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[ENCYCLOPEDIA: Defense (redirected from Defense frigate)]
Defense role (symbol
D) indicates a vessel that is designed primarily for protecting a position or vessel from attack, either directly (destroying strike craft or warheads) or indirectly (deflecting magic/energy based attacks with its shields or absorbing them with its armor). Usually, such vessels are far less maneuverable due to the much thicker armor and heavier power and shield systems, sporting many more point defense systems, but fewer and less accurate turrets – the turrets they do have are usually much more powerful, however.
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[ENCYCLOPEDIA: Assault (redirected from Assault frigate)]
Assault role (symbol
A) indicates a vessel that is designed primarily for ship to ship combat. Such vessels usually have more beam turrets, mass driver turrets (if available), and thicker front, top, and bottom armor, as well as forward mounted heavy weapons, such as a mass driver cannon or reactor gun[1]. Although they have greater firepower, they don’t always have the capacitor energy to match, so usually these ships fire more slowly and fire heavy weapons only on command.
1: Reactor-based weaponry
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[ENCYCLOPEDIA: Corvette]
A corvette (symbol
Co,
CoA) is the smallest recognized combat vessel class, typically any lightly armored vessel crewed by 5 or more people with at least one small turret; anything smaller is classified as some type of craft. The vast majority of support roles are served by corvettes, which, with their lighter armor, are not usually designed to fight alone in any normal sized battle, but are fast enough to outrun just about every other starship class.
Typical corvette types[1] include reconnaissance vessels, command ships, and marine transports, where their faster speed and lower mass is useful for stealth and quick deployment of troops.
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1: List of hull and role classification symbols
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[ENCYCLOPEDIA: House Houhei]
One of the major houses alongside House Yagokoro and Korai, the noble house Houhei are the principal designers of most warp-capable starships in the present day Empire. Before the Korai rose up, the Houhei engineered much of the Lunar Empire’s weapons technology, building the first mass drivers, and the first weapons-grade chemical laser systems, as well as experimenting with high acceleration engines for interstellar travel; when the Korai discovered spacetime warping, however, their projects became redundant, and for several centuries they focused exclusively on warfare technology, designing and manufacturing almost every kind of non-warp capable vessel used in modern battle. By selling these vessels, as well as the weapons to arm them, House Houhei became the second richest house during the Celestial Wars[1], and when they discovered the secret to warp through reverse engineering a Korai warp device, House Korai’s fall from power began, leading to five hundred years of intense conflict. The fighting, however, was quickly growing beyond their desired bounds, and when it became clear that their market would be destroyed through the excessive wars they fueled, House Houhei immediately lent Adjutant Eirin Yagokoro their aid when she arrived at Houhei Prime during the Reclamations. When the dust settled, House Houhei became one of the largest noble houses, second only – and just barely[2] – to House Yagokoro…
1: Celestial War period
2: Sagittarius Massacre
[ENCYCLOPEDIA: Houhei Secundus]
Houhei Secundus is one of the palace worlds of House Houhei, originally the second world they colonized, thus “Secundus”; it is only their twelfth largest world by population, however. Planetary lord is Marquis Dubal Houhei[1], who once fought alongside Adjutant Eirin Yagokoro defending the moon during the Youkai Incursions. The Houhei don’t have the Yagokoro’s medical talent, however, and the Yagokoro don’t trade the best of their longevity drugs, so at over 1000 years, Marquis Houhei is quickly reaching the end of his life.
Aside from its lord, the planet is particularly significant for dedicating an eighth of its surface to COMNET servers, which account for one percent of COMNET traffic, in addition to housing several Imperial weapons research agencies; otherwise, Houhei Secundus is an ordinary world by Houhei standards, its 12 billion people living in a planetwide web of arcologies and underground cities…
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1. Dubal Houhei
[ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aldebaran]
Aldebaran, first planet in the Alpha Tauri system, was formerly the fiefdom of the minor noble house Kaisa; after they declared independence from the Lunar Empire, the entire surface was scorched by Imperial forces led by Adjutant Eirin Yagokoro, leaving no life whatsoever on the planet and depleting much of its atmosphere. The planet is still being consumed by the firestorm caused by the attack; conservative estimates place the fires as continuing for a year before the atmosphere is completely stripped of combustible gases, and even then the planet is considered unsafe to land on due to increased volcanic activity from the strike. Nevertheless, House Houhei has still applied to obtain ownership of Aldebaran, its current state exposing many mineral resources critical to starship construction.
History and bombing Before the attack, Aldebaran was the first and only world granted to House Kaisa, the entire population of the house living on the surface and in orbiting space colonies. The Kaisa were almost always at the employ of House Houhei, supplying bodyguards and their own engineers to help the Houhei design their ships. Because of this, House Kaisa was on very good terms with the Houhei, and they obtained ships at a significant discount, leading to a single planet house owning a fully stocked carrier and a supplementary fleet! With the carrier, they had planned to begin expanding their territory, declaring independence from the Lunar Empire – however, they did so just days after Adjutant Yagokoro began the Reclamations, and their declaration made them a prime target almost immediately. When the Adjutant offered them their last chance to swear allegiance to the Princess, they adamantly refused, believing the Houhei would come to their aid; shortly after House Kaisa had made their reply, however, the Houhei detachment of the subjugation fleet warped in, revealing to them the true nature of the situation: House Houhei had sold them out. The Kaisa quickly tried to contact Adjutant Yagokoro again, pleading for her forgiveness, but it was too little too late: the attack had already begun, starting with their carrier fleet and their orbital colonies. Even so, they continued begging, even as their world was shelled with mass drivers and atmospheric deprivation warheads; and only when the fires had completely covered Aldebaran did their screams dissolve into silence.
While the attack was going on, the Adjutant had the entire event recorded, as well as the line she left open with the Kaisa; although the audio was never used, the images and video of the aftermath proved quite useful in quelling further planetary resistance – star systems, such as those of the Cetan houses, however, were not completely demoralized, and some in fact hardened their resolve, which led to the many further atrocities of the Reclamation…
