It was jet black. A shade of black so deep your eye just kinda slides off it. And it shimmered when you looked at it. A spider big as death and twice as ugly. And when it flies past, it's like you hear a scream in your mind.

Battlecrabs are extremely powerful ships. The primary weapon is a violet energy beam of variable output. It can target precisely enough to cut a warship in two without causing secondary explosions, but it is also suitable for large scale orbital bombardment (seen when a task force of three Battlecrabs destroy the Narn's largest civilian colony in just a few shots). This beam also functions as point defense weaponry against enemy fighters. The skin of a Battlecrab is capable of absorbing energy weapons and can kill a human (and probably other species as well) through physical contact. They also have a jump point disruption weapon that will collapse a jump point, usually destroying the ship entering or leaving it in the process.

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