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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet

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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet	comment	As Space Is an Ocean, naturally the space fleets in many Sci-Fi settings tend to follow the same lines as the wet navies of Earth. These are typically separated into three classes: Small Craft, Space Ships and Capital Ships. Forms the backbone of a Space Navy. Compare/contrast Standard Sci-Fi Army, which may be on hand to fight boarding parties or conquer worlds. If itâ€™s being shown in a visual medium, the director may use a Sci-Fi Flyby. To compare the size of ships from various series please use this finely crafted link for a very helpful site, that has all your Standard Sci Fi vessels in scale to one another. This single image chart is also a work of art.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_13a61240	comment	In The Rise of Skywalker, the reborn Palpatine's Final Order has an entire fleet of Xyston-class Star Destroyers, each armed with a planet-destroying superlaser. Without shields, however, the superlasers are so vulnerable to damage that even starfighter guns can destroy the ships by targeting them.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_14d341dc	comment	Star Trek Online mixes typical fleet designations with a variant of the MMORPG class structure. There are currently nine classes of ships: Cruisers, Escorts, Science Vessels, Raiders, Raptors, Dreadnoughts, Warbirds,note Which isn't really a ship class in the sense used in this trope, as it is essentially just denotes that the ship is a Romulan ship and therefore has a singularity core and a cloaking device. Available warbirds include amongst others light, manoeuvrable warbirds somewhere in the frigate/destroyer/corvette area, tactical carrier warbirds, science warbirds and huge lumbering dreadnought warbirds. Battle Cruisers and Carriers. Player abilities and ship modifications will probably blur the lines further, as Cryptic is notorious for nonstandard class structure. However, some of these ships tend to have problems with the blurring because of how they're depicted on TV than they are in games. There's a tenth class, the Frigate, but those are only used to classify Terran Empire Miranda-class ships. The player's version is referred to as a "Light Cruiser".
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): The full Sangtee Empire fleet is never shown as Wondy and her crew are mainly focused on attacking slave ships and their escorts, however they're known to have Space Fighters, Breaching Vessels (though only ones captured by the rebels are seen in use), Escort Ships and Cruisers which are all run out of large local Space Stations that function as the capital city of their sector. They also have Drop Ships opertating on planets dedicated to mining, which is done by slaves.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_1641fd92	comment	Sunrider has frigates, destroyers, cruisers, carriers, and extremely rare (and gigantic) super-dreadnoughts. Traditional space fighters are replaced by mecha called Ryders which fulfill many of the same roles. The Sunrider itself is The Battlestar, an experimental assault carrier: it was unique at the time of its creation, but by the end of the first game PACT has begun mass-producing their own version. The sequel adds gunboats and fast cruisers to the mix.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_1682583	comment	Most Gundam shows set in the Universal Century make use of Base Jabbers, a detachable drive system that the mobile suits could stand upon and use to save fuel. They came in two flavors; an atmospheric variant with jet engines in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, and a space-faring version, little more than rocket engines with a cockpit for manual flight. They could be used with or without a crew and were often launched into enemies when their fuel was nearly expended as improvised weapons.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_169f043b	comment	StarCraft has a little of this in the aircraft combat aspect. Each race has their own variation of the Fighter, Bomber, Interceptor and Drop Ship, and the Terrans have a literal Science Vessel (the Zerg and Protoss have rough equivalents). The Terrans also get a Battlecruiser, which is essentially a well-armoured Space Gun, and the Protoss have a self-explanatory Carrier. Aside from the Fighter, Drop Ship, and Science Vessel, the similarities blur some. The Protoss Corsair is a plain Interceptor (cheaper than their Fighter, faster, with only an anti-air weapon), but the Valkyrie (Missile Boat frigate class, meant to shoot down fighters) and Devourer are bigger, tougher, and more expensive than the Fighters. The Zerg get a standard Bomber for their Guardian, and a cheap flying bomb unit; the Terrans have no Bomber but do have a smallish Battlecruiser, Wave-Motion Gun optional; the Protoss have their Carrier and a cloaked recon vessel. In StarCraft II the Protoss get the Void Ray, a Space Gun, which is pretty much engines and a cockpit floating around a laser crystal. They also get a Mothership that's basically a floating city with which can cloak allies and generate temporary wormholes. The Terrans also get a bomber unit, the Banshee, and the new fighter unit is a Transforming Mecha.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_17415b19	comment	Star Ocean series started fleshing out its spacefleet starting with the third game, where the in-game dictionary was introduced. However, the terminology it uses is somewhat inconsistent, which may be attributed to large period of time the series covers, and different races the ships belong to. In Till the End of Time all combat ships are reffered to as "battle-class ships", or battleships, and said to be about 300 meters long. There are also "combat explorers" that carry some weapon and exceed 1 kilometer in length, but are inferior in combat to battleships due to, well, being explorers. The Last Hope refers to Eldarian destroyers and cruisers, with the word "battleship" being used for smaller battlecrafts. Eldarian cruiser is said to be about 250 meters long, while when an Earthlingnote Yes, Earthling. The series liberally refers to Human Aliens as "humans", making the specification necessary. spaceship is upgraded by Morphus, it's also refered to as a "cruiser", despite being measly 80 meters long. The Divine Force features two Federation warships, which are alternately called "battleships" and "battlecruisers". Despite allegedly being in the same class, one of them is twice the other's size, being about 250 and 500 meters long respectively. Raymond's second ship, Aldous, is referred to as possessing cruiser-tier firepower, despite also being about 250 meters long (although it pulls double duty as a cargo ship). Additionally, Scorpium uses integrated Space Whales as spaceships, which are also called "battleships", while being over 900 meters long.