Commonwealth Nox Veridian Class

## History

Named for the infamous Nox-Veredian Empire, who are partly members of the United Commonwealth of Planets, the *Nox Veridian-Class* was developed in secret by the *Cipher Division* of *Commonwealth Intelligence Branch.* Not officially listed as part of the Commonwealth High Guard Fleet, the *Nox Veridian Class* utilises the same basic profile as the U.S.S. Nightshade, designed to assist the Nightshade is various covert operations.

At only 290 meters in length, the *Nox Veridian-Class* is not as large as the Nightshade however it also sports an enhanced version of *Multi-Vector Technology*, able to split into two parts, an *alpha* and *beta section*, both with their own warp capabilities.

The *Nox Veridian-Class* is also equipped with basic stealth armour plating, preventing it from showing up on the long-range scans of many different species within the Black Eye Galaxy.

The *Nox Veridian-Class* was developed in secret by *The Cipher Division*, a unique branch of *Commonwealth Intelligence*, tasked with the preservation of the Commonwealth at all costs. These ships were developed at a secret shipyard facility at *Taon IX*.

## Tactical Systems

The *Nox Veridian-Class* is equipped with one of the most secret *black projects* of the *Cipher Division*, an enhanced *Nuridium* *Duo-Linked Pulse Lance.* When separated, the *Nox Veridian-Class* is able to launch a beam of superheated *nuridium* at a target location, which will resonate between the two sections of the *Nox Veridian-Class*, at the confluence of this beam, an enemy ships engines will be disabled and a pocket of Void Space will emerge, causing the crew of an enemy vessel to slowly be driven insane, killing each other through paranoid delusions until the enemy vessel is left intact. After a while, the pocket of Void Space will dissipate, allowing the ship to be boarded.

The *Nox Veridian-Class* is equipped with experimental *Type XIV-Commonwealth Transphasic Phaser Arrays*. Based on *Transphasic* weapons technology developed by the Argussian Republic, for use on the Argussian Coronet Class vessel, these weapons deliver a powerful subspace compression pulse which projects a portion of the energy weapon damage across mutiple subspace frequencies, allowing for impressive shield penetration as well as doing some damage to Eternium and Pryde vessels.

The *Nox Veridian-Class* is also equipped with the experimental *Tempest Torpedo*, this torpedo, developed by *Commonwealth Intelligence* is the result of combining standard *Q-2 Quantum Torpedoes* with the newly discovered element of Tempestrium, producing a powerful subspace nullification effect which causes the mutual destruction of negative energy particles while causing less subspace damage then a *Tricobalt Torpedo*.

The *Nox Veridian-Class* is also equipped with;

* Standard *Q-2 Quantum Torpedoes* and *Type VII Photon Torpedoes.*
* Ctarl-Ctarl Tactical Combat Sensor Suite
* Chioni Hexadecimal (Six-Layered) Plasma Enhanced Shielding (with Enhanced Chioni EPS Conduits - Also currently used on U.S.S. Callisto)
* Ctarl-Ctarl Emergency Phase Inverter System (Equipped on Escape Pods)

## Acknowledgements

* Ship Design provided by DonMeiklejohn at DeviantArt with all rights and credit to vessel design.