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Long story short, I made another starship for the same Crumpleverse infographic, this one took even longer because I tried to be even more ambitious, and it will be so small on the final thing that I felt like this had to get a blown up version. So this then joins the Ramapala in my current wave of starships.

The Bushi class was built and used just over 300 years after the Ramapala, and that technological gulf is reflected in the gulf in their capabilities. Despite being only 2/3rds the size of a Ramapala the Bushi class is clearly superior in every aspect. It's faster, more heavily armed, tougher, and better shielded. Its major anti-ship weapons are its twin fixed railguns mounted on separate nacelles to the main hull. These railguns sacrifice mobility for significantly increased caliber and available power. The Bushi can mount both anti-capital and anti-escort class missiles, and the tubes for either class can be repurposed for other specialised forms of ordnance or deployable probes. The ship is also carpeted in point defences, particularly laser arrays. These have a rotating bar mount near the ship's prow and a broadside mount on the ship's cylindrical rear section. These are supplemented by two different CIWS varieties- the major part are simple turret mounts in various batteries, whilst the ship's rear boasts triple barrelled turrets placed on rotating ring sections, allowing the turrets to be reallocated to whichever vector best suits the ship's situation. The ship also possesses a number of close-quarter guns, though these are only suited for combat with similarly sized vessels, and as with all close-quarter guns are considered a weapon of last resort.

This was designed by the IOAM to operate alongside the massive ISS Agamemnon, a million-tonne super-capital ship without peer in the late 25th century. It was intended to both escort the Agamemnon against incursions of specialised, low-tonnage ships and as a credible threat to enemy capital ships when present in numbers. The expectation was that the low-magazine size of the Bushi would be made a non-problem by its ability to dock with the Agamemnon for resupply when necessary. In practice, the ships were effective in combat but limited by the frequency with which they would need to reload their missile launchers in a combat scenario, limiting the volume of fire output by the Agamemnon and its supporting fleet. They were also less effective at screening the Agamemnon without the aid of larger, dedicated escorts. T overall effectiveness was hampered by a focus on dreadnought mentality in the would-be-Imperium. However, a number were captured intact or lightly damaged by the defeat of the IOAM in 2486, and a number of more specialised warships based on its design were created in the late 25th century. The original configuration was also revived in 2573 as the civilian Baze-class, which used the nacelles for additional engines.

Description
Long story short, I made another starship for the same Crumpleverse infographic, this one took even longer because I tried to be even more ambitious, and it will be so small on the final thing that I felt like this had to get a blown up version. So this then joins the Ramapala in my current wave of starships.

The Bushi class was built and used just over 300 years after the Ramapala, and that technological gulf is reflected in the gulf in their capabilities. Despite being only 2/3rds the size of a Ramapala the Bushi class is clearly superior in every aspect. It's faster, more heavily armed, tougher, and better shielded. Its major anti-ship weapons are its twin fixed railguns mounted on separate nacelles to the main hull. These railguns sacrifice mobility for significantly increased caliber and available power. The Bushi can mount both anti-capital and anti-escort class missiles, and the tubes for either class can be repurposed for other specialised forms of ordnance or deployable probes. The ship is also carpeted in point defences, particularly laser arrays. These have a rotating bar mount near the ship's prow and a broadside mount on the ship's cylindrical rear section. These are supplemented by two different CIWS varieties- the major part are simple turret mounts in various batteries, whilst the ship's rear boasts triple barrelled turrets placed on rotating ring sections, allowing the turrets to be reallocated to whichever vector best suits the ship's situation. The ship also possesses a number of close-quarter guns, though these are only suited for combat with similarly sized vessels, and as with all close-quarter guns are considered a weapon of last resort.

This was designed by the IOAM to operate alongside the massive ISS Agamemnon, a million-tonne super-capital ship without peer in the late 25th century. It was intended to both escort the Agamemnon against incursions of specialised, low-tonnage ships and as a credible threat to enemy capital ships when present in numbers. The expectation was that the low-magazine size of the Bushi would be made a non-problem by its ability to dock with the Agamemnon for resupply when necessary. In practice, the ships were effective in combat but limited by the frequency with which they would need to reload their missile launchers in a combat scenario, limiting the volume of fire output by the Agamemnon and its supporting fleet. They were also less effective at screening the Agamemnon without the aid of larger, dedicated escorts. T overall effectiveness was hampered by a focus on dreadnought mentality in the would-be-Imperium. However, a number were captured intact or lightly damaged by the defeat of the IOAM in 2486, and a number of more specialised warships based on its design were created in the late 25th century. The original configuration was also revived in 2573 as the civilian Baze-class, which used the nacelles for additional engines.