Babylon 5 Shyarie Frigates

Shyarie Frigates

Personifying the Abbai’s belief in protection over destruction and lacking any offensive weaponry at all, the Shyarie is their primary fleet support vessel with some amazing electronic and countermeasure capabilities. Used as a forward scout, its main role is to pilot its way into enemy formations and completely scramble their maneuvers and electronic systems with their powerful and numerous communications disruptors, throwing entire fleets into disarray at times.

Small and fast, the Shyarie must use its speed and agility to survive the onslaught of enemy fire that could make short work of its small size. Using the jamming abilities of its ‘weapons’ hopefully a single pass of a Shyarie will cause so much chaos that the second wave of offense-capable ships will turn all attentions away from the speedy scout, but a single well-placed attack can rupture this ship in no time. With so many expensive and rare technologies built into its hull, it is no wonder why the Abbai try to protect them as best they can.

A small sect of Abbai shipbuilders used the infamy of the lack of weapons on the Shyarie in order to create a nasty surprise for raiders – who have always plagued the Abbai to steal their high technologies. Creating the Fetula as a variant of the Shyarie, they made a potent anti-fighter cutter capable of dealing with small numbers of enemy fighters in rapid succession.

Shyarie Jammer Frigate
Fetula Warrant Cutter

Source
Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 96-97)
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