Bellicose

The Bellicose is a Cruiser designed for disrupting enemy ships using electronic warfare.

Traits
Minmatar Cruiser skill bonus per level:
7.5% bonus to Target Painter effectiveness
5% bonus to Rapid Light, Heavy Assault and Heavy Missile Launcher rate of fire

Development
Being a highly versatile class of Minmatar ships, the Bellicose has been used as a combat juggernaut as well as a support ship for wings of frigates. While not quite in the league of newer navy cruisers, the Bellicose is still a very solid ship for most purposes, especially in terms of long range combat.

Rupture

The Rupture is a Combat Cruiser designed for frontline fighting.

Traits
Minmatar Cruiser skill bonus per level:
5% bonus to Medium Projectile Turret firing speed
5% bonus to Medium Projectile Turret damage

Development
The Rupture is slow for a Minmatar ship, but it more than makes up for it in power. The Rupture has superior firepower and is used by the Minmatar Republic both to defend space stations and other stationary objects and as part of massive attack formations.

Scythe

The Scythe is a Support Cruiser designed to rapidly repair allied vessels in combat.

Traits
Minmatar Cruiser skill bonus per level:
12.5% bonus to Shield Transporter boost amount
5% reduction in Shield Transporter capacitor use

Role Bonus:
1000% bonus to Shield Transporter range
100% bonus to Logistic Drone repair amount

Development
In YC114 each major empire faction, having been embroiled in a harrowing, extensive, long-term war, recognized the growing need for support and logistics functionality in their vessels during the kind of protracted interstellar warfare that might otherwise prove exhausting for its participants. Both Frigate and Cruiser-class ships were put under the microscope, and in the Minmatar Republic the outcome of the re-evaluation process led, among other developments, to a redesign and redeployment of the Scythe.

The Scythe-class cruiser remains the oldest Minmatar ship still in use. It has seen many battles and is an integrated part in Minmatar tales and heritage. With its redesign, past firmware upgrades for mining output were tossed out entirely in favor of two new separate systems that focused on shield transporting and logistics drones respectively.

Stabber

The Stabber is an Attack Cruiser designed for fast aggressive combat.

Traits
Minmatar Cruiser skill bonus per level:
5% bonus to Medium Projectile Turret firing speed
7.5% bonus to Medium Projectile Turret falloff

Development
The Stabber is the mainstay of the Minmatar fleet. It is light and extremely fast, yet surprisingly powerful, with a wide variety of weapons. It is one of few Minmatar vessels that have reached popularity outside Minmatar space.