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Approved Starship Johnston-class, Assault Artillery Frigate

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Manufacturer: Primo Victorian Shipwright
Market Status: Closed Market
Production: Limited
Length: Average
Width: Average
Height: Average
Size: Average
Major Faction

Ethanael Halscott

Architect
Ethanael Halscott
Character Bio
JOHNSTON-CLASS
"ORDINANCE BOAT"
ASSAULT ARTILLERY FRIGATE

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
  • Intent: To create a fast moving torpedo ship for the Commonwealth
  • Image Source: Midjourney | ChatGPT
  • Canon Link: N/A
  • Permissions: Solarium Glasteel (x)
  • Primary Source: N/A
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
STANDARD FEATURES
  • Auxiliary Systems
    • Power Conversion and Control Networks
    • Systems Control Center & Supplemental Control Hub
    • Auxiliary Reactor & Core Coolant Management
    • Reserve and Emergency Back-up Power Systems
    • Emergency Shield Operations and Power Management
    • Emergency Command Operations Center
    • Emergency Life Support & Power Capacitor Systems
    • Escape Pod Control Systems Management
    • Automatic Failsafe and Containment Management
    • Reactor Disengagement Safeties
  • Flight Control & Navigation Suite
    • Primary and Secondary Flight Controller Management
    • Sublight & Hyperdrive Power Management
    • Propulsion Systems Control Suite
    • Hyperlane & Jump Point Navigation Systems
    • Impulse and Vector Thrust Control Systems
    • Flight Systems
    • Forward-Canted Thrust Vectoring Control — manages the reverse-thrust and hard-deceleration profile that permits sustained bow-on-target attitude through attack and disengagement
    • Galactic Hyperspace Holosite Integration
  • Engineering Systems
    • Primary & Secondary Power Management Control Suites
    • Reactor Core Control System
    • Core Coolant Management Suite
    • Shield Generator Power Management Suite
    • Dedicated Weapons Power Generator Systems — sized to feed the directed-energy kill chain and torpedo guidance under simultaneous load
    • Capacitor Control Systems Suite
    • Hazard & Damage Control Management Suite
    • Engineering Control Hub & Secondary Redundancy Systems
    • Weapons, Shields, and Power Distribution Suites
    • Repulsor Generator Systems & Waste Management Control
  • Communication Systems
    • Coordinated Command Integration Encryption Suite
    • Encrypted Short-Range & Long-Range Communications Suites
    • Hyperwave Communications & Encryption Network
    • Interfleet and Intrafleet Communications Systems
    • FleetNet Node + AI Systems Hub
    • Formation Datalink — high-priority tactical link to Conyers III, Bercey IV, and parent formation elements for extended sensor sharing and fire coordination
  • Tactical and Security Systems
    • Tactical Analysis and Lock-On System Management
    • Multi-Shield Management Defensive Systems
    • Redundant Shield Management Systems
    • Automated Reload and Internal Temperature Check Systems
    • Weapons Control and Munitions Management Systems
    • Munitions Magazine Management — automated handling and reload sequencing for the Manogel saturation battery; monitors magazine depletion across the alpha and follow-up volleys
    • Weapons Waste Containment & Disposal Systems
  • Sensor Systems
    • Forward-Biased Combat Sensor Array — strong frontal and attack-arc detection and tracking; deliberately weighted to the bow at the expense of long-range omnidirectional coverage
    • Short-Range Tachyon Sensor Network
    • Navigational & Hyper-Navigational Sensor Suites
    • Gravitational Mass Sensor Suite (tactical range)
    • Starship Signature Identifier Systems
  • Medical Systems (compact — scaled to crew complement)
    • Compact Medical Bay Suite
    • Auto-sterile triage beds
    • Med Droid Interface & Support Network
    • Damage-Stabilization Support Cradle
    • Long-term care pod (single)
    • Emergency Medivac Support
  • Single-Craft Hangar System
    • Combat-Ready Docking Apparatus
    • Guidance Beacons
    • Recovery Alignment
    • Crash-Netting Deployment System
    • Maintenance Support Suite
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
STRENGTHS
  • Saturation Alpha Strike: Built around the shoot-and-scoot principle, the Johnston delivers a disproportionate volume of torpedo and directed-energy fire into a single target across a compressed window — capable of crippling a capital-grade hull in one committed pass before the target can mount a coordinated response.
  • Integrated Kill Chain: Its directed-energy battery (Hawkthorne ion-soften → Boltfire shield-strip → Triniburst hull-break) mirrors the saturation torpedo sequence, letting the ship prosecute the same kill logic with both missile and energy armament simultaneously rather than relying on a single weapon system.
  • Survivable Approach Through Degradation, Not Armor: The Nephthys Multispectral Fire-Control Degradation Suite, Stingnet lock-breaking, layered point defense, and the armored prow allow the Johnston to reach strike range against capital-grade opposition by denying targeting precision — surviving the approach it has no business surviving, in the Samar tradition.
  • Speed and Maneuverability: The fastest and most agile hull in the Commonwealth frigate line. Forward-canted thrust geometry, twin Skyquake-XM engines, and the Icarus Maneuvering Array permit hard deceleration, reverse-thrust attack runs, and rapid reorientation — the ship survives by not being where the shot lands.
WEAKNESSES
  • Magazine Depletion Ends the Threat: Saturation doctrine empties the launchers fast. Once the torpedo magazine is spent on its alpha and follow-up volleys, the Johnston's primary striking power is gone until resupply — a ship that has committed its barrage is far less dangerous and must withdraw to rearm.
  • Lighter Shielded Than Its Siblings: Rated High, not Very High. The Johnston deliberately omits the heavy-defender escalation layers of the Seawolf IV and the durability of the Dagger VI. It cannot survive sustained fire and depends on speed, maneuverability, and Nephthys degradation to avoid being hit rather than absorbing hits. Caught and pinned, it does not last.
  • Thermal Ceiling: The directed-energy kill chain and rotary point-defense cannons operate on burst-and-cooldown cycles. Even with FRIES-IV thermal regulation, the Johnston cannot sustain its full alpha indefinitely; overcommitment risks thermal cascade and forces firing pauses a patient enemy can exploit.
  • Blind Off the Bow: Weapons, armor, and sensors are all concentrated forward. The Johnston is devastating in its frontal cone and thin everywhere else — lighter flank and aft protection, off-axis weapon coverage resting on point defense alone, and a forward-biased sensor array that leaves it vulnerable to threats approaching outside its attack arc.
DESCRIPTION
The Johnston-class began with a question the Commonwealth Navy had not satisfactorily answered: how does a fleet built around the Tempest's stationary anchor doctrine reach out and kill a capital-grade target that refuses to come to it? The line frigates — the enduring Dagger VI, the shield-wall Seawolf IV — were built to hold, absorb, and protect. None of them were built to leave the formation, charge into the teeth of a capital combatant, and tear it open. The Commonwealth's offensive answer at frigate weight did not exist. The Johnston is that answer.

