Shrike-Class Corvette

"They'll never know what hit 'em..."

-Shrike-Class Captain


The Shrike-Class Corvette has been in service in the RUSN Navy for at least seventy years. In that relatively short amount of time it has earned itself a reputation as a handy and reliable warship, a fast and maneuverable machine of war, and, undoubtedly, as a blockade runner. The RUSN relies on Shrikes primarily for their speed and their ability to bring swift guns onto the battlefield, and given their smaller size they aren't too expensive to send in large numbers onto the battlefield. The RUSN primarily uses them for hit-and-run tactics, for system patrols, as escorts, and as reconniassance ships. Outside of the military, civilian versions of the vessel are prized by senators and the rich upper class for their ability to get out of any scrape in a pinch. Pirates commonly use recovered and repaired versions of the craft for ambushes and for their canny ability to pack quite a punch to anything even the size of a Cruiser.

Shrikes can be equipped with Cloaking Modules, turning the hit-and-run escort into an even deadlier hit-and-run spy ship. Given their size and speed, a Shrike can perform daring maneuvers that other cloaked warships wouldn't dare pull off and still get away with being stealthy and quiet. A Shrike Crew tends to number up to about ten individuals at most, with five dedicated bridge officers and five other individuals dedicated to weapons, repairs, engines, and other things the ship might need.


(The Ant, again, is for scale. Ants are officially about the size of a Space Shuttle, thanks to for suggesting that it looks similar to our own modern means of getting out of our own atmosphere).

This model is not going to be the de-facto official model, primarily because when I drew the diagram for this thing the front (just before the main bridge of the ship) was designed to have strategic gaps between the bevelled corners, so that I could equip guns or extra missiles. For now, the only "guns" are the ones strapped to the top, and they aren't official guns yet; just there to represent the laser batteries or artillery fire a corvette would need. The missiles on the wings, of course, are there on purpose; any ship could use a pair of strategic missile launchers that can mess up with enemy craft either through blowing their hulls to bits or perhaps ionizing their shields and killing sensors. Some bigger ones can even activate a gravity-well generator, slowing ships down by drawing them to the closest force of gravity as possible.

The RUSN, Omega, and related materials (c) Kerian Halcyon
Models made in Cinema 4d

-Kerian