Brightlance class Hunter-Killer - PROPOSED - CREDIT TO...WHOEVER MADE IT
(I realise that the frigate is from homeworld, thats the point)
Vessel Title: Brightlance class
Racial Classification: Frigate
Universal Classification: Destroyer/Frigate
Mass(KT): 600kt
Crew: 85 (ship master 3rd class, 4 officers, 80 enlisted)
SSI(CR): 4957
Max Warp: 9.99
Layout: Frontal
DITL Armour: *REMOVED* Crystalline structure high density armour
DITL Shield: *REMOVED* plasma matrix hull conform shield array
DITL Torpedo: 1 x *REMOVED*rps VLS RFQ launcher
DITL Energy: 1 x *REMOVED* Axial mounted plasma-ion beam cannon, 6 x *REMOVED* PAC turrets (3 dorsal/ventral pairs)
Manoeuvrability: 5 x Vector thrust gravity manipulation engines
Additional entry: The Brightlance was designed as high strength, short range, cruiser killer for home defence operations. The entire design was built around the need to attack and destroy much larger warships on home turf, necessitating a high firepower for a vessel of this size. Hence the use of a single axial cannon, a new and overly powerful weapon intended to crack the shields of all but the largest of vessels, and then to cause massive breaches in armoured hull. It is in many ways like an armour piercing cannon on a tank. The smaller cannons, mounted in dorsal ventral pairs on the rear port/aft/starboard section are designed to allow the ship to fire at targets that have evaded the vessels main gun, such as smaller frigates. These weapons default into a pulse fire mode. Finally a brand new, Vertical launch quantum torpedo system was designed to allow the latest and greatest in Torpedo without the large space usually needed to facilitate this system. The design was made with 2 4rps weapons built together, one firing dorsally and another firing ventrally. This system maximised the ship's firepower while keeping space requirements to a minimum.
A brand new power capacitor system was required to allow the Axial cannon to fire effectively. This system reroutes warp plasma directly to the weapons capacitor mounted just behind the focusing rings that line the cannon's firing chamber. This means that to effectively fight using the weapon, warp engines must not be engaged or charging. A fail safe system called a "capacitor shunt" is included that can force the built up energy into the capacitor to be routed back into the warp drives, effectively acting as both a jump start and an emergency warp thruster. Usually this will accelerate the ship to warp 9, where upon there is a small lag as the warp engines receive power from the core, and the vessel proceeds to its nominal speed. In normal operation, power is drawn in a conventional manner from the warp core to the warp engines. The weapon is designed to fire every 5 seconds. Due to the relatively compact size of the Brightlance, she is ill equipped for long drawn out wars unless there is support from a larger cruisers or supply lines.
