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Senator-Class Battleship
Once again, Accordion Shipyards delivers. The Senator-class battleship is a marvel of engineering, a complicated, intricate piece of technology with advanced sensors fire control, powerful engines, and extremely powerful shields. Designed primarily as a defensive tool, the Senator nonetheless has an immense amount of firepower, from two giant kinetic cannons to a multitude of missile launchers, as well as a simply massive amount of point-defence cannons that can double as close-in broadsides if needed. In fact, these ships are so well-designed it is often said that they are how one would design a Hammer-Class battleship if one actually wanted a good battleship. The Senator-class battleship was designed pre-Collapse, just in time to stave off the voracious Vamyr fleets and the opportunist People's Federation. These ships, along with the Helmet-class destroyers and some help from the Confederation of Republic Systems, held the line againt hordes of Vamyr Anvils and People's Federation ships, saving the Royal Empire while sustaining grievous losses. Once a cease-fire was declared and after a peace negotiatio settled out, the Empire had only two remaining Senators, the RIMS Testudo and the RIMS Scutum. A third remaining Senator, the RIMS Protector, was so badly damaged it was scrapped. There are rumours a fourth Senator still exists outside Royal control, hijacked and captured by pirates during the defense of the Royal House system, but these reports are so far uncomfirmed. There are apparently plans to further expand the number of Senators in the Royal Fleet, but the limited resourses of the Royal Empire makes the construction of these expensive ships slow.
In the meantime, a policy was adopted wherein there would always be at least one Senator-class withing Royal Imperial space. The Scutum and Testudo thus alternate between defending the House systems and venturing outside Royal space to conduct missions, providing their crews with an abundance of combat experience, making these some of the most effective ships in the galaxy. There are memorials of both these ships on every Royal Imperial world, and on many others besides.
Construction of a third, the RIMS Gladius, is undergoing but slow, and any others beyond are unlikely. Strangely, the Royal Empire is sending out an unusual amount of scout ships toward the Pirate Regions, though the reasons for this remains unclear. The Senator-class is currently not allowed to be exported to foreing factions, although negotiations are currently under way with the Confederation of Republic Systems, who are looking for a true capital-ship class for their navy.
Senator-Class Battleship
Once again, Accordion Shipyards delivers. The Senator-class battleship is a marvel of engineering, a complicated, intricate piece of technology with advanced sensors fire control, powerful engines, and extremely powerful shields. Designed primarily as a defensive tool, the Senator nonetheless has an immense amount of firepower, from two giant kinetic cannons to a multitude of missile launchers, as well as a simply massive amount of point-defence cannons that can double as close-in broadsides if needed. In fact, these ships are so well-designed it is often said that they are how one would design a Hammer-Class battleship if one actually wanted a good battleship. The Senator-class battleship was designed pre-Collapse, just in time to stave off the voracious Vamyr fleets and the opportunist People's Federation. These ships, along with the Helmet-class destroyers and some help from the Confederation of Republic Systems, held the line againt hordes of Vamyr Anvils and People's Federation ships, saving the Royal Empire while sustaining grievous losses. Once a cease-fire was declared and after a peace negotiatio settled out, the Empire had only two remaining Senators, the RIMS Testudo and the RIMS Scutum. A third remaining Senator, the RIMS Protector, was so badly damaged it was scrapped. There are rumours a fourth Senator still exists outside Royal control, hijacked and captured by pirates during the defense of the Royal House system, but these reports are so far uncomfirmed. There are apparently plans to further expand the number of Senators in the Royal Fleet, but the limited resourses of the Royal Empire makes the construction of these expensive ships slow.
In the meantime, a policy was adopted wherein there would always be at least one Senator-class withing Royal Imperial space. The Scutum and Testudo thus alternate between defending the House systems and venturing outside Royal space to conduct missions, providing their crews with an abundance of combat experience, making these some of the most effective ships in the galaxy. There are memorials of both these ships on every Royal Imperial world, and on many others besides.
Construction of a third, the RIMS Gladius, is undergoing but slow, and any others beyond are unlikely. Strangely, the Royal Empire is sending out an unusual amount of scout ships toward the Pirate Regions, though the reasons for this remains unclear. The Senator-class is currently not allowed to be exported to foreing factions, although negotiations are currently under way with the Confederation of Republic Systems, who are looking for a true capital-ship class for their navy.