A fast, lightly shielded striker that closes under cover of multispectral fire-control degradation, empties its launchers and energy batteries into a single target across a compressed window, and exfils before the return fire can resolve. It is a raider, not an executioner. It disrupts, cripples, and withdraws.

The ship is forward in everything. Its Manogel-type torpedo launchers — mounted in volume across recessed prow banks, amidships casemates, and underslung aft tubes — are the source of its Artillery designation and the heart of the saturation doctrine; the forward and broadside banks deliver the alpha, the rear tubes punish pursuit during withdrawal, and the magazine is sized for one full barrage plus measured follow-up volleys at the commander's discretion before resupply. Running in parallel is a directed-energy kill chain that recapitulates the torpedo sequence in beam form: the long-range Hawkthorne II ion cannons soften shields and subsystems during the run-in; the forward-fixed Boltfire plasma pulse cannons strip the shield envelope on the close pass; and the Triniburst heavy laser cannons break the bared hull. The Hwacha MK-50 rocket arrays add broadside hull-stress saturation that creates the fracture points the heavier weapons exploit. Point defense is layered — Mogh III rotary cannons form the outer flak wall, Ironfang CIWS the inner last-ditch ring around the magazines and engines — and the whole defensive picture leans on the armored prow, a reinforced bow section with integrated forward shield projection that lets the ship survive the one arc it always presents to the enemy.

What makes the approach survivable at all is the Nephthys-type Multispectral Fire-Control Degradation Suite. The Johnston does not hide — it remains visible to enemy sensors throughout — but Nephthys denies the precision a capital-grade fire-control solution requires, degrading targeting across optical, thermal, electromagnetic, and spoofing-deception bands simultaneously. The enemy knows the ship is there; the enemy cannot reliably hit it. Stingnet dispersal provides the instantaneous short-burst lock-break beneath Nephthys's sustained field, and the single Manul-class Escort Fighter screens the parent hull during the seconds it is most exposed — committed to a firing solution, or turned and hot-engined in a reposition — intercepting the priority threats that enemy doctrine would otherwise throw into exactly those windows.

