Editing Camelot-class

The '''Camelot class''' of light [[Cruiser|cruisers]] were built in the mid-2100's as warships for [[Earth Fleet]] in its battle with the [[Bugs]].  In those days, [[Magitech|technomagickal]] Reverse-Entropy Heat Sinks were not yet available, so these ships were some of the last built with an aft ring of heat radiators to keep the ship cool in the vacuum of space.  Unusually for a cruiser, instead of full [[Lance Torpedo]] tubes capable of sustained fire, this class had a large number of [[Box Launcher|box launchers]] for its torpedoes, trading sustained fire capability for one massive opening salvo in an attempt to overwhelm enemy point defense systems.  Also unusually, it carried no [[:Category:Small Craft|starfighter]] complement, just shuttles.  Armed with eight [[Fusion Cannon]]s but only two [[Chemlaser]]s, it was criticized at the time for thus being underarmed for their size and cost, only six were built.

Although the last of these ships was decommissioned shortly before the [[Third Civil War]], one of them, the EFS ''Bodium'', was saved from the scrapyard and sent to the [[New Israel]] colony in the [[Cronos]] system to be preserved as a museum ship.  In 2244, it was refitted with weaponry, renamed the NIS ''Samarian'', and sent into battle with a crew of Jewish mercenaries to fight the [[Christian Federation]] as part of [[Task Force David]].

This class was designed by [[User:Martin The Mess|Martin Hohner]] at the request of [[User:SirNolen|Ed Stasheff]], specifically as a decommissioned older class to be used in the [[Task Force David]] plot arc.