Ship Types

Overview

 * Capital Ships
 * Largest ships in any navy
 * Serves as HQ for a fleet
 * Usually have one or a few large weapons, and point defense weapons
 * Lots of cargo space and living quarters, with amenities for troops
 * Dreadnought
 * Used against installations, capital ships, and super-weapons
 * Massive size (2x to 10x the size of a capital ship)
 * Serves as HQ for higher-level units
 * Has a few massive weapons, many large weapons, and point defense
 * Can deploy as many fighters as a carrier, sometimes more
 * Super-weapon
 * Carriers
 * Used to carry and deploy many small ships (fighters, bombers, etc.)
 * Only point defense weapons
 * Crew is mostly pilots, maintenance, and strategic personnel
 * Lots of hangar bays, maintenance bays, and cargo bays
 * Destroyer
 * Small, fast ship with medium and heavy weapons
 * Primarily used against installations, destroyers, assault ships, transports, cruisers, and frigates
 * Battleship
 * Medium sized ship focused on heavy weapons
 * Has many weapons of many different types, including railguns, missiles, and lasers
 * Small crew
 * Most cargo space is used for ammunition
 * Primarily used against capital ships, carriers, cruisers, and other destroyers
 * Assault Ship
 * Medium or large ship
 * Transport
 * Medium sized ship used for boarding, troop shuttling, and cargo shuttling
 * Cruiser
 * Similar to a battleship, but with light armor, and faster engines
 * Support Frigate
 * Medium sized ships used in specialty roles not suited for larger ships
 * Medical Support
 * Special weapons
 * Tractor beams
 * Used to lock ships in place, or reel them in for boarding
 * Anti-shield
 * Anti-espionage
 * Formation-breakers
 * Basically a big engine with a clamp on the end, used for pushing ships out of formation, or into a vulnerable position
 * Tactical Support
 * Communications
 * HQ for elite units
 * Light Ships
 * Fighters
 * Used against transports, frigates, point defense, and other light ships
 * Bombers
 * Used against larger ships for taking out key targets
 * Recon
 * Extremely fast and maneuverable, often with stealth technology
 * Used for gathering intel
 * Interceptors
 * Used against light ships
 * Personal Transports
 * Used to transport high-ranking personnel