Mark 1 Longbow image - New Dawn mod for Sins of a Solar Empire

An antique even during the first encounters with the alien race known only as the nomads it has seen only very limited service due to its almost haphazard construction of the first generation of T.E.F cruisers. The Mark 1 was infact the first cruiser the T.E.F ever constructed and probably the one with the shortest service life measuring in at only 20 years of service. Often deployed as an escort rather then a fully equiped combat vessle the ship was armed with swarms of missles this ships cons still far outwayed its pros. Amog some of the major compliants (other then the fact it was like driving a dune buggy to a ferrari exhibit) was its targeting systems which at the time of construction were already outdated this lead to some slight increase in the chance of freindly fire, probably one of the main reasons for its lack of front line deployments. This vessle however is for lack of a better word nearly indestructable (around the time of its construction) and though easily out manuvered and out gunned by its later rivals due to the simplicity of the ship large portions of it where solid metal. There is even a report of a ship crashing into a planet due to a guidence failure, the crew then got up dusted themselves off and launched the ship again (which promptly crashed back to the planets surface but its the thought that counts).