Bird-of-Prey Stealth Corvette
First developed by a sentient race of shape-changing xenomorphs, the Bird of Prey utilizes poorly understood techniques of gravitational lensing to bend ER radiation around the hull. This cloaking field makes the stealth corvette hard to target-lock and almost certain to get the drop on an adversary.
Rated as a light capital, the stealth corvette falls into a narrow size band capable of cloaking. the platform must be large enough to mount and operate the lensing generator, putting it beyond the capacity of a heavy fighter.
Similarly many empires have attempted to adapt the cloaking lens to larger warships, but beyond very sensitive hull dimensions the lensing effect fails. The net effect is that lense cloaking has only been successfully deployed on light, corvette-class capitals. Research continues.
- Fast interstellar speed.
- Excellent hull plating and defensive evasion.
- Above average weapons.
- Zero cargo capacity.