The VX-5A Bloodwake is a Voran cruiser that balances line-firepower, endurance, and enough agility to exploit a collapsing front. Voran engineers biased the design toward shield resilience, trusting layered energy screens to absorb the opening exchange and preserve the hull for the kill. Among Voran crews, the Bloodwake is the kind of name spoken with a grin before battle and in a lower voice afterward.