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Line 11: }} }} ==Overview== ==Overview== − Prior to the early twenty-fifth century,<ref name="TRO:3057Rp134">''Technical Readout: 3057'', p. 134: "Vincent (Corvette)"</ref><ref name="TRO:3057Rp132">''Technical Readout: 3057 Revised'', p. 132: "Vincent (Corvette)"</ref> '''Delhi Ships''' was a small manufacturer of military transport vessels with a corporate headquarters on the world of [[Capella]]. That changed when Delhi Ships successfully won the competition to supply a new class of corvette [[WarShip]]s to the [[Terran Hegemony]], a relatively unusual event given that Delhi Ships was based outside the borders of the Hegemony.<ref name="TRO:2750p126">''Technical Readout: 2750'', p. 126: "Vincent"</ref> + Prior to the early twenty-fifth century,<ref name="TRO:3057Rp134">''Technical Readout: 3057'', p. 134: "Vincent (Corvette)"</ref><ref name="TRO:3057Rp132">''Technical Readout: 3057 Revised'', p. 132: "Vincent (Corvette)"</ref>''' Delhi Ships''' was a small manufacturer of military transport vessels with a corporate headquarters on the world of [[Capella]]. That changed when Delhi Ships successfully won the competition to supply a new class of corvette [[WarShip]]s to the [[Terran Hegemony]], a relatively unusual event given that Delhi Ships was based outside the borders of the Hegemony.<ref name="TRO:2750p126">''Technical Readout: 2750'', p. 126: "Vincent"</ref> Several factors came together in providing Delhi Ships with this particular business opportunity. Firstly, the Terran Hegemony had identified a need for a new corvette to replace the older ''[[Bonaventure (WarShip class)|Bonaventure]]'' and ''[[Vigilant]]'' classes,<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/><ref name="TRO:3057Rp134"/><ref name="TRO:3057Rp132"/> whose performance was becoming increasingly lackluster in comparison to the demands placed upon them. Secondly, the Terran Hegemony had recently recaptured [[Terra Firma]] from the [[Capellan Confederation]], and had received significant reparations from the Confederation paid in [[Yuan|L-Bills]], freeing up funding for a new class of WarShips - L-Bills Delhi Ships were willing to take payment in. Thirdly, Delhi Ships was prepared to build a new facility at [[Carver IV]],<ref name="FSWp125">''First Succession War'', p. 125: "Shipbuilding Casualties of the First Succession War"</ref> inside the borders of the Hegemony, to handle production of the new corvettes while preserving Hegemony technological secrets. Lastly, Delhi Ships had designed a WarShip that met all of the stipulated requirements.<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/> Several factors came together in providing Delhi Ships with this particular business opportunity. Firstly, the Terran Hegemony had identified a need for a new corvette to replace the older ''[[Bonaventure (WarShip class)|Bonaventure]]'' and ''[[Vigilant]]'' classes,<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/><ref name="TRO:3057Rp134"/><ref name="TRO:3057Rp132"/> whose performance was becoming increasingly lackluster in comparison to the demands placed upon them. Secondly, the Terran Hegemony had recently recaptured [[Terra Firma]] from the [[Capellan Confederation]], and had received significant reparations from the Confederation paid in [[Yuan|L-Bills]], freeing up funding for a new class of WarShips - L-Bills Delhi Ships were willing to take payment in. Thirdly, Delhi Ships was prepared to build a new facility at [[Carver IV]],<ref name="FSWp125">''First Succession War'', p. 125: "Shipbuilding Casualties of the First Succession War"</ref> inside the borders of the Hegemony, to handle production of the new corvettes while preserving Hegemony technological secrets. Lastly, Delhi Ships had designed a WarShip that met all of the stipulated requirements.<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/> − The design that launched Delhi Ships into the world of WarShip manufacture was the ''[[Vincent]]''-class corvette, a design that benefited greatly from the "smart modularity" Delhi Ships built into the design, allowing for commonality of parts from various different manufacturing concerns as well as making new technologies and upgrades easy to embody.<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/> The ''Vincent'' would stay in service for more than three hundred years, with more than five hundred ships being manufactured; by the time [[Stefan Amaris]] launched his [[Amaris Civil War|coup]] no less than thirty-nine different build standards of the ''Vincent'' had been introduced to service<ref name="TRO:3057Rp134"/><ref name="TRO:3057Rp132"/> and Delhi Ships had become '''Delhi WarShips'''.