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Mantis

The Mantis. A fast, heavily armoured, $5.1 million, 680 crew capital ship. (old, see below)

Arsenal:
64 ion emitters with 2 primary output prisms.
10 missile launchers set to nuclear warheads.
6 flak battery's & 30 point defence systems.

Speed: 92.3m/s forward, 28.3m/s reverse

Fast and powerful. A lot of time spent refining all various systems to be as efficient as possible. Shields have excellent up time, ions fire virtually without interruption. Competently piloted this ship will not lose 1-on-1 to any current in-game ship (except maybe the Shestopyor, that thing is rough. Still doable, though)

(UPDATE)

New MKII version included as separate ship. Updated stats;
$5.15 million, 634 crew
Speed: 91.8m/s forward, 37.5m/s reverse

General improvements across the board with 46 fewer crew :)