Feliinyen Venator Refit mk.2

Feliinyen Venator Refit mk.2

"I heard that some fleets installed weapons on the hangars during the time of the Republic.. But isn't replacing the hangar for a main weapon going to far?"

- Rajh T'Le, Feliinyen General

The  was was one of two separate refits given to old Venator-class Star Destroyers hulls that were scattered across the galaxy after the Clone Wars and was part of the Gen-3 Warship program which included the Feliinyen Venator Refit 1, the Legion-class Carrier, the Fury-class Escort Battlecruiser, the Eschann-class Battlecruiser, the Erantel-class Cruiser, the Charr-class Light Battlecruiser, the Vigilant-class Interdictor Cruiser, the Hunter-class Destroyer, and the Vandal-class Monitor

Details
The second model of ship to be produced as a Gen-3 Warship, unlike previous generations of Feliinyen warship, the Venator Refit mk.2 was built around the hull of an already existing vessel, the KDY Venator-class Star Destroyer. This was done as a means to bolster the number of warships within the feliinyen navy to allow Feliingna more leverage during the Galactic Civil War and later Grand Galactic War. Unlike the Feliinyen Venator Refit mk.1, the mk.2 was purpose built to take on other warships, however not in the traditional way, unlike most contemporary warships, this class's weapons were primarily long range, as such the turbolaser loud-out was significantly weaker than that of the mk.1's, however this was to accommodate the addition of a 750 meter long high-power, long range hypervelocity cannon. This weapon was placed on the forward hull, in an opening made by removing the entirety of the main hangar, where it would be supported by various support struts connected to the hull of the ship as well as be supplied by its own generator. This weapon configuration made the ships favor long range engagement where it could use the main hypervelocity cannon to take out an enemy ship before it was in range of the enemy's turbolasers. This also afforded the ship a valuable spot as support ships for tougher close-range warships, where the other ships would charge in while the mk.2's provided long range fire support.

Production
The seeds for the creation of this class were laid by Rajh T'Le and Leena Kii after they informed King Oshlo Kel'Aren of the massive number of abandoned Venator there were across the galaxy, simply discarded by the empire after the Clone Wars. For 5 years Feliinyen salvage teams went across the galaxy, salvaging venators from every corner of the galaxy and bringing them back to Feliingna where they would be taken apart and rebuilt as new ships, complete with all the latest and greatest of feliinyen naval tech.

Usage
Unlike the mk.1's that were most commonly used behind friendly lines, the mk.2 was purpose built as an offensive tool, and was used as such. Ships of this class would participate in nearly every mayor confrontation after their production until the final fall of the Empire. These ships would often serve escort and support roles in larger fleets and rarely be seen in their lonesome as they were highly specialized for one sort of engagement and were rather weak if caught by themselves or without adequate escort. One of the most famous uses of the mk.2 would be in the Defense of Yavin, where a small Feliinyen fleet was dispatched to assist with defending the Rebel Base on Yavin while they evacuated.

The small fleet would come to face off against an entirely new Imperial weapon, a massive attack platform known as the Death Star. Aided by the few combat capable ships the Rebels had, which were solely X-wings and Y-wings at the time, the Feliinyen fleet composed of a Willpower-class Destroyer, 2 Liberator-class Battlecruisers, 5 Queen's Blade-class Battlecruisers, 8 Venator mk.2's, and 12 Accel-class Light Frigates, engaged the Death Star, drawing the station's attention to themselves as the Rebel fighters attacked the stations weak point. After several failed attempts by the Rebel fighters, the station was in position to fire upon the Yavin base. When the admiral admiral of the Feliinyen Fleet realized this, he ordered the Venators to focus their fire on the Death Star's emitter, unleashing a seemingly endless stream of hypervelocity fire between the 8 ships onto the dish, eventually breaching the armor and destroying one of the secondary beam emitters right as the station fired, causing a malfunction of the superlaser that caused the entire superlaser emitter dish to explode right off the station, crippling it and exposing the interior of the station as the Venators finally ran out of ammunition for their hypervelocity cannons. As the mk.2's turned away to assist with the evacuation, the rest of the fleet moved in and began firing a hailstorm of turbolaser fire and ordnance into the newly exposed interior of the station. After several hours of battle, the Rebel forces had managed to escape with the rest of the mk.2's and the Feliinyen fleet was starting to wear down due to the concentrated fire of the stations thousands of remaining turbolasers, now wittled down to just the Willpower-class, 2 Queen's Blades and 5 Accel's, the fleet turned away and retreated right before the Imeprial reinforcements arrived.

Obsolescence
Like the mk.1, the mk.2 would eventually be decommissioned however due to their fact that the Feliinyen hypervelocity cannon's construction and designs were classified as state secrets, these ships would not be donated or sold to any other faction and instead would be dismantled, the ship's components would be used to make and repair other ships while the hypervelocity cannons would be refurbished and placed on other ships, such as the later Fortress-class and Riseon-class Annihilators and the even later Damocles-class Super Annihilator.

Behind the scenes
This ship was created using the Lego Digital Designer.