<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/> + The design that launched Delhi Ships into the world of WarShip manufacture was the ''[[Vincent]]''-class corvette, a design that benefitted greatly from the "smart modularity" Delhi Ships built into the design, allowing for commonality of parts from various different manufacturing concerns as well as making new technologies and upgrades easy to embody.<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/> The ''Vincent'' would stay in service for more than three hundred years, with more than five hundred ships being manufactured; by the time [[Stefan Amaris]] launched his [[Amaris Civil War|coup]] no less than thirty-nine different build standards of the ''Vincent'' had been introduced to service<ref name="TRO:3057Rp134"/><ref name="TRO:3057Rp132"/> and Delhi Ships had become '''Delhi WarShips'''.<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/> The ''Vincent'' would be Delhi WarShips greatest success. In the twenty-eighth century the company attempted to enter the big leagues with a new, revolutionary WarShip design at a much heavier weight; that new class of ship was the ''[[Soyal]]'', a heavy cruiser designed and marketed as the replacement to the aging ''[[Avatar (WarShip class)|Avatar]]''-class heavy cruiser. The ''Soyal'' was intended to capitalize on new, highly classified weapons technology - the [[Mass Driver]] class of weapons - but proved a commercial failure where the [[Star League Defense Force]] was concerned, a result of SLDF research already showing that Mass Drivers were unsuitable for use given current doctrines and the inherent limitations the massive weapons had to operate.<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/> The ''Vincent'' would be Delhi WarShips greatest success. In the twenty-eighth century the company attempted to enter the big leagues with a new, revolutionary WarShip design at a much heavier weight; that new class of ship was the ''[[Soyal]]'', a heavy cruiser designed and marketed as the replacement to the aging ''[[Avatar (WarShip class)|Avatar]]''-class heavy cruiser. The ''Soyal'' was intended to capitalize on new, highly classified weapons technology - the [[Mass Driver]] class of weapons - but proved a commercial failure where the [[Star League Defense Force]] was concerned, a result of SLDF research already showing that Mass Drivers were unsuitable for use given current doctrines and the inherent limitations the massive weapons had to operate.<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/>
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| − | Prior to the early twenty-fifth century,<ref name="TRO:3057Rp134">''Technical Readout: 3057'', p. 134: "Vincent (Corvette)"</ref><ref name="TRO:3057Rp132">''Technical Readout: 3057 Revised'', p. 132: "Vincent (Corvette)"</ref> '''Delhi Ships''' was a small manufacturer of military transport vessels with a corporate headquarters on the world of [[Capella]]. That changed when Delhi Ships successfully won the competition to supply a new class of corvette [[WarShip]]s to the [[Terran Hegemony]], a relatively unusual event given that Delhi Ships was based outside the borders of the Hegemony.<ref name="TRO:2750p126">''Technical Readout: 2750'', p. 126: "Vincent"</ref> | + | Prior to the early twenty-fifth century,<ref name="TRO:3057Rp134">''Technical Readout: 3057'', p. 134: "Vincent (Corvette)"</ref><ref name="TRO:3057Rp132">''Technical Readout: 3057 Revised'', p. 132: "Vincent (Corvette)"</ref>''' Delhi Ships''' was a small manufacturer of military transport vessels with a corporate headquarters on the world of [[Capella]]. That changed when Delhi Ships successfully won the competition to supply a new class of corvette [[WarShip]]s to the [[Terran Hegemony]], a relatively unusual event given that Delhi Ships was based outside the borders of the Hegemony.<ref name="TRO:2750p126">''Technical Readout: 2750'', p. 126: "Vincent"</ref> |
