Executioner - Class Destroyer

- does not exist in the Main Timeline -

A small destroyer of the Accuilax Purifiers.

The Executioner-class makes use of the psionic power of the crew to accelerate the ship at an increased rate. This breaks a number of physical laws such as conservation of momentum and energy but requires a lot of focus from a large number of people as well as the shipbound AI to perform, and only increases its acceleration by around 1.1 to 1.5 times depending on the situation and crew morale (which impacts their ability to focus).

The ships primary role is to destroy or heavily cripple larger enemy ships by ramming into them. The immense impact sometimes damages the Executioner as well but the crew all have to have a unique instantaneous cryofreezing implants mounted on their bodies while using the ram. This freezes the entire crew extremely quickly, massively increasing the integrity of their bodies, shortly before impact, potentially saving them from the immense impact force.

The ship has few ranged weapons however. There are a number of smaller cannons meant to destroy smaller ships that can threaten an Executioner - class, as well as a larger number of CIWS weapon turrets which defend it against missiles.

Although the front has extremely thick armour which massively exceeds that of almost every other ship of its class, it is weakly armoured on the sides and rear. Frontally, it has an extremely well sloped armour scheme which will deflect any hits to the side armour from the front, though some powerful energy weapons might work. Flanking the Executioner is a key strategy to defeating it. As it approaches a front, some ships will probably appear on its flank due to it getting closer. At this point it might suffer heavy damage but will likely still hit its target. Large Atlas chainguns are often used against them.

After impact it will transfer a massive amount of momentum to the target, causing it to accelerate by a massive value for a very short amount of time, which is likely to kill most or even all of the crew of a ship, and also causing a lot of structural damage to the ship as well.

Freelancers are a very effective counter against the Executioner - class. Freelancers are designed to take heavy impacts such as this, so they would simply bounce off. They have no organic components usually (and those that do are still made to resist impacts) and would still be able to engage. After an Executioner strike a freelancer, the freelancer usually gets a very long chance to shoot its rear and sides and immobilise it. As such, the HF has built a larger number of freelancers in the accuilax purifiers timeline.

An Executioner can resist frontal impacts up to approximately 300 m/s due to its extremely thick frontal armour. This relatively slow velocity gives the enemy a lot of time to shoot it before impact, so they are often deployed in large numbers.