Devoras Heavy Warbird

A counterpart and peer to the Excelsior class, though with greater size and cost, the Devoras Heavy Warbird is the largest ship in the Romulan navy, 300kt greater in size than the newer Khellian Heavy Warbird. The Devoras class was first sighted during the lead-up to the Ulith III Biophage Crisis, and were instrumental to the survival of the Romulan Empire in their war with the Klingons. Six of the class were destroyed in the war over the course of a similar number of years, holding the line until it could no longer be held. In the wake of the war, the remaining eight ships of the class are scheduled for a badly needed refit.

The Devoras is a large ship with heavy forward focused weapons, powerful shields, a cloaking device, and a very early holodeck. It excels at both ambushes and line-to-line combat, but has deficient scientific and scanning equipment, and a weak hull which can be a notable weakness of the class. It is not suited to duties as a deep raider despite good endurance and reaction speed because of its need for repairs and lack of damage control combined with its relative blindness without active sensors. However, it cannot be said to be much worse at this than any Klingon ship, so it remains relevant even on the modern battlefield.