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_17bfcf60	comment	Homeworld, being a Real-Time Strategy game IN SPACE!, is built around this, including pretty much every ship type above, using most of them verbatim: Fighters (including Bombers and Interceptors), Corvettes, Frigates, Carriers, Cruisers, Destroyers, Dreadnoughts. The Mothership is a Colony Ship with significant carrying and production capacity, and there are examples of most other ship types. It is also worth noting that there are major differences between Corvettes, Frigates and Destroyers. The frigate is pretty much exactly as described at the top of the page, while the Destroyer is large and powerful enough to qualify as a Capital Ship in the classifications used here. The Corvette falls under the Small Craft category, a well armed Shuttle is probably the closest match. Thus we're talking ships that can cut a swathe of destruction against most fighters and also, in reasonable numbers at least, threaten larger vessels. Unless said vessels have weapons that can track and hit Small craft, in which case the Corvette force is going to have casualties, possibly lots. According to the game's own classification system, Frigates include all of the smaller Capital Ships and include everything from smallish conventional warships to ion-cannon-based Space Guns to pocket carriers. The Destroyer/Missile Destroyer is the next step up, the first of the Super-Capital vessels (which include the Carrier and Heavy Cruiser). Meanwhile, Corvettes include anything that falls below the Strike Craft/Capital Ships line, but is bigger than a fighter. (It's actually quite simple, provided you don't try to map any semblance of real-world classes onto it.) The Mothership in Homeworld: Cataclysm definitely does fit into this mould, however, being gradually upgraded throughout the game so that by the final missions it is a very respectable warship in its own right, and is armed with a heavy cannon capable of destroying most enemy vessels with a single hit. The Mothership in Homeworld 2 is also considerably more capable than the original Mothership, but not as good as the one in Cataclysm. In Homeworld 2, the Heavy Cruiser was replaced by the Battlecruiser which has built-in bays for servicing damaged fighter craft. Plus the main goal of the game turns out to be acquiring a Battlestar with a Wave-Motion Gun and brutal point defenses. Homeworld 2 has the Progenitor Movers which at first glance appear to be freakishly powerful combat drones. A few missions later though, it's shown that they're merely detachable drives used by the Precursors and it's only due to their hyper-advanced technology that these ships seemed so formidable at first. Homeworld has a number of space guns of varying sizes. The standard Ion Cannon Frigate is a small-scale space gun, while the Vaygr battlecruiser and Progenitor Dreadnought are much more massive and are far more deadly. Highlighting its status as a space gun, the Vaygr battlecruiser has a weakness in that fighters can shoot out its engines, preventing it from aiming its main weapon. Lastly there's Sajuuk, a monster of a ship which can pick off enemy vessels at extreme range with its humongous beam cannon. Good thing it's on your side.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_183d76b3	comment	Astro Empires mostly follows this trope to a T, the only real exceptions being the non-combat ships: Scout Ships are barely armed but extremely fast, being used for exactly what they sound like, Recyclers can convert Debris into Credits, Outpost Ships can establish new bases. The combat ships are straight examples: Bombers are bomber/gunship hybrid Glass Cannons with lots of weapons, Heavy Bombers are bigger and tougher Bombers, Ion Bombers have more advanced weapons and Shields, Corvettes are small and weak but fast and stealthy and only really good against small ships, Destroyers are fast but can pack a serious punch against larger ships, Frigates are a Jack of All Stats, Ion Frigates have more advanced weapons and shields, Cruisers are effectively bigger Frigates while Heavy Cruisers are bigger versions of them, Carriers can transport Fighters and Bombers but are nearly defenseless by themselves, Fleet Carriers are the same but bigger, Battleships are just what you'd expect: Big and strong. Then come the Capital Ships, which require Orbital Shipyards to build: Dreadnoughts are basically bigger Battleships with massive defence, Titans are even bigger and have nearly impenetrable shields, Leviathans give power bonuses to the entire Fleet and can bulldoze everything short of a Planetary Ring, Death Stars are nearly indestructible and can sterilize an entire planet, but are painfully slow, and so big they can't fit through Jump Gates. Notably, all ships bigger than a Frigate are The Battlestar, since they all have (very limited) Hangar Space, but Carriers are required to transport large amounts of Fighters and Bombers. Except Capital Ships all have more space than even Fleet Carriers, because everything about them is oversized.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_19350db9	comment	Master of Orion III had even more classes, such as Battle Cruisers, Dreadnoughts, and Superdreadnoughts.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_1acd3a60	comment	Detachable Drive: A number of Republic starfighters use detachable hyperspace boosters to travel at lightspeed. Also, a number of cargo transports in Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance are essentially large detachable drives that strap several cargo containers onto their exteriors and push them through space.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_1cdeea1d	comment	Battlestar Galactica Online has three main classes: Strikes, which are Space Fighters, Escorts, and Lines. Each class is also subdivided into four different types — Interceptors, Assaults, Command and Multiroles. While the Basestar and Pegasus can be used, this is only through renting for up to an hour using the most valuable currency and they act as pure combatants without the option to launch fighters. There are Carriers that can carry player Strikes, but no true Battlestars as they can't really contribute to a direct fight. NPC-only classes include drones ranging from human-sized to Strike-sized, automated asteroid weapons platforms and Freighters.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_1e015a5d	comment	Hospital Ship: The Rebel Fleet has a Nebulon-B Escort Frigate for this purpose, seen at the end of The Empire Strikes Back when Luke obtains his artificial hand, as well as during the Battle of Endor.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_201ac246	comment	Let the Galaxy Burn (ASOIF as a Space Opera): The various navies for the most part follow these, though there is also a difference between normal ships and ones meant to operate in deep space, and there are some unusual ship types (the Ironborn have longships and super-longships, shown to be more manoeuvrable than most ships of their size. The Reach has septships, warships of various sizes decorated like septs, the equivalent of a church for the Faith of the Seven)
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_2250e67e	comment	22nd Century Klingons in Star Trek: Enterprise have a Battlecruiser (the D-5), a larger Battlecruiser (a recylced K'tinga), a large scout ship (the Raptor-class), a light cruiser (the 22nd Cenury Bird-of-Prey), a smaller, more shuttle-like scout (seen in the Pilot), and a horseshoe-shaped corvette (Goroth's starship). They also had a modified battlecruiser used as a tanker and crewed only by 12.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_22fa3992	comment	The Expanse: The TV adaptation prominently features a "Dreadnought" type of heavy cruiser in the Martian Congressional Republic Navy, with a hangar bay large enough to accommodate at least one and possibly more Missile Corvettes, which themselves are independent warships in the corvette/frigate range. The same series also features well-armed stealth-ships and various civilian spacecraft types ranging from shuttles to large freighters. The series does not have faster-than-light travel as all action takes place inside Earth's solar system, but it does have some technobabble that allows very fast "impulse" travel within the solar system and an alien built ring system to travel between hundreds of planetary systems.