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Hi everyone, first post here. I needed a place to ask questions about various 40k stuff and figured this was a good place to start. I'm a fan of D6g so that’s how I heard about the site. To the questions:

1. I'm running a Rogue Trader RPG game and just starting to get into the space stuff. I need a destroyer class ship but they don't offer many examples in the RT core book. I'm looking for a ship that’s between a Destroyer class and a frigate class, Are there ships in the imperial navy like this? (could be just pure fluff, not just official ships in battle fleet gothic). If there are, how do they compare in terms of armor, speed, and weaponry to a Sword class frigate? This way I can adapt the RT rules to make one up using the sword class as a reference point.

2. I read in the Lexicanum that there is a Falchion Class destroyer, but checking out the battle fleet gothic stuff it seems to be more of a frigate, is this the case?

3.Now for something a little different. I'm guessing that the fluff of battle ships is that they have hangar bays for fighters to come out of. Now, I'm not saying they would, but if a battleship really needed to safely/secretly transport a destroyer (bigger than fighter, smaller than frigate), would it be at least within some reason that they could outfit the hangar bay to fit one? I know its probably a stretch but how far of a stretch?

In my campaign I thought it would be really cool for my group to investigate a derelict battleship just to discover a top secret experimental destroyer ship in the hangar (anyone ever watch Farscape?)

Thanks for any help, sorry the post is a big one, and sorry for any other offensive Nooby-ness I may have commited.

1. All useful information about the different types of ships of the Imperium can be found in BattleFleet Gothic and ARMADA. Consider the FRIGATE type a mix between real frigates and destroyers.

2. Might be , can't help here sorry :(

3. Hardly impossible I think. Even the Emperor class Battleships can't hold hangars for its escorts, it's just like if a US navy carrier has the possibility to host a destroyer inside its hull. Fighters and bombers are one thing, ships another.

But you know... things can also go outside from the CANON (especially game wise). There could be a derelict battleship from the Golden Age that has a destroyer inside one of its hangars and that is fully operational. That wouldn't be a problem. But what about the possibility of the group to create their own ship ?

Don't cut down the possibility to let the players FEEL the ship as theirs. If you don't do so, they could end up thinking it's just another tool and wouldn't bother if it explode or gets damage.