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Chorus
Imperial Battery Destroyer · Two-Ship Squadron
Cho Zen Imperial battery destroyer, fielded in pairs. Dual Devastator-style antimatter rail guns fire 88 × 2 every 0.2 s to 100 km. Armored VLS hatches open for eight 167.5-damage missiles every 3.3 s: 128 rounds per ship, 180 km launch range, 320 km travel, 22 km/s and 255 m splash. Missiles prioritize frigates, corvettes and drones, with larger hulls as fallback targets. A contained red FTL core powers seven aft drives.
Cho'Zen
01 · In the line
Against the other destroyers
Speed among destroyers · km/s
Reach among destroyers
At 9 km/s it takes 11 s to close its own reach of 100 km.
02 · Weapon
Antimatter rail batteries
Antimatter rail batteries
Two dorsal twin-barrel batteries · terminal-effect rounds
Each barrel drives a 1 g slug down its rails at 60 km/s, one barrel after another, across 10 km in under two seconds. Each slug carries 311 ng of antimatter in its own trap, let go as it strikes: a blast that kills in the open out to 7 m and wrecks out to 12 m. Two single-target attacks every 0.2 s, 88 damage each, with 500 m splash and 100 km reach. Unguided rounds lead moving air and ground targets.
Fire cycle · one hull over 1.2 s
176 an attack every 0.2s (2×): 880 a second. Six attacks land 1,056 from one hull, 2,112 from the squad of 2.
03 · Available tech
What a commander can fit
Bought mid-battle with supply. Each one gives something and costs something.
Core upgrades · 5
Adds a +50% outer targeting band. Attacks, repairs, and boarding channels operate at 55% output beyond native range, and armed squads hold that safer line.
Converts the squad into a breacher: it closes to 45% range and deals +60% damage there, but deals 15% less outside the breach band.
No single hit can strip more than 30% of maximum hull after shields. Mobile units lose 12% thrust; static emplacements lose 18% maximum integrity. Strong into alpha strikes, weak into rapid fire.
Burns at +65% speed while marching or closing on its chosen standoff, then disengages in combat; turn authority is halved during the burn.
Adds 250 shield. If at least 25% charged, a breaking hit loses all hull overflow; the gate re-arms only after recharge reaches 25%.
Chorus signature tech · 8
The Empress’s armourers tune the antimatter charge to overload shield harmonics. Less of each rail round remains for bare armour.
Shanta-pattern containment rings compress a denser antimatter charge. The narrow detonation rewards a direct hit; the capacitors take longer to recover.
Extended magnetic acceleration stages carry the Golden Hammer’s unguided rounds farther and faster. Fire control still has to lead a moving target.
The existing plasma purge manifolds draw heat from the breeches, allowing shorter rail recharge cycles. Shield-field amplifiers surrender part of their power budget.
Both 28-cell VLS racks ripple a heavier curtain of missiles through their captive hatches. The same 128-round magazine empties in fewer salvos.
Imperial demolition casings spread the VLS detonation over a wider formation. Each missile sacrifices its concentrated killing charge.
An expeditionary booster package extends the missile engagement envelope without exceeding the 320 km flight budget. Propellant displaces warhead mass.
The red FTL core’s stabilizer rings feed the shield-field amplifier. Sha’dina’s battery holds the line while its seven drives accept a smaller share of reactor output.