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_247422c7	comment	The Honor Harrington series uses almost all of the above and adds a few more, namely the Dreadnought as the second largest ships in most fleets, and the stupendous Super Dreadnoughts, which carry enough firepower to depopulate a planet, and are at one point described as having enough energy weapons to shatter a small moon, though that may have been hyperbole. Except fighters. They are explicitly mentioned as completely unfeasible in their situation. There are some smaller ships taking their tactical niche, mostly missile defence and tying the lighter fleet units, but these aren't tiny single-seat tin cans, but warships in their own right, almost the size of a pre-war destroyer (incidentally, called "tin-cans" in-universe) without the hyperdrive and crew count is closer to that of a WWII-era bomber than a traditional starfighter. Initially, they started out as some sort of gunboat/torpedo boat analogue: Too small to be used for anything other than patrol duties except in some very specific and unlikely circumstances. The one time they prove to be a serious threat (if not an effective one) to a modern warship, it is because they were some place they weren't expected to be, mistaken for a group of friendly patrol ships, and the warship in question nearly stumbled blithely right into their gunsights. Once propulsion and powerplant technology catches up a bit, and strategists allow for some changes in space combat doctrine for these small ships note mainly, bow "walls" allow them to be shielded while attacking nose-on to the enemy with a capital-grade Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon, rather than presenting them a broadside, they mature into the Goddamned Bats that we know and love from the later books. The naval ships of the Honorverse come in a handy categorical list. Here are the common ones, from largest to smallest: Superdreadnought: The largest ship-of-the-wall (analogous to the wet-navy "ships of the line", as in the line of battle), positively enormous with over a thousand crew. Often called "wallers", they are designed with heavy armor, heavy sidewalls, and heavy firepower, and are the core of any battle fleet. Later books introduce the pod superdreadnought or SD(P), a variant which is hollowed out to carry racks of deployable missile pods for the Macross Missile Massacre. Dreadnought: Essentially the same as an SD, only slightly smaller. Also called "wallers". Go out of fashion in later books after podnoughts — ships which roll massive numbers of missile pods — attain primacy. LAC Carrier: Designed to transport and service large numbers of LACs. Except for a few of the earliest models they have no offensive armament (just missile defense systems) relying on thier LAC wing to attack targets. The actual size varies quite a bit between nations and ship classes with Manticore favoring roughly dreadnaught-sized carriers while Haven prefers larger carriers that are about the same size as a superdreadnought. Battleship: Not built by Manticore in centuries, but serve as something of a jack-of-all-stats for the Havenite navy, which has many more systems to protect and would otherwise tie up much of its wall of battle in picketing said systems. Battlecruiser: The pride of the Royal Manticoran Navy and Manticore's favorite ship class, built to outgun smaller ships and outrun larger ones. Perfect for independent-squadron maneuvers, battlecruisers are so critical because of Manticore's enormous merchant marine. Rarely, if ever participate in the wall of battle, but often the anchor ship class of lighter pickets. Following the devlopment of the SD(P) there were some experiments with building pod carrying battlecruisers but they had to make to many sacrifices to facilitate this and the idea ended up being abandoned in favor of larger traditional battlecruisers. Heavy Cruiser: Smaller than a battlecruiser, and the largest ship called a "tin-can" in universe. Do a lot of commerce protection and also serve as support elements for battlecruiser task groups. Light Cruiser: Smaller and faster than a heavy cruiser, but serve largely the same function. Destroyer: The smallest hypercapable warship built by most first-rate navies, including Manticore and Haven, and mostly geared toward commerce protection. They also serve as scouts for full-on battle fleets or battlecruiser task groups. Frigate: The author has gone to a lot of trouble to explain why frigates, by the notion of a class between the Light Attack Craft and the Destroyer, don't make much economic sense. To cut the long story short, an Honorverse "frigate" would basically be a LAC with hyperdrive and the mass penalties involved; ton-for-ton a LAC would be more efficient for intrasystem duties. Frigates thus see no use whatsoever by any significant navy. However, they do exist. They're used by the very poorest Verge defense forces, by non-state groups like the Audubon Ballroom, and by some of the scrappier pirate bands— those who simply don't have the fiscal resources to field real military hardware but need SOMETHING armed and mobile. Dispatch/Courier Boat: Basically a shell wrapped around a hyperdrive, with a bridge, a few spare rooms, and not much else, these tiny ships are designed to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible and ride the upper limit of the "hyper bands" that allow FTL travel in the Honorverse. They are used by the navies of all major powers to coordinate their forces and, later on, to coordinate with each other's governments. Light Attack Craft: A patrol boat/torpedo boat analogue. Early books had them restricted to the system defense role (and third-rate navies) but technology improvements in later books resulted in them becoming a lot more useful. In addition to fighting lighter ships (battlecruisers and below) they are also used to screen fleets in a missile defense role.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_2acb12c5	comment	The X-Universe has M0 (Planet killers or battleships), M1 (Carriers), M2 (Destroyers), M3 (Heavy Fighters), M3+ (Enhanced Heavy Fighters), M4 (Interceptors), M4+ (heavy interceptors), M5 (Recon craft), M6 (Corvettes), M7 (Frigates), M7M (Missile Frigates), M8 (Bomber), and DO (Drone) ship classes. It also has GO, a special class of what amounts to unarmed cargo shuttles, used exclusively by the pacifist Goners. It also has four different freighter classes. TS Transports (Space Truckers), TP Personnel Transports (luxury passenger ships), TM Military Transports (TS with much of the cargo bay converted to fighter docking), and TL Station Transports (capital ship-sized freighter for carrying space stations from shipyard to job site). X3: Terran Conflict introduces the Aran, a one-of-kind Mobile Base. It is the only ship in the game capable of docking another Capital ship (in addition to loads and loads of fighters, corvettes and freighters), and has an immense cargobay. It is balanced by being slower than a Spacesuit and hellishly difficult to obtain, as it only spawns ramdomly (heavilly damaged and shieldless) during Blind Jumps. X3: Albion Prelude adds a small number of M2+ super-destroyers (the ATF Valhalla, Terran Kyoto, Boron Megalodon, and Xenon I) that are bigger, tougher, and slower than M2's and usually include an extra gimmick such as being able to dock M6's or having missile turrets. They were pioneered in the Xtended Terran Conflict Game Mod for the previous game and made Ascended Fanon.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_2f4271ed	comment	Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy features most of the ship classes from the standard fleet. However, due to the demands of FTL travel in this setting, all Adamist (mechanical) interstellar vessels need to be spherical, meaning the ships in the fleet differ only by size, whilst retaining a similar look. Nevertheless, they are divided into frigates, destroyers and battlecruisers. The Voidhawks (bitek sentient warships) also serve as interceptors and scouts thanks to their superior FTL and maneuverability. The big difference to the standard fleet is the lack of fighters, for the reasons of practicality. Instead, high-speed, high-G drones called 'combat wasps' actually do the fighting thousands of kilometres from their motherships.