| A resilient design often overlooked by history, the Eradicator-class fast cruiser features powerful dual engine nacelles that allow it to deliver uncompromising firepower and a powerful missile barrage to the weakest point of the enemy battleline - or come to the rescue of valuable assets that have found themselves tactically exposed.
Back in the long cycles of the Domain, a chance accident during a fleet demonstration set one of an Eradicator's engine nacelles into shutdown and the other into overdrive, putting the ship into a terrible spin only stopped by a heroic effort from the engineering crew. Worse than the injuries and casualties suffered was the ship class becoming the laughingstock of a significant portion of the Domain hypermedia sphere. To save face the admiralty quietly assigned all of the Eradicators to frontier duty, far from the fickle attentions of the core sector budget committees. It would take a generation and several difficult fringe rebellion mop-up operations before a new fast-cruiser class model was requested by the Domain Navy to replace the Eradictor's role in front-line battlefleets. |
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| This ship has been heavily modified - and poorly maintained - by its pirate crew.
A resilient design often overlooked by history, the Eradicator-class fast cruiser features powerful dual engine nacelles that allow it to deliver uncompromising firepower and a powerful missile barrage to the weakest point of the enemy battleline - or come to the rescue of valuable assets that have found themselves tactically exposed. Back in the long cycles of the Domain, a chance accident during a fleet demonstration set one of an Eradicator's engine nacelles into shutdown and the other into overdrive, putting the ship into a terrible spin only stopped by a heroic effort from the engineering crew. Worse than the injuries and casualties suffered was the ship class becoming the laughingstock of a significant portion of the Domain hypermedia sphere. To save face the admiralty quietly assigned all of the Eradicators to frontier duty, far from the fickle attentions of the core sector budget committees. It would take a generation and several difficult fringe rebellion mop-up operations before a new fast-cruiser class model was requested by the Domain Navy to replace the Eradictor's role in front-line battlefleets. |
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The Eradicator-class Fast Cruiser is an asymmetric low tech design that is notable for its firepower and missile barrage capabilities, also featuring an Accelerated Ammo Feeder to aid in the former. It is fielded by the Luddic Church, the Luddic Path, and the Pirates.
Variants[]
The Pirate Eradicator replaces the Ammo Feeder with a Burn Drive, sacrificing firepower for speed. It is designated as their primary combat cruiser.
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| Derelict | Defender · Picket · Sentry · Warden · · Bastillon · Berserker · · Rampart · · Guardian · · Mothership | |
| Remnant | Flash · Lux · Spark · · Glimmer · Lumen · · Fulgent · Scintilla · · Apex · Brilliant · · Nova · Radiant · · Battlestation | |
| Omega | Aspect · Dextral Shard · Sinistral Shard · Facet · Tesseract | |
| Other | Ziggurat | |
Change History[]
0.96
- Eradicator: increased deployment/maintenance supply cost to 22 (was: 20)
- Eradicator (P): increased cost from 17 to 18
0.95.1a
- Added low-tech Fast Cruiser, Eradicator-class
- Accelerated Ammo Feeder system
- Higher fuel cost per light year, higher burn
- Eradicator (P)
- System replaced with Burn Drive, deployment cost reduced
- Primary combat cruiser in pirate fleets
Up to date for latest version, 0.97a