The Johnston is fast where it matters and fragile where it must be. Twin Skyquake-XM ion engines in a forward-canted nacelle geometry, governed by the Icarus Maneuvering Array, give it the highest speed in the frigate line and the agility to run its torpedo runs on reverse-thrust without rotating off-target — and the engines' low-IR ElectroFrost exhaust complements rather than fights the Nephthys thermal-masking layer. The FRIES-IV Modular Suite is the thermal governor that makes running the energy kill chain and Nephthys simultaneously survivable, though even it cannot lift the thermal ceiling entirely — the ship strikes in violent bursts, not sustained engagement. It carries enough sensor capability (Helion Data Core, TCSX Strikeveil, ECMX Ghostspike, SCX Navicor) to find and prosecute its own target and navigate independently, but deliberately lacks the strategic long-range early-warning array of its heavier siblings; detached, it sees in front of itself and little more, and its picture extends only when Conyers III or Bercey IV are in range to feed it.

The limitations are the doctrine, not flaws in it. A target that microjumps clear defeats the run, and the Johnston carries no interdiction ordnance to prevent it — pinning is the job of fleet assets, not this hull. Its magazine runs dry, and a Johnston that has fired its barrage is a far less dangerous ship until it rearms. Its lighter shielding means it cannot stand and trade fire; caught, pinned, or denied its speed, it dies. It is blind to threats outside its forward cone, and an ion strike that would merely chip a heavier ship degrades the Johnston's entire electronics-dependent offensive suite. None of this is incidental — every limitation is the price of the speed, the saturation, and the degradation that let it do the one thing nothing else in the fleet can. Used correctly, in formation, with its picture extended and its escape vectors open, it is the Commonwealth's scalpel against capital steel. Used wrongly — alone, pinned, or asked to hold a line — it is a tin can a long way from home.

DECK LAYOUT

Decks 1–2 | Command & Forward Observation (dorsal superstructure)
  • Deck 1 — Main Bridge and integrated Combat Information Center, tied directly to the Helion Data Core Matrix; forward-facing for attack-run visibility. Emergency helm override and command access terminals.
  • Deck 2 — Tactical operations, Nephthys coordination station, Ariadne ECM relay, and the formation datalink suite (Conyers III / Bercey IV sensor-sharing nodes). Secure FleetNet access and signal operations.
Decks 3–6 | Forward Weapons & Magazines (the shallow prow blade — these are the only decks that run the full forward length of the hull)
  • Deck 3 — Forward Manogel torpedo bays (recessed prow banks) and prow fire-control stations linked to the TCSX Strikeveil suite.
  • Deck 4 — Directed-energy battery control and forward mounts: Hawkthorne II ion cannons, Boltfire plasma pulse cannons, Triniburst heavy lasers. Energy-weapon thermal routing into FRIES-IV trunking.
  • Deck 5 — Primary torpedo magazines and automated reload/handling systems; armored, blast-doored, with Doonium-infused Impervium munitions control. Magazine-depletion monitoring tied to the munitions management system.
  • Deck 6 — Broadside Manogel casemate battery (amidships flanks) and Hwacha MK-50 rocket arrays with their dorsal reload magazines; rocket ready-stowage.
Decks 7–8 | Armored Prow & Forward Defensive Systems
  • Deck 7 — Armored prow structure and integrated forward shield projection node; the reinforced bow section and its dedicated shield emitters. Heaviest concentration of AR-0B plating and structural bracing on the ship.
  • Deck 8 — Forward and lateral point-defense control: Mogh III flak mounts and Ironfang CIWS fire computers; Stingnet dispersal port management.
Decks 9–11 | Engineering & Power Core (midship — the tall section)
  • Deck 9 — Trinity Core Reactor (armored containment), with Arbalest capacitor links and core coolant trunking.
  • Deck 10 — Kestrel Core supplemental reactor and the dedicated weapons power generator suite; power-budget management between offense, EW, and shielding.
  • Deck 11 — FRIES-IV Modular Suite, Crystal-Integrated Harmonic Regulator, and Aether-IX integration nodes; the thermal-governance heart of the ship.
Decks 12–13 | Defensive Systems & Shielding
  • Deck 12 — Shield generator chambers: Rampart, Phalanx, Ballista, Sentinel, Vitralis, Boudica arrays in a protected midship band.
  • Deck 13 — Russ Suite emergency redundancy units, Tauros defensive suite, and capacitor bays distributed with the shield nodes.
Decks 14–15 | Sensors, SIGINT & Internal Defense
  • Deck 14 — Sensor and SIGINT bay: ECMX Ghostspike, SCX Navicor, the forward-biased combat sensor array processing, and Black Vigil cyberdefense stack; calibration access.
  • Deck 15 — Internal Defense Management grid (retractable auto-blasters, Turadium barriers, war-droid deployment) and Vanguard-GTS targeting integration.
Decks 16–17 | Crew Quarters, Medical & Life Support
  • Deck 16 — Enlisted and officer quarters, mess, and crew services scaled to the ~140 optimal complement; spartan, utilitarian.
  • Deck 17 — Compact medical bay (triage beds, med-droid interface, single long-term care pod, damage-stabilization cradle), life-support integration node, and environmental control.
Decks 18–19 | Logistics, Ordnance Reserve & Single-Craft Berth
  • Deck 18 — Ordnance resupply vaults and reserve magazine (armored transport elevators feeding the Deck 5 primary magazines), the Manul-class Escort Fighter berth (reinforced docking collar, combat-condition recovery alignment, guidance beacons), and the ship's primary cargo hold. Cargo is biased toward ordnance reserve and weapon spares over general stores.
  • Deck 19 — Armory and small marine/security complement, spare-parts storage, and additional consumables stowage; escape-pod corridors running ventral and aft.
Deck 20 | Drive Section & Structural Ventral Layer (aft taper)
  • Twin Skyquake-XM ion engines and the forward-canted nacelle mountings, drive control, Icarus Maneuvering Array micro-thruster nodes distributed through the aft and hull, emergency coolant purge, hull-stress sensors, shock-absorption layers, and last-ditch thermal dispersal grids. More "armor and physics" than habitable deck, accessed for diagnostics and robotic maintenance.

