XM203 Shalashalla Class Heavy Cruiser

Description

Xygritt Matriarchy

Scale: Fleet (very nominally 1:10000th)

Two starships supplied.

Size (Bounding Box): 57.1mm x 12.32mm x 24.7mm

The Shalashalla is a modern Heavy Cruiser, having come off the assembly line in the past ten years. The Shalashalla was a replacement for the Habala Heavy Cruiser, using updated technology. The Shalashalla started out as an upgrade program, principally to refit the Habalas primary weapons. However, the new, larger weapon systems required a more extensive re-work the spinal-mount lazers in particular simply could not be fitted into the Habalas existing hull. It was thus decided instead to create a more extensive revision and incorporate other new technology. The Shalashalla shares a lot of similar components and composition to the Habala, but was different enough to warrant a new classification.

The Shalashalla is a typical heavy cruiser of average protection and mobility. It is armed with two spinal-mount lazer cannons and sixteen particle beam turrets. The primary PD array and supplementary turrets are classified at rating 180 on the Xygritts internal scale. Like many of the smaller vessels, however, the Shalashallas firepower is very limited in its rear arc, where only point-defence weapons have coverage.