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The Centauri Vorchan Cruiser is a high speed military attack vessel. Only about half the size of a Primus Cruiser, these ships deploy all their power to the weapon and engine systems. The cruiser is equipped with 2 powerful Ion cannons, 16 Twin Particle arrays, Pulse Cannons and 12 Missiles. The combination of speed and firepower gives the Vorchan Cruiser an advantage to nearly all other vessels of this size and even to bigger ships like the Brakiri Avioki Cruiser.

The main task of the Vorchan Cruiser is to escort and protect bigger ships and convoys. Lacking on defense systems against smaller vessels like fighters, these ships depend on a fighter escort when going into battle against other capital ships. The Vorchan Cruiser has no launch bay and so the fighters have to stay outside the ship the whole time if no Primus Class cruiser accompanies the Vorchan fleet.

In 2262 the Drakh and the Centauri used the Vorchan Cruiser for secret raids against League ships. The League ships had no chance against the Centauri cruiser which were equipped with Shadow technology to control the ship.

Nobody knew who was behind these raids until Ranger Lenier went on a secret mission to investigate these attacks. He attached his Nial Fighter on the bottom of one of the Vorchan Cruiser and followed them into their home system. Shortly after this the Centauri tried to destroy the Babylon 5 jumpgate. This plan was prevented by a Starfury squadron that destroyed the Vorchan Cruiser before it could finish the mission.

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technical specifications were taken from "The Babylon 5 Technical Manual"
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