After her first rather unpleasant reunion with Humanity with the First Raid, Jade shifted her attention to dealing with the threat posed. Resources were shifted to expanding her shipyards and building new ships. First of which was moreclass frigates with some minor upgrades and improvements and some additional orbital defense platforms, but ultimately she knew that his was at best a stopgap measure for defensive purposes. If Jade was to survive in this new universe, she would require better warships. Jade directed the minds of thousands of individual Jades to engineering solutions and allocated over two million Jades to industrial projects to directly facilitate the expansion, both planetside and orbit. The remains of captured pirate ships were poured over. Other projects such as the expansion of exowomb capacity were sidelined. In less than three years Jade the first fruit of these efforts was finished, the! class Destroyer.In general the! class was a major upgrade for Jade's fleet. It was nearly twice as long as theclass at 143.1 meters long and weighed in at 9,500 tonnes. Much of that extra weight is in in reinforced armor plating and a reinforced superstructure, increasing the survivability of the craft by a considerable margin at the expense of acceleration (which was limited to 3 G flank speed even with an improved reactor). Like theclass it's primary armament is a 25cm gauss cannon and a set of torpedo launchers. However said Gauss cannon was mounted in a turret allowing it to engage targets without having to rotate the whole ship to bring it to bear and the number of torpedo tubes has been increased from two to nine (with a payload of 64 torpedoes). It also has eight point defense laser turrets, each of which had a power boost allowing them to emit pulses up to 5 times as intense (all be it at the cost of quickly draining their capacitors) and a pair of 10cm railguns for close quarters engagements. Various other technical systems from life support to sensors had also been upgraded. All of which was managed by an complement of 48 spacers and 16 troopers.The two most notable features of the! class was it's Hyperdrive and Hypercomm Transceiver, which together allowed Jade the ability to reach beyond the Jade Star System. This was not Jade's first FTL capable spacecraft, she'd assembled a few experimental units going back more than a decade before the First Raid, though these these were purely testbeds. In contrast the! was built with practical application in mind. She could maintain an effective realspace speed of 32 C and could reach 64 C over bursts of up to a week, though doing so put the ship under considerable stress. Nearly as importantly are Hypercomms, which keep ships in contact with the main group mind, if still not integrated. Among Jade's projects were the creation of a largescale hypercomm arrays over 300 meters in diameter in orbit of Jade Prime to relay messages up to twenty lightyears away at 2^20 C. This was not a complete solution as it meant that it would take up to ten minutes for Jade to send messages to a distant fleet at the edge of comm range. This meant that many combat operations had to be handled by local Shipminds and Jade needed to learn to not try to micromanage her fleets over interstellar distances.The original! had a fair number of faults in it's design which manifested during it's shakedown cruise and several probing attacks by Pirates, which would be corrected in latter ships. Within nine months of that Jade was building three of these Destroyers a year. Two years after that said number went up to four a year. The! class surveyed systems, escorted Jade's first Extrasystem colonization fleet and made up the core of her offensive force when she finally took the fight to the Pirate's nest. While still an anachronism by 25th century standards, these ships were still purpose built warships manned by capable dependable crews that were kept in good order and were supported by a strong logistics fleet.