Low-Level Technology

[Mere_Mortal]

I have a Basalt and believe me I'm damned annoying in it, many bombers and a few fighters would attest to that. Of course, it shouldn't be able to take down bombers and certainly not transports, but some people are just poor pilots. Whilst a few consecutive hits can easily kill this class, as long as it's alive and has torpedoes then it's a threat to anything that has 100k shield capacity or less. The Basalt is actually a powerful ship given its agility, it should wipe the floor with a Defender or Crusader, it matches a Dragon and can challenge a Valkyrie. It's a good example of a class 5 ship and this is really the sort of level that all of the lesser house ships should be at. The Defender is sadly lacking a lot and the Crusader isn't far ahead of it.