The Evace (Eee Vee Ace) class light cruiser, despite its relatively small size, is the largest dedicated warship, capital or otherwise, produced by the Galatea Shipyards of the First Great Expansion colony system, Acis. The light cruiser isn't the most imposing capital ship, but its the pride and joy of the shipyards and a thorn in the side of Dramstellar whose profit margins are cut into by on the regular. At distance, the Evace class's profile could easily be mistaken for a large frigate, and the triple engine configuration doesn't help. These engines are powerful for their compact size however, and rival more traditional, larger capital ship engines. The engines serve as an excellent analog for the class overall in fact; compact, dense, and bristling with energy. Most of that energy is expelled in an ever expanding sphere as electrons, photons, and other more exotic forms through the vessel's plentiful AESAs, LADAR, and other more exotic sensors. Far less of that energy is concentrated into accelerating missiles through the dual bow mounted casaba howitzers, though the return on investment is truly impressive when the individual missiles detonate their internal fusion bottles to pump a shotgun blast of ludicrous speed particles in a target at distance. The four PDGs are almost mundane by comparison to the rest of the ship systems, leading to rumors that Acis may be reverse engineering Ijad technology in direct violation of Ionian law. Naturally, no such evidence has ever arisen. Perhaps more concerning are the number that have appeared in recent years in the private fleets of more... erratic megacorps, including two in the forces of the Krewstara Consortium who have become outright free colonists opposed directly to Dramstellar's interests. The more savvy naval analysts suspect the Evace class represents not a smaller ship punching above its weight class, but potentially the first in a new wave of miniaturized, yet no less lethal, purpose built ships of war.