| The Manticore is loved by frontier officers for its ability to rapidly bring firepower to bear in small engagements and loathed by Domain strategic planners for interfering with the orderly schema of official fleet doctrine. The Manticore's oversized primary weapon mount and built-in rangefinder are a gunner's dream but allow this destroyer to easily overextend itself in battle. That, operators argue, is what the canister flak system is for - and stripping the paint off your allied ships, as the old joke goes.
A healthy respect for intimidating firepower in a small package see this design continue in the service of fleets of the Persean Sector. When the opportunity presents itself, pirates are particularly keen to recover a Manticore hull and apply blood-red livery to their overgunned prize. |
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| This ship has been heavily modified - and poorly maintained - by its pirate crew.
The Manticore is loved by frontier officers for its ability to rapidly bring firepower to bear in small engagements and loathed by Domain strategic planners for interfering with the orderly schema of official fleet doctrine. The Manticore's oversized primary weapon mount and built-in rangefinder are a gunner's dream but allow this destroyer to easily overextend itself in battle. That, operators argue, is what the canister flak system is for - and stripping the paint off your allied ships, as the old joke goes. A healthy respect for intimidating firepower in a small package see this design continue in the service of fleets of the Persean Sector. When the opportunity presents itself, pirates are particularly keen to recover a Manticore hull and apply blood-red livery to their overgunned prize. |
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| Fanatics of the Luddic Path have crudely modified this ship, overloading the engines and power systems then replacing the original ballistic turret mount with a massive missile launcher, the better to execute bold alpha-strikes upon capital ships and cruisers.
The Manticore is loved by frontier officers for its ability to rapidly bring firepower to bear in small engagements and loathed by Domain strategic planners for interfering with the orderly schema of official fleet doctrine. The Manticore's oversized primary weapon mount and built-in rangefinder are a gunner's dream but allow this destroyer to easily overextend itself in battle. That, operators argue, is what the canister flak system is for - and stripping the paint off your allied ships, as the old joke goes. A healthy respect for intimidating firepower in a small package see this design continue in the service of fleets of the Persean Sector. When the opportunity presents itself, pirates are particularly keen to recover a Manticore hull and apply blood-red livery to their overgunned prize. |
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The Manticore-class Destroyer is a low tech design fielded by the Luddic Church, the Pirates and the Luddic Path.
Overview[]
It boasts decent mobility and speed for a Low Tech vessel, along with the tough armor you would come to expect from one.
Built around a large Ballistic mount and a Ballistic Rangefinder to encourage offensive choices in its small mounts, it lacks dedicated options for point defense. Instead, it's covered by its Canister Flak system. Although Salamander MRMs and other fast guided missiles might be able to land a lucky hit on its exposed engines, Canister flak is typically reliable as a point defence solution and will consistently mulch entire fighter wings unfortunate enough to be caught in the spray. Two medium Missile mounts additionally provides flexible augmentation to the Manticore's already potent firepower.
The Luddic Path variant replaces the Ballistic mount with a large Missile, significantly reducing strain on its flux load and allowing even more aggressive options for its small mounts- at the cost of long-term staying power on the battlefield.
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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
- Manticore LP: Added to the game
0.95.1a
- Added low-tech Destroyer, Manticore-class
- Large ballistic turret and some other support mounts
- Built-in Ballistic Rangefinder hullmod (see Hullmods section for details)
- Canister Flak ship system - high-explosive area damage around the ship
- Manticore (P) version: same as the base version
Only up to date for version 0.95.1. It is likely still broadly correct but not verified for the most up to date data yet. Please double check the Version History.