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CV-002-DLR Echidna

The Echidna is a carrier who's primary purpose is to support her carried fleet of 50 Gorgon 1 Gw laser drones. But don't think of the mothership of monsters as toothless, she has two 10Gw 5m mirror laser turrets, and 8 railguns as backup. She is quick in a sprint too with over 2g of accelleration whith her tanks topped off. Armored against hypervelocity kenetics and long range lasers, about the only thing she can't do is be cheap. But her nuclear thrusters, backup RTG, and redundant crew modules right on her center of mass and at least doubly redundent raidiators means that even if she get's beat her crew have the best chance to survive and come home.

I can already hear it's greatest criticism, "why does it have a flat nose?" And the very good reason for that is because it was both less mass and lower cost to boost the engine output to ~2 Gn~ of thrust and scoot it around at over 2g in combat than it was to put a pointed anti-kinetic armor cap on the nose. Engagements start at 1~10 Mm... trust in the (massivly powerful) laser turrets and dodge if things get weird. To be honest, if you're using the carrier in direct combat someting has gone wrong; it is a carrier that has 50 deployable laser drones, use them to fight with the carrier safely out of range.

It also carries a kiloton of cargo simply for swag points.