Yaojing-class command ship

"A crown of thorns for a prow, a body of barbs, towering spines tipped with comm arrays and sensor nodes. It was made to wait, to watch, to listen and, occasionally, speak."

Yaojing are stealth command/observation platforms. Outside of mine production, they have almost no offensive capabilities, but they are very good at spying on enemy movements, electronic warfare, and coordinating units of larger, dumber drone vessels. They check in with local recon platforms, deploying additional units and conducting minor maintenance where necessary.

Their hull is a long cylinder with a lamprey-mouth prow and several rings of spines – comm towers and transmission nodes. They have advanced cloaking technology.

Compact code name Splinter.

UECNS Yaojing One
Survivor of Operation Kursk, the only one from the class.

UECNS Yaojing Two
Destroyed in the Battle of Node 05, used as bait to draw the Compact close to a moon before its detonation.

UECNS Yaojing Seven
For sixty-four years protected Nemesis territory in the Black Veil, destroyed in the Operation Kursk.