Aurellian Barbarian Class

The *Barbarian-Class" Is The Oldest Known Ship Known For Usage By The Aurellian Republic The Ship's Design Pattern Is Now Approximately 200 Years Of Age, Hence Why The Ship Was Formally Renamed Formally To The Barbarian Sometime Around Late 2395 Due To The Nature Of It's Operation.*

Despite It's Intensive Ageing, Many Barbarian Class Ships Still Serve Pridefully In The Aurellian Navy, Some Even Seeing Entire Generations Of Family Passing Through Them As Servicemen, and Their Crews Are Considered Some Of The Best In The Fleets, Many Drive Yards Still Construct Barbarians To Replace Losses As Seen Fit. Due To This, Most Ships Become Known As "Sons Of" Or Follow Numerical Heritage Stamps Such as "The Third", Allowing Homage To Be Paid To The Original Ship Lost In Service Or Age.

## History

The *Barbarian-Class" Saw It's First Introduction Into Naval Service Some Time Around 2200, Aurellians Didn't Have A Rather Large Concept Of Shield Technology Until One Hundred Years later, As Such, The Design Plan Featured Many Increasingly Thick Layers Of Armour To Compensate For Warp Damage and Battle Damage Respectfully, The First Barbarian Saw Successful Voyage around 2225, Managing To Warp It's Way To The Edge Of The Aurellian's Home System And Back To Aurellia Prime Itself At Warp 4 Safely.*

Seeing The Potential For Such A Ship, The Newly Crowned "Explorator-Class" Made It's First Full Deployments, Serving For A Large 100 Year Margin As The Main Service Ship Of The Aurellian Navy. It Wasn't Until Large Skirmishes Broke Out All Across The Republic Fringes By Radical Forces That The Rather Aggressive Nature Of The Ship Began To Show, During A Rather Large Scale Conflict Orbiting The Very Edges Of Kiros VII, Near The Very Heart Of The Republic Itself. Stolen Explorators Were Used To Quite Literally Cleave Defence Fleet Forces Apart By Ramming Them With Full Engine Speed Clean Into Defence Ships.
The Battle Soon Escalated, Many Records Detailing The Tale Of One, "Captain Severus IronBlood" Who, In A Final Ditch Effort, Fired His Ship Clean Through The Radical's Capital Ship Using His Warp Drive, Very Much Throwing His Ship Clean Through The Hull Of The "Archer-Class" Destroyer With Brutally Effective Ease.

Soon After The Conflict's End, The Ship Was Revaluated And Retired From Service, It Received Some Minor Retrofits To Allow It To Survive Impacts Of Such Magnitude, As Well As Increasing It's Impulse Speed Capabilities. The Explorator Was Dead, And From It's Ashes, The Barbarian Rose In It's Place.

## Tactical Systems

The "Barbarian-Class" Features Far Less Projectile Weapons Than The More Modern Destroyers Serving With The Aurellian Fleet, Featuring Only Twenty Mk: III Broadside Rail Cannons And Twenty Point Defence MK: IV Mass Accelerators, It's Mainly Inteded To Be A Close Range Offensive Ship Rather Than Any Form Of Outright Ranged Ship. To Which It Performs With Ancient Brutal Efficiency.

## Defensive Systems

The "Barbarian-Class" Has Rather Basic And Rudimentary Shielding Systems, Enough To Brace It For Warp And Basic Combat, Most Of The Power Of It's Defensive Capabilities Lie Within The Extremely Thick Layers Of Reinforced Armouring Which Line Its One Kilometre Long Hull.

## Special Systems

#### **Axehead Assault Engine**

The Extensive Retrofit Of The Original Explorator Revealed A Hull That Excelled At Broadside Actions and Head On Pile-driving Into Hostile Hulls, Looking At This, During The Period Of Phasing Out The Explorator, A System Was Developed For Allowing The Deployment Of More Impulse Engines With The Ability To Siphon Off Of The Energy Output Of The Ship's Warp Core To "Super Charge" The Ship's Shielding This Resulted In The Ship Being Able To Essentially Cleave Through A Hostile Ship's Hull While Broadsiding It With All The Guns It Had, Cleaving Down On Opponents Like An "Axehead".