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Foxglove class destroyer escort
Lore
Following a dramatic escalation in tensions between Atomic Shipyards and the Mud monkeys over an incident of grand theft starship, Atomic Shipyards found themselves greatly outnumbered and overstretched. To adapt to the current political environment A.S commenced an emergency wartime construction program to bulk out the fleet to allow the reassignment of heavier vessels from defensive positions to the battlefront.
Among the first vessels to be commissioned as part of the program was the Foxglove. Originally built as a private research vessel equipped with extensive labs and Astrometric scanning equipment for stellar prospecting, the start of hostilities saw the foxglove seized and taken in for extensive reconstruction. The research labs and luxurious personal quarters were torn out and blocked out with an extensive shield generator grid, the forward probe launchers were repurposed as torpedo tubes and her two large panoramic windows plated over with armour plate and used to mount a pair of quad Antimatter cannons. The foxgloves cargo bay that had previously held geological samples and a wide range of Xenological flora and fauna was heavily truncated and instead filled with extra reactors and thrusters. Specific refinement to the engines allow the foxglove to hit higher speeds than a ship with a similar seized propulsion power plant and while this hampered the ships acceleration, a thrust module was installed to mitigate this weakness allowing the ship to to accelerate and change direction with surprising swiftness.
The most pronounced addition was heavy prow mounted cannon, allowing the foxglove to hit targets at extreme ranges helping it to deter raiders from interfering with trade routes.Its conversion into a warship, while extensive, did not mitigate all the issues associated with a transformation from a civilian vessel. Her hull despite the armour plate added to prow and around her reactor was still considered to be far too thinly armoured by Atomic shipyard standard, with her survivability only somewhat compensated by the heavy shielding. The crew areas and commodities also suffered during the refit, with the only habitable areas left on board was the Bridge, the large communal living areas and sensor suite and the airlock linked to the rest of the ship by a rudimentary lift. The communal living area, while large, did not offer much privacy to the on board crew of 4. However these shortcomings were deemed worthy sacrifices to inherit the foxgloves most valuable asset, its powerful sensor system turned from stellar prospecting to a more belligerent purpose allowing it to sniff out cloaked ships and cut through sensor jamming.
Stats
Total Mass 12,371
Dimensions (excluding turrets)
Length 184 meters
Height 40 meters
Width 19 meters
Reactor (level 35)
Reactor power blocks 5,399
Reactor stabiliser blocks 5,409
Reactor Enhancements
Short range scanner at strength level 5
Jump drive base with jump distance 2 and Multi Charge 1
Base shield enhancement with Shield Capacity 2
Reactor base enhancement
Top speed 3
Thrust blast 1
Thrusters
4,160 Thruster blocks
22,893 Thrust
Maximum speed 327 m/s
Thrust to mass Ratio 1.9
Shielding
1,216 charge blocks
2,504 Capacity blocks
Shield Capacity hp 939,000
Total Shield Recharge rate per second 6,040
Weapons
Two fixed Long range guided missile tubes.
One mini tractor beam to recover escape pods and cargo
Turret mounted weapons
1x Prow mounted long range anti-matter cannon
2x Quad anti-matter cannons
1x A type light CIWS
2x micro CWIS
Utilities
Cargo hold for 2,500 mass
Medical supplies
2 bunks for 4 crew hot bunking
Crew 4
Mass breakdown
Weapons Mass= 6707
Reactor mass = 1621
Thrust mass = 624
Shield mass = 618
Everything else (reactor enhancements hull, mass enhancers etc) 2800
Price 14,999,868
Lore
Following a dramatic escalation in tensions between Atomic Shipyards and the Mud monkeys over an incident of grand theft starship, Atomic Shipyards found themselves greatly outnumbered and overstretched. To adapt to the current political environment A.S commenced an emergency wartime construction program to bulk out the fleet to allow the reassignment of heavier vessels from defensive positions to the battlefront.
Among the first vessels to be commissioned as part of the program was the Foxglove. Originally built as a private research vessel equipped with extensive labs and Astrometric scanning equipment for stellar prospecting, the start of hostilities saw the foxglove seized and taken in for extensive reconstruction. The research labs and luxurious personal quarters were torn out and blocked out with an extensive shield generator grid, the forward probe launchers were repurposed as torpedo tubes and her two large panoramic windows plated over with armour plate and used to mount a pair of quad Antimatter cannons. The foxgloves cargo bay that had previously held geological samples and a wide range of Xenological flora and fauna was heavily truncated and instead filled with extra reactors and thrusters. Specific refinement to the engines allow the foxglove to hit higher speeds than a ship with a similar seized propulsion power plant and while this hampered the ships acceleration, a thrust module was installed to mitigate this weakness allowing the ship to to accelerate and change direction with surprising swiftness.
The most pronounced addition was heavy prow mounted cannon, allowing the foxglove to hit targets at extreme ranges helping it to deter raiders from interfering with trade routes.Its conversion into a warship, while extensive, did not mitigate all the issues associated with a transformation from a civilian vessel. Her hull despite the armour plate added to prow and around her reactor was still considered to be far too thinly armoured by Atomic shipyard standard, with her survivability only somewhat compensated by the heavy shielding. The crew areas and commodities also suffered during the refit, with the only habitable areas left on board was the Bridge, the large communal living areas and sensor suite and the airlock linked to the rest of the ship by a rudimentary lift. The communal living area, while large, did not offer much privacy to the on board crew of 4. However these shortcomings were deemed worthy sacrifices to inherit the foxgloves most valuable asset, its powerful sensor system turned from stellar prospecting to a more belligerent purpose allowing it to sniff out cloaked ships and cut through sensor jamming.
Stats
Total Mass 12,371
Dimensions (excluding turrets)
Length 184 meters
Height 40 meters
Width 19 meters
Reactor (level 35)
Reactor power blocks 5,399
Reactor stabiliser blocks 5,409
Reactor Enhancements
Short range scanner at strength level 5
Jump drive base with jump distance 2 and Multi Charge 1
Base shield enhancement with Shield Capacity 2
Reactor base enhancement
Top speed 3
Thrust blast 1
Thrusters
4,160 Thruster blocks
22,893 Thrust
Maximum speed 327 m/s
Thrust to mass Ratio 1.9
Shielding
1,216 charge blocks
2,504 Capacity blocks
Shield Capacity hp 939,000
Total Shield Recharge rate per second 6,040
Weapons
Two fixed Long range guided missile tubes.
One mini tractor beam to recover escape pods and cargo
Turret mounted weapons
1x Prow mounted long range anti-matter cannon
2x Quad anti-matter cannons
1x A type light CIWS
2x micro CWIS
Utilities
Cargo hold for 2,500 mass
Medical supplies
2 bunks for 4 crew hot bunking
Crew 4
Mass breakdown
Weapons Mass= 6707
Reactor mass = 1621
Thrust mass = 624
Shield mass = 618
Everything else (reactor enhancements hull, mass enhancers etc) 2800
Price 14,999,868
