Cruiser

History
Throughout history cruisers has been large warship intended on scouting and protecting convoys. Cruiser are therefore smaller than frigates and capital ships like carriers and battleships. Cruisers needs to be agile enough to ward off attacks from any direction, yet be strong enough to ward off lager ships like frigates. This has traditionally meant cruisers having medium armor and armament.

Cruisers today
In the military the cruisers are still mainly playing the same role as they used to, though both battle cruisers and light cruisers has become common. The battle cruisers are used to flank the opposing fleet having bigger weapons and less armor, the light cruisers having a lighter armament, but more armor as they are primarily used for reconnaissance and therefore need to be able to get away rather than take up the fight. All cruisers have an oversized drive core, making them able to reach faster than light speeds faster and at shorter intervals than other classes of ships.

Commercial use
In present days cruisers has also been converted for commercial use, all from big merchants guarding their trade ships over smaller merchants using the cruiser as their trade ship to playboys showing off. The latter often buying their ships from Woodwork cruisers as the prestige in having an Alyndahr cruiser is what is most important for them.

Shady uses
Other groups loving the cruisers for their versatility are the criminals. Bex have a large fleet of cruisers with which they skies around their territories, among them Zella, the cruisers are the bulk of their ship, and easily goes toe to toe with Zella's official navy. Smugglers around Zella favors the cruiser as it's the largest vessel capable at docking at the space Zella space station because it has been situated in the thin layers of the outer atmosphere to make transport to and from the surface easier. Space pirates like the Jackrabbits also favor the cruisers for it's speed and agility, the Jackrabbits have several Alyndahr cruisers they have "acquired" from some of the pompous playboys that have more credits than brains.

--Ernoskij 09:07, May 24, 2015 (UTC)