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Another sketch for a RPG session that never happened.

In-session lore: Lancers are the most basic as well as common ship in the arsenal of modern space navies, in a way resembling the idea of a fighter but slighly bigger in scope (40 to 65 m long). The basis of their design can be traced back to the early space age when lancers were the only military-type vessel necessary for freshly created colonial navies to carry various police missions within their home system. The lancer is a design built around the idea of a short to medium range one-person ship operatring from already established bases on low-gravity moons or military installations orbiting them. As small and as manuverable as possible but in the same time armed well enough for a single encounter this ship type was enough for colonies to defend the perimeter around their homeworld and other vital installments within the single solar system. Interestingly, in the recent years, despite the emergence of far bigger starship designs (including arsenal ships and huge multitask frigates), lancers have become even more important than before, being a main and easy to maintain defence from potential space aggresors. In order to make their base of operations not restricted to a single solar system space carriers have been built - and it seems that the lancers, in larger squadrons and with the aid of other ship types, will be also used as a main offensive ship of the space navies.

Zero-type is one of the most iconic and most common lancer types. Initally designed around the tactical balance beteen defensive and offensive armament (what basically means that it can defend from a punch equal to its own) it soon become one of the first types used offensively after over a thousand years of gap between the Sol civil war and the rise of modern colonial superpowers. It harbours enough fuel for 24hour continous thrust and enough firepower to take down an unprepared frigate ten time its size. It sensory and communications equipment also enables long-range missle control and an undisrupted communications for long distances. Surpriselingly the only weak design was an energy distribution system, which could only fully power one laser array at the time, what was leaving one of the side (front or back) far more prone to missile attacks. However refit models included new generators as well as mounting system for various addons (additional rocket pods, fuel containers or even another stage of a main engin for long-range missions) on lancer's hull. For a century zero have become an iconic model to which all later lancers were compared to.

Description
Another sketch for a RPG session that never happened.

In-session lore: Lancers are the most basic as well as common ship in the arsenal of modern space navies, in a way resembling the idea of a fighter but slighly bigger in scope (40 to 65 m long). The basis of their design can be traced back to the early space age when lancers were the only military-type vessel necessary for freshly created colonial navies to carry various police missions within their home system. The lancer is a design built around the idea of a short to medium range one-person ship operatring from already established bases on low-gravity moons or military installations orbiting them. As small and as manuverable as possible but in the same time armed well enough for a single encounter this ship type was enough for colonies to defend the perimeter around their homeworld and other vital installments within the single solar system. Interestingly, in the recent years, despite the emergence of far bigger starship designs (including arsenal ships and huge multitask frigates), lancers have become even more important than before, being a main and easy to maintain defence from potential space aggresors. In order to make their base of operations not restricted to a single solar system space carriers have been built - and it seems that the lancers, in larger squadrons and with the aid of other ship types, will be also used as a main offensive ship of the space navies.

Zero-type is one of the most iconic and most common lancer types. Initally designed around the tactical balance beteen defensive and offensive armament (what basically means that it can defend from a punch equal to its own) it soon become one of the first types used offensively after over a thousand years of gap between the Sol civil war and the rise of modern colonial superpowers. It harbours enough fuel for 24hour continous thrust and enough firepower to take down an unprepared frigate ten time its size. It sensory and communications equipment also enables long-range missle control and an undisrupted communications for long distances. Surpriselingly the only weak design was an energy distribution system, which could only fully power one laser array at the time, what was leaving one of the side (front or back) far more prone to missile attacks. However refit models included new generators as well as mounting system for various addons (additional rocket pods, fuel containers or even another stage of a main engin for long-range missions) on lancer's hull. For a century zero have become an iconic model to which all later lancers were compared to.