New Model Navy Pocket Battleships

Pocket Battleships, or Grand Cruisers as they are otherwise known are the smaller class of Super-Capitals. These ship still have enough firepower to inflict havoc on their foes and sufficient armour to shrug off anything but dedicated anti-armour weapons but are far less powerful then battleships. Grand Cruisers are almost always deployed in elite task forces, often led by an Battleship.

## Gridarvol Class Grand Cruiser

### Garrison

Normal: 40 Regiments, Max Capacity: 240 Regiments

### Other

Ultracapaciators (Gridarvol-R), +10% Warp speed (Gridarvol-R, psychic architecture)

## Armament

### Spinal Weapons

1 Psychic Cannon (Gridarvol), 2.2 Ragnarok Cannons (Gridarvol-R)

### Weapons Batteries

25 short ranged Battleship (Gridarvol), 27.5 Mid Ranged Dreadnought (Gridarvol-R)

## Defences

### HP

71 (Gridarvol) 44 (Grindarvol-R) (Ultimate Overcharged Plasma Reactor)

### Void Shields

34, (Gridarvol), 44 (Gridarvol-R)(Aegis Void Shields)

### Point Defence Batteries

18 (Gridarvol), 19.8 (Gridarvol-R)

The Gridarvol Hull was designed by Archmagos Tranth in his effort to make the best possible use of out a Psychic Lance, and keep it intact as long as possible.

### Gridarvol-Class Grand Cruiser

The Gridarvol-Class Grand Cruiser has defences a match for a medium battleship and is as fast as a normal armoured cruiser, a good third again the speed of most grand cruisers. Firepower wise it is armed with twenty-five batteries of Battleship Disintegrators and five Thermal Lances, giving it the close range firepower of a Heavy Cruiser. Its Psychic Cannon is protected by several layers of additional shielding, ensuring that it will not be easily taken out by enemy fire, and may even survive the ships destruction in a repairable state. Making heavy use of Ultra-Dense Alloys the Gridarvol is designed to be tough enough that it will take a significant investment for an enemy to kill it quickly, an investment that can go up very quickly if it has the right escorts. On the other hand it is fast enough to seek out powerful deamonships and Hiveships with a good degree of success, allowing it to bring its Psychic Cannon into play. Given the price of this design it would probably be best not to deploy them against foes that are not particularly vulnerable to its primary gun.

The Gridarvol-Class Grand Cruiser is classified as a Medium Hunter Light Battleship.

### Gridarvol-R Class Grand Cruiser

A variant of the Gridarvol that replaces the Psychic Cannon with a twin-linked Ragnarok Cannon the Gridarvol-R is both designed to act as a decoy for the highly expensive Gridarvols and act as a powerful warship on its own right. Being made with only a lattice of the Ultra Dense Materials that make up the Gridarvol the Gridarvol-R can afford to be equipped with less powerful engines, though its engines are designed to be less efficient then possible, allowing them to mimic the drive signature of the more powerful Gridarvol engines. The additional space and power goes to supply the Ragnarok Cannons and upgrade the weapons batteries, as well as slightly boosting the shields. This already formiddable warship has been further boosted by psychic architecture powered by the story of the warship by Grandmaster Tamia.

As well as its role as a decoy, the Gridarvol-R is a powerful ranged Killer, able to wreck havoc among lighter foes