Wyvern-class (KDI)

Full designation: KDI Wyvern Heavy Cruiser
== Description ==
Featuring heavy armour and moderate shields, the Wyvern class is built to be a tank-like vessel that can recieve a quite punishing amount of damage, but is mostly unable to deal large amounts back especially VS full shield-tank ships as a single target.
The Wyvern in its AFV (Anti FLeet Vessel) load-out of full VLS (Vertical Launch System) turrets is especially adept at street sweeping lighter vessels and drones, but the same lack of anti-shield potential still exists.
The Wyvern is currently the heaviest canonical vessel of the KDI fleet.
As with other KDI vessels, it features a large cooling vent on the underside. And the only vessel to equip a 5-man shuttle; the Trapezoid only features a 2-man Micro shuttle, or pod.
== Armaments ==
The hull-mounted weapons include a pair of 2-launch Missile-Pulse-Pierce "mini nukes" launching from the shoulder tubes. These were originally designed to fire Cannon-Pulse-Explosive but were removed in lieu of the more efficient missile system (Max explosion range on cannon/beam is 1r - which would have rendered its main cannons pitifully weak).
It also features a light beam-beam-ion, and 6x Cannon-Cannon-Punch barrels indicated by the inset and crystal armour at the nose. the 6 shells are semi-close together in their groupings, but will struggle to reliably and consecutively hit smaller, stringier targets. The larger spread does allow it to have a higher chance of occasionally winging a target with one of the 6 shells.
Turrets vary by type.
Both versions of the Wyvern have up to 40m thick frontal advanced armour and maximum armour enhancing passives.
Its very slow at ~0.3 thrust to mass, and with only ~6m e/s at its disposal for a vessel its size (rather, weight)
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Ship available for download on the SMD: 
https://starmadedock.net/content/kdi-wyvern-heavy-cruiser.6794/
Category:Ships
Category:Cruisers