⚓ K.M.T.S Kaltongerah
General Overview:
The K.M.T.S Kaltongerah was the first warship ever designed and developed by NJPCC itself, under the direction of the NJSSPF (National Japanese Secret Shipbuilding and Prototype Foundry).
Until the late 1960s, the NJPCC mostly relied on salvaging sunken Imperial Japanese Navy relics and restoring them for combat service. However, the K.M.T.S-Class represented a new era — indigenous, “mega-ship” tier vessels that were hybrids of old IJN designs, yet carried NJPCC’s own experimental technology.
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🛠 Historical Development:
Laid Down (barely): November 4, 1949
Keel Completion: 1950
Abandoned: 1953
Reactivation: 1955
Launched: August 8, 1958
Full Commissioning: 1958
The name Kaltongerah originates from the NJPCC language, meaning “Rising Death.”
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📏 Specifications
Length: 354 m
Beam: 45.7 m
Draft: 20 m
Height (including tower): 50 m
Displacement: ~1,200,000 t
Propulsion: 10 shafts, 10 steam turbines
Speed: 35 knots
Crew: 4,800 – 5,000
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🔥 Armament:
4x Main Turrets (2 fore, 2 aft) – 16 barrels total (4 barrels per turrets) plus:
4x Triple 155 mm Guns
6x Twin 127 mm Type 89 AA Guns
8x Triple 25 mm Type 96 AA Guns
2x Twin 13.2 mm Type 93 AA Guns
Armor:
Belt: 840 mm
Turrets: 810 mm
Deck: 600 mm
Air Wing:
10 high-caliber bombers (up to 30 aircraft capacity) Equipped with a compact jet station.
Role:
Hybrid Frontline Carrier / K.M.T.S-Class Heavy Cruiser
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⚓ Appearance & Structure
The ship resembled Japanese silhouettes of the 1930s but with NJPCC’s darker aesthetic.
Hull painted in pitch black, decorated with white stripes.
Two side-by-side runways integrated and Extended to the very front and back, the middle of the ship was a cruiser hybrid.
Hull reinforced with solid steel core wrapped in concrete, giving unnatural durability.
Yamato-class bow enabling high-speed despite the massive structure.
Superstructure similar to Battleship Fuso, but wider and reinforced.
Rear Admiral’s Deck included heavy anti-air gaps, almost fully encircling the command zone.
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⚔ Fate – The Most Ridiculous Sinking in History
In 1977, during Operation Turn-Turn-Fire47, Kaltongerah was deployed to intercept and destroy American supply convoys carrying food and ammunition.
By this time, the ship was outdated and should have been retired. However, NJPCC’s refusal to scrap its own vessels led to disaster.
The ship’s AI — programmed to obey human commands without proper independent judgment — malfunctioned. While engaging the enemy convoy, Kaltongerah’s main turrets collapsed inward due to calculation errors, triggering an explosion in its own ammunition storage.
In a matter of minutes, the ship was:
Simultaneously destroying enemy transports while tearing itself apart.
Engulfed in fire and explosions.
Finally sinking at record speed.
Miraculously, all 5,400 crew evacuated via lifeboats, and not a single life was lost.
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🔄 Aftermath
NJPCC immediately salvaged the wreck, removing experimental systems and dismantling valuable technology. These components were later integrated into K.M.T.S Kronstahl, the sister ship of K.M.T.S Kordhell.
The failure of Kaltongerah convinced NJPCC to abandon “Human-Submissive AI” designs. From then on, all future AI cores were re-coded to filter human commands with logical safeguards, ensuring no blind obedience.
10 days after the K.M.T.S Kaltongerah sank, NJPCC urgently dismantled the Kaltongerah under the sea and its parts were then used in the construction of K.M.T.S. Kronstahl because the Kaltongerah was worn out beyond repair.