Confiance-class Frigate

* Confiance-class
* In Formation
* Under Fire
* Supplying

OR

* 2x Fletcher-type Support Craft

OR

* 5x S-24 Songbird Interceptors

* Light-Duty Skiffs

> "*Though never my wish, a savior is what they have made me, and though it seems a savior has a thousand friends, I find I have but one confessor, her name is Vanquisher.*"
> - Personal Log, Commodore Ariana Hawker, CSV *Vanquisher*.
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The ***Confiance*-class Frigate** is a Centran capital ship manufactured by Keeper's Dance Fleet Yards shortly before the start of the Frontier War. The class was the most sophisticated ship design in the Centran Defence Force at the outbreak of the War in 0290 PCU, and would gain notoriety for its effectiveness throughout and after the conflict.

## Design

### Shipframe

At a length of 221.6 metres and a width of 55.25 metres, the *Confiance*-class features a similar lozenge-shaped hull design to the *Tripathia*-Class Ship-of-the-Line, broken up by the class' unique circular mid-section, which houses the ship's centrifuge facilities.

### Crew Facilities

The *Confiance*-Class is equipped as standard with an internal centrifuge on a rolling track within the large negative space that dominates the midsection of the Class. Here, living quarters, exercise and recreation areas, and sick bay facilities are housed. The amidships centrifuge can, like the habitats on other, larger CDF vessels, be locked into place during main-drive manoeuvres and combat, where thrust gravity is anticipated. This facility affords the ship the numerous morale and medical benefits of continuous gravity, necessary for the comfort and sanity of its crew on the long deployments expected for the class.

### Auxiliary Craft

Though the class can carry strikecraft of its own, such as the S-36 Stardancer or S-24 Songbird, due to the Frigate's high level of versatility within its standard armament, this carrier configuration is rare amongst the CDF. Instead, the *Confiance*-Class tends to carry two Fletcher-Type Longboats, both for planetary interfacing and scouting purposes.

## History

Following in the footsteps of preceding frigate designs within the CDF, the *Confiance*-Class has oft been romanticised by personnel seeking fame and glory within the navy. Unlike Ships-of-the-Line, which spend the majority of their service lives idling in port or providing passive defensive capabilities, it is the CDF's Frigates which have, historically, proven to provide the sense of adventure and excitement that wanderlust-filled crewmen seek.

Designed and deployed during the decade preceding the outbreak of the Frontier War, the *Confiance*-Class served as the latest in a long tradition of Centran frigate design, proving to be one of the most versatile classes in the fleet. The *Confiance's* wide mission profile gave the class much responsibility (and fame) during the coming War.

The *Confiance*-Class tends to be deployed alone and for long stretches, eskewing the usual Centran doctrine of ship synergy. Thusly, the *Confiance*-Class is equipped with its own point defence systems and planetary interface skiffs, allowing vessels of this class to remain mobile and largely independent from the rest of the fleet for long periods. Despite this, the *Confiance*-Class was also designed to neatly integrate into larger Centran fleets, either as a minor command ship for a fleet of smaller corvettes and sloops of war, or to serve as in pikeman roles in larger engagements, keeping hostile vessels at a distance from CDF battle lines, whilst allowing larger gun platforms to bare down the brunt of their higher-power weaponry into the enemy at range.

### Mission

The vessel operated with a certain degree of autonomy, as its extended and solitary missions involved aiding colonies situated beyond the typical pathways of the Tantalus cluster, as well as pursuing unlawful buccaneers and human traffickers in perilous territories.

## Notable Ships

* CSV *Confiance* - KDFY-1941-CC, Class Leader
* CSV *Republic* - KDFY-2144-CC on loan to the Avalon Expedition Fleet
* CSV *Vanquisher* - KDFY-2103-CC, Active during the Frontier War
* CSV *Sapphire* - KDFY-1970-CC
* CSV *Schiavona* - KDFY-2152-CC
* CSV *Port Abenheart* - KDFY-1988-CC
* CSV *Claudia Laurent* - KDFY-1957-CC
* CSV *Repulse* - KDFY-1989-CC
* CSV *Belvedere* - KDFY-2073-CC
* CSV *Venturer* - KDFY-2068-CC
* CSV *Lockspur* - KDFY-2116-CC

## Gallery

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## References

1. ↑ Confiance-Class Frigate | Ship Breakdown
2. ↑ A list of additional/misc *Confiance*-class ships was given here
3. ↑ Confirmed by Daniel Orrett here here
4. ↑ Ship Masts | Official Lore Short
5. ↑ Ship names and location confirmed by Daniel Orrett here