Falx-class Star Destroyer

Developed alongside the Validus-class Star Destroyer as a planetary defense warship, the Falx-class Star Destroyer meant to relieve other First Order warships from defending planets allowing for more ships to defend the borders. The Falx-class prominently featured a large blade like structure at the front of the ship that housed it's 16 heavy turbolaser cannons. These 16 guns were mounted in a large cylinder that they could rotate around allowing the ship's primary weapons to fire both directly ahead, to the sides and towards the rear except four of the guns as superstructure blocked them. The ship was also built to the First Order's "Big guns, heavy armor, low mobility" concept that was created to please the New Republic who demanded the First Order to have a purely defensible military force. Following this concept the Falx-class was very strong hull armor and shielding along with a state of the art gyroscope system that allowed the ship to keep the front of the craft pointing at an enemy vessel even if the enemy vessel is several times faster than the Falx-class.

They meet little New Republic resistance, with many critics just butt-hurt that the First Order was building a new class warship. A prototype was built and tested around 29 ABY with the warship class being accepted into production and service around 31 ABY. By 34 ABY the First Order had around 20 Falx-class Star Destroyer and once the New Republic was swiftly and brutally destroyed by the Resistance's Capital Planet "Hosnian Prime" all available Falx-class Star Destroyer and another 5 that were near finished in construction was rushed across the First Order and placed into defensive positions around planets allow for the First Order's primary Capital Ships to defend the border in preparation of a Resistance attack.