Generation XVI
The Frankish War of 415 ABT provided the VRZ with a plethora of relevant combat data to analyze and with which they could create the next generation of warships following the very successful Generation XV. The defining feature of Generation XVI vessels are the vastly streamlined direct combat faculties that can be found within the ranks of their warships; many of the systems used in Generation XV proved to be very unwieldy and impractical for large-scale fleet on fleet battle.
Logistics and Support
Grazhnichonzheron Reactor Ship:
The reactor ship is a concept new to the VRZ, although not to the Pords in general, having come across multiple nations in the past whom have used similar types of vessels. Their effectiveness was married with Nalydian Projector Array technology and a twenty-three kilometer long hull, thus giving the Pords a vessel with extremely potent capabilities.
Grazhnichonzheron types have extremely thick armour and powerful Array systems, giving them very poor maneuvering and speed performance, even in comparison to many other Nalydian ships, which - despite their size - tend to be fairly nimble. For an offensive punch, the vessels of this type can use their Arrays (their systems are extremely advanced, considering their role), however beyond that they are defenseless, save for a number of tri-barreled RPDC mounts that adorn their hulls for point defense.
Kenzhelengrazhni Assault Transport:
Perhaps the most useful of the smaller Nalydian ships, Kenzhelengrazhni type assault transports, named for the Kenzhelengrazhni Guards, are a kilometer from stem to stern and bristle with defensive RPDC and PSKM mounts. They are more than capable of deploying hundreds of thousands of troops and their equipment, and are often found in the massive hangar bays of the larger warships of the High Hunter's Navy.
Grazhniarzhnüt Combat-Bulk Carrier:
Grazhniarzhnüt type combat-bulk carriers are ten kilometer long bulk carrier designed specifically to move large amounts of military goods to and from the front or between elements of a fleet. Often accompanying a dreadnought, it is not uncommon for Grazhniarzhnüt types to find themselves in the line of fire. Equipped with powerful thrusters and reactors, they are more than capable of keeping up with the rest of the battlefleet, and unlike reactor ships, whose systems are designed for supporting a heavier warships, the Grazhniarzhnüt is built with self-preservation in mind. Vessels of this type use tri-barreled RPDC mounts for defense.
Shügenkrazh Tanker:
Shügenkrazh type tankers ferry liquid goods from system to system, fleet to fleet, and front to rear. Seven kilometers from stem to stern they are far more specialized than the other transport type vessels found under the turquoise trident.
Schalchnu Mobile Shipyard:
More mobile fortresses than shipyards, the massive Schalchnu mobile stations are a testament to Nalydian naval engineering. Large enough to service all of the VRZ's vessels and often equipped with their own complements of gravitic tugs and relay ships, Schalchnu are oft only seen when the VRZ wishes to extend a campaign to a realm which it deems much be destroyed entirely, and is willing to commit egregious amounts of time, effort and resources to do it.
Rekazhenchlümüch Gravitic Tug:
Rekazhenchlümüch type gravitic tugs can be found at nearly every Nalydian spaceport; their primary purpose is to help the larger vessels that ply the fabric with docking and maneuvering in tight and close-in areas, such as the sunken spaceport in Tnem-Fragg.
Chalerna Relay Ship:
With the advent of more active rift-fighting, the admirals of the VRZ needed a craft which could provide them accurate order relaying capabilities, FTLi and fabric stabilization and long distance communication and scanning. The result of their efforts was the Chalerna relay ship, a ten kilometer long logistics vessel that is more than capable to completing all of the tasks the Admirals were needing it to do. Like the shield vessels, the Chalerna types are equipped with tri-barreled RPDC and twin 500cm PSKM for defense.
Chorskaya Heavy Interdictor:
Chorskaya type heavy interdictor ships (12km) are built with one purpose in mind: boost FTLi in a given fleet to such levels that penetration becomes almost impossible. Because of this they are equipped with extremely advancd Natyl and Mylchar suites, but this comes at the price of protection; consequently, Chorskaya types tend to stay closer to their parent capital ship than other vessel types.
Kalmyzhenkrazh Foundry Ship:
Kalmyzhenkrazh type foundry ships are sprawling vessels (17km) that take the unending particulates of the rift and convert them to a more usable format. Often they are converted into heavy metals for ship construction, but when foundry ships are attached to formations they are used to replenish and support the stocks of Lynak that might run dry.
Hospital Ship(s):
The VRZ maintains a number of hospital ship types. These ships range from small, terrestrial sized ships to gargantuan system-level craft. Depending on the nature of a crisis, campaign, or movement, the VRZ will allocate a vessel best suited.
The reactor ship is a concept new to the VRZ, although not to the Pords in general, having come across multiple nations in the past whom have used similar types of vessels. Their effectiveness was married with Nalydian Projector Array technology and a twenty-three kilometer long hull, thus giving the Pords a vessel with extremely potent capabilities.
