Many Imperial naval officers see the Chaos Emasculator-class Cruiser as something of a failed experiment in combining weapons batteries with Lances on a single starship and point to their own Lunar-class Cruiser as a superior warship to the Emasculator, with its stengthened frontal armour and torpedoes, but in a brawl the Emasculator starts to show its strength. The longer range of its weaponry over the Lunar-class allows it to operate at medium range from the start of an engagement and by the time a Lunar manages to close with the Emasculator, its shorter-ranged prow weapons will add to its offensive punch, making it a true paragon of raw firepower among the vessels available to a Chaos Fleet. For reasons yet to be determined, the Emasculator was first seen in great numbers within Slaanes