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| - After the disastrous end of Space War I the human race had won the war, however at a terrible cost and it was decided by the New Earth Government to start a plan to make sure that what happened in Space War I would never happen again. Therefore the half-finished SDF-2 battlefortress, a human-built copy of the original SDF-1 was finished as the first Long-Range Colonization Ship Megaroad. This would be the start of the Space colonization plan and the NUN would construct one or two Megaroad Colony Ships every year after the 2012 launch of the Megaroad-01. The Megaroad Class Colony Ships had the mission to spread the human across the stars colonizing planets as they went. As a colony ship the Megaroad class sported an entire medium sized city at its heart, behind hardened glass panels which sports a closed-cycle long-term habitation system allowing the colonists to live inside the colony ships for several years to decades. This city-like colony section holds eight thousand colonists in comfort. The general idea of a city in space is from the successful nature of Macross City inside the SDF-1 during the events of Space War I. However the NUN is well aware the dangers of space and have equipped their colony ships accordingly. The Megaroad sports two hundred eighty eight high-powered laser canons for close in defense, and twenty-five light particle cannons for light anti-ship defense, though the true defense of the ship and its colonists is the three hundred or so variable fighters it is able to carry to help in the defense of the colony. The colony ship also sports the latest armor and barrier technology to defend the ship directly in case of direct attack on the ship. Later Megaroad Class ships sports armored shutters that close up around the colony section of the ship. The Megaroad Class does not just to have to rely on its fighters and its light defenses to defend the colony from attack. For it also acts a large-scale command ship of a fleet of defense ships from small frigates and destroyers to huge battle ships and carriers. A Megaroad Defense Fleet usually has the firepower of medium-scale Zentradi Fleet to protect the colony. However even with these defenses several Megaroad Class ships have been lost, either to enemy attack or just lost in space never to be heard from again. One of the most famous cases of the later is the original Megaroad-01 which the NUN lost contact in 2016. Combined with this and entire lose of the Megaroad-02 and Megaroad-04 to rouge Zentradi had the NUN give their colony ship design a general look-over and a new outlook on the colony missions. This would see the enlarging of colony defense fleets from small puny sixty or so vessels to hundreds. Another improvement would be the introduction of the armored shutters around the colony section, which are coated with a new ablative armor coating allowing it be twice as efficient. A new pin-point barrier system is introduced, with two smaller sub-systems equipped onto the ships, with one protecting the entire ship and the other only to defend the colony section. Even with these improvements few Megaroad Class ships are lost over the years, and would see the introduction of the newer New Macross Class Colony Ships. Even with many Megaroad Colony Ships lost either to the dangers of space or attacked by some sort of enemy new or old, they still managed to colonize several planets like Haven, Terra II, Mirage, and New Kiev. Sadly the last Megaroad Class ship, the Megaroad-30 would be launched early 2030 alongside the first New Macross Colony Ships. Even then the Megaroad class ships would pave the way for human space colonization.
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