Grazhnichonzheron types have extremely thick armour and powerful Array systems, giving them very poor maneuvering and speed performance, even in comparison to many other Nalydian ships, which - despite their size - tend to be fairly nimble. For an offensive punch, the vessels of this type can use their Arrays (their systems are extremely advanced, considering their role), however beyond that they are defenseless, save for a number of tri-barreled RPDC mounts that adorn their hulls for point defense.
Kenzhelengrazhni Assault Transport:
Perhaps the most useful of the smaller Nalydian ships, Kenzhelengrazhni type assault transports, named for the Kenzhelengrazhni Guards, are a kilometer from stem to stern and bristle with defensive RPDC and PSKM mounts. They are more than capable of deploying hundreds of thousands of troops and their equipment, and are often found in the massive hangar bays of the larger warships of the High Hunter's Navy.
Grazhniarzhnüt Combat-Bulk Carrier:
Grazhniarzhnüt type combat-bulk carriers are ten kilometer long bulk carrier designed specifically to move large amounts of military goods to and from the front or between elements of a fleet. Often accompanying a dreadnought, it is not uncommon for Grazhniarzhnüt types to find themselves in the line of fire. Equipped with powerful thrusters and reactors, they are more than capable of keeping up with the rest of the battlefleet, and unlike reactor ships, whose systems are designed for supporting a heavier warships, the Grazhniarzhnüt is built with self-preservation in mind. Vessels of this type use tri-barreled RPDC mounts for defense.
Shügenkrazh Tanker:
Shügenkrazh type tankers ferry liquid goods from system to system, fleet to fleet, and front to rear. Seven kilometers from stem to stern they are far more specialized than the other transport type vessels found under the turquoise trident.
Schalchnu Mobile Shipyard:
More mobile fortresses than shipyards, the massive Schalchnu mobile stations are a testament to Nalydian naval engineering. Large enough to service all of the VRZ's vessels and often equipped with their own complements of gravitic tugs and relay ships, Schalchnu are oft only seen when the VRZ wishes to extend a campaign to a realm which it deems much be destroyed entirely, and is willing to commit egregious amounts of time, effort and resources to do it.
Rekazhenchlümüch Gravitic Tug:
Rekazhenchlümüch type gravitic tugs can be found at nearly every Nalydian spaceport; their primary purpose is to help the larger vessels that ply the fabric with docking and maneuvering in tight and close-in areas, such as the sunken spaceport in Tnem-Fragg.
Chalerna Relay Ship:
With the advent of more active rift-fighting, the admirals of the VRZ needed a craft which could provide them accurate order relaying capabilities, FTLi and fabric stabilization and long distance communication and scanning. The result of their efforts was the Chalerna relay ship, a ten kilometer long logistics vessel that is more than capable to completing all of the tasks the Admirals were needing it to do. Like the shield vessels, the Chalerna types are equipped with tri-barreled RPDC and twin 500cm PSKM for defense.
Chorskaya Heavy Interdictor:
Chorskaya type heavy interdictor ships (12km) are built with one purpose in mind: boost FTLi in a given fleet to such levels that penetration becomes almost impossible. Because of this they are equipped with extremely advancd Natyl and Mylchar suites, but this comes at the price of protection; consequently, Chorskaya types tend to stay closer to their parent capital ship than other vessel types.
Kalmyzhenkrazh Foundry Ship:
Kalmyzhenkrazh type foundry ships are sprawling vessels (17km) that take the unending particulates of the rift and convert them to a more usable format. Often they are converted into heavy metals for ship construction, but when foundry ships are attached to formations they are used to replenish and support the stocks of Lynak that might run dry.
Hospital Ship(s):
The VRZ maintains a number of hospital ship types. These ships range from small, terrestrial sized ships to gargantuan system-level craft. Depending on the nature of a crisis, campaign, or movement, the VRZ will allocate a vessel best suited.
Tactical Vessels
Tylaq Balnook Runner:
Tylaq Balnook type runners - 150 meters - are the most advanced stealth type vessel in the VRZ. Equipped with Generation XV rift seal cloaking, Tylaq Balnooks are designed to scout and screen a fleet in addition to serving as extremely capable electronic warfare boats. Although incapable of rift transit, vessels have the latest in sublight technology, allowing them to move very well under their own power through interdiction fields. Weapons include missile bays and defensive suites such as RPDCs.
Tylaq Balnook type runners - 150 meters - are the most advanced stealth type vessel in the VRZ. Equipped with Generation XV rift seal cloaking, Tylaq Balnooks are designed to scout and screen a fleet in addition to serving as extremely capable electronic warfare boats. Although incapable of rift transit, vessels have the latest in sublight technology, allowing them to move very well under their own power through interdiction fields. Weapons include missile bays and defensive suites such as RPDCs.
