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Plesh Tral Heavy Raider

Plesh Tral Heavy Raider
Information
Affiliation	Breen Confederacy
Role	Patrol ship Scout ship Escort ship
Service
Operator	Breen Confederacy
Crew Capacity
Standard Complement	48
Dimensions
Length	95m
Propulsion
Cruise Speed	Warp 7
Maximum Speed	Warp 9
Armaments
Energy Weapons	Disruptors
Torpedo Launchers	1 fore launcher
Shields	Deflector Shields
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The Plesh Tral Heavy Raider is a fast and sturdy Breen warship, and the vessel most often encountered by Starfleet along the border. It is not a large vessel, designed to be quick and evasive rather than stand its ground in a fight, but is well-armed and armoured and more than capable of picking apart an enemy piece by piece. Starfleet Intelligence suspects it operates with a reasonably small crew, as the Plesh Tral is known to usually retain aboard a landing force for boarding or raiding actions, as well as having cargo space for anything looted. This leaves little capacity for a crew to operate the ship itself, and conditions aboard must be cramped even by the standards of non-Starfleet ships.

As a scout ship, it has consistently been used to perform reconnaissance of Federation territory, gauging local defences and identifying possible targets for raids or even larger attacks. However, the Plesh Tral is also effective in groups, and is sometimes deployed in wings with two or more other raiders. This can allow multiple raiders to act as a formidable opponent on their own, but is also a common deployment on escort operations of larger ships with more important duties. One raider, when spotted, might be all that's out there - or it could be the harbinger of a bigger strike force for which it's scouting.

These ships are easy to repair and cheap to build. This means lone captains are fond of hit-and-runs where they can take some strikes and patch up later, but it also means that strike force commanders are more willing to sacrifice them entirely to achieve their goals.

In Play

• The Plesh Tral is the ubiquitous 'small' enemy Breen ship - on its own, only a threat to the weakest or smallest of Starfleet ships, but often deployed in wings.
• It's also the most multi-functional of Breen ships. It scouts for appropriate targets, conducts raids against the weakest for supplies or slaves, and provides escort for larger vessels. This means sighting one doesn't mean the Breen want a fight - they might be conducting recon, or they might be expecting lighter opposition than a Starfleet ship and decide against a confrontation.
• The Breen keep a landing force aboard to support their raiding operations, so they can grab goods or slaves and turn tail. But they're not above sending boarding parties in a straight-up fight if they think it'll help.