Bainbridge-class Destroyer

12x Gatling Turret PDC

3x Rocket RFL [Rapid Fixed Launcher]

[Replace the RFL]

1x Warfare Railgun

2x Fixed Artillery Cannon

The *Bainbridge*-class is a class of destroyer used by the Azura Stellar Fleetwork (ASF), designed to be cost-effective combination of a torpedo boat and a destroyer with the mean to be produced on number and deployed to security assignment. The vessel also is the smallest ship in the fleet to be employed by the ASF. Some were modified to be equip with stealth abilities. While its appearance were small and cheap, the space frame of the craft was surprisingly resilient as it was on pair with some of the top of the line equipment and capability to take on out and above the weight to some degree

## History & Lore

The Bainbridge was introduced to be the new center piece and later the backbone of the ASF Navy. It was well-tested and versatile, being able to take on a number of challenges with variant difficulty. They were commonly deployed in groups or smaller ship like frigate and corvette to ensure maximum effectiveness during assignments. These destroyer are usually utilized in offensive and defensive points of interest for ASF and named in honored of 2680s Commodore, William Bainbridge, After his success in several campaign and veteran of the Barbary War.

### Lore

[Taken Directly from the Workshop]

Representing one of five the newest ships of the ASF Modernization Plan and also a response to the Jovian Campaign.

The Bainbridge-class Destroyer is easily one of the most recognizable ships in the ASF Fleet within it been that the vessel's small frame, conning tower, and weapon placement. The vessel's first wave was constructed at ASF Concord-Kazumi Lake-Glacier Shipyard on Azura at the planet's surface, this was included for the vessel itself for logistical and tactical purposes to serve as siege platform during a bombardment and close air-to-surface support using it gun to destroy fortify bunker and bases.

As a part of the new program, the vessel was surprisingly well-armed with 3 Artillery turrets on the dorsal side, 7 Assault Turrets, and 12 Gatling PDC spread equally across the hull.

During its development and design, the vessel was designed to complement a new spinal mount weapon which was sadly still in its development and testing on the ASF orbital Research Station Neptune.

Generally, the standard of all class vessels was armed 3 Rapid Fixed Launcher [RFL]; These launchers fired series of a high-explosive and unguided ordnance rounds to the target which demands terminal guidance and has a range of only 800 km.

The result was the first and second wave of the class was all armed with the RFL, until the expansion design after a disaster in the Jomaka System where the out of five vessels in the class that dispatched with the new ASF Cruiser Esmerald-class, Kamini.

Two of the destroyer were struck down and put a near loss with the battle sided with an unknown force soon reveal to be former-RCSP, now-GDA Exile-class Battlecruiser. It was a sure defeat if not for the intervention of the timely arrival of the ASF Battlegroup Shiva, led by Captain Vats of the ASF Battleship Tripoli.

This expansion design was the aftermath analysis of the Jomaka report and allow for the ship in the frontline to receive a much need overhaul at the local or nearby major shipyard but also allowed for the vessel of the class can alternatively swap for a fixed heavy weapon like the recent KEEN Warfare Railgun or Northwind Starlight Fixed Railgun.

As the name suggests it uses a magnetic rail to accelerate and propel a tungsten slug to which it will puncture a ship hull clean as the crew hoping that it will it a critical subsystem but this will come at a cost of its power and inertia.

The vessel design, however, presents a flaw that leads to the Mark 2 variant and the Icarain-class as second-generation models. Namely, the vessel thruster placement ratio as its two large aft main engines was the cause of this.

## Characteristics

The Bainbridge-class is 102 meters long, designated as destroyer, the class present itself as a cost-effective and multi-purpose build platform. As it act can be originated at the ranging from assignment at combat, patrol, escort, medical, transport and even exploration. This versatility give the class a distinctive trait which will be implement fleet-wide and seen broadly on all first generation model, cruiser variant at second generation model and flagship-type.

### Roles

* Territorial patrol
* Escort
* Fast attack

### Utilities

* 1 medical bay with 2 cyro-pod and 1 bed
* Mission Module Interior
* ASF standard communication array system
* Carbon-fiber Stealth panels composite (only on selective craft)
* ASF Intel Stealth system

## Trivia

* The ASF Bainbridge is first appearance of ASF Destroyer in Azura series as light novel with reference of it capability even it didn't mention the classes.
* Steam link for the ASF Bainbridge-class Destroyer: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2825259717
* While it was look new, this ship class was one of five in the first generation model [Destroyer, Cruiser, Battleship, Carrier, Flagship-Type] before the refit and introduction of the second generation Icarain-class