Kazehl nam Zhülnym Barrier Frigate:
Kazhel nam Zhülnym barrier frigates serve as picket ships for VRZ formations. Named for the famed Kazhel nam Zhülnym who forged a reputation fighting against the rebels of Triskel and against the Franks off Septimania, it is expected the vessel type will live up to his name. Ships of the class are a kilometer long and focus heavily on smaller and faster firing weaponry; their primary battery consists of tri-barreled 150cm ENS/RPDC pieces.
Korzha Hyth Barrier Frigate:
Korzha Hyth led the liberation of Rastho Prime. One thing he noticed during the fighting was that he did not have vast rift cruiser assets to screen and scout for this forces. The Korzha Hyth type barrier frigate was created to fill this void. Five hundred meters from bow to stern they are compact and equipped with heavy redirection probe and sensory probe complements and form the backbone of Nalydya's carrier forces.
Kazhel nam Zhülnym barrier frigates serve as picket ships for VRZ formations. Named for the famed Kazhel nam Zhülnym who forged a reputation fighting against the rebels of Triskel and against the Franks off Septimania, it is expected the vessel type will live up to his name. Ships of the class are a kilometer long and focus heavily on smaller and faster firing weaponry; their primary battery consists of tri-barreled 150cm ENS/RPDC pieces.
Korzha Hyth Barrier Frigate:
Korzha Hyth led the liberation of Rastho Prime. One thing he noticed during the fighting was that he did not have vast rift cruiser assets to screen and scout for this forces. The Korzha Hyth type barrier frigate was created to fill this void. Five hundred meters from bow to stern they are compact and equipped with heavy redirection probe and sensory probe complements and form the backbone of Nalydya's carrier forces.
Salüchoq Ulyanov Line Cruiser:
Salüchoq Ulyanov type line cruisers mark the return of the line cruiser classification. At twenty five kilometers they are far from the largest of craft Nalydya has produced, but their smaller size affords them a deftness that the larger vessels do not have. Similar to how Ulyanov and the red-bowed vessels of Jloklezhoi held against the Franks - first into the fray, last from the field - the line cruisers of the type sport heavy 2,500cm PSKR that give them tremendous staying power.
nam-Volnyk Line Cruiser:
nam-Volnyk type line cruisers are built upon the same hull as the lighter Salüchoq Ulyanov type but have far heavier armour, a third funnel towards their stern, and fewer guns. With the lessons of the Frankish War still in Pordish memory, they are tasked with shepherding the lighter and faster Salüchoq types with their greater focus on Array weaponry rather than artillery.
Salüchoq Ulyanov type line cruisers mark the return of the line cruiser classification. At twenty five kilometers they are far from the largest of craft Nalydya has produced, but their smaller size affords them a deftness that the larger vessels do not have. Similar to how Ulyanov and the red-bowed vessels of Jloklezhoi held against the Franks - first into the fray, last from the field - the line cruisers of the type sport heavy 2,500cm PSKR that give them tremendous staying power.
nam-Volnyk Line Cruiser:
nam-Volnyk type line cruisers are built upon the same hull as the lighter Salüchoq Ulyanov type but have far heavier armour, a third funnel towards their stern, and fewer guns. With the lessons of the Frankish War still in Pordish memory, they are tasked with shepherding the lighter and faster Salüchoq types with their greater focus on Array weaponry rather than artillery.
C. T. K. Sanya M0nitor
The C. T. K. Sanya type monitor is named after the divisional commander who, during the Battle off Yamsai, held the Pordish flank with his monitor and heavy warships. With this in mind, a new line of craft were designed to further the ability of commanders like Sanya to use monitors in this fashion. This type of monitor is 200km from bow to stern and armed with gargantuan 1,500m PSKR batteries. These are smaller than the PSKR of previous monitors, but their far greater quantity is thought to more than make up for their deficiencies in calibre.
The C. T. K. Sanya type monitor is named after the divisional commander who, during the Battle off Yamsai, held the Pordish flank with his monitor and heavy warships. With this in mind, a new line of craft were designed to further the ability of commanders like Sanya to use monitors in this fashion. This type of monitor is 200km from bow to stern and armed with gargantuan 1,500m PSKR batteries. These are smaller than the PSKR of previous monitors, but their far greater quantity is thought to more than make up for their deficiencies in calibre.
Chalak nam-Hülaaq Monitor
Chalak nam-Hülaaq type monitors are built upon the same hull as the C. T. K. Sanya type, but unlike the older vessels they have a small handful of fortress-shattering 5000m PSKR housed in heavy turrets atop her hull and hung underneath with 2,500cm serving as complement. These are not weapons meant for eliminating capital ships, though they can if targeted in such a manner, but rather they are for battering down shields and well protected fortresses.
