Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Shogun Battleship

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The Shogun Battleship is the main Capital ship of the Katsuragi Protectorate. Planned to be voiced by *TBA*

History
"Behold, the Shogun Battleship!"

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There is a grim irony in how destructive a vessel as majestic as the Katsuragi Protectorate Shogun-class Battleship can be. While it is the standard-bearer of the Protectorate navy, its decorative and symbolic nature is merely an embellishment of its role as a ship designed purely for coastal bombardment and long-range anti-naval combat.

Forces of the Voshkod, unfortunately for them, were only made aware of these details recently when the Protectorate launched its unexpected assault against the northern coast of Eorzea, decimating most of the defenses there easily. The rest of the world is now all the wiser for their sacrifice.

Shogun battleships are the largest, most expensive, and in many ways most powerful weapons in the Emperor's entire military, and never saw mass production. However, because they tend to be the most heavily defended and supported elements in a Protectorate strike group, rarely have these sturdy ships been known to require even minor repair.

Their weaponry is limited to six main guns, mounted in two rows of three along the fore and aft, allowing Shogun battleships to compensate for their slow turning speed by having 360-degree firing coverage. As expected, however, they must turn broadsides in order to attack a target with the full force of their guns.

While the guns are unmistakably shaped like those of battleships from years past, they turn out to have been modified to launch a superheated projectile of some sort. The ensuing blast impact must measure some unknown thousands of degrees Celsius at ground zero judging from the destruction they cause, and the guns themselves offer a remarkable rate of fire for such powerful weapons.

While Shogun battleships naturally are kept to the rear ranks of Protectorate armadas, some of the most dramatic first moments of this war happened when the Voshkod initially managed to break Protectorate ranks and engage a fleet of Shogun battleships directly. Once threatened, the battleships turned to face a defiant and emboldened Voshkod fleet of Dreadnoughts, Kirovs, Slavas, Udaloys and Stingrays, rather than turn broadsides.

The Shogun battleships then all supercharged their engines in unison while engaging a fore-mounted point-defense shield system of some sort, rushing forward with appalling speed, smashing straight through the Voshkod remnants, shattering them to pieces. Only an escort wolfpack of Typhoon subs survived, their captains shaken and near-maddened by the experience. The video evidence the captains returned is now being studied intently in order to gain more insight into Protectorate strategy.

If anything is predictable about Shogun battleships, it's that the command of such ships is reserved only for the most decorated, most honorable, and often eldest members of the Imperial navy. These are men and women who have given practically a lifetime of service to their Emperor and are prepared and motivated to complete that service by fighting for the Protectorate to their last breath. It is said that to die in the captain's chair of a Shogun battleship is the highest honor achievable by a man or woman born into modern Katsuragi society.