SPOLIER ALERT!!!!!!
Here is a sneak peak of one of the new KU WarShips from Field Report: Capellan Confederation.
Wudang Jian-class Frigate
The Wudang Jian-class Frigates were to be the pride of the Confederation, displaying to the realm’s enemies just what sort of power the Celestial Wisdom controlled. However, Maximillian Liao, utterly taken with the idea of the new vessels, meddled at every step of the way during the design phase. Despite the interference, the first ship launched only six months behind schedule, attributed to the late Chancellor’s passing and the fact that two of Capella’s three naval slips are working on the vessel.
Despite Maximillian Liao’s death, the Wudang Jian-class still bears the mark of his desire for the ships, with the hull an overworked piece of naval art that has been quietly described as “…an ostentatious and tasteless affront to the noble traditions of naval architecture.” The reasons for this backlash are apparent in the styling of the hull, made to look like a phoenix wherever possible.
The nose of the vessel is sharply curved into a beak, with the eyes of the bird each containing a naval autocannon. Amour has been styled or tortured, depending on the point of view, into an approximation of feathers across the neck of the vessel. The major heat dissipation systems have been styled into curved stylization of wings approximately three fifths of the way down the vessel. The final piece of naval art is the sail locker, which folds the sail in under an armored fan, which sits over the engines and is designed to look like a bird’s tail in flight.
All this decoration might work, if it were not marred by the numerous weapons ports and more than a dozen DropShip collars that dot the spine and belly of the hull. However, expediency prevented additional redesign, which is regrettable, as the crazed layout of the vessel has been a nightmare to construct and technical difficulties in several systems became apparent, just a month after launch. Compared to the smooth lines of the CCS Shuang Shou Ji, which was constructed next to it, the Wudang Jian is somewhat striking.
Despite looking like something out of a B-Grade holoflick, the Wudang Jian is a powerful vessel, capable of matching anything planned for the fleets of the other Successor States for the immediate future. The core of the vessel is well reinforced and covered by over 1,000 tons of standard armor. More advanced armor was planned, however, the ease of working in standards plate had aesthetics win out over practicality.
The Wudang Jian-class is capable of a top acceleration of 3g’s, allowing is to pace the smaller Capellan designs already in service and properly escort fast DropShip convoys. However, despite the strong structure, problems are expected with the cooling “wings” and the neck of the vessel, as the thinner nature of these areas and complicated structure is somewhat weaker than the rest of the vessel.
The weapons suite is similar to that of the other Capellan vessels already in service, with the main anti-fighter defence being six and a half dozen LRM-20 launchers. Though this is an enormous number, there are no close in weapon systems, as the Capellan Navy doesn't consider a small one-man fighter to be any threat at that range, or they'd have a tighter defense.
The main anti-ship battery is again a huge number of Killer Whale missile tubes, four dozen in all, backed by twelve Medium and two light Naval PPCs and more than a dozen Class 30 Naval Autocannon. This heavy armament will likely see more action against Marik and Davion surface targets than other WarShips any time soon.
Fighter support consists of forty Aerospace fighter craft and fifteen DropShip collars. The large number of DropShip collars was added, like those on the Shuang Shou Ji-class Destroyer, due to constant shortage of transport JumpShips in the CCAF.
Four of this powerful frigate are now in service with the CCN, with the Wudang Jian still holding pride of place in the Capellan Navy as the flag vessel of Admiral Yu Chin, the man responsible for much of the CCN’s rebirth and success in the last twenty years.
