Restricted Ship Recusant-class Light Destroyer

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RECUSANT-CLASS LIGHT DESTROYER

AFFILIATION
Open market.

MANUFACTURER

• Hoersch-Kessel Drive Inc.
• Pammant Docks.
• Various.

CLASS
Star Destroyer.

ROLE
Capital ship.

COMPOSITION
Duranium and transparisteel.

DIMENSIONS
Length - 1.187 kilometers.CREW
100-300.

PASSENGER CAPACITY
10,000-40,000.

CARGO CAPACITY
10 kilotons.

HANGAR CAPACITY

• 48x starfighter/light starbomber.
• 8x shuttle/light freighter.

CONSUMABLES
2 standard years.

SPEED/MANEUVERABILITY
The Recusant-class light destroyer has a top speed of 50 MGLT and has sluggish maneuvering characteristics.

ARMAMENT

• 5x heavy turbolaser casemate.
• 6x dual heavy turbolaser turret.
• 5x dual medium turbolaser casemate.
• 30x dual medium laser turret.
• 12x dual light laser turret.
• 60x single light laser turret.
• 2x tractor beam projector.

EQUIPMENT

• 1x class 2 hyperdrive.
• 1x navicomputer.
• 1x heavy deflector screen generator.
• 1x long-range sensor suite.
• 1x long-range communication suite.
• 1x central control databrain.
• Many x docking ring with integrated docking tube.
• Many x escape pod.

DESCRIPTION​

The Recusant-class light destroyer is a heavy capital ship originally developed by Hoersch-Kessel Drive Inc. for the Commerce Guild in the years prior to the Clone Wars. Serving for a time in the Guild's trade defense fleet, the type was supplied to the Confederacy of Independent Systems when the Commerce Guild pledged its support to the Separatist cause, and was one of the most recognizable and numerically important heavy capital ships in CIS service.

The Recusant class is nominally a star destroyer under the Anaxes War College classification system, being 1,187 meters in length. Despite this, its is fairly lightly armed for its size, hence its "light destroyer" classification. Equipped with a mix of weapons from heavy semi-fixed turbolasers to single-barrel light laser turrets, the Recusant does actually out-guns its contemporary rival, the slightly smaller Venator-class star destroyer, which was hampered by pre-Clone Wars naval design treaties; although the Recusant was technically bound by the same treaties, its slightly larger size - not to mention some creative legal interpretation and outright lies on the part of Hoersch-Kessel and the Commerce Guild - gave it the advantage. Besides this, the Recusant has internal hangar space for 48 starfighters or light starbombers, 8 shuttles and storage for up to 40,000 deactivated battle droids. The ship - which incorporated an extraordinarily high degree of automation, including a central control databrain - can otherwise be flown by a crew of just 300 personnel; in practice, these can even be mostly or entirely droids, with typical CIS fleets during the Clone Wars having only a handful of organic officers aboard their larger ships.

Notably, the Recusant does have a number of flaws. Although well armed, the ship has incomplete armor protection, with vital infrastructure exposed to space in some places; should the ship's heavy shields ever be breached, it would only take a handful of well-placed shots to cripple it and even cause it to break up. Further, although it is considered exceptionally sophisticated by the standards of a ship's computer, the Recusant's central control databrain can be sluggish to react to changing combat situations, and has a reputation for inadvertently ramming ships that stray across its flight path while it is trying to parse large amounts of data. Further, the small crew does not provide a great deal of redundancy in case of combat fatalities; in CIS service this could be offset by the activation of stored droids to take up the slack, however.

After the outbreak of war, mass production of the Recusant was stepped up. Famously, the Pammant Docks, staffed by fanatical workers of the Free Dac Volunteers Engineering Corps, churned out vast quantities of the type, setting a number of production records for a major shipyard which still hold. Shipyards throughout Separatist space also built the design under license; CIS war bond drives often sold potential buyers with the idea that they were directly financing a new Recusant for the navy. Although they had their shortcomings, the type was genuinely feared by the forces of the Republic.

After the Clone Wars, however, the Recusant did not fare as well as its ex-Republic counterparts. After the initial shutdown command, nearly all Recusants in service were recalled to Imperial factory worlds, where they - along with other ex-CIS warships - were systematically scrapped as a source of raw materials for the growing Imperial war machine.

Despite this sad fate, some Recusants are still with us in the present, however. Despite Imperial policy regarding redundant war materiel, a respectable number were actually sold, primarily to trusted Imperial vassals and allies. The Corporate Sector Authority famously acquired a fairly significant number of them, which continue in service to this day with the corporate navy. Very small numbers were also stolen or otherwise acquired by the Alliance to Restore the Republic, although the group had understandable reservations about using ex-Separatist equipment, given the choice.

Overall, Recusant-class light destroyers are rare nowadays, but not completely gone from the battlefield. Many have begun to return as well, awoken from mothball fleets, reclaimed from junkyard worlds and recalled to service as the Galaxy once again marches to war...

LEGALITY​

Restricted. Recusant-class light destroyers are classified as capital ships under Galactic law, and possess heavy weapons. As such, civilian owners will require extra licensing to operate one legally, and will receive increased scrutiny by authorities. Even then, they are ridiculously expensive to operate; only a relatively large faction or decently well-off planetary government would be able to afford it without swiftly bankrupting themselves. An individual would stand no chance.

INTENT​

To bring a vessel from canon into our site's fanon.

RESTRICTIONS​

Recusant-class light destroyers are large capital ships with heavy weapons, and capital ships cannot be owned or operated by individual characters. They may be acquired as a faction asset with staff oversight.