User:OxxStevoxxo/Vulture-class Cruiser

The Vulture-class Cruiser is a heavy warship classification of the UNSC/SI Imperial Navy. It is armed with the most powerful weapon systems in the Allied Empire’s inventory, and is largely considered to be the galaxy’s most powerful warship since the fall of the Forerunner.

The rarest warship in the Imperial Navy, the Vulture Cruiser is designed to be the main source of heavy firepower in an Imperial fleet, possessing extremely powerful offensive and defensive capabilities. While this lowers the ships top speed, it also ensures that the Vulture-class Cruiser is five times more powerful than any other ship of the same classification outside the UNSC/SI Imperial Navy. Because of its power, the Cruiser is often assigned the role of Flagship, and is the ship of choice for Imperial Shipmasters.

In addition to providing heavy firepower for Imperial forces, Cruisers are often assigned to missions independent of a fleet. These include hit-and-run strikes on fleets of enemy ships (And often merchant shipping), and enforcing Imperial rule around worlds at the edge of Imperial space. Cruisers are also effective for repelling enemy Starfighters, their powerful shields able to resist most Starfighter weaponry for a long time before collapsing.

Providing Vulture-class Cruisers with their awesome firepower are twelve Plasma turrets, two Acclamator Lascannons, and 300 broadside plasma cannons. 200 point-defence lasers provide the anti-craft capability, and Cruisers are the only UNSC/SI warships capable of launching Planet-Cracker missiles – nuclear weapons with the ability to split a planet in two.