The Arkanaut Frigate

The Arkanaut Frigate is a workhorse warship of the Kharadron Overlords, a nimble aether-endrin vessel that carries the sky-duardin's companies across the cloud-seas of the Mortal Realms. Smaller and swifter than the great ironclads, the frigate is prized for its versatility, serving with equal readiness as troop-carrier, gun-platform, and cargo-hauler laden with hard-won aether-gold. Its riveted hull and armoured gasbag mark it unmistakably as a product of duardin ingenuity and duardin thrift.

Each frigate is captained by a stern sky-master who reckons every shot of ammunition against the profit it might return, for the Kharadron Code governs war as strictly as it governs trade. From the vessel's decks, arkanaut companies rake the foe with volley-guns before descending on grapnel-lines to seize objectives, plunder, or a swifter path to the enemy's throat.

In the great fleet actions above the realms, frigates dart between the lumbering capital ships like hounds among bears, harrying enemy sky-craft and pouncing on damaged foes. Their broadsides may be slighter than an ironclad's, but their speed lets them strike where they are least expected and vanish into the clouds before retaliation can find them. Wherever the sky-ports send their ledgers and their guns, The Arkanaut Frigate carries both, a pragmatic engine of commerce and slaughter alike.