 

Out Of Character Info

Intent: To create a fast moving torpedo ship for the Commonwealth
Image Source(s): https://www.midjourney.com
Canon Link: N/A
Permissions: Solarium Glasteel
Primary Source(s):

N/A

Technical Information

Affiliation: Imperial Commonwealth of Dosuun
Model: CNC-AAFJ1-M1 “Johnston”
Starship Class: Frigate (200-500m)
Starship Role: Ordinance
Modular: No
Material: Durasteel Reinforced Crystalamnium Hull Reinforced Duraplast with Latticed Crystaplast Liner Gravmire Gel x2 Liner Reinforcement Alusteel Reinforced Durasteel Hull [Interior] Tunqstoid Blast Doors, Turadium Blast Shields [Interior] Solarium Glasteel Viewports [Overlay] Glasteel Viewports [Underlay], Turadium Blast Shutters Agrinium, Dallorian Alloy [Key Areas/Critical Components] AR-0B Damage Reduction Plating [Key Areas/Critical Doonium Infused Impervium [Munitions Control] Hekakles-type + Reactive Polyfoam Buffer [Composite Hull System + High Internal Shock Absorption]
Armaments: 16x Forward Manogel-type Torpedo Tubes

8 port prow

8 starboard prow

recessed forward-fixed launch banks

12x Broadside Manogel-type Torpedo Tubes

6 port amidships

6 starboard amidships

armored recessed hull casemates

4x Rear/Ventral Manogel-type Exfil Tubes

2 port aft

2 starboard aft

underslung rear-facing launchers

4x Hawkthorne II-type Heavy Ion Cannons

dorsal forward hull mounts

long-range subsystem and shield suppression

4x Boltfire-type Plasma Pulse Cannons

clustered fixed forward bow mounts

close-range shield stripping during strike pass

4x Triniburst-type Heavy Laser Cannons

prow cheek and ventral chin placements

hull-breaker and armor-penetration role

2x Hwacha-type MK-50 Rocket Launcher Arrays

dorsal midship shoulder mounts

broadside-forward firing geometry

8x Mogh III-type Rotary Hypervelocity Cannons

outer flak-defense layer

distributed dorsal and ventral perimeter coverage

12x Ironfang-type Rotary Hypervelocity Cannons

inner CIWS layer

concentrated around:

engines

torpedo magazines

aft retreat corridors

ventral hull

1x Nephthys-type Multispectral Fire-Control Degradation Suite

integrated shipwide multispectral targeting degradation system

1x Stingnet-type Dispersal Countermeasure System

rapid-response softkill/chaff/flare/gravitic lockbreaker

1x Echoflare-type Seismic Disruption Charge Launcher

stern-mounted anti-pursuit disruption system
Defense Rating: High
Speed Rating: Very High
Maneuverability Rating:: High
Energy Resist: High
Kinetic Resist: High
Radiation Resist: Very High
Other Resistance(s):

- EMP/ION: Very High
- Sonic: Average
- Force Disruption/Harmonics: Low
- Elemental (Fire/Cold/Corrosive): Low

Minimum Crew: 55
Optimal Crew: 140
Passenger Capacity: 15
Cargo Capacity: Average
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