Chalak nam-Hülaaq type monitors are built upon the same hull as the C. T. K. Sanya type, but unlike the older vessels they have a small handful of fortress-shattering 5000m PSKR housed in heavy turrets atop her hull and hung underneath with 2,500cm serving as complement. These are not weapons meant for eliminating capital ships, though they can if targeted in such a manner, but rather they are for battering down shields and well protected fortresses.
Melchyk Batyl Voidcraft Carrier:
The VRZ has not fielded a carrier type in many generations; nevertheless the Melchyk Batyl class has been crafted with knowledge gained during Nalydya's previous fielding of such types of vessels. At 215 kilometers she is the size of a modern dreadnought, but the purpose of the ship is not to provide heavy gunfire. Melchyk Batyl types have a complement of a dozen assault wings (four craft detachments) of barrier frigates with their exact composition left to the whims of the vessel-captain.
The VRZ has not fielded a carrier type in many generations; nevertheless the Melchyk Batyl class has been crafted with knowledge gained during Nalydya's previous fielding of such types of vessels. At 215 kilometers she is the size of a modern dreadnought, but the purpose of the ship is not to provide heavy gunfire. Melchyk Batyl types have a complement of a dozen assault wings (four craft detachments) of barrier frigates with their exact composition left to the whims of the vessel-captain.
Capital Ships
Chelbük Battlecruiser
As a proponent of speed, High Hunter Chelbük found himself pleased with the battlecruiser types of Generation XVI. The craft bearing his name is 300 kilometers long and trades, in typical battlecruiser fashion, heavy weaponry and protection for better acceleration. As evidenced by their four funnels, Chelbük type battlecruisers are vessels whose purpose lay in keeping the far less agile dreadnoughts from being swarmed by lighter and more mobile assets.
As a proponent of speed, High Hunter Chelbük found himself pleased with the battlecruiser types of Generation XVI. The craft bearing his name is 300 kilometers long and trades, in typical battlecruiser fashion, heavy weaponry and protection for better acceleration. As evidenced by their four funnels, Chelbük type battlecruisers are vessels whose purpose lay in keeping the far less agile dreadnoughts from being swarmed by lighter and more mobile assets.
Hülaq Battlecruiser
Hülaq type battlecruisers are similar to the Chelbük type but are even more agile with even less armour and fewer weapons. They are among a very small handful of Pordish vessels that have five funnels - a testament to the vast quantity of rift that must be tended to to afford the craft her performance. Hülaq type battlecruisers are 315 kilometers in length and are built with the intention of being able to outspeed any craft they cannot gun down with their two-gun 1,500cm PSKR.
Hülaq type battlecruisers are similar to the Chelbük type but are even more agile with even less armour and fewer weapons. They are among a very small handful of Pordish vessels that have five funnels - a testament to the vast quantity of rift that must be tended to to afford the craft her performance. Hülaq type battlecruisers are 315 kilometers in length and are built with the intention of being able to outspeed any craft they cannot gun down with their two-gun 1,500cm PSKR.
Batyev Kalachyt Dreadnought
The heavy belts of the Batyev Kalachyt type dreadnought easily give the type away at range. At 248 kilometers they are the only warship of Generation XVI to sport the massive three-gun 4,500cm PSRK, a fitting weapon suite for a vessel named after the head of the Great House of Mürsk; once considered impregnable, Hunters from the city of Mürsk have always proven they are well-versed in the proper application of engineering to the defense.
The heavy belts of the Batyev Kalachyt type dreadnought easily give the type away at range. At 248 kilometers they are the only warship of Generation XVI to sport the massive three-gun 4,500cm PSRK, a fitting weapon suite for a vessel named after the head of the Great House of Mürsk; once considered impregnable, Hunters from the city of Mürsk have always proven they are well-versed in the proper application of engineering to the defense.
Malachoq nam-Kazhev Dreadnought
The Malachoq nam-Kazhev type dreadnought is the Nävsh answer to the Mürsk'an fabricyards that produce the Batyev Kalachyt. The largest dreadnought of Generation XVI at 270 kilometers, the vessel sacrifices both heavy belts and heavy guns for sheer size and quantity of arms. Vast panoplies of four-gun 1,500cm PSKR dot the vessel's hull serving as the ultimate logical conclusion of the volume of fire school of thought.
The Malachoq nam-Kazhev type dreadnought is the Nävsh answer to the Mürsk'an fabricyards that produce the Batyev Kalachyt. The largest dreadnought of Generation XVI at 270 kilometers, the vessel sacrifices both heavy belts and heavy guns for sheer size and quantity of arms. Vast panoplies of four-gun 1,500cm PSKR dot the vessel's hull serving as the ultimate logical conclusion of the volume of fire school of thought.