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Warden
Executive Order Frigate · Five-Ship Squadron
Executive Order frigate, five ships abreast at 1 km centre-to-centre spacing for overlapping point defence. Its dorsal turret fires a one-second red laser burst every 4.5 s, dealing the full 608 damage only while tracking a single target throughout the burn, out to 95 km. Losing contact reduces the damage delivered. The beam travels at light speed and burns its point of impact without explosive splash. Its operational target domain is ground only. Four dorsal point-defense heads and one ventral head intercept hostile ordnance within 2 km. Four main stern engines drive the hull.
Order
01 · In the line
Against the other frigates
Speed among frigates · km/s
Reach among frigates
At 7 km/s it takes 14 s to close its own reach of 95 km.
02 · Weapon
Red beam laser
Red beam laser
Dorsal turret · one red laser aperture
One red laser burst every 4.5 s out to 95 km. The full 608 damage requires 1 second of tracked contact; losing aim, line of fire or range reduces the damage delivered. Light heats the struck shield or hull without explosive splash.
Fire cycle · one hull over 27 s
608 an attack every 4.5s: 135 a second. Six attacks land 3,648 from one hull, 18,240 from the squad of 5.
03 · Available tech
What a commander can fit
Bought mid-battle with supply. Each one gives something and costs something.
Core upgrades · 4
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.
Warden signature tech · 8
Raises full tracked-burst damage by 35%, at a 25% longer recharge cycle. The beam still needs its full tracking time to deliver that damage.
Extends the laser envelope by 25%, from 95 to 118.75 km. The wider optical train delivers 15% less damage per tracked burst.
The flank heat exchangers shorten the laser recharge interval by 25%, from 4.5 to 3.375 s. Smaller capacitor charges reduce full-burst damage by 10%.
Compresses the complete tracked exposure from 1 to 0.65 s, helping the laser finish its burst on fast targets. Full-burst damage is reduced by 15%; lost contact still wastes exposure time.
Tunes the red laser to deal twice its damage against shields. Its lower overall energy reduces full-burst damage by 15%, including damage against exposed hulls.
Diverts reserve power into the photonic shield, increasing shield capacity by 25%. The laser recharges 20% more slowly.
Upgrades the attitude jets for 25% more flight speed and 20% more turn authority. Diverting shield power to the drives reduces shield capacity by 10%.
The same five rotating PD heads cycle 25% faster and deal 25% more damage to ordnance. Feeding their capacitor bank lengthens the main laser firing interval by 15%.