Sypher Industries 'Crescendo'
Developed as an anti-fighter platform meant to spearhead an assault against a swarm of strike craft, the Crescendo sports two Mk.VI MLTR (Multi-launch Tight Radius) Missile Launchers, capable of tracking and chasing down even the fastest and most manueverable fighters available. The Crescendo's effectiveness against any ship past corvette-class is questionable, however, as the missile housing is mainly occupied by tracking hardware and fuel rather than explosives.
The reactor is housed stern of the vessel, encased in a cooling system that recycles its own plasma exhaust into a makeshift shield, utilized by the two sternmost 'fins'. Using an advanced containment system previously reserved only for Super Capital-class vessels, the fins project an energy field that nets the plasma exhaust between the fins and the reactor housing. While most projectile weapons will still penetrate, energy weapons are harmlessly dissapated upon contact with the super-heated exhaust, allowing for a poor-man's defense of the mostly defenseless stern.
