Built in a time of tactical need it is actually an expensive cludgery of inner-system patrol corvette and what was previously more civilian aeronautical shield technology.

Hardened with additional shielding to a fault and filled to the brim with tech the idea was to fill it with as much military power as possible and drop it behind hardened defenses. The ample power needed for shields, electronic countermeasures, and shield-based wing systems is provided by the massive reactor to the rear. A jump drive accommodates inter-system travel, and the electronics package can help accommodate the fact that the heat output of all systems onboard make the entry of this craft as visible as a meteorite breaking atmosphere on most detectors.

regrettably single-purpose and overly complex this vessel is not in continued manufacture or operation, but its base technologies are found in many further designs.