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Torka Cruiser

Owner

Cardassian Union
Class Capital Ship
Availability Unlimited Deployment
In Service 2322
Out of Service n/a
Source none
Author Tyrel Lohr
Last Updated December 13, 2002
Torka Cruiser
Description:

The Torka Cruiser is a very early Cardassian "heavy cruiser" design. The Torka sports a mix of compressor, phaser, and torpedo weaponry which, at the time, were top of the line hardware for the Cardassian Union. Pressed into service to serve the Cardassians during one of their major military expansion campaigns, the Torka Cruiser was adequate at combating most minor system's ships.

After only about twenty years the Torka was beginning to feel its age. Early confrontations with Federation cruisers proved that the Torka lacked the shield and weapons strength to be a valid combatant. Most of the Torkas were relegated to backwater system where they served in the role of system monitors, keeping watch over uninteresting systems within the Cardassian sphere of influence. As the Galor Cruiser became more and more widely used, however, the Torkas were slowly pulled out of service and mothballed at shipyards orbiting Cardassia Prime.

When the Klingons began attacking Cardassian planets before the Dominion War lit the galaxy afire, the Cardassians were forced to bring their Torka Cruisers out of mothballs. Many of these sturdy cruisers were then refitted into Tonga Blockade Cruisers.


Ship Control Sheet(s):
Torka Cruiser - SCS
 Unlimited Deployment
 
Tonga Blockade Cruiser - SCS
 Common Variant
 
   
Related Entries:
Galor Cruiser
Tonga Blockade Cruiser
Tonga Blockade Cruiser
 
Design Notes:
No Design Notes Available


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