Fubuki-class battlecruiser

The Fubuki-class battlecruiser, or Fubuki-class destroyer, is a development of the premier small warship of the Consortium, the Shinsei-class battlecruiser. While they are technically destroyers under Consortium classifications, their size, powerful engines, high speed, large radius of action, and unprecedented armament make them on an equal footing with light cruisers in other navies, and battlecruisers in the navies of new spacefaring civilizations (as well as the Rin).

Design
The initial design for the Fubuki destroyers was based on a need for a destroyer squadron flagship capable of coordinating and controlling the tactical data amassed by the Shinsei battlecruisers. A 10,000-ton displacement hull, increased armament, and better sensor package were required. As designed, they were intended to operate with the new series of fast and powerful new cruisers also under consideration as part of a program intended to give the HSF a qualitative edge with modern warships.

Tests with initial plans showed their performance was a great improvement over previous destroyer designs, especially as command ships, and they were also capable of being amassed in their own squadrons to be led by cruisers. However, their increased displacement from the initial design, at 14,000 long tons, more than offset their more powerful engines, resulting in a slower top speed than originally planned; this was seen as an acceptable trade-off. Dual-purpose quick-firing guns were introduced to help them against enemy starfighters.

Armament
The main battery consists of thirty 41 cm/50 Type 46 naval guns, mounted in pairs, and fifteen of their 41 cm/55 Type 46 maser cousins, making them the most powerful destroyers in the Consortium- as they are the same guns mounted on their heavy cruiser counterparts, though in significantly fewer numbers -and giving them an unparalleled amount of firepower when compared to those in most other navies. The Fubuki destroyers also possess an ion and ion-maser battery of ten 15.5 cm/65 and ten 15.5 cm/70 naval guns each. Their primary weapons, their torpedoes, are handled by fifteen 61/90 Type 93 "Lancer" tubes, in five triple mounts.

While somewhat deficient in anti-starfighter capability, the Fubukis possess fifty-two anti-starfighter batteries in twenty-six dual mounts, half being 12.7 cm/45 naval guns and the others being their 12.7 cm/50 maser cousins. They also possess seismic charges for use against cloaked warships and warships chasing them- these take the form of eighteen SDM-4 seismic discharge mines.