Valkyrie VLK-QW5

The VLK-QW5 reworks the 2787-era Valkyrie missile boat around networked strike capability rather than raw missile volume, cruising at 54 km/h and topping out at 86 with a 150-meter jump. In place of the LRM 10 in the left torso, it carries an MML 7 in the right torso, backed by an Artemis IV fire-control system and CASE in that same location. A C3i computer occupies the left torso, and the medium laser stays in the right arm. The engine shifts from a standard 150 fusion plant to a 150 light fusion unit, endo steel replaces the standard internal structure, and light ferro-fibrous armor replaces the base model's standard plating, though the heat-sink count drops from 11 to 10 single sinks. The design keeps its enhanced communications gear and its easily-serviced layout, and Defiance Industries builds it at Hesperus II.