"We may call it the "diarrhea ship" simply due to its insanely large plume at the rear, or even the "chihuahua" due to its size and danger, all jokes aside this ship, despite being about 40 years old, still is rather reliable and can pack a punch! I once remember entering orbit of an asteroid that was being mined in response to a distress call sent by one of the miners, enemy fighters were pretty much everywhere and they turned infratructure to minced meat, worse yet, those were the Bellowing Mule's most expensive and dangerous fighter class a rare sight often rarely spoken of due to lack of survivors.I ordered the crew to use the Barrage turrets to give those fighters a taste of their own pill, needless to say...they got more than just their own pill that day."

-Jared D Hudson, captain of a Delos class Heavy corvette explaining its effectiveness during a defence mission against the Bellowing Mules mine raiders

First entering service in 2165, the Delos class Heavy corvette was meant to be a very versatile yet small combat platform which could be mass produced for the commonwealth navy. Becoming first out of 438 sent designs, this ship proved its worth more than what it was on paper. Sporting an arnament of 2 dual barelled light plasma cannon turrets, 8 9 barelled heavy plasma barrage turrets, 2 light missile nests, 2 las CIWS Disks and 1 medium integrated long range plasma cannon, this fiesty warship can pack a punch in large numbers and likely execute siege operations, if you have enough. Having many names, such as the "Diarrhea ship", "Chihuahua", "Pukwudgie", "Anti-Pirate Gremlin", "Ferret", "Piranha", "Larnchenkus(Dangerous yet small Efridgan coastal predator)", etc essentially proving pilots do like it. The delos class heavy corvette is a rather regular sight in commonwealth space thanks to mass production, it is also amongst the fastest ships within the entire navy.