Dreadnought

Describes a ship with an OHS 4 rating, meaning 5 or 6 very highly ranked weapons or as many as twenty low ranked weapon systems. “5-gun frigates” are very common, and include the DCI frigate among their rank. On ships massing in the frigate class, it’s usually far more effective to have a small number of powerful weapons than a large number of less powerful weapons, though this typically means that the ship will need to be facing in a particular direction to score direct hits. Many of these 5-gun frigates are built to help clear orbits around planets as part of the terraforming process, and technically qualify as dreadnought ships though their weapon systems are more appropriate for mining than combat. Very few light frigates have the firepower to reach an OHS 4 rating. One exception of note is a heavily customized private sector Core Corp CarpWheel class mercenary light frigate called the Eclipse, that after several original weapons system designs nets an OHS 6 and is one very large gun away from technically being a destroyer.