2x Small Missile 2x Medium Ballistic 2x Medium Energy 4x Small Energy
Advanced Stats
CR per deployment
12%
Recovery cost (supplies)
15
Peak performance (sec)
480
Shield arc
270
Shield upkeep/sec
140
Shield flux/damage
0.8
Often called the Eagle cruiser's little brother, the Falcon-class cruiser sacrifices armor for speed, neatly filling the light cruiser role in military fleets throughout the Sector.
The "light" designation does not indicate a significant reduction in firepower, however, making the Falcon a valuable tactical asset to any fleet. The ship is easily able to fill a wide variety of roles, from close support to assault, given the proper configuration.
The Falcon's top notch engines give it the ability to quickly disengage from battle should its defenses be pressed to a critical point.
Swift and elegant, Falcon-class cruisers are often found as lead elements in larger fleet formations, or deployed to reinforce anti-pirate convoys.
2x Small Missile 2x Medium Ballistic 2x Medium Energy 4x Small Energy
Hull mods
Fourteenth Battlegroup
Advanced Stats
CR per deployment
12%
Recovery cost (supplies)
15
Peak performance (sec)
480
Shield arc
270
Shield upkeep/sec
140
Shield flux/damage
0.8
A survivor of the original 14th Domain Battlegroup which founded the Hegemony, this ship is a prime specimen of the Domain Navy's 'decisive battle' doctrine, particularly exhibited by a series of radical structural modifications performed using pre-Collapse industrial technology.
Often called the Eagle cruiser's little brother, the Falcon-class cruiser sacrifices armor for speed, neatly filling the light cruiser role in military fleets throughout the Sector.
The "light" designation does not indicate a significant reduction in firepower, however, making the Falcon a valuable tactical asset to any fleet. The ship is easily able to fill a wide variety of roles, from close support to assault, given the proper configuration.
The Falcon's top notch engines give it the ability to quickly disengage from battle should its defenses be pressed to a critical point.
Swift and elegant, Falcon-class cruisers are often found as lead elements in larger fleet formations, or deployed to reinforce anti-pirate convoys.
2x Medium Composite 2x Medium Missile 2x Small Missile 2x Small Energy
Hull mods
Augmented Drive Field Unstable Injector
Advanced Stats
CR per deployment
12%
Recovery cost (supplies)
10 (-5)
Peak performance (sec)
480
Shield arc
270
Shield upkeep/sec
140
Shield flux/damage
0.8
This Falcon's propulsion system has been given impractical yet showy 'improvements' by some enthusiastic pirate crew; the patchwork of engine components, somehow persuaded to work toward ungainly common purpose, conform to zero safety standards.
Often called the Eagle cruiser's little brother, the Falcon-class cruiser sacrifices armor for speed, neatly filling the light cruiser role in military fleets throughout the Sector.
The "light" designation does not indicate a significant reduction in firepower, however, making the Falcon a valuable tactical asset to any fleet. The ship is easily able to fill a wide variety of roles, from close support to assault, given the proper configuration.
The Falcon's top notch engines give it the ability to quickly disengage from battle should its defenses be pressed to a critical point.
Swift and elegant, Falcon-class cruisers are often found as lead elements in larger fleet formations, or deployed to reinforce anti-pirate convoys.
–In-Game Description
Overview[]
The Falcon is a Midline Light Cruiser. A smaller version of the Eagle, it trades firepower and armor for speed that exceeds many destroy hulls which can be further augmented by its Maneuvering Jets while maintaining its cruiser hullmod scaling and achieving a a burn-speed of 9. This mobility lends the hull towards chasing down smaller classes of ships, skirmishing with long range weapons or making use of strike weapons to exploit gaps in the enemy formations. However, the ships limited flux stats and firepower means it will struggle if deployed to the center of a battleline where its maneuverability cannot be taken advantage of.
Notes[]
The pirate-model Falcon (P) exchanges the base model Falcon's energy armament for a heavily missile-focused set of weapons that give it immense striking power for its size. Two built-in hullmods in Augmented Drive Field and Unstable Injector give it a burn level and top speed more comparable to a frigate or light destroyer than a cruiser. Furthermore, Unstable Injector's range penalty has no effect on the Falcon (P)'s missile weapons, leaving it with almost no drawbacks save for its ammunition dependency in exchange for its significant speed increase.
