This is a small but tough in-system warship originally designed as small battle rider, but now used a local defense ship.

It is built using a 1,000-ton (SM +8) unstreamlined hull, and is 60 meters long.

Front Hull System

• [1-4] Nanocomposite Armor.
• [5!] Major Battery (fixed 300 MJ improved laser).
• [6] Habitat (two cabins, three bunkrooms, onebed automed sickbay).
• [core] Control Room (C8 computer, comm/sensor 7, four control stations).

Central Hull System

• [1-2] Nanocomposite Armor.
• [3!] Medium Battery (three turrets with 100 MJ improved lasers).
• [4] Hangar Bay (30 tons).
• [5-6,core] Fusion Reactor (two Power Points each).

Rear Hull System

• [1-2] Nanocomposite Armor.
• [2-5!] reactionless drive(2g each)
• [6] Engine Room (one workspace).

The typical complement are four bridge crew (captain/pilot, navigator, sensor/missile operator, engineering officer), three turret gunners, and an engine room technician. A squad-sized boarding party is also be carried usually.

This local defense corvette forms the backbone of lesser local defense fleets

About 1/10 of these corvettes are self deploying interstellarly with only 6G thrusters and a 1 pc/day star drive.