LOE Test Ships

Phoenician heavy escort cruiser

Milieu: TL5
MDP: 8 + 4
Move: 8 (+2 in star ways)
Weapon Slots: 12
2x E-Shell Cannons (Modular Hybrid Cannon Array)
:5+ x2, Autofire, AA1, PD Hybrid
1x Phalanx
:7+ 3x AA2 Hybrid
Engine Slots: 7
1x EAM Drive
1x Ether Sails
Armour Slots: 8
1x Intra-Hull Shielding
1x All or Nothing Armor
1x Capital Plate
Option Slots: 10
1x Catastrophic Survival Matrix
1x Extended-range targeting
1x Bubble Shield
3x Sensors
2x Concealment Field
A design study dating from 998 NE for a heavy carrier-escort cruiser. Heavily armed with E-Shell cannons and well protected to ensure resilency in case of attack by Zanzibaran Shrykes on torpedo runs.

Gael Gygni Cavanagh Cruiser

Milieu: TL4
MDP: 5
Move: 4
Weapon Slots: 6
1x Cluster missile pods

:7+ 2x AA1 air

1x Ortillery Beam

:7+ Ortillery energy

1x Gatlings

:9+ x3 AA2

Engine Slots: 4
1x Gravity Drive
Armour Slots: 6
1x Capital Plate
1x Deflectors
Option Slots: 6
3x External Dockpoints
One of the more common warships in the old Impiraght fleet and still present in significant numbers, the Cavanagh cruiser is an aging but still competent design. Dating from an era where fleet combat was all but unheard of and enemy aerospace assets were unlikely to be more than a handful of patrol ships or exoatmospheric fighters, these cruisers are as much armed transport as they are line warship; they have the ability to carry up to three dropships but their single array of cluster missile pods does not give them appreciably more firepower than a destroyer. However, they are well-armored and shielded and furthermore carry a 4.7m high-energy optical laser in a ventral mount. This weapon is specifically made for orbit-to-surface fire and was used both during landing operations and in support of groundside troops.
Ironically, the Formori brought several half-completed Cavanaghs with them during their flight to Formor and have since began producing variants both for their own use (mostly as Singleship mothercraft) and for export.

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