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ZyCorp Porcupine - Medium Missile Cruiser

ZyCorp is a relatively newer Ship Manufacturing Corporation and considered to be one of the fastest-growing corps in the past 20 years. Focusing on specialized hull types, ZyCorp designs ships that fill many different types of roles in a wide variety of combat applications. While ZyCorp focuses mostly on combat hulls, they have engineered a small number of logistical configurations which also find some use in the civilian markets.

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• Sunburst Artillery Cruiser
  
• Ballista Light Railgun Cruiser
  
• Shellback Light Civilian Freighter

The ZyCorp Porcupine is a specialized missile cruiser designed to deliver a continuous barrage of guided ordinance onto light and medium targets. Equipped with a forward array of disrupters, the Porcupine is capable of disabling enemy shields and other subsystems allowing its missiles to land. While the Porcupine has decent defences, it cannot withstand heavy sustained fire itself, and so does best when deployed as part of a mixed fleet, where other ships more suited for exchanged fire can distract targets. Even the hardest target will eventually succumb to the Porcupine's swarm of missiles once their backs are turned.

Role: Medium missile cruiser
Cost: 561,000
Crew: 132
Power: 12.0 (2 x Small reactors, 2 x Medium reactors)
Command: 118/250
Dimensions: 36m x 36m
Armament: 6 x Missile launchers, 6 x Disrupters
Defences: 6 x Small shield generator, 4 x Point defence cannons
Secondary systems: 2 x Engine rooms, 2 x HE missile factory
Cargo: 24 + 10 (HE missile factory)
Hyperdrives: 2 (46% efficiency)