The Cronus heavy attack ship was first designed along much the same lines as much earlier Terran planes such as the A-10 and Frogfoot - a heavily armoured, fairly slow moving weapons platform with a main cannon that can cut through armour like a knife through hot butter, and ordinance and missile payloads to demolish more resistant ground targets. The Cronus has seen much service in many smaller scale militia as well as the more established military units.
In real world terms, the Cronus comes equipped with CCC and VICE combat systems, with two missile launchers and two bomb droppers (for VICE) and a devastating main cannon (in VICE, a heavy machine gun, if you are fighting ground targets wearing RCS combat systems the cannon is highly destructive, but please be frugal with the firing - don't just hold down the fire button as the explosion particles can create lag if rezzed in high quantities). The flight system is multimode and 360 degree mouselook with a non-mouselook hover flight for landing / takeoff.
