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Description
Ship Class: Clairvoyance Class Frigate
(Kimbeau Translation: Nomad of Insightful Visions Type Tertiary Combat Ship)
Dimensions:
1225m long
315m high
315m wide
5,000,000 Metric Tons
Est. manufacturing Cost: Δ 35,000,000,000
Overview: The Clairvoyance was a product of the Millenium Modernization program, and a direct descendant of the Lucidity-Class, carrying over many of its features, but stripping out most of the weapons and internal complement. Originally made to replace the Indomitable class as a cheap and widespread vessel more suited to the modern doctrine, it did not end up catching on to such a role.
Constructed in an effort to make a vessel that is smaller, cheaper and less crew-intensive than the Lucidity while retaining its vital stealth detection and interdiction capacity. However it is less combat capable than the larger cruisers in its family.
With a powerful and fast subspace engine capable of quick jumps as well as long distance high speed travel, comprehensive sensor and electronic warfare suite, and the same number of Vanquisher nodes as a Lucidity-class, its main roles were in reconnaissance, pursuit operations, and escort duties.
Weapons:
1 Light Hardlight beam projector with variable axis gimbal.
4 Class-D mass drivers (750 kg projectile at 0.30c)
12 MK2 “Vanquisher” point defense nodes
12 45 torpedo detachable magazines. (540 missile cells)
Passive Defense:
Typical gaussian armor composite. Very light armor, the ship is quite vulnerable. The bridge, subspace drive and reactor have internal armor protecting these vital systems.
Active Defense:
Hardlight shielding system. The reactor and power storage of the frigate are quite weak. But its sensors are very advanced, on on par with the Lucidity class. Hence, like a lot of newer gaussian ships the shield tends to "work smarter, not harder." The ship's electronic warfare systems are powerful enough to mask the ship's true position at long ranges. While not a true stealth system as all but the worst sensors will still know *something* is in its general vicinity, it creates a cloud of distortions and decoys which can throw off targeting.
Electronics (Not Comprehensive)
-Shipmaster CI/AI.
-25 Cyberwarfare AI. Dumb AI which endlessly peruse the ships systems searching for discrepancies that could indicate attempted hacking and autonomously purge malignant software.
-PID system. Personal identifier registry controlling who can access the ship’s system based on identifier symbiote.
-Shield control computer. Advanced system linked into the sensors that uses predictive algorithms and sensor monitoring to anticipate enemy fire and generate hard light plates to avoid damage. Can be tuned for specific weapons or throttled to allow the ship to take some damage but use less power.
-Subspace navigation suite. Designed to navigate higher dimensional subspace and contains a map of gravity shadows and higher dimensional topography to plot optimal courses when traveling at FTL speeds.
-Sensor computer. Designed to interpret and analyze sensor data. Can locate discrepancies in sensor data and alert crew members if potential stealth craft are identified, or raise the alarm for other anomalies.
-Commscan computer. Encrypts and decrypts military communications. Generates false communications. Scans incoming communications for malicious content and terminates it on interception.
-Tightbeam radio arrays. Secondary communications arrays that can beam powerful directional radio signals. These can double as jammers.
-Subspace communications. A system which beams long radio waves through subspace configured to arrive at a set destination. A potentially one-way method of communication which is substantially FTL.
-Quantum thread switchboard. Contains entangled quantum tunnel particles for instantaneous communication between any two points, though these communications are low bandwidth.
Power Generation:
-The Lucidity uses an MX-150 Antimatter polarity reactor.
-Subsidiary fusion reactors
-Momentum spheres
-Emergency power cells
Troop Compliment:
The Clairvoyance can carry up to 800 marines onboard, along with all the needed war droids. In truth often far less are onboard and the extra cabins may be converted into storage for extra power storage or supplies for prolonged deployments.
Hangars:
With only 8 small hangars there would be a limited capacity to deploy marines to a theatre. The small hangars can be used to carry fighters or shuttles. Some elevators can access additional storage decks, meaning around two dozen small-to-medium sized craft can be carried board the ship.
Crew
The Clairvoyance can be staffed by a crew of around 225 individuals, with around 180 enlisted and 45 officers of varying ranks. Though thousands of squires and other specialized robotic units carry out most of the mundane work on the ship.
Engines+FTL:
-The sublight power is a high powered Hydrodynamic Protium Ringjet. This allows for 45g acceleration rather than the standard 35g.
-There are also 32 major reaction thrusters, which are low profile but powerful with almost no ramp-up time. These are used to quickly maneuver the ship sideways in combat to evade unguided fire at long range.
-The FTL system of the Clairvoyance is incredibly capable. It is able to travel at a speed of 1500 lightyears per hour, a speed typically only attained by larger ships but can reach such a speed much faster and can transit in and out of subspace multiple times rapidly in a short space of time without straining the drive.