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_353b7af3	comment	Mid-23rd century Klingons, as shown on Star Trek: Discovery, have a fighter/armed shuttle ("Raider"), a bigger small warship (the crescent-shaped Bird of Prey), Destroyers and Battle-Cruisers (something they call D-7 but looks nothing like the ship for Star Trek: The Original Series, plus another battlecruiser-type, and a large destroyer that looks like something from the deep sea), as well as =T'Kuvma's= (later, Kol's) unique Sarcophagus Ship serving as a kind of flagship/heavy cruiser. There was also a ship present at the Battle of the Binary Stars called a "cleave ship," that was used somewhat like a torpedo ram to take out Admiral Anderson's ship.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_35ada324	comment	In Alien, it's often hard to tell what purpose specifically the military ships are supposed to serve in general duty, when not on "bughunts." However, the civilian ships are always clearly identified: Prometheus was a long-range science ship, Covenant a colonization vessel, the Nostromo was a freighter hauler, and the Betty is a mercenary vessel/merchant ship/blockade runner very much in line with Serenity or the Millennium Falcon. The Sulaco might be an assault ship or a troop transport. The Alien movies also have large shuttles that seem to have some independent star-travel ability, and in some cases, might function as the "control cockpit" for a larger ship that is mostly composed of cargo modules. The Auriga in the 4th movie might have been a military science ship or a warship repurposed for scientific research.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_3c65a1d1	comment	Played with in the Crest of the Stars. There are several superficially recognizable ship classes, all with the familiar names... But then you suddenly understand that these names are translations from the local Conlang and all these classes reflect completely different fleet organization and tactics. What about their battleships being completely Point Defenseless missile platforms and shifting all point defense onto special ship class, and so on... It's really not that different, honestly; the Battleship thing is the only real oddity, but even that's not that odd. Indeed, real world adaptions of the "Arsenal ship" concept, which was basically just a barge with a tiny crew and like 500 missile tubes might have used the BB or battleship hull numbers to reflect their role as heavy offensive warships. Further all point defense is not shifted onto a single ship class. More or less all the ships have some, often quite a bit, of point defense, but the dedicated vessels have even more, but then AA ships exist in the real world as well. They're not used that much differently either, really, the Battleships bombard at range, the cruisers are the main force that mixes it up closer, the AA ships protect from missiles, and the little frigates scurry around out in front being blown up in droves as cannon fodder. The main fleet mainly consists of destroyers, cruisers, corvettes and carriers. Destroyer as Fragile Speedster, Cruiser as Mighty Glacier, Corvettes are purely point-defense against missiles and are defenseless against any destroyer or cruiser. Carriers have no fighters nor guns, but instead launch crazy amount of AI controlled suicide bombers. Each of them have their own weaknesses, even the mighty cruiser can be blown up in one hit by a destroyer if its shields are down. Although a cruiser's main gun can blow up a destroyer in one hit, because lighter ships travel faster in hyperspace in the series, it makes sense for a team of destroyers Zerg Rush on the much slower cruisers, hoping with More Dakka a lucky shot could send its shields out of commission long enough for other destroyers to deliver the fatal blow.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_48664104	comment	In Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare The UNSA and the SDF have navies that consist largely of Carriers, Destroyers, Space fighters and small gunboats. The SDF does however have two one-off ships in the Olympus Mons and the Cerberus that could qualify as The Battlestar as they both carry fighters while having some heavy anti-ship weaponry that isn't seen on any other SDF ship.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_4937d0d9	comment	Sins of a Solar Empire has three general ship types: frigates, cruisers and capital ships. Frigates and cruisers are split into various combat and support types including: flak frigates, missile frigates, bombardment frigates, light carriers, heavy cruisers and so forth. Capital ships consist of carriers, battleships, Colony Ships, science vessels, and planet bombers. There's also fighters, bombers, orbital constructors, trade freighters, star bases, and superweapons. Rebellion adds corvettes (smaller than frigates) and titans (larger than normal capital ships).
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_4a6ef2c5	comment	The Space Battleship Yamato takes the trope Space Is an Ocean quite literally, so of course there is a lot of this in the show and the remake Space Battleship Yamato 2199. The humans have Frigates, Destroyers and fighters which are vastly underpowered when compared against the Gamilon's fleet which consists of Battlecruisers as flag ships flanked with carriers, cruisers and large numbers of all of the smaller ships; they even have submarines in space. While the eponymous is humanities first prototype Battlestar with a Wave-Motion Gun, copious amounts of guns and a small squad of fighters. 2202, Earth's fleet once again has cruisers, several versions of battleships, and more genuine battlestars, and adds the Ginga as a Banner Ship.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_4edff9aa	comment	While not generally including a fleshed-out fleet, the Star Fox series has a number of ships that fit into the classes: the player-controlled Arwings are typical space fighters, the Great Fox is an Assault Carrier being used as a mobile base, and the enemies and bosses have included mecha, Battlecruisers, repurposed Science Vessels and weirder things, including three ships that combine into one ship and later a robot.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_532d1ef1	comment	Almost everything is possible in Star Ruler. The game's default designs include Fighters, Bombers, Destroyers, Assault Carriers, Freighters, Star Bases, Space Stations, and Colony Ships. Using the ship designer allows you to stick with this or build them any old how in defiance of convention.