Battlecruiser
These powerful and heavily-armed spacecraft straddle the line between cruisers and battleships, sacrificing firepower and armor for maneuverability and smaller size. Have mostly supplanted the latter class of ships in the F-MAG and SUAF navy.
Unlike the diversity of cruiser doctrines and loadouts, the battlecruiser is a much more solid concept, focused (as the name would suggest) on combat applications. Popularized as part of a new wave of post-Salyuri Reclamation reforms, battlecruisers are built around a powerful spinal weapon such as an Ordnance Rifle yet have substantially better system redundancy, armor/shields, and secondary loadouts compared to artillery cruisers. This does require an increase in size and power generation, but are far more survivable and maneuverable than their clumsier kin.
Given their focus on first strike capabilities and (usually) more modern sensor suites, battlecruisers are viewed as more efficient and practical for command and control roles as well as engaging and destroying enemy capital ships.
Unlike the diversity of cruiser doctrines and loadouts, the battlecruiser is a much more solid concept, focused (as the name would suggest) on combat applications. Popularized as part of a new wave of post-Salyuri Reclamation reforms, battlecruisers are built around a powerful spinal weapon such as an Ordnance Rifle yet have substantially better system redundancy, armor/shields, and secondary loadouts compared to artillery cruisers. This does require an increase in size and power generation, but are far more survivable and maneuverable than their clumsier kin.
Given their focus on first strike capabilities and (usually) more modern sensor suites, battlecruisers are viewed as more efficient and practical for command and control roles as well as engaging and destroying enemy capital ships.
