Dragon-class Cruiser

Description
The Dragon class is a class of interdiction cruisers built by Celeschul Orbital Foundries. The class was a large success with C.O.F. building thousands of Dragons. It was notably in use by Continuance forces during the Terraforming War. Some private groups like mercenary companies and even pirates also operate Dragon-class cruisers.

The Dragon-class cruiser is a 70 m long diamond-shaped cruiser with an oversized gravitic drive, capable of thousands of gees of acceleration, and solid unifield shields. The ship is armed with several multi-function weapons blisters, housing relativistic railguns, plasma cannons, smart missiles, multi-band lasers, and gravy guns. The blisters have overlapping fields of fire such that a Dragon-class cruiser can always face an enemy ship with at least four blisters, whatever the angle of approach. The ship can be operated by as small as a 30-man crew, even without an A.I.

The Dragon-class cruiser was originally designed with a main gun, a grav-braided plasma lance with a 45 m barrel and a dedicated 5 m annie plant. The main gun was only effective at short range against shielded targets. That shortcoming and a series of budget cuts led to C.O.F. removing the main gun from the mass-produced design.

Notable Ships of the Class

 * Kitesfear - The Tagon's Toughs mercenary company's first known warship.
 * Cynthetic Certainty - the Toughs' latest warship to enter the company's fleet. Named & piloted AI Cindy, famously used for the Andromeda mission to stop the Pa'anuri from destroying civilization in the Milky Way galaxy.