The British government has announced that HMS Queen Elizabeth II, the last remaining Monarch-class battle cruisers will be retired as the fleet's main training ship in December. An Admiralty spokesperson has confirmed that it has given its blessing for a plan to incorporate the 85-year-old battle cruiser into the Royal Space Navy Museum, at Gateway. It will be the first time a British warship of this size will be accessible by the public.
Constructed ten years after the Second Battle of Alpha Centauri, the Monarch-class battle cruisers were intended to reaffirm Britain's control over its interstellar holdings, and provide a modernized space warfare capability, to support its allies and ward off adversaries. In fact, only four of the planned six Monarchs were completed, and none ever saw combat. Historians have argued over how effective the Monarch-class vessels would have been in a real fight. Often described as a lumbering white elephant and a 3000-ton prototyping platform, the Monarch-class was the first warship to feature many systems that are now standard on modern warships.
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