Dido class Exploration Cruiser Gunboat

This is a replicate of the famous exploration cruiser gunboats known as the Dido class. Some 505 were built from 2455 and many are still in service now. The most common configuration was to field it with a small exploration craft and a single triple laser beam turret. The designers found that they could use a triple laser rather than the normal double shorter ranged laser used on most ships by using the excess of power normally used to operate the four extra large sensor arrays and the long rang