<b><u>Anz'kalar Shipyards M207R <i>Rovion</i>-class Patrol Ship</u></b>
<i>Fast Response and Reconnaissance Gunship, Anz'kalarad Principalities Royal Defense Force</i>

The Anz'kalar Shipyards M207R <i>Rovion</i>-class Patrol Ship was designed in 972 GSD to replace an earlier model of gunship that was becoming more obsolete by the minute. Armed with heavy lasers, ion cannons, and several missile types, it strikes a balance between speed and defense, and frequently shows up in private fleets. On convoy duty, the patrol ship usually jumps in ahead of its fellows and checks the area with its powerful sensors, which since 980 GSD have included a CGT array.

A CGT array, incidentally, is a Galactic sensor outfit capable of piercing a cloak field and revealing cloaked starships. It, more than anything else, is what pushes up the price of the <i>Rovion</i>-class to more than two-and-a-half times that of comparable ships. It works by detecting cloaked vessels' mass signatures. Since a cloaked ship is still physically present, hiding from a CGT array is impossible.

I had some trouble deciding which textures to use. For the red paint -- which for Anz'kalarad ships signifies it was built by the Anz'kalar shipyard -- I started out using the "Orion red panel" texture. However, the background image for that texture, when used where I used it, had the odd artifact of producing greenish-yellow splotches. At first I thought it looked kinda cool, but I soon tired of it and switched to the red metal texture I used on the Balcrusian ships.