Raider (Spacecraft)

A Raider is a fast and deadly warship larger in size and tonnage than an attack craft that is commonly utilised by pirates, Renegades and other reprobates to strike at poorly armed Imperial merchant vessels, freighters and unprotected planetary colonies.

Vessels of this class have sometimes been used by the Navis Imperialis and Rogue Trader fleets when larger and less manueverable vessels would prove to be at a tactical disadvantage.

Chaos Raiders

Destroyers

• Iconoclast-class Destroyer

Escorts

• Infidel-class Raider

Imperial Raiders

Scout Sloop

• Viper-class Scout Sloop

Human Corsair Raiders

Raiders

• Havoc-class Merchant Raider

• Hazeroth-class Privateer

• Meritech Shrike-class Raider

See Also

• Cruiser
• Escort
• Attack Craft

Sources

• Battlefleet Gothic Rulebook (Blue Book), pg. 125
• Rogue Trader: Battlefleet Koronus (RPG), pp. 28-29, 110
• Rogue Trader: Core Rulebook (RPG), pp. 194-195
• Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium (Omnibus) by Sandy Mitchell
• The Traitor's Hand (Novel) by Sandy Mitchell