UEC Custos
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The UEC Custos is a fan-made ship used by the United Earth Federation in a future game in the Blue Planet series. Orignally a patrol gunboat before the start of hostilities with the GTVA, the attrition of Sanctus-class cruisers during the war sees the Custos being pressed into service on the front lines. While its limited armament makes it a poor line combatant, its torpedo batteries and spinal-mounted gauss cannon make it an exceptional screening element in battle formations.
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Tech Room Description
The UEC Custos is a class of patrol cruiser built for the Federation Navy. Smaller and lighter than the massive Sanctus class, Custos cruisers fare poorly in the beam-heavy combat environment that makes up much of the Federation-Alliance conflict, but crippling Sanctus losses have forced Admirals Netreba and Calder to include these cruisers in their fleet maneuvers. They are capable of limited torpedo strikes against soft (or, when supported, hard) targets and have adequate point defenses to handle bomber attack.
The Custos is notable for its highly modular design, a quality which made it economical in peacetime and flexible in wartime. The directive to prepare Custos units for front-line combat led to a crash upgrade program that enhanced the Custos' agility and electronic warfare capabilities in order to give it a fighting chance against beam attack and heavy assault wings armed with swarm missiles. Orders were also placed for Custos spaceframes modified from the keel up for expanded capabilities, but these craft were apparently never produced.
The Custos is now deployed as an ad-hoc convoy harasser, screening element, and electronics warfare platform to anchor maneuvers by other Fleet elements.
Name Origin
Custos is the Latin word for "guard".
Performance:
Statistics
| Name | UEC Custos | |
| Type | Cruiser | |
| Max Velocity | 40 - 55 ms-1 | |
| Hitpoints | 20 000 pts | |
| Turrets | 6 turrets |
Armaments
| Default Statistics | |
| Turret Type | Amount |
| Point Defense Turret | 4 |
| Warhammer#Sanctus | 2 |