Description
Ship Class: Clairvoyance Class Frigate
(Kimbeau Translation: Nomad of Insightful Visions Type Tertiary Combat Ship)
Dimensions:
1225m long
315m high
315m wide
5,000,000 Metric Tons
Est. manufacturing Cost: Δ 35,000,000,000
Overview: The Clairvoyance was a product of the Millenium Modernization program, and a direct descendant of the Lucidity-Class, carrying over many of its features, but stripping out most of the weapons and internal complement. Originally made to replace the Indomitable class as a cheap and widespread vessel more suited to the modern doctrine, it did not end up catching on to such a role.
Constructed in an effort to make a vessel that is smaller, cheaper and less crew-intensive than the Lucidity while retaining its vital stealth detection and interdiction capacity. However it is less combat capable than the larger cruisers in its family.
With a powerful and fast subspace engine capable of quick jumps as well as long distance high speed travel, comprehensive sensor and electronic warfare suite, and the same number of Vanquisher nodes as a Lucidity-class, its main roles were in reconnaissance, pursuit operations, and escort duties.
Weapons:
1 Light Hardlight beam projector with variable axis gimbal.
4 Class-D mass drivers (750 kg projectile at 0.30c)
12 MK2 “Vanquisher” point defense nodes
12 45 torpedo detachable magazines. (540 missile cells)
Passive Defense:
Typical gaussian armor composite. Very light armor, the ship is quite vulnerable. The bridge, subspace drive and reactor have internal armor protecting these vital systems.
Active Defense:
Hardlight shielding system. The reactor and power storage of the frigate are quite weak. But its sensors are very advanced, on on par with the Lucidity class. Hence, like a lot of newer gaussian ships the shield tends to "work smarter, not harder." The ship's electronic warfare systems are powerful enough to mask the ship's true position at long ranges. While not a true stealth system as all but the worst sensors will still know *something* is in its general vicinity, it creates a cloud of distortions and decoys which can throw off targeting.
Electronics (Not Comprehensive)
-Shipmaster CI/AI.
-25 Cyberwarfare AI. Dumb AI which endlessly peruse the ships systems searching for discrepancies that could indicate attempted hacking and autonomously purge malignant software.
-PID system. Personal identifier registry controlling who can access the ship’s system based on identifier symbiote.
-Shield control computer. Advanced system linked into the sensors that uses predictive algorithms and sensor monitoring to anticipate enemy fire and generate hard light plates to avoid damage. Can be tuned for specific weapons or throttled to allow the ship to take some damage but use less power.
-Subspace navigation suite. Designed to navigate higher dimensional subspace and contains a map of gravity shadows and higher dimensional topography to plot optimal courses when traveling at FTL speeds.
-Sensor computer. Designed to interpret and analyze sensor data. Can locate discrepancies in sensor data and alert crew members if potential stealth craft are identified, or raise the alarm for other anomalies.
-Commscan computer. Encrypts and decrypts military communications. Generates false communications. Scans incoming communications for malicious content and terminates it on interception.
-Tightbeam radio arrays. Secondary communications arrays that can beam powerful directional radio signals. These can double as jammers.
-Subspace communications. A system which beams long radio waves through subspace configured to arrive at a set destination. A potentially one-way method of communication which is substantially FTL.
-Quantum thread switchboard. Contains entangled quantum tunnel particles for instantaneous communication between any two points, though these communications are low bandwidth.
Power Generation:
-The Lucidity uses an MX-150 Antimatter polarity reactor.
-Subsidiary fusion reactors
-Momentum spheres
-Emergency power cells
Troop Compliment:
The Clairvoyance can carry up to 800 marines onboard, along with all the needed war droids. In truth often far less are onboard and the extra cabins may be converted into storage for extra power storage or supplies for prolonged deployments.
Hangars:
With only 8 small hangars there would be a limited capacity to deploy marines to a theatre. The small hangars can be used to carry fighters or shuttles. Some elevators can access additional storage decks, meaning around two dozen small-to-medium sized craft can be carried board the ship.
Crew
The Clairvoyance can be staffed by a crew of around 225 individuals, with around 180 enlisted and 45 officers of varying ranks. Though thousands of squires and other specialized robotic units carry out most of the mundane work on the ship.
Engines+FTL:
-The sublight power is a high powered Hydrodynamic Protium Ringjet. This allows for 45g acceleration rather than the standard 35g.
-There are also 32 major reaction thrusters, which are low profile but powerful with almost no ramp-up time. These are used to quickly maneuver the ship sideways in combat to evade unguided fire at long range.
-The FTL system of the Clairvoyance is incredibly capable. It is able to travel at a speed of 1500 lightyears per hour, a speed typically only attained by larger ships but can reach such a speed much faster and can transit in and out of subspace multiple times rapidly in a short space of time without straining the drive.