Protean-class Cruiser

### Role

Multirole Versatile Combat & Utility Ship, Exploration, Fleet Battle, Orbital Bombardment, Troop/Vehicle/Strikecraft carrier

### Armament

- 1 Spinally-mounted Heavy Plasma Lance- 1 Spinally Mounted B-class Mass Driver- 4 Turreted C-class mass drivers- 20 Turreted D-class mass drivers- 32 MK-2 "Vanquisher" Hardlight Beamer Nodes- 8x135 Skipper Torpedo Magazines with configurable payloads

### Countermeasures

- Electronic Jamming Array- Gravitic Nanowave teleport scrambler- Folding Spacetime lattice teleport scrambler- Folding Spacetime lattice short-range interdiction generator

### Shielding

- Electrothermal Displacement Field- Capital Grade Reactive Hardlight Shielding. (Powerful for its size)

### Sublight Drive

- Heavy Magnetoplasmodynamic Protium Fusion Ringjet Main Engine- 32 Fusion MPD RCS Thrusters

### Operational Systems

-FEMS sensor system with dual Lucidity-Type forward sensor banks.-Neutrino Detector-GMTSS (Gravitic MicroTractor Sensor System)-Tachyonic Detector.-MK303 Subspace Induction Scanner System

### Cargo Capacity

Food, Atmosphere and water and Water Recyclers, Rations and reserves, Up to 1,000,000 cubic meters/ 5,000,000 tons of cargo.

General Use, one of the most common heavy Warships in the Imperium. It is highly versatile in its role as a cruiser, carrying troops, ground vehicles and strikecraft and featuring a full armament that can rival heavy enemy warships, bombard planets, patrol systems and more.General Use, one of the most common heavy Warships in the Imperium. It is highly versatile in its role as a cruiser, carrying troops, ground vehicles and strikecraft and featuring a full armament that can rival heavy enemy warships, bombard planets, patrol systems and more.

General Use, one of the most common heavy Warships in the Imperium. It is highly versatile in its role as a cruiser, carrying troops, ground vehicles and strikecraft and featuring a full armament that can rival heavy enemy warships, bombard planets, patrol systems and more.

Designed to operate independently or as the part of a larger fleet, both as a command ship or as a subordinated vessel.

Designed with multiple roles in mind. Being a cruiser class it could operate independently of a fleet, either with an escort of lighter cruisers and frigates or simply using its internally carried compliment of fighters and gunships for support. With a toolbox of powerful and versatile weapons, interdiction generators and powerful sensors designed to detect cloaked or cloaked vessels; these ships would often be deployed to patrol the outer reaches of the galaxy from Pirates; and reasonably expected to come out on top in any engagement.

In the event of larger theatre warfare these ships are integrated by the dozens into a larger fleet and used as pickets to protect larger battleships or artillery fleets. Here these ships can used to screen larger dreadnoughts against cloaked stealth ships, or use their interdiction to halt FTL maneuver warfare. Their large reactor gives them excellent endurance in sustained battles, able to continuously put out fire and raise shield plates while other ships rely more on momentum capacitors or sources of stored power would quickly become drained in prolonged battles.

Having a single large reactor meant the rear section of the ship was somewhat vulnerable to damage, while a smaller reactor, or multiple deeper within the hull would lend to greater survivability of the craft; the immense advantage in overall power generation generally outweighed the downsides of greater vulnerability and cost. Regardless knowledgeable and sufficently well armed enemies could exploit this weakness to mission kill the ship.