Valhalla-class Destroyer

Specifications
Class: Valhalla-class Destroyer

Manufacturer: Gambrion-Musk Engineering

Role: Fleet Escort and Support; Fast Pursuit Craft

Operator: Solar Republic Navy

Length: 637.5 m (2091.5 ft)

Beam: 150 m (492.1 ft)

Height: 150 m (492.1 ft)

Mass: 36 million metric tons

Engines: 4x Simian & Beckett Primary Engines, 8x S&B Auxiliary Engines, 6x S&B Maneuvering Thrusters

Power: 2x Venture Systems D-H$$_3$$Medium Fusion Reactors, producing 2.5e+15 MeJ (2.0e+15 MeJ to engines)

Complement: 2x N24 Peregrine Assault Shuttles

Crew: 261 enlisted, 67 officers; 60 Solar Spaceborne Marines and Marine Auxiliary Support Staff

Armor: Compressed Titanium/Ceramic and Graphene Type-16 Hull Plating

Spacewarp Drive: Class 4 565c Northrop-Grumman Alcubierre-White Drive

Armament: 14x Raytheon Tech. Testudo Point Defense Railguns; 16x Longbow Nuclear/Pykrete Missile Launchers; 8x Raytheon Tech. HVK-27 Semi-Automated Railguns

Ships of the Line
DD 436-000 SRNS Valhalla

DD 436-001 SRNS Thomas Cochrane: -Location Unknown-

DD 436-006 SRNS Zheng He: -Location Unknown-

DD 436-011 SRNS Francis Drake: Destroyed at Nebula’s Gate

DD 436-003 SRNS Isaac Hull: -Location Unknown-

DD 436-025 SRNS Oliver Hazard Perry: -Location Unknown-

DD 436-017 SRNS Edward Pellew

DD 436-008 SRNS Isoroku Yamamoto

DD 436-014 SRNS Pierre-Charles Villeneuve

DD 436-022 SRNS Maximilian von Spree

DD 436-023 SRNS Sergey Gorshkov: Destroyed at Nebula’s Gate

DD 436-013 SRNS Leif Erikson

DD 436- SRNS Arleigh Burke

DD 436- SRNS Cardinal Richelieu

DD 436- SRNS Charles de Gaulle

DD 436- SRNS Comte de Grasse

DD 436- SRNS David Farragut

DD 436- SRNS Eric Raeder

DD 436- SRNS Jacques Hamelin

DD 436- SRNS James Cook

DD 436- SRNS John Jervis

DD 436- SRNS John Paul Jones

DD 436- SRNS Jose Salazar

DD 436- SRNS Juan Garibay

DD 436- SRNS Karl Donitz

DD 436- SRNS Michael de Ruyter

History
First designed in 2320 to replace the Torrent-class Escort Destroyer, the SRNS Valhalla was laid down in 2336 due to increasing hostilities from the Coreward Colonies. Designed for a more versatile role than the Torrent, the Valhalla was larger and boasted a significant, if more generalized armament. Named after the mythical afterlife of the Norse warriors, it was then fitting to name each ship after a naval leader from Earth’s history, each conceptually in Valhalla.

The SRNS Valhalla launched on September 14, 2337 from Braun Naval Shipyards to begin conducting space trials, and crew deployment. Once it was clear that the Valhalla-class was a favorable design, the United Solar Navy ordered 11 more immediately, with another 26 to be constructed based on ship performance.

The Valhalla-class first saw action at the defense of Sigma in November 2341 EST, where Core Confederation forces under the command of 1st Admiral Nilvan D’aught preemptively attacked the system in response to Rimward removal of financial and material support. The six Valhalla-classes helped guard the retreat of the evacuation ships to warp lanes, sacrificing themselves in kamikaze runs against the much larger enemy force, suffering 83.3% casualties.

Following the declaration of war between the Core Confederate Republic and the United Sol Federation in 2342, the Federation’s wartime economy churned out 46 more in quick succession to help defend the border and supplement the Sector Fleets. There they further saw action at the Battles of Dorado, Xin Jiangsu, and Nyumbani, of which they acquitted themselves and created an integral place for themselves in the United Sol Navy.

In 2354, when ambushed by a far superior CCR force, six Valhalla-class destroyers of the 1st Destroyer Squadron and the 2nd Strike Group went missing along with the Percutiens-class battlecruiser SRNS Hastings, two Olympia-class light cruisers and the Nicholas-class Marine frigate SRNS Tripoli, carrying the 117th and 74th Marine Infantry Regiments, the 18th Combat Engineer Regiment, and the 11th Dropship Division: 4th and 5th Wing. The Valhalla-class SRNS Francis Drake and SRNS Sergey Gorshkov were further destroyed, along with the Praetorian-class battleship SRNS Vanguard; and the Percutiens-class SRNS Stalingrad crippled and captured. The 436th Joint Task Force's location is currently unknown, and they are presumed Lost With All Hands.