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary uses most of the types on this page, from troop transports up through frigates and cruisers all the way to massive Battle Fortresses. There are no fighters, with automated cruise missiles being used instead. The comic also adds its own class — Battleplates, colossal armoured ships designed to take asteroid impacts the hard way. They are designed to carry enough hypernet-linked drones to create a wide enough perimeter around a planet, to have enough time to react to a relativistic asteroid aimed at the planet, and also carry enough weaponry to destroy said relativistic asteroid with extreme speed. This also makes them very good at destroying everything else. They are unusual in that the bulk of their armament uses gravy, rather than the usual railguns, lasers and particle beams. Only humans build these, and they are among the most feared individual vessels in space. At one point the characters consider adding another category to this list when they get their hands on a particularly large Fabber, basically a Mobile Factory, and consider adding engines, a helm and crew quarters so they can christen it Scrapyard of Insufferable Arrogance. Mainly to make fun of the Ob'enn ship naming scheme. Petey adds another variation called Penetrators, which are basically (sometimes) recoverable missiles which also contain a drop-pod. Flung up to near-c by a launcher, a single one can capture an Ob'enn Thunderhead by simultaneously scramming the main annie plant (and do so safely most of the time, which in itself is very impressive), and implant an agent to subvert the AI. Another innovation of the Toughs is the 'Very Dangerous Array', a wide ranging network of independent missiles that doubles as a powerful sensor array, able to detect and retaliate against incoming hostiles at the same time. (With the logical drawback in that being used as munitions decreases its ability as a sensor array.) There's also mention of the Planet Mercenary Rating System, further explained in the Planet Mercenary RPG, which is used to provide a weay of comparing the combat effectiveness of ships between different species who might have different definitions for ship classes. The rating system uses a letter to define the size of the ship followed by a number that represents the threat it poses.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_5ccce5a8	comment	Tech Infantry has most of the standard ship types. A list of most ships in Earth Fleet can be found here. A nifty size comparison chart for ships from Tech Infantry, Babylon 5, Star Wars, and Star Trek can be found here◊.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_62aa95a6	comment	The Lost Fleet is a fully formed armada based on real-life navies. The core fleet elements are battlecruisers, battleships, and heavy cruisers screened by light cruisers and destroyers. There are no dedicated carriers, and their Fast Attack Craft are rarely used and would be considered corvettes rather than fighters. Either way, they are woefully short-ranged, weak and easily destroyed; in practice, the smallest relevant ship class is the destroyer. The Syndicate Worlds "Hunter-Killer" ships straddle the line between heavy fighters and light corvettes. Also of note are the "fast fleet auxiliary" ships, which are basically mobile factories and repair shops. The only thing "fast" about them is their capacity to get in trouble. There is a twist, though. While most would assume that battleships would be the postings of choice for any perspective commander, this has changed with the Forever War between The Alliance and the Syndicate Worlds. With complex tactics being a lost art, ships now individually charge into battle guns blazing, further increasing the horrible losses on both sides. This new Honor Before Reason mentality also means that battleships are now seen as postings for cowards or incompetent commanders, as a true warrior doesn't hide behind thick armor and strong shields. Battlecruisersnote which appear to use the Royal Navy's definition, being fast and heavily armed but relatively lightly-armoured are now crewed by the most capable officers, who literally lead their fleets into battle, and have a ridiculously high attrition rate. Many low-priority Syndic systems are only protected by "nickel corvettes", so named because 'when you've got to spend them, they don't last long.' When Geary first sees them in the novels, he is astonished that they are still used, as they were considered obsolete even in his time 100 years ago. Though it begins to make rather more sense when you realise that the military of the Syndicate Worlds is designed to be used against its own people as much as external enemies, up to and including Orbital Bombardment of rebellious provinces. You don't need a lot of warship to do that. The "Beyond The Frontier" sequel series starts to vary the trope a bit, throwing in no less than three alien races and a third human faction, all with their own ideas about warship design.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_65fe96e5	comment	The Blue Planet mod adds the United Earth Federation's "frigates", which are a classic example of a Gundam-style Assault Carrier. It also introduces huge logistics ships on all sides.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_674f5fd3	comment	The CoDominium: Standard space navies tend to have capital ships and small auxiliaries. Pournelle was aware of the various roles different ship types played. In fact, he choose the type of the INSS MacArthur based on its capabilities.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_69085a0	comment	Macross uses all of these for its colonization fleets, with the Macross-class ships typically being Dreadnought sized Carriers with a Gun Platform built in, whole squadrons of Assault Carriers, colonization ships in the form of gigantic domed cities, fighters, bombers, destroyers, cruisers, mecha, and throwing in specialized ships such as factories, entertainment, science/research, farms, and so forth. The only one they don't have yet (though the Zentraedi probably do) are Worldships.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_6e0e351	comment	Escape Velocity: In Nova, the Federation and Auroran Empire each have an interceptor, a fighter-bomber, a gunship, a battlecruiser, and a carrier (in both cases, the carriers could be classified as Type 2 battlestars as they possess moderate weapons and heavy armor). The Federation adds a scoutship and prototype a (larger) gunship during the game, while the Aurorans later develop a fast battleship designed for close-range brawling. The Polaris use living ships equivalent to fighters, gunships, frigates, destroyers, and two different Type 1 battlestars (one of which is massive and armed enough to serve double duty as a dreadnaught). Meanwhile the Rebels have an interceptor, fighter-bomber, three different gunships, and two different cruisers. While most pirate ships are fighters, Blockade Runners and Q-ships, they also have a carrier and a capital ship that can take different roles. The Vell-os psychically generate their ships on the spot, but the three seen configurations roughly correspond to fighter, frigate and cruiser, with sufficiently strong and skilled Vell-os to generate the latter two also capable of making any ship they are on acting as a sort of carrier by separately generating and controlling from a distance a few of the fighter-analogues. In Classic, the Confederate warship line goes from Patrol Ship (a fighter — descriptions and its long name all call it a "patrol fighter") to Gunboat to Frigate to Cruiser (which in EV refers to a Battlestar/Dreadnought class, not the cruiser class described above). The Rebels have their own Cruiser design, a Manta class of Mook Mobile fighters left over from the Great Offscreen War, and a Destroyer which is obviously a converted Argosy freighter, a ship also popular with Space Pirates. Of the civilian ships available to the player, the Corvette is actually a heavy cruiser, the Clipper is a combination small freighter and light warship, and the Kestrel is The Battlestar that players will almost inevitably buy once they have the money. In Override, the UE starts with a fighter, a destroyer and a carrier (effectively a type 2 battlestar), and later adds a cruiser (effectively a type 1 battlestar). The Voinians have a supply ship (the UE uses civilian contractors/ships), a 'heavy fighter' (more-or-less analogous to a fighter-bomber), an interceptor, a frigate, a cruiser and builds a dreadnought in the course of the story (which is promptly destroyed before it is even properly deployed). The Crescent Strands, on the other hand, pull off much shorter lineups with more ambiguous defined classes: the Zidagar have a fighter and what's more or less an assault carrier, the Igadzra have what's more or less a gunboat and a battleship by nature if not by name, while the Azdgari have an interceptor/fighter, what's more or less a patrol boat and a battlestar — but the Igadzra 'gunboat' and the Azdgari 'patrol boat' are actually the same multipurpose ship at base, with different outfitting and playing different roles in the navies. The Cosmic Frontier version will add a few more ships, such as a monitor (a UE smaller-than-destroyer patrol ship, roughly analogous to a cutter/corvette) and make clear that the UE monitor and destroyer were originally repurposed freighters even if they have by the present become designs of their own.