Amethyst Destroyer

## Commentary

The Amethyst-class Destroyer was a standard sight along the outer rim of recently-founded DAOT colonies and outposts, which teamed up with the Azul-class Frigate would constantly run border patrols along barely-trafficked and often not fully surveyed interstellar space, keeping criminal activity such as smuggling, piracy, and colonial exploitation down to a minimum. While the Amethyst's boosted sensor suite would provide the eyes and ears, the Azul would provide the legs, making the pair particularly talented watchdogs of the spaceways.

## History

A very old class of vessel, going all the way back to the 7th​ millennium in its earliest incarnations, the Amethyst was always considered the “jewel” of the spaceways, particularly because its size, dimensions, and overall capability allowed for a wide variety of possible mission performances. During the 16th​ millennium the class was updated with improved warp drives and more efficient containment systems. This much-needed refit was performed to keep up with the newer Azul-class.

## Features

Measurements: 1600 meters (length), 670 meters (width), 720 meters (height)

Mass: 3,400,000 metric tons

Crew: 2400 cyber-augmented organics, 7 Men Of Stone, 7000 repairbots

Weapons (Primary): x1 110cm Antiship Plasma Lance (combining best attributes of Plasma and Lance weapons)

Weapons (Secondary): x10 24cm Railgun Batteries (x2 Railguns/battery; rounds fired at ~10k km/second, 10 rounds per minute)

Weapons (Tertiary): x16 18cm Lance batteries (x2 Lances/battery)

Weapons (Point Defense): x36 Uber-Lascannon Batteries (3 Uber-Lascannons/battery)

Weapons (Point Defense – Beta): x14 10cm Onager-class Railgun Batteries (x2 Railguns/battery; fired at ~20k km/second, 20 rounds per minute)

Armor: 1.5 meters of nano-armor modular plating, with 12 meters underneath of plasteel/ceramite/micro-beading adamantium mix, with interspersed vacuum cavities sandwiched between layers in a hexagonal grid format.

Shields: Integrated Energy, capable of withstanding 640 megatons of direct firepower per second before final collapse. Regenerate within 7 seconds of shield collapse back to normal.

Sensors: starship-grade Auger sensor suite. Links and coordinates incoming sensor data from all other DAOT vehicles, processes data, then dispenses firing/tactical data as needed.

Reactor: x1 Matter-Antimatter Annihilation Reactor, x4 Antimatter-boosted Dual Plasma-Loop Fusion Reactors

Propulsion (STL): High-capacity VASIMIR plasma drive. The plasma generated by the reactors is channeled into a series of exhaust manifolds, which vector it into the ship's engine nozzles. The drive exhaust serves as reaction mass, providing propulsion for the ship. The drive system also includes an exotic mechanism that utilizes higher-order manifolds to eliminate the otherwise-devastating fusion backblast.

## Miscellaneous

- The Amethyst carries standard high-energy Comm Lasers as well as standard ship Voxes, guaranteeing complete secrecy in event of need. This has proven quite handy in countless occasions, having a communications system that no enemy can tap into.

- While not as fast and efficient as the Azul's, an Amethyst’s warp drives are much faster and efficient than prior generations of Warp drives, allowing them to go much longer distances in shorter periods, reducing transit times between more developed Inner Systems and the Outer Rim colonies.

- Amethysts carry further Point Defense systems that are standard in the DAOT. Drone Bays provide a cloud of separate PD, Shield, Sensor, or ECM Drone types, generally held in position by interfacing with the Ship's PD systems or onboard pilot command. In addition, Foam Chaff Deployment systems provide another layer of defense, with a high-pressure feed tank with external sprayers spraying heat-resistant foamed plastics (and a one-time flurry of self-inflating ablative 'spores') onto the hull or into space, with ECM microdrones mixed in for additional confusion to enemy sensors, blurring the ships outline and any specific intel gathered.

- While its hangar bays were not optimized for carrying fighters like dedicated carrier-transports were, Amethysts often carried at least two squadron's worth of drone or remotely-piloted interceptors to spread its area of influence and interdict smaller smuggler ships, as well as (a common DAOT safety practice) enough shuttles, dropships, and escape pods to provide for ship's crew in the event of shipwide evacuation.

- To further facilitate the Amethyst’s long-distance travels, both it and the Azul-class had significantly beefed up internal repair bays and onboard nanoforges to drastically cut down on the need for spare parts, as well as slightly improved life support systems.