Excerpt from:
To Crown the Stars: A History of the Terran Dominion Navy(3rd edition, 2658)
Chapter 8: The Cylon Wars
Following Kerrigan's invasion of Korhal it became abundantly clear to the Dominion High Command that their current generation of capital ships was severely lacking. The Gorgon-class battlecruisers' combat performance, on which such high hopes had been placed, had proved to be rather uninspiring. Kerrigan personally destroyed each of Warfield's seven Gorgons using scourges in the Bone Trench near the Dauntless Plateau. The Pride of Augustgrad-class also proved to be no match for Kerrigan's Zerg Swarm, with Zerg Leviathans summoned by Kerrigan decimating entire squadrons.
At the same time long-range reconnaissance, coupled with attempts to establish diplomatic relations with the United Earth Directorate, had confirmed the Dominion's worst fears. The UED Expeditionary Fleet that had ravaged the sector during the Brood War had indeed been but a small part of the Directorate military and that its military equipment hadn't been the best the UED had to offer. Indeed many of the weapons and platforms used by the UED Expeditionary Fleet had been locally produced equipment that had underwent upgrades and modifications by the UED during their incursion.
Likewise, the UED had a population of one hundred and thirty-two billion people at the time; Dominion population as of 2505 was believed to be about seventeen-point-eight-billion (though this number is difficult to substantiate due to records being lost in the Second Great War, some estimates put the Dominion population at the time as being only fifteen or sixteen billion). Total population of the Korpulu Sector was estimated to be a little fewer than twenty billion. Luckily, frequent colonial uprisings and insurrections required a sizable chunk of the UED military to be dedicated to pacification and counter-insurgency duties; preventing its full might from being deployed in the Korpulu Sector.
As more reconnaissance reports came in and efforts to embed spies into the Directorate finally began to bear fruit, it became abundantly clear that the Terran Dominion couldn't match the UED naval building programs ship-for-ship. At the same time, new ships were needed, ones capable of taking down Zerg Leviathans single-handedly and decimating Zerg swarms should hostilities break out (though Kerrigan's control of most of the Zerg made this unlikely at the time). In the early months of 2506 the Ministry of Defense's Ship Design Bureau, in conjunction with the Weapons Development Bureau (now headed by Egon Stetmann, personally appointed to the position by Emperor Valerian), began work on a new generation of ships designed to counter any potential UED and Zerg incursion. At the same time, upgrade programs were undertaken to strengthen the Dominion's strike-craft.
The Triple-Nine Fleet Program was proposed by the Ministry of Defense on December 6, 2506 and approved by the Senate on January 9, 2507; authorizing the construction of nine battleships, nine fleet super-carriers and nine heavy battlecruisers (hence the plan's name) along with eighteen heavy cruisers, thirty-two light cruisers and sixty-three destroyers. The first hulls were laid down in the Ursa Shipyards in May of that year. The Triple-Nine Plan was followed in November 2508 by the Kruger Plan, authorizing the construction of an additional twenty battleships, twelve super-carriers, thirty-four heavy battlecruisers, twenty-one heavy cruisers, thirty-four light cruisers, thirty destroyers, twenty-eight arsenal ships and fifty-two planetary defense ships (also known as super-monitors)...
Table 8A: Dominion Fleet Composition at the start of the Cylon Wars
Battleships: 18 operational, 2 working up, 10 under construction
Super-carriers: 11 operational, 1 working up, 9 under construction
Battlecruisers: 89 operational, 8 working up, 22 under construction
Heavy cruisers: 151 operational, 11 working up, 15 under construction
Light cruisers: 238 operational, 4 working up, 24 under construction
Destroyers: 334 operational, 5 working up, 48 under construction
Planetary defense ships: 31 operational, 3 working up, 18 under construction
Arsenal ships: 28 operational
Planetary assault ships: 42 operational, 2 working up, 2 under construction
Fleet auxiliary ships: 141 operational, 10 working up, 12 under construction
Table 8B: Technical Specifications (Triple-Nine and Kruger Plan)
New Gettysburg-class battleship
Length: 1658m
Width: 484m
Height: 190m
Crew Compliment: 6,200
Armament:One Type VI Yamato cannon, sixteen 800mm Hell Hammer rail guns (mounted in eight dual turrets), sixty-four ATA/ATS laser turrets, twelve ITS-21 ion cannons, one hundred AMF -11 point defense laser batteries, twenty-four J32 ship-to-ship missile launchers, thirty-two J38 counter missile / anti-fighter missile launchers,
Strike-craft compliment: 3 squadrons
Power plant:4 Bellerephon CZW Cellular Reactors
