Nightwind IV
From Yb Timeline
"And then, like a wind through the night, we descended on their ranks, and the fear of death shone in their eyes." -Imperial Yoshi Proverb
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| Nightwind IV design | |
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| Type | Super-Carrier, Battlecruiser, Mobile Invasionary Fortress |
| Affiliation | The Imperial Yoshis (Former), SWDF |
| class | Command Class Battlecruiser |
| Manufacture | Imperial Yoshi Armed Forces (Design overseen by Subsourian, 4th
modification set by the Lunar Star Technology Insitute |
| Date of Deployment | Designed in 0 BZ, Modified late 2005 |
| Length | 967 meters |
| Width | 250 meters (Measured from main hammerhead) |
| Weight | 27.9 Metric Tons |
| Sensors | PS Uplink, Lunar Advanced Space Radar, Mana Visionary System |
| Armor | Denzium/Elementainium Alloy |
| Crew | 25 at minimum operational capacity |
| Passengers | 55,000 |
| Reactor | Dark Mana Reactor |
| Engine | Tri-Thruster Design, Modified Slipspace drive |
| Stage Theme | The UED's Strike |
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The Nightwind IV is Subsourian the Dark's primary command ship, a hulking super-carrier armed with some of the most lethal weapons in the SWDF arsenal, including the feared Yamato Cannon. The ship was originally designed two thousand years ago, in the age of the Imperial Yoshis, but since has been upgraded with modern weapons. However, many of the ancient mana weapons are still intact and the ships Dark Mana Reactor makes the sheer process of keeping the ship stable a dangerous one.
However, the ship continues to be a staple of the SWDF, being one of the most famed ships in it's navy, along with the Starcruiser Prime. It's trademark Hammerhead design has become the model for the myriad of other SWDF battlecruisers.
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History
Nightwind I
The Nightwind was Subsourian's own design for a capitol ship during his reign over the Imperial Yoshis. Through melding technology and arcane studies, he created a ship out of elementite, a powerful magic-resistance stone that is now all but depleted due to the Axis Wars. Several mana guns ran off of the caster's own mana, and were highly unstable. Subsourian himself designed the Dark Mana reactor, allowing the ship to push its power far beyond conventional limits, though the original model risked demonic wormholes and dimensional rips within the ship.
The first design also faced the problem of, quite literally, being a flying rock. Elementite alone is not a mailable substance, so the ship resembled more of a crude cathedral than a capitol ship. The elemenite, originally intended to nullify the magitech of the Starlite Empire, in some cases increased its power against it.
The Nightwind I saw a single battle, and though it survived, Subsourian ordered it to be rebuilt, with more technological aspects to outweigh its high magitech.
Nightwind II
Thus the Nightwind II was designed. This ship was made with more conventional laser weaponry, and the entire hull was redone in favor of a Deznium-Elementite Alloy. Here, it gained its trademark hammerhead shape, which continues to exist on its model. Four primary Air-Air and four Air-Ground batteries were installed, and the design on several of the mana cannons were improved.
One of the scattered human nations, seeking favor of the Imperial Yoshis, designed a special plasma cannon for the ship. This came to be known as the Yamato Cannon, a devastating blow on par with a very small nuclear blast. It has since become the most used weapon on the ship, and even today continues to lethal in ship-to-ship combat.
