Strike-class Cruiser

The Strike-class Cruiser was long time unique by its modular design. To many the cruiser's combat capabilities come as quite the surprise. It was designed to be mass produced in a limited amount of time due to the prefabricated component sections. This reduces construction time and it also dramatically lowers the cost of each vessel. It was a triumph of Imperial modular technology. The Strike Cruiser maintains 258 compartments, two of which are brigs. The interiors of the prefabricated sections can be easily modified for specific missions such as troop transport, planetary assault, prefabricated garrison base deployers or carrying a full squadron of starfighters after a short stay at a spaceyard. This enables the ship to change the mission profile of the vessel without the need to build entire new classes of ships to fill needed roles. The weakness of this vessel is that entire systems or weapon batteries can be knocked out by well placed shots as the modular connections fail. Or in combat, if the parts of the Strike Cruiser's internal structure are destroyed the vessel will break itself apart.

At the time of the Strike Cruiser's design, the warship's weakness was considered only a minor flaw. These ships are tough, versatile and well armed. The shields are very capable and the ship is often deployed in large numbers. These ships were in service before the Battle of Yavin. Unfortunately, the Rebels and several other groups have been able to obtain a few of these ships for their terrorist or pirate uses, including refitting some with gravity well generators. Loronar began to produce Strike-class cruisers for the New Republic until the Battle of Nam Chorios in 48 GR, after which the Loronar contract was cancelled. However LDI regained favour enough to later produce the followup Belarus-class for the NR navy.

Specifications:

Name/Type: Strike-class Cruiser
Designer/Manufacturer: Loronar Defence Industries
Designation: Medium Cruiser
Crew: 1,972 + 140 Gunners
Length: 450 Meters
Speed: 60 MGLT
Hyperdrive: x2
Shield Rating: 2,560 SBD
Hull Rating: 1,522 RU
Weapons: 20 Taim & Bak Turbolaser Cannons (class 5), 10 Taim & Bak Turbolaser Batteries (class 7), 10 Ion Cannons (class 4), 10 Phylon Q7 Tractor Beam Projectors (class 4), 1 General Purpose Warhead Launcher.
Fighter Complement: 1 Squadron with planetary assault module. 3 Squadrons if carrying extra hangar module instead.
Troops: 340 Troops, 1 AT-AT, 2 AT-STs, several support speeders, OR planetary assault module containing 340 Troops, 5 AT-ATs.
Support Craft: 2 Lambda-class Shuttles, 1 AT Landing Barge.