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_6e1d5f36	comment	The Peacekeepers of Farscape have several classes of ships from fighters to capital ships of various types. Assorted other ships show up over the course of the series. The major Empires seem to have one giant battlecarrier (command carriers, dreadnoughts), a fighter-type ship like a prowler or the horseshoe-shaped Scarran equivalent, and a Marauder/Stryker-type, which is like a Heavy Fighter or Gunboat combined with a Dropship. In the Scarrans' case, theirs is also a Lightning Bruiser. The PKs also have a smaller capital type ship, the Pantak-Class Vigilante, which looks to function like a frigate in fleet formations or like a light cruiser on its own. Dialog establishes the Peacekeepers have several other small ships including "scrub runners" and another type identified only by serial numbers, that they use to train pilots before the traineers are considered ready to fly the much more sophisticated Prowlers. Depending on whether or not one applies Broad Strokes to reconcile the show's sometimes updated visual effects, the Peacekeepers might actually have two types of Marauders, one boxy and the other much sleeker, and possibly carrying a larger contingent of troops. The Peacekeepers tend to use the latter type as an all-purpose shuttle, transport, scoutship and gun platform though. Some Marauders, assigned to Retrieval Squads, even carry the same "immobilizer pulse" weapon as the larger ''Pantak'-class Vigilantes. Peacekeepers also use alien mercenaries who sometimes have their own ships, such as in the case of the Coreeshi Bounty Hunters, who used a spidery-looking ship with landing legs to board Moya, and the Traegans, whose ship was armed with weapons and harpoons to snare ships that trespassed in Peacekeeper territory. The Traegan ship even had a Peacekeeper officer assigned to oversee the patrol and capture operations. Talyn, a hybrid of Peacekeeper and Leviathan technology who was a living warship, was frequently called a "gunship," although in Farscape, it was never clear if "gunship" refers to size, tonnage, armament, or just any very heavily armed ship other than the above named types. Talyn was constantly growing and revealing new capabilities, such as stealth travel and intelligence gathering. He was also capable of long-range independent operation without support vessels. Scarrans also have a modular-looking freighter that has been shown to double as a prisoner transport with facilities for conducting brutal experimentation on non-Scarran prisoners. In addition, though it's never seen, the Scarrans are stated in dialog to have some kind of stealth capsule/boarding pod that Alcar used to board Talyn while the latter was "blinded" by the solar flares of Dam-Ba-Da's sun. It's not clear if this pod can carry more than one Scarran or whether it has the range and specs to operate independently. Also unclear is whether the pod/capsule actually possesses any kind of "stealth technology." Farscape characters frequently refer to "stealth vectors" that ships supposedly use to approach other ships when they want to avoid being detected, although some Luxan ships (see below) have the ability to cloak. Talyn's sensors external sensors were inoperative at the time he was boarded by the Scarran. The Luxans follow this pattern, too, with a large cruiser-type (the Assault Piercer, seen early in the show as a derelict), a "Deep Space Voyager," mentioned but not seen, which sounds like a dedicated long-range scout or explorer ship, and two smaller ship-types, D'argo's small, powerful attack fighter- an "Eradicator," and the similar gunship/dropship- the "Penetrator"- which is like a Luxan version of a Marauder, which both have powerful weapons, shields, and a cloaking device ("deception shroud"). In the comics, the Luxans also have small scoutships similar to the Penetrator and Eradicator lineages but with fewer weapons and passenger capacity. The Sheyangs also use fighter pods deployed from their capital ships. The Peacekeeper Wars shows two full battlefleets going at it: Peacekeepers and Scarrans. That series introduces the Scarran Emperor's command ship, a smaller warship than a dreadnought but one that is heavily armed, and faster even than a Stryker. It also introduces a different variant on the Command Carrier, a Flagship variant with what looked like extra armor, and which lacked the smaller ring-like structures on the standard version. Ilanics (a cousin species to the Luxans) and their Scorvian enemies both had "cruisers" in the episode where they appeared, and the cruisers appeared to be of very similar or identical design, so it's possible that one species stole their tech from the other. The first cruiser (an Ilanic cruiser) was understaffed by just two scientists and was being used to research an experimental weapon. When the cruiser was about to be destroyed it launched a small shuttle, identical to the one used by the Tavleks in another first season episode (it was stock footage). The second cruiser showed up pretending to be an Ilanic ship but it was actually a Scorvian vessel in league with one of the first cruisers' crewmembers, who was a Scorvian in disguise. It's not clear if the Scorvians were operating a stolen Ilanic ship just for this deception, as the identical first cruiser was said to be an Ilanic design, or if the two species commonly use the same starship class. At least two Plokavian ships show up; one was an arms dealer's ship that was barely seen before it was blown up; the other was much, much larger and also was barely seen, but it appeared to exercise some kind of official Plokavian authority, so it probably wasn't just a merchant ship like the first one.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_70814599	comment	The ships of Stargate SG-1 can be partially classed into a Standard Sci-Fi Fleet, although most space-faring civilizations seem to use only a very few ship classes (and of course the titular Stargates make the use of ships optional altogether in some situations). The Goa'uld have the largest variety, with the fighter-like Death Gliders, small cargo ships that are essentially shuttles, medium-sized bombers, dedicated troop transports, and Ha'tak mother ships, which are basically Assault Carriers, carrying both lots of cannons and lots of Death Gliders. Some powerful Goa'uld also developed larger Capital Ship classes. The Asgard mainly use various types of battleship, the Replicator Cruisers serve more as transports than anything, the Lucian Alliance mainly use converted freighters and Ha'taks, and the Ori have their massive Motherships. Most large ships in the 'verse seem to be Battlestars, including all large Earth vessels, though a few alien races do provide exceptions (for example, the Asgard can't afford to waste pilots in weak fighters due to their low numbers and negative population growth). The Wraith, of all races, approach this trope the most, having Dart fighters, slightly-larger scout ships (only one is ever shown, though), supply ships (carrying people for food), cruisers, and massive Hive ships. Both of the latter are battlestars, carrying large numbers of Darts as well as armed with