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The Federation's Progress-class destroyer is a smaller vessel designed primarily for supporting and defending larger capital ships from short-range attackers. With relatively light armor, a weak warp drive, and no contingent of soldiers for planetary assault, the Progress-class is not intended to operate separately from a fleet. However, its powerful sublight engines and inertial dampeners give it excellent maneuverability within realspace, allowing it to intercept attacking drones and cruisers with relative ease. The Progress-class is one of the most numerous ships in the Federal Star Fleet, and practically no fleets are seen without one.

The primary armament of the Progress-class is its photon torpedoes. Each vessel is stocked with several thousand photon torpedoes. While this seems to be an excessive number, the difficulty of magnetically guiding a photon charge at the distances of most orbital engagements means that most torpedoes will miss their targets, particularly if they are small, quick drones. Larger vessels, particularly Imperial cruisers, have shields heavy enough to withstand a barrage of thousands of photon torpedoes, while a Progress-class destroyer would shields crumple when faced with said cruiser's turbolaser batteries. Therefore, Progress-class destroyers are intended to hunt drones and smaller vessels, and to flee from ships of equal or greater size and firepower. The ship's two sublight engines, and various maneuvering thrusters, are well-equipped for this hit-and-run style of warfare. Furthermore, Progress-class destroyers are intended to operate with other destroyers and larger vessels, forming combined arms attack groups that can face off against stronger opponents.

Further augmenting the Progress-class destroyer's capabilities are its phasers. The Progress-class' heavy phasers are fairly low-powered for a ship of its size, and the ship only has them mounted on its nose. However, the destroyer's true firepower comes in the form of its dorsal superphaser. Based on reverse-engineered Imperial technology, the superphaser is powerful enough to destroy most Imperial vessels outright and severely damage even a fully-shielded Imperial battlestar. However, the superphaser requires almost all of the energy the destroyer's reactor can muster, leaving the ship vulnerable to attack. The superphaser's effective range also leaves something to be desired, as the entire ship must turn to aim the weapon, and then the engines must be deactivated in order to fire the weapon. This often gives an opponent time to maneuver away, if he is aware he is being targeted. This makes distractions and maneuvers that box the enemy in necessary. For this reason, most superphasers are instead used for glassing worlds.

Description
The Federation's Progress-class destroyer is a smaller vessel designed primarily for supporting and defending larger capital ships from short-range attackers. With relatively light armor, a weak warp drive, and no contingent of soldiers for planetary assault, the Progress-class is not intended to operate separately from a fleet. However, its powerful sublight engines and inertial dampeners give it excellent maneuverability within realspace, allowing it to intercept attacking drones and cruisers with relative ease. The Progress-class is one of the most numerous ships in the Federal Star Fleet, and practically no fleets are seen without one.

The primary armament of the Progress-class is its photon torpedoes. Each vessel is stocked with several thousand photon torpedoes. While this seems to be an excessive number, the difficulty of magnetically guiding a photon charge at the distances of most orbital engagements means that most torpedoes will miss their targets, particularly if they are small, quick drones. Larger vessels, particularly Imperial cruisers, have shields heavy enough to withstand a barrage of thousands of photon torpedoes, while a Progress-class destroyer would shields crumple when faced with said cruiser's turbolaser batteries. Therefore, Progress-class destroyers are intended to hunt drones and smaller vessels, and to flee from ships of equal or greater size and firepower. The ship's two sublight engines, and various maneuvering thrusters, are well-equipped for this hit-and-run style of warfare. Furthermore, Progress-class destroyers are intended to operate with other destroyers and larger vessels, forming combined arms attack groups that can face off against stronger opponents.

Further augmenting the Progress-class destroyer's capabilities are its phasers. The Progress-class' heavy phasers are fairly low-powered for a ship of its size, and the ship only has them mounted on its nose. However, the destroyer's true firepower comes in the form of its dorsal superphaser. Based on reverse-engineered Imperial technology, the superphaser is powerful enough to destroy most Imperial vessels outright and severely damage even a fully-shielded Imperial battlestar. However, the superphaser requires almost all of the energy the destroyer's reactor can muster, leaving the ship vulnerable to attack. The superphaser's effective range also leaves something to be desired, as the entire ship must turn to aim the weapon, and then the engines must be deactivated in order to fire the weapon. This often gives an opponent time to maneuver away, if he is aware he is being targeted. This makes distractions and maneuvers that box the enemy in necessary. For this reason, most superphasers are instead used for glassing worlds.