Super Curiser

Super Cruiser

A cruiser is a type of warship. The term has been in use for several thousand years, and has had different meanings throughout this period. During the Age of Water Navies, the term cruising referred to certain kinds of missions – independent scouting, raiding or commerce protection – fulfilled by a frigate or sloop, which were the cruising warships of a fleet.

Since the Ascent and in the United Stars Navy cruiser came to be a classification for the ships intended for this kind of role, though cruisers came in a wide variety of sizes, from the small protected cruiser to armoured cruisers which were as large (though not as powerful) as a battleship. Every member species had different designs and sizes. After the firm establishment of the Navy as a Union wide organization and the Uni Design Reform of 3400. Cruisers  were ships of up to 800 meters length The role of the cruiser varied according to ship and navy, often including system defense, commerce raiding and planet surface bombardment. The United Stars Navy built Cruisers specifially for fighter defense (as the Nul threat became more  serious) MIne Field Clearing. With the fast increase of Nul Fighter and Mine technology, a new Ship type was introduced : The Super Cruiser. (1000m)  and the regular Cruisers were used for Pirate hunting, shipping lane protection and fringe region/ border patrol. Cruisers and Super Cruisers were substantially cheaper to produce than Battle ships and the Infrastructure needed to support them is more suited for Border Fleet Bases than Full Size Battleships, yet have sufficent fire power to respond to most situations.

The U.S. Navy in the Cold War period built guided-missile cruisers primarily designed to provide air defense, while the navy of the USSR built cruisers with heavy anti-ship missiles designed to sink NATO carrier task forces.

Currently only the Union, the Kermac and the Karthanians bbuild and operate Cruisers and only the Union makes a distinction between Cruiser and Super Cruiser. The previous used term of Battle Cruiser is no longer used. Though the line between cruisers and destroyers is once again blurred. New models of destroyers (for instance the Donnerwetter class) are often larger and more powerful than older cruiser classes.