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ShipsMandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought(Fulminatrix)
The Fulminatrix was a Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought in the First Order Navy. The Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought, also known as the Mandator IV-class warship and the First Order Dreadnought, was a model of dreadnought used by the First Order during the First Order–Resistance war. The Fulminatrix was commissioned and constructed by the First Order some time prior to 34 years after the Battle of Yavin. Her class, aptly named the Siege Dreadnought, was more than twice the length of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer, a standard ship-of-the-line which otherwise dominated the First Order Navy. This monster of a warship, like all members of her class, was armed with two orbital bombardment autocannons designed to penetrate planetary
shields. It also had 26 point-defense anti-aircraft The red lightning which came from the Fulminatrix was to help the night vision of the gunnery crews as they switch back and forth between targeting scopes and visual scans of the surrounding regions of the space. With an arsenal of weapons that demanded competent leadership, the dreadnought was assigned to Captain Moden Canady, veteran of the old Empire. Over time, these dreadnoughts amassed a particularly fearsome reputation, nicknamed "fleet-killers" by some Resistance pilots. Following the Resistance's successful destruction of his Starkiller Base superweapon, General Armitage Hux hastily ordered his fleet to the newly discovered Resistance base on D'Qar. There he found a caravan of Resistance ships, busy evacuating the planet as Hux's armada descended on their position. However, General Hux had reserved the task of obliterating the Resistance base for the Fulminatrix, which arrived shortly thereafter. The Fulminatrix participated during the evacuation of D'Qar where it fired its orbital autocannons on the Resistance base and eradicated it, though an evacuation of the base had already been completed. Much to his chagrin, however, Hux had mistakenly allowed a T-70 X-wing fighter — piloted by Resistance hero Poe Dameron — behind the First Order's line of fire, allowing the small craft to accelerate towards the Fulminatrix. Poe Dameron single-handedly attacked the Fulminatrix, destroying its point-defense cannons in order to clear the way for Resistance bombers to make an attack run. The unexpected strategy was effective, and Canady scrambled his ship's complement of TIE Fighters to counter the assault. With the dreadnought's surface turbolasers offline, Dameron engaged the second step of his plan. Cobalt Squadron — a unit of MG-100 StarFortress SF-17 Resistance bombers — advanced towards the dreadnought, flanked by a number of smaller fighters. Notified of the bombers' approach, Canady ordered his orbital autocannons to be recharged and directed towards the capital ship Raddus, where most of the rebel leadership had converged. A majority of the Resistance bombers were wiped out in the ensuing dogfight, especially after one spiraling TIE cockpit detonated several of their payloads prematurely. However, one final Cobalt bomber, under the watch of Paige Tico, managed to drop its explosives before giving way to the vacuum of space. These warheads absolutely demolished the dreadnought, causing a cataclysmic eruption of explosions which brought an end to Captain Canady and his loyal
crew.
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