Super Cruiser

SUPER CRUISER

The Super cruiser is a type of cruiser, a spacecraft designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with heavy guns of up to Type VI Translocators (Mega Load) and displacing approximately 100,000 tons. While the general mission of the super cruiser to act as a fast scout for a battle fleet and protect and hunt down commerce is largely unchanged from this class first conception in 2300 until today.

The Super cruiser can be seen as a lineage of ship design from 2300 until now, although the term 'Super cruiser' only came into formal use after 3400 with the introduction of the Brimstone Class and the first 100,000 ton Cruiser of the United Stars Navy and giving birth to a whole new sub category of space ships called the Cruiser Family: The super cruiser's immediate precursors were the light cruiser designs of the 2100s and 2200s, rather than the armored cruisers of before 2100 (due to drastic improvement in shield technology). When the armored cruiser was supplanted by the battle cruiser, an intermediate ship type between this and the light cruiser was found to be needed—one larger and more powerful than the light cruisers of a potential enemy but not as large and expensive as the battle cruiser so as to be built in sufficient numbers to protect merchant ships and serve in a number of combat theaters.
 * Light Cruiser
 * Patrol Cruiser
 * Heavy Cruiser
 * Super Cruiser
 * Battle Cruiser (* introduced in 3500)

 To this day Super Cruisers are the true backbone and multi task vessels of the Union Navy and often seen in long range patrol, merchant shipping lane protection and long term survey missions. Super Cruisers are often used by the Science Council.

One of the most famous Super Cruisers is the USS Tigershark (even though she was designated an experimental platform, she was technically a Super Cruiser Class.)