Aggadah

The Magen Chalal's heavy combatant and response ship, the Aggadah-class provides a solid across-the-board improvement from the previous Egillah-class ships. They are superior to the Starfleet Excelsior-A-class, with particularly more impressive diplomatic capabilities and a notably tougher hull, comparable to that of an Ambassador-class.

As with the Egillah, the endurance is lacking in comparison to the Excelsior-A. The Magen Chalal run their warp cores and nacelles to greater safety margins than even the oft-skirted Starfleet regulations, impacting the maximum sustained Warp permissible, and the maintenance cycles are more frequent than required by the five-year-mission capable Excelsior-A. Not designed primarily as long-range Explorers, this isn’t much of a drawback given their role and the relatively restricted Ked Paddah space.

Compared to the Egillah, the medical facilities are modernised but budget restrictions meant the planned full shipboard hospital was cut back. The bed space was instead pragmatically repurposed as bunks for a Magen Chalal Marine complement. The Aggadah is less considerably less of a drain on supply than its predecessor, a factor that contributed to the rapid retirement of the voracious Egillah in the aftermath of the Arcadian conflict.

For all the strengths, the Aggadah is however somewhat expensive, particularly in special materials going into the very robust hull. A refit is expected in the next few years, and the Magen Chalal is in the planning stages for a larger successor class.