CARRIER

Generic "Carrier" units are ubiquitous on the battlefield. Amounting to little more than a drive train and a set of weapon mounting hard points, carriers are made and used by nearly every known power. Every missile system ever devised has been bolted to a carrier by someone, and some guns and lasers too. The hope with a carrier is that it can hit first and hit hard. Very few of them can survive much return fire. The sheer variety of carriers makes them more of a threat. Without good sensor information it's very hard to predict what they will be sending your way. But you can rest assured that whatever it's sending, it's sending a lot of it.
 * These AI only weapons are a workaround to keep them from dumping hundreds of rockets in a single turn and lagging the game. It's an RL20 with five volley's worth of fire, that drops a normal RL20 in loot.