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	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 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 ''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)|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"/>
	Despite the problems with the ''Soyal'', including the sheer size of the design because of the demands placed upon it - a size comparable to a number of battlecruiser and battleship designs - the Capellan Confederation saw the ''Soyal'' as an opportunity to modernize its black water navy, and purchased a number of the design. That prompted both the [[Free Worlds League]] to purchase a small number of the ships, and public outcry demanding to know why the SLDF hadn't introduced Mass Drivers to service. Sadly, the ''Soyal'' proved a limited design, outlived by the earlier ''Vincent''.<ref name="FR:2765CCAFp21">''Field Report 2765: CCAF'', p. 21: "Soyal (Heavy Cruiser)"</ref>		Despite the problems with the ''Soyal'', including the sheer size of the design because of the demands placed upon it - a size comparable to a number of battlecruiser and battleship designs - the Capellan Confederation saw the ''Soyal'' as an opportunity to modernize its black water navy, and purchased a number of the design. That prompted both the [[Free Worlds League]] to purchase a small number of the ships, and public outcry demanding to know why the SLDF hadn't introduced Mass Drivers to service. Sadly, the ''Soyal'' proved a limited design, outlived by the earlier ''Vincent''.<ref name="FR:2765CCAFp21">''Field Report 2765: CCAF'', p. 21: "Soyal (Heavy Cruiser)"</ref>

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{{InfoBoxCorporation | image = | Founded = | Dissolved = | Previous Names = | headquarters = [[Capella]] | leadership = [[CEO of Delhi WarShips|CEO]] | products = [[WarShip]]s | Parent Corporation = | Division = [[Carver IV]] }} ==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> 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 ''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)|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"/> Despite the problems with the ''Soyal'', including the sheer size of the design because of the demands placed upon it - a size comparable to a number of battlecruiser and battleship designs - the Capellan Confederation saw the ''Soyal'' as an opportunity to modernize its black water navy, and purchased a number of the design. That prompted both the [[Free Worlds League]] to purchase a small number of the ships, and public outcry demanding to know why the SLDF hadn't introduced Mass Drivers to service. Sadly, the ''Soyal'' proved a limited design, outlived by the earlier ''Vincent''.<ref name="FR:2765CCAFp21">''Field Report 2765: CCAF'', p. 21: "Soyal (Heavy Cruiser)"</ref> Delhi's shipyards at [[Carver IV]] were effectively unavailable to Delhi WarShips, and the Carver system would remain under siege until [[2773]]. Delhi WarShips smuggled the plans for both the ''[[Vincent]]''-class corvette and the ''Essex I'' out of the [[Amaris Empire]] and restarted production of both classes at their Capella shipyards. Delhi's actions were condemned by both Stefan Amaris and [[Commanding General of the Star League Defense Force|Commanding General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] over the blatant misuse of intellectual property belonging to the Star League, but neither was in a position to be able to do anything about it at the time. Production continued unabated at the Capella shipyards, building up a substantial navy for the Confederation, although both classes were somewhat underweight and outdated in comparison to the other fleets active at the time.<ref name="FR2765:Pp30+">''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', pp. 30–31: "Essex I (Destroyer)"</ref> At some point during the [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]] the former Delhi WarShips facility on Capella became a part of the [[Rashpur-Owens Incorporated|Rashpur-Owens]] company,<ref>''BattleSpace'', p. 27: "JumpShips and WarShips"</ref> although there was likely little remaining as both the Capella and Carver IV shipyards operated by Delhi WarShips were considered to have been destroyed during the First Succession War, and the Rashpur-Owens shipyard at Capella was damaged.<ref name="FSWp125"/> ==Manufacturing== Delhi WarShips had manufacturing centers in the following systems: ===Capella=== {|class="wikitable" ! colspan="2" |Components produced at Capella:<ref name="FR:2765CCAFp21"/> |- ! width="350pt" | Component ! width="350pt" | Type |- | colspan="2" align="center " | <u>WarShips</u> |- | ''[[Soyal]]''<ref name="FR:2765CCAFp21"/> | Heavy cruiser class WarShip |- | ''[[Essex I]]''<ref name="FR2765:Pp30+"/> | Destroyer class WarShip |- | ''[[Vincent]]''<ref name="FR2765:Pp30+"/> | Corvette class WarShip |} === Carver IV=== This shipyard was destroyed by the conclusion of the [[First Succession War]] in [[2821]]<ref name=1SW125>''First Succession War'', p. 125</ref> {|class="wikitable" ! colspan="2" |Components produced at Carver IV:<ref name=1SW125/> |- ! width="350pt" | Component ! width="350pt" | Type |- | colspan="2" align="center " | <u>WarShips</u> |- | ''[[Vincent]]''<ref name="TRO:2750p126"/> | Corvette class WarShip |} ==References== <references /> ==Bibliography== * ''[[BattleSpace]]'' * ''[[Field Report 2765: CCAF]]'' * ''[[Field Report 2765: Periphery]]'' * ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]'' * ''[[Technical Readout: 2750]]'' * ''[[Technical Readout: 3057]]'' * ''[[Technical Readout: 3057 Revised]]'' [[Category: Manufacturing Centers|Delhi WarShips]] [[Category: Capellan Confederation Corporations]] [[Category: Terran Hegemony Corporations]]

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