Defiance-class Battleship

Defiance-class Battleship

"Lets show them what planet-side grade weaponry can do to those Star Destroyers! Main Hypervelocity Cannons! Open fire!!"

- Captain of The Defiance. The Defiance-class Battleship was a class of the new line of warships designed after the end of the Clone Wars, along with the Willpower-class Destroyer, the Liberator-class Battlecruiser, the Palace-class Destroyer, the Shelter-class Carrier, the Oasis-class Replenisher, the Type-40 Cruiser, the Regal-class Sloop, and the Night Watcher-class Monitor.

Details
An entirely new ship model, built around three 850 meter Hypervelocity Cannons of the sort that are installed on planetary anti-orbital defense installations. The ship bore a distinctly unique design, having 3 large fins jutting out of the hull, two off to the sides that had a 45 degree tilt to the tips and a single large fin on the dorsal surface. These fins were lined with heat sinks and maneuvering systems to allow the ship to make best use of the three hypervelocity cannons it was made to carry. Due to these fins, the Defiance became a notorious capital ship killer, being able to quickly turn towards an enemy and fire a barrage of anti-orbital grade fire, easily tearing apart the ships of a Star Destroyer in a single volley and being able to finish off the ship with its extensive armament of Turbolasers and Torpedos. As being designed as a purely offensive ship, it would be the first Feliinyen ship to receive the classification of "Battleship", being a ship made solely and exclusively for battle.

Production
It would be one of the later vessels of the Gen-2 Warship line due to the fact of having to install three planetary-grade hypervelocity cannons and make a ship strong enough to be able to support these weapons. The end result would be not only a superb and unrivaled warship, but now the knowledge of how to make ships with this degree of firepower. A knowledge that would result in future Feliinyen warship lines almost always having at least one or two vessels with hypervelocity cannons installed.

Usage
The first ships to come into service, The Defiance, The Justiciar and The Resolve would all participate in the Battle of Mustafar, an event that would showcase the latter half of the Gen-2 Line of Feliinyen warships such as the Palace-class Destroyer. These 3 intial ships would join the Legendary Ace, a Palace-class Destroyer in the mentioned Battle of Mustafar as the spearhead of the battle, the 4 ships jumping in and unleashing a barrage of hypervelocity and turbolaser fire that entirely decimated the front of the defense fleet on mustafar. These three ships would continue to assist the invasion by heading small assault groups of Queen's Blade battlecruisers that would move in to deal with the remaining forces after the Legendary Ace dealt with the main forces, unfortunately The Defiance, the name-bearer of the class, would be destroyed along with a few other Feliinyen ships before the remaining Imperial Forces retreated, leaving the planet now in Feliinyen control.

The class would see continuous usage in nearly every offensive engagement and several of the ships would even be present for the Battle of Defense Station 43-70-0401, where Mandelorian, Germanian, Feliinyen and Rebel Alliance forces would engage the Imperial Eclipse Fleet. It would be thanks to several of the ships and the massive Mandelorian Dreadnought, the Solace III, that the Eclipse would be sufficiently damaged to require an Imperial retreat.

Obsolescence
The class would eventually be discontinued after several decades due to the intense amount of maintenance these ships required unlike other classes. However few of the ships would remain in active service long after the end of the Second Grand Galactic War in a special task force designed to hunt down and destroy any threats.

Behind the scenes
This design was based off of a drawing made by the designer of these ships, Soren, and later made as a lego model in the Lego Digital Designer.