Dragon

Split Dragon Class M6 Corvette Buy: Distinguished Associate @ 7,689,771 Cr Speed (Min-Max) 90.6 - 172.1 m/s Acceleration (Min-Max) 10 - 19 m/s2 Steering (Min-Max) 2 - 3.8 RPM Hull Strength 48,000 / 192,000 (AP) Max. Shield (Total) 2 x 200 MJ (400 MJ) Shield Reactor 2,150 MW Cargo Class (Min-Max) 530 - 930 @ XL Laser Capacitor 15,700 MJ Laser Recharge 392 / 1,570 (AP) MW                                                                                                          Main x 8                                                                                                          Top x 1

Overview

Cheap, quick and powerful, the Dragon is an interesting ship. For experienced pilots, its speed makes it one of the best corvette choices around, but for inexperienced combat pilots, it will quickly explode under sustained fire and is liable to plough into anything in front of it.

It is small and sleek, with a larger than average laser generator but poor turret coverage. A sound choice for bounty hunter and daredevil alike, but new pilots should avoid it.

Background

The Dragon is the Split's main corvette, which suffered early development problems. An inadequately designed reactor casing breached causing the destruction of the prototype and the original Family Pride shipyard. The shipyard's crew and workers were saved by the prototype Caiman that was undergoing tests at the facility.

The original, in the days of sub-classed weapons systems, was capable of using the lowest class of the PPC weapon series making it more of a 'laser bomber' than a real combat ship. However, removal of weapon subclasses and the new designs of corvette grade weapons has replaced the old PPC compatibility with newer weapons like the Ion Shard Railgun.

Combat

The Dragon performs best executing strafing runs, bombarding the target with heavy weapons fire before moving away, turning and beginning again.

Equipment

Missiles

Mosquito Missile Wasp Missile Dragonfly Missile Silkworm Missile Hornet Missile

Disruptor Missile Firefly Missile Thunderbolt Missile Tempest Missile Hurricane Missile

Cyclone Missile Tornado Missile Typhoon Missile Firestorm Torpedo Aurora Missile

Remote Guided Warhead Beluga Missile Hammerhead Missile Rapier Missile

Firelance Missile Wildfire Missile Windstalker Missile Banshee Missile

Availability

Variant	Cho's Defeat	Family Njy	Family Pride	Family Rhy	Family Tkr	Patriarch's Conclusion	Rhonkar's Might	Rhonkar's Trial	Zyarth's Dominion
Dragon	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x

Suggested Roles

• Tug: High speed means it can get to locations quickly, a Tractor Beam in main array allows tractoring stations and asteroids. Towing limited to 80 m/s.

See Also

• Split Heavy Dragon

Ships by Class

M6 Ships

Argon	Centaur
ATF	Vidar
Boron	Hydra
Goner	Truelight Seeker
Kha'ak	Kha'ak Corvette
OTAS	none
Paranid	Nemesis
Pirate	Centaur • Osprey
Split	Dragon
Teladi	Osprey
Terran	Katana • Springblossom
Xenon	P
Yaki	none