Armor: 4m (average) layered regenerative biosteel, neo-steel
Leyte Gulf-class super-carrier
Length: 1850m
Width: 501m
Height: 200m
Crew Compliment: 7,500 (including strike-craft pilots)
Armament: one hundred and fifty AMF -11 point defense laser batteries, sixteen J32 ship-to-ship missile launchers, fifty-two J38 counter missile / anti-fighter missile launchers
Strike-craft compliment: 12 squadrons
Power plant:4 Bellerephon CZW Cellular Reactors
Armor: 4m (average) layered regenerative biosteel, neo-steel
Fenris-class heavy battlecruiser
Length: 972m
Width: 325m
Height: 100m
Crew Compliment: 4,800
Armament:One Type VI Yamato cannon, forty-eight ATA/ATS laser turrets, sixty AMF -11 point defense laser batteries, four ITS-21 ion cannons, twenty J38 counter missile / anti-fighter missile launchers, four AST-20 plasma torpedo launchers
Strike-craft compliment: 2 squadrons
Power plant:2 Enlightened Dynamics A1C Anti-Matter Reactors
Armor: 3m (average) layered regenerative biosteel, neo-steel
Gorgon-class battlecruiser (B series)
Length: 680m
Width: 228m
Height: 68m
Crew Compliment: 4,100
Armament: One Type VI Yamato cannon, fifty-four ATA/ATS laser turrets, forty-eight AMF -11 point defense laser batteries, twenty J38 counter missile / anti-fighter missile launchers, thirty J32 ship-to-ship missile launchers
Strike-craft compliment: 2 squadrons
Power plant:2 Enlightened Dynamics A1C Anti-Matter Reactors
Armor: 2.5m (average) layered regenerative biosteel, neo-steel
Behemoth-class heavy cruiser (D series)
Length: 480m
Width: 126m
Height: 54m
Crew Compliment: 2,100
Armament:One Type V Yamato cannon, thirty-four ATA/ATS laser turrets, twenty-eight AMF -11 point defense laser batteries, 8 J32 ship-to-ship missile launchers, twelve J38 counter missile / anti-fighter missile launchers
Strike-craft compliment: 2 squadrons
Power plant:2 Bellerephon CZW Cellular Reactors
Armor: 2m (average) layered regenerative biosteel, neo-steel
Sultan-class light cruiser
Length: 354m
Width: 56m
Height: 24m
Crew Compliment: 780
Armament:twenty-four ATA/ATS laser turrets, eighteen AMF -11 point defense laser batteries, twelve J38 counter missile / anti-fighter missile launchers, two AST-20 plasma torpedo launchers
Strike-craft compliment: 1 squadron
Power plant:2 Bellerephon CZW Cellular Reactors
Armor: 1.6m (average) layered regenerative biosteel, neo-steel
Virginia-class planetary defense ship
Length: 251m
Width: 34m
Height: 21m
Crew Compliment: 360
Armament: four 800mm Hell Hammer rail guns (two turrets), twelve AMF -11 point defense laser batteries, eight J38 counter missile / anti-fighter missile launchers, four J32 ship-to-ship missile launchers
Strike-craft compliment: none
Power plant:1 Enlightened Dynamics A1C Anti-Matter Reactor
Armor: 1.2m (average) neo-steel
Texas-class planetary defense ship
Length: 251m
Width: 34m
Height: 21m
Crew Compliment: 360
Armament: one Type VI Yamato cannon, twelve AMF -11 point defense laser batteries, eight J38 counter missile / anti-fighter missile launchers, four J32 ship-to-ship missile launchers
Strike-craft compliment: none
Power plant:1 Enlightened Dynamics A1C Anti-Matter Reactor
Armor: 1.2m (average) neo-steel
Devastator-class missile destroyer
Length: 175m
Width: 23m
Height: 14m
Crew Compliment: 240
Armament:twelve AMF -11 point defense laser batteries, eight J38 counter missile / anti-fighter missile launchers, four J32 ship-to-ship missile launchers
Strike-craft compliment: none
Power plant:1 Bellerephon CZW Cellular Reactors
Armor: .8m (average) neo-steel
Author's Note: Somebody asked about ship sizes so I put this together. In Vanilla Starcraft 2 the Gorgon-class battlecruisers (referred to in this story as the Gorgon A-series), which includes the Bucephalus, is listed as being 560m long and 82.4m wide; Behemoths like the Hyperion are smaller than that. I think the 82.4m would have been better for the height because they look wider than that. As for ship development, the Terran Dominion is kind of in the same position Japan was before World War 2. The UED has more manpower, more industry, slightly more advanced technology, more resources. They can't match them ship-for-ship so they are starting to do what Japan did: building large high-power ships and looking for ways to level the playing field (like Japan did with the Long Lance torpedo, etc...).
Also, I know I only listed the crew compliment of the Behemoths' as 2,100 but I said three thousand people died when the Cylons blew up the Huey Long. The reason for that is the Huey Long was an older model and didn't have the automation the D-series has. Plasma torpedoes are also mentioned as being mounted on the Hercules-class battlecruisers in Starcraft lore. Also considering the presence of energy weapons, force fields, etc… let's just say there is quite a bit of tech disparity between the Starcraft and Battlestar universes. Anyway, I will try to get another chapter out by either Friday or Saturday, don't hold it against me if I don't meet the promise.