Chromium Destroyer

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The Chromium is a class of destroyer constructed by the Shaltari Tribes. Unusually for Shaltari vessels, the Chromium's primary armament is a thermal lance cannon - a weapon quite similar in nature to the burnthrough weapons of more primitive races. Though simpler than the more eldritch technologies employed by other Shaltari weapons, focusing a high-energy laser at a target is no less effective - something any UCMF commander would agree with. Shaltari equivalents are also more advanced, featuring shorter burn times and better penetration.

The presence of a burnthrough laser on a ship of destroyer tonnage is no mean feat - the design of the UCM's Vienna frigate had to make many sacrifices to accommodate its laser - but ironically enough, it's only the smallest and least-well equipped Shaltari Tribes that field Chromiums with any regularity. This implies that it is only necessity that drives the Shaltari to employ such primitive weaponry.