 multi-cannons, and 2x gimbal mounted thermal vent beams; the increased use of chaff, and problems ship designers have with creating a simple "bore sight" toggle for a commander (why must we leave the pilot seat and travel to another console?) as well as the heavier shields and armor on hostile ships led to a couple refits.

First the class 4 multi-cannons were replaced with class 4 high-yield short-range blaster cannons. These were good at destroying internal modules on large nearby ships, but relatively useless until the enemy's shields went down.

The cannons were replaced with a pair of class 4 plasma accelerators which were effective against shields as well, while the two beams were traded for a single larger thermal vent beam, a SCB was added to keep in tougher fights, and a large fighter bay was added to provide support. With the refitted design as a carrier on final launch, the vessel was named Yorktown (CV-10). While initially equipped with dual beam Tarpin fighters, Gelid F GU-97s eventually replaced them.