Several factors came together in providing Delhi Ships with this particular business opportunity. Firstly, the Terran Hegemony had identified a need for a new corvette to replace the older ''[[Bonaventure (WarShip class)|Bonaventure]]'' and ''[[Vigilant]]'' classes,<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/><ref name="TRO:3057Rp134"/><ref name="TRO:3057Rp132"/> whose performance was becoming increasingly lackluster in comparison to the demands placed upon them. Secondly, the Terran Hegemony had recently recaptured [[Terra Firma]] from the [[Capellan Confederation]], and had received significant reparations from the Confederation paid in [[Yuan|L-Bills]], freeing up funding for a new class of WarShips - L-Bills Delhi Ships were willing to take payment in. Thirdly, Delhi Ships was prepared to build a new facility at [[Carver IV]],<ref name="FSWp125">''First Succession War'', p. 125: "Shipbuilding Casualties of the First Succession War"</ref> inside the borders of the Hegemony, to handle production of the new corvettes while preserving Hegemony technological secrets. Lastly, Delhi Ships had designed a WarShip that met all of the stipulated requirements.<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/> | Several factors came together in providing Delhi Ships with this particular business opportunity. Firstly, the Terran Hegemony had identified a need for a new corvette to replace the older ''[[Bonaventure (WarShip class)|Bonaventure]]'' and ''[[Vigilant]]'' classes,<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/><ref name="TRO:3057Rp134"/><ref name="TRO:3057Rp132"/> whose performance was becoming increasingly lackluster in comparison to the demands placed upon them. Secondly, the Terran Hegemony had recently recaptured [[Terra Firma]] from the [[Capellan Confederation]], and had received significant reparations from the Confederation paid in [[Yuan|L-Bills]], freeing up funding for a new class of WarShips - L-Bills Delhi Ships were willing to take payment in. Thirdly, Delhi Ships was prepared to build a new facility at [[Carver IV]],<ref name="FSWp125">''First Succession War'', p. 125: "Shipbuilding Casualties of the First Succession War"</ref> inside the borders of the Hegemony, to handle production of the new corvettes while preserving Hegemony technological secrets. Lastly, Delhi Ships had designed a WarShip that met all of the stipulated requirements.<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/> | ||
| − | The design that launched Delhi Ships into the world of WarShip manufacture was the ''[[Vincent]]''-class corvette, a design that | + | The design that launched Delhi Ships into the world of WarShip manufacture was the ''[[Vincent]]''-class corvette, a design that benefitted greatly from the "smart modularity" Delhi Ships built into the design, allowing for commonality of parts from various different manufacturing concerns as well as making new technologies and upgrades easy to embody.<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/> The ''Vincent'' would stay in service for more than three hundred years, with more than five hundred ships being manufactured; by the time [[Stefan Amaris]] launched his [[Amaris Civil War|coup]] no less than thirty-nine different build standards of the ''Vincent'' had been introduced to service<ref name="TRO:3057Rp134"/><ref name="TRO:3057Rp132"/> and Delhi Ships had become '''Delhi WarShips'''.<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/> |
The ''Vincent'' would be Delhi WarShips greatest success. In the twenty-eighth century the company attempted to enter the big leagues with a new, revolutionary WarShip design at a much heavier weight; that new class of ship was the ''[[Soyal]]'', a heavy cruiser designed and marketed as the replacement to the aging ''[[Avatar (WarShip class)|Avatar]]''-class heavy cruiser. The ''Soyal'' was intended to capitalize on new, highly classified weapons technology - the [[Mass Driver]] class of weapons - but proved a commercial failure where the [[Star League Defense Force]] was concerned, a result of SLDF research already showing that Mass Drivers were unsuitable for use given current doctrines and the inherent limitations the massive weapons had to operate.<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/> | The ''Vincent'' would be Delhi WarShips greatest success. In the twenty-eighth century the company attempted to enter the big leagues with a new, revolutionary WarShip design at a much heavier weight; that new class of ship was the ''[[Soyal]]'', a heavy cruiser designed and marketed as the replacement to the aging ''[[Avatar (WarShip class)|Avatar]]''-class heavy cruiser. The ''Soyal'' was intended to capitalize on new, highly classified weapons technology - the [[Mass Driver]] class of weapons - but proved a commercial failure where the [[Star League Defense Force]] was concerned, a result of SLDF research already showing that Mass Drivers were unsuitable for use given current doctrines and the inherent limitations the massive weapons had to operate.<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/> | ||