Azur-Class Heavy Frigate

[Suhara Villow]

OUT-OF-CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To create a line ship for the Chantemer Defence Forces (CDF) and the Chantemer People's Liberation Army (CPLA)
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Chantemer Astral Horizons
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• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Azur-Class Heavy Frigate
• Production: Minor
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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification:
• Length: 350 meters
• Width: 120 meters
• Height: 130 Meters
• Armament: Very High
• Defenses: Average
• Hangar Space: Very Low: 1
• Hangar Allocations:
  • Support Craft: 1 squadron
• Single Craft Hangar: Yes
• Maneuverability Rating: High
• Speed Rating: High
• Hyperdrive: Equipped - Class 3.0

STANDARD FEATURES

• Armaments
  • 3x Dual-Barreled Heavy Turbolaser Turret
  • 6x Dual-Barreled XX-9 Heavy Turbolaser
  • 16x EM-1919 paired repeating laser cannon
  • 2x Quad turbolaser cannon
  • 2x 16-Cell Vertical Launcher System
    • Caldorf VII interceptor missile
    • Proton torpedo
    • Energy torpedo
    • T-33 plasma torpedo
    • EMP missile
• Engines and Reactor
  • 1x Destroyer-I ion engines
  • 2x Gemon-4 ion engines
  • Accu-Accelerator

ADVANCED SYSTEMS

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STRENGTHS

• Firepower: For a vessel of its size, the Azur-Class possesses strong stand-off capabilities that can deliver devastating damage to even heavily shielded Star Destroyers which is only augmented by its speed and maneuverability that grants it opportune firing angles. Its trio of Dual-Barreled Heavy Turbolaser turrets can quickly fire rapidly accurate salvos at enemy ships from long-range and break off before the enemy can even respond.
  
  Not only can the Azur-Class assault ships many times its size, but it also has a strong anti-starfighter arsenal. The Frigate unleashes an unholy wall of flak from its rapid-fire laser cannons and VLS-launched homing missiles that for starfighters or bombers successfully getting close unscathed would be akin to walking through a rainstorm without getting wet.
  
  
• Agility: The powerful engines of the Azur-Class, based on older but still potent Imperial-I Star Destroyer, allow the Frigate to mostly outclass the majority of other ships in its class. The frigate can accelerate and decelerate rapidly while taking sharp turns only a Corvette could do.

WEAKNESSES

• No starfighters: While the Azur-Class possesses a hangar bay at the rear of the ship, it is purely for landing resupply or personnel shuttles, and cannot reasonably sustain a starfighter compliment. Though stricken and wounded starfighters are known to make emergency landings when their carrier ships are too far away to reach.
  
  
• Hyperdrive: The short-range hyperdrive that the Azur-Class has is purely to enable it to escort Chantemerian merchant vessels in the rare instance that the Jaune-Class Battlecruisers are unavailable to do so.

DESCRIPTION

The Azur-Class traces its origin back to the Naval Revolution of 801 ABY, where after the bloody reunification of Chantemer from the Rogue Princes brought back some semblance of stability the Chantemer Naval Self-Defense Force (CNSDF) reconsidered its priority. Under the new isolationist policy of Dictator Olan Poutine, the main priority of the CNSDF was to be an internal one focused on the defense of the system from threats external and internal instead of seeking to expand Chantemer's borders. New investment into the military-industrial complex by Poutine's crony corporate allies and cheap unregulated labor allowed the CNSDF to afford this doctrinal shift.

The flagship of this change was the new Azur-Class which shunned the typical starfighter compliment that other Galactic navies typically had on ships of its size and sacrificed its hyperdrive. In return, it gained formidable agility and firepower.

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