powerful energy cannons. There was also the one-off Super-Hive, which got big as a result of a powerful energy source. It could probably take on an Ori mothership and win. The humans seem to focus mainly on Space Fighters (which makes sense, given that their ships were first developed by the Air Force). Types appearing in the series include the X-301 Interceptor, the X-302 Hyperspace Fighter, and the F-302 Fighter-Interceptor (a serial version of the X-302 without the unstable hyperdrive). The only capital ships to appear are the BC-303 and its successor, the 304. This ties in to how the ships are designated as well: "X" seems to stand for "Experimental" and "F" for "Fighter", and presumably "BC" stands for "Battlecruiser". There was only one BC-303 ever made, the Prometheus. When first introduced, the Daedalus was claimed to be the sister ship of the Prometheus, even though it was much larger and featured a substantially different design. Later, they just call all subsequent ships Daedalus-class. It's also unclear if the Prometheus was ever redesignated as BC-303, as it was originally introduced as X-303. By the time the three series end, six have been produced, of which only four are still functioning (one was destroyed by the Ori, and one was crippled by the Super-hive). The follow-up novels confirm that, due to the Great Recession, no new ship constructions are in the budget, and the Sun-Tzu is still drifting in deep space with no resources to retrieve it and with many wanting to scuttle the ship as too damaged to repair.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_72b6933f	comment	The Iron Tribe (Humans) and most other tribes in Heroic Age used mostly Fighters, Cruisers and the occasional Battleship, but many tribes also had one or two Space Station-sized Space Guns (like the Iron Tribe's Ruby and Topaz Cores). The Iron Tribe also had two similarly-scaled Science Vessels, the Pearl Core which used force fields and gravity manipulation, and the Blue Core which disgorged hundreds of Attack Drones. The Argonaut, on the other hand, was a Battlestar that carried mecha and small satellite-like drones instead of Fighters.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_73d7930f	comment	The battle in Deep Space Nine's "Sacrifice of Angels" shows an entire Federation battle fleet (of 600 ships) in action, with the Galaxy-class vessels used as battleships, the Excelsior-class vessels as cruisers, the Miranda-class vessels as frigates and escorts, the fighters as skirmishers and the Defiant as a sort of flying cavalry unit that can smash through holes in the enemy lines.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_74c659e6	comment	Most fleets in Rocket Age pack everything from small fighters to large capital ships.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_755b343f	comment	The Halo series is chock-full of these. The human and Covenant navies conform to the standard frigate/cruiser/etc. hierarchy, and the humans use modern naval ranks (even the Master Chief is named after a real-life navy rank: Master Chief Petty Officer). Both sides make heavy uses of dropships, and there is an actual ship called the Dreadnought. Also includes examples of World Ships (the Covenant capital of High Charity) and Space Guns (the UNSC's orbital "Super MAC" platforms). Though it bears mentioning that the UNSC ships called Carriers and the Covenant ships called Assault Carriers, while having their eponymous function, also have the heavy muscle in ship-to-ship engagements to double as Battlestars. The Supercarriers for both sides take this up a notch. To give you a good estimate of how big Covie Supercarriers are, they are roughly 5 times the size of the Assault Carrier◊ (shown on bottom left corner). They're 27 km long, bigger than even Star Wars's Banner Ship example. There are giant repair and refit stations, too; on the human side, they're essentially giant squares of titanium a kilometer on a side. They were able to repair and refit six destroyers at a time, and even saw combat by being used as giant sacrificial shields large enough to protect an entire human fleet. Even larger than those, the Hopeful was built by welding two of those together, sandwiching a couple fusion power cores, jump engines, and basic defenses... and also building a gigantic state-of-the-art-hospital the size of a small city inside. What happens when you build a Tender ship the size of a Battlestar? This. Even bigger than those, however, was the Covenant space station Unyielding Hierophant, which was 30 km long. Forerunners followed a similar mechanic as well. On the base level were War Sphinxes and Seekers, a manned or unmanned cross between a Space Fighter and mecha. Then you'd have standard warships such as dreadnoughts◊ and cruisers,◊ a single one of which had enough power to smash through an entire fleet of opposition. Finally, there were the aptly-named Fortress-class vessels, massive vessels each 100 kilometers long, capable of holding massive fleets of their own within. Of course, all but the Halo and Shield Installations were dwarfed by the ridiculously massive Mantle's Approach,◊ a Battlestar among Battlestars, sizing up to a height of 371 kilometers.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_7668653b	comment	In Mass Effect 3, the massive quarian liveships, giant hydroponics bays which also contain much of the quarian population, are upgraded with Thanix cannons, reverse-engineered from Reaper tech. This effectively turns them into dreadnoughts in terms of firepower, although definitely not in terms of endurance. The quarians insist that they're technically not dreadnoughts, as this would violate the Treaty of Farixen, which they're not signatories to, anyway. Joker points out the problem of equipping them as Glass Cannon warships, and considers it unforgivably irresponsible, considering that these ships house their civilian population and that the guns make them high priority targets in a fight.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_77677ed1	comment	Sword of the Stars has ships divided into cruiser, destroyer and dreadnought sizes, with each size having different choices for chassis and weapons loadout that can serve several of the above roles (the freighter and Colony Ships are destroyer-size though later techs allow for cruiser versions, a torpedo ship can be made by giving a cruiser the torpedo section and filling all its medium/large turrets with missiles, the Siege Driver tech lets you build a dreadnought-size space gun, etc.). In lieu of space fighters are AI-controlled drones and assault shuttles (anti-planetary bombers carried individually by destroyers or later in groups by cruisers). The sequel ups the ante by introducing the new leviathan-class ships, super-sized dreadnoughts. The destroyer meanwhile has been relegated to the role of escort ships without FTL drives and are deployed from larger-sized vessels when they arrive at battlefields. The developers have stated why they have drones and destroyer-sized gunboats/corvettes instead of fighters: they'd just get swatted by point defense (and drones often are). The humans also have the Node Missiles, destroyer- (cruiser- in the sequel) sized weapons equipped with FTL drives. They are faster and tougher than any other missile, and several of these can destroy most ships. Unfortunately, they have since been Nerfed (damage significantly decreased, cost significantly increased) to the point where they're not worth even researching. Several races also have specialized ships related to their form of Faster-Than-Light Travel. The Zuul have giant space drills that punch temporary holes in space-time. The Hivers have gateships, which deploy to form their Portal Network. The Morrigi have gravboats, which speed up the fleet during FTL and slow down enemies in battle. Other ships added in the expansions include freighters, q-ships, patrol craft, starbase constructors, and propaganda ships. Also of note is that there are no troopships on account of there being no ground combat whatsoever. Rather planets that refuse to surrender are bombarded from orbit. If you don't want to wreck the environment too badly you use assault shuttles or biowar missiles.