SSA201 CAW-104 Arbalest Class Light Cruiser

Saturn Syndicate Ascendancy

Copernicus Amalgamated (Warship division) CAW-104 Arbalest Light Cruiser

Scale: Fleet (very nominally 1:10000th)

Size (Bounding Box): 28.8mm x 20.62mm x 15.01mm

Physical Print: Four starships supplied.

Digital Files:

Supports: Not available at this time, sorry.

Mounting: 3.4mm diameter flight stand hole located at base; flight stand provided.

Scaling Notes: Yellow. Parts potentially affected by scaling: Flight stand hole, wall thickness, thin parts.

Entirely Optional Lore PDF included.

Photo of SLS print (Shapeways).

For Resin/SLS Printing: Use file 1solidM (plus stand)

For FDM Printing: Use files 1solidtop, 1solid bottom (plus stand)

The SSA has few specialised ships, and the Arbalest is no exception. The CAW-104 has enough speed and manouvreability to keep pace with the smaller escort craft, and wields a wide range of weapons, enabling it to fill one of several roles. In addition to small array of various hyper-rays and astrobusters, the Arbalest has two torpedo tubes, mounted in the fore of the "blimp" hull sections. In addition to twenty torpedoes (either standard nuclear or atomic shrapnel warheads), the Arbalest also carries five probes for long distance scouting. The Arbalest's main firepower comes from the spinal-mount missile launcher, whose magazine comprises much of the hull. The missile launcher allows the Arbalest further versitility, as it can fulfill the point-defense role, standard missile support or even close-range attack, all depending on the warhead loadout.

The Arbalest's biggest drawback is that it is no more heavily shielded than the smaller vessels of the SSA fleet, giving it only average defence for a vessel of it's size. This is somewhat compensated by it's much higher evasive capability, however.