Editing Imperial Navy Cruiser (section)

====Cardinal====

[[File:CardinalCruiser.jpg|300px|right|thumb|The black sheep of Imperial Cruisers.]]

A ship that's plagued by its [[Chaos|ancestors.]]

The Cardinal-Class Heavy Cruiser is a class of Cruiser used by the Imperial Navy. Seeing as how this ship used the original template for the ill-fated [[Acheron-class Heavy Cruiser|Acheron Class,]] one can see why this class of ship proved a [[Extra Heresy|''tad'' bit too controversial for the Imperial Navy.]] But no, you can’t see the controversy past the ten thousand years of Imperial ships turning to Chaos without their entire classes being censured.

The failure of the Acherons and their supposed use of [[Heresy|xenos technology]] has haunted the Cardinal Class and now only a handful of Imperial Navy fleets use the ageing ships in service.

As its design was Great Crusade-era, the Cardinal lack the armored prow of its modern cousins and is more suited for long-range engagements instead of being target practice. Which means it probably was named Cardinal during the violently atheist time before the violently religious time. Cardinal then may have been in reference to the secular meanings of the word and now lives on as an amusing joke.

*'''Length:''' 5km
*'''Mass:''' 32 megatonnes; approx
*'''Crew:''' 89,400 crew; approx
*'''Acceleration:''' 2.3 gravities max sustainable acceleration