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect uses fighters (not technically considered ships), frigates (~130-200 meters), cruisers (500-700 meters), dreadnoughts (~1,000 meters) and carriers (ditto). Cruisers are the standard combatants (the "poor bloody infantry" of space combat), frigates attack in squadrons while taking the dual role of missile boats (though they have large main guns too) and anti-fighter platforms (thanks to carrying extensive GARDIAN suites) dreadnoughts are ultra-rare capital ships, and carriers are seemingly much more common capital ships with less weaponry but lots of fighters. Destroyers (the one known example is 168 meters) and corvettes also exist and are used, but they're rarely mentioned compared to the former types. The Normandy is a frigate designed with advanced stealth capabilities to allow for recon and covert insertions deep into enemy territory. The Normandy SR2 blurs the line between frigate and cruiser in terms of firepower due to its upgrades, which leave it armed, shielded and armoured enough to take down a cruiser. In terms of size, however, it appears the first Normandy is small for a frigate (Admiral Mikhailovich notes as much), likely passing for a corvette in-universe, while the second ship is a more front-line size. It's worth noting that the original Normandy cost more than a Heavy Cruiser, and the second's upgrades are outright stated to be impractically expensive on top of the ship being almost twice the size (i.e. in line with a normal front-line frigate). Though this gives it the ability to punch above its weight, everyone sensible still hesitates to pit the ship against anything bigger than it is, as the true utility of the Normandy is as a troopship. With its speed, maneuverability and stealth, it excels in dropping small teams into vulnerable locations, then getting them out again. It undergoes Uniqueness Decay by the third game, where stealth tech is common enough that even some dreadnoughts have it. The dreadnoughts and cruisers in the ME universe overlap significantly with Space Gun. While they have dozens of broadside guns, plus torpedo tubes and laser point-defense turrets, their defining feature among all races is that they have main weapons that are between 0.45 and 1 km in length. They're still well-armed outside of their main gun, however. The in-universe fluff implies that they typically stay close to home to act as a strategic deterrent against attacks on their homeworlds. It's also mentioned that dreadnoughts are at their best as long-range artillery pieces: their projectiles have higher velocities than those of any other ship type, and range in space is limited solely by the opponent's ability to dodge. Which is why the best tactic against them is to close in to "knife range", thus avoiding their main gun, as the dreadnought, like other ships, has to turn its whole body to bring its main gun to bear. It still has tons of broadside turrets for back-up, though (the Kiliminjaro-class, for example, has 78 broadside turrets running 40% of the ship's width each on either side, for a total of 156 guns). Regardless, they're much more vulnerable in knife-fight range and require the use of smaller ships for defense against the enemy Zerg Rush. This is why the Destiny Ascension is threatened in the first game. The geth ships appear way too close for it to use its main gun effectively. In Mass Effect 3, the massive quarian liveships, giant hydroponics bays which also contain much of the quarian population, are upgraded with Thanix cannons, reverse-engineered from Reaper tech. This effectively turns them into dreadnoughts in terms of firepower, although definitely not in terms of endurance. The quarians insist that they're technically not dreadnoughts, as this would violate the Treaty of Farixen, which they're not signatories to, anyway. Joker points out the problem of equipping them as Glass Cannon warships, and considers it unforgivably irresponsible, considering that these ships house their civilian population and that the guns make them high priority targets in a fight. Ship construction in Mass Effect seems heavily limited by needing to ensure every single ship they build has quickly recharging shields and point-defense lasers to cover every flank against missiles, which gets exponentially more expensive the more they up-size, hence their largest warships typically only go a bit over a kilometer in length and a few million tons in mass. When shielding isn't a factor, they can build much bigger; the Heretic Station is an FTL-capable ship built by the pre-Robot War quarians and it's a whopping 1.55 billion tons. Arcturus Station is another FTL-capable craft, and it was built in four years by a minor power with the resources of a single planet (this being before Earth's first contact with the Citadel), and it's 218 million tons.note The codex describes it as a "Stanford Torus type habitat, 5 kilometers in diameter." NASA projected the original Stanford Torus as 1.8 km in diameter, and estimated it would mass 10 million tons. Simple application of the Square-Cube Law gets you 218 million tons by volumetrically scaling a 1.8 km diameter Torus up to 5 km. The Nexus in Mass Effect: Andromeda, despite being built as a side project by a few corporate investors, easily masses several billion tons and is over 15 kilometers in length. The four Arks, transport ships considered a side project of the aforementioned side project, are each 1.5 kilometers and 17 million tons. The liveships themselves are some of the largest craft seen in the series, easily dozens of times more massive than a dreadnought owing to the enormous size of the bulbous front. Arming such ships with appropriate guns is hardly a problem either, as the quarians managed to procure dreadnought-level spinal weapons for their liveships despite being dirt poor (they don't appear to have installed an appropriate number of broadside guns, though). The problem in mass-producing dreadnought-sized ships as warships without the appropriate shielding and secondary weapons is basically the same as with the quarian liveships: they'd all be glass cannons. The races of the setting instead favor Quality over Quantity, especially since the last total war they were in was hundreds of years ago. The Reapers' fleets consist of a mixture. The big, Sovereign-sized ships are simply referred to as "capital ships" while much smaller Reaper warships (around the mass of a Citadel Space frigate, like the Normandy SR-2) are referred to as "destroyers." They also include troop transports and "processor" ships which turn organics into husks or raw material to be used to assemble more Reapers. Humans were also the only species to come up with carriers. They were built to get around the restriction of dreadnoughts imposed on Citadel races, though we don't ever get to see them in the series. According to the codex, they were extremely vulnerable, because the hangar bays effectively created routes into the soft interior of the ship, so they would hang back in fights and were always escorted. Other races do use fighters, but instead of having a dedicated craft, cruisers and dreadnoughts both act as The Battlestar.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_79ec0dff	comment	Infinite Space has most of the listed types, with standard destroyers, cruisers, and battleships making up the bulk of most fleets. Fighters are also available, but most are carried on hybrid ships; dedