Fleet Excelsior Advanced Heavy Cruiser

Overview
The Fleet Excelsior-class Advanced Heavy Cruiser bridges the gap from Battle Cruisers into Cruisers, offering good maneuverability and small ship profile in a more survivable package. Its extensive engineering department allows for excellent armor and shield hardening potential when drawing-in and absorbing enemy fire, but the decent tactical and small science departments drops this ship to more of a fire-support role when attacking.

The Advanced Heavy Cruiser finds an easy place in a team as a fast-responding tank, being able to maneuver quickly to cover a damaged teammate, while providing good supporting-fire to clear the area of "smaller" threats, so the team can focus their primary striking-power and debuffs on a "larger" threat.

The Fleet Excelsior-class Advanced Heavy Cruiser has been specifically designed to support your Fleet. Fleet starships are built to the highest standard and have increased Hull Hit Points, Shield Strength, and an additional Console slot.

Advanced Transwarp drive
The Fleet Excelsior-class Advanced Heavy Cruiser has a built-in drive that allows it to transwarp to two locations in the Alpha Quadrant and eight locations in the Beta Quadrant: Alpha Quadrant: Beta Quadrant:
 * Transwarp to Tellar Sector
 * Transwarp to Trill Sector
 * Transwarp to H'atoria Sector
 * Transwarp to Aldebaran Sector
 * Transwarp to Boreth Sector
 * Transwarp to Noro Sector
 * Transwarp to Vendor Sector
 * Transwarp to Khitomer Sector
 * Transwarp to Kassae Sector
 * Transwarp to Orion Sector

Universal consoles
The Fleet Excelsior-class Advanced Heavy Cruiser does not come with any universal consoles, but it may equip the items from the Hot Pursuit Set.

Standard configuration
Federation starships come with standard equipment and weapons of the lowest mark available at the ship's minimum rank. The items provided are appropriate to the type of vessel and its related playing style.

Ship comparison
The following table compares T6 Federation fleet Cruisers.