Hawklight

The Hawklight is considered to be one of the strongest battleships. It's mainly a PvP ship.

Description
Many players have used the Hawklight for sieges; however, it's speciality is PVP. Its powerful array of turrets and spinals allow it to quickly harass and destroy most ships. The placement of the turrets makes it very easy to land the first few hits, but if facing more agile ships with faster turn speed like the Gryphon you will have difficulty destroying them.

The interior of the Hawklight is fairly small. You'll enter to an empty dock port with a single teleporter to the bridge, a small room with a pilot's seat facing a window and another small seat at the back facing the other way with a large screen in front of it.

Advantages

 * Decent health pool.
 * High mobility for a battleship.
 * Perfect for destroying attacking and defending ships in a siege or anti-siege.
 * Very high hull Spinal damage.

Disadvantages

 * Hard to fight any ship that has high mobility due to low turn speed.
 * While not technically a blind spot, the bottom of the ship is very exposed to smaller ships.
 * Hard to damage hull if you can't aim with Spinals.

Strategy

 * It is a great ship for fighting Battlecruisers and other larger ships.
 * When paired with a good pilot, the Hawklight could easily solo an Alien Punisher, while still having lots of shield remaining.
 * Unless you're a skilled pilot, warp away from ships like the Cobra and the Razor Wing.

Trivia

 * When the game first came out this was the largest ship in the game.
 * This ship is most likely named after Champion Hawklight from Field of Battle; a game created by rcouret.
 * Since this ship is one of the earliest ships to be added, several other ships reference it in their descriptions.
 * Featured in the main thumbnail for Galaxy.
 * Had a pumpkin attached to the old model for Halloween 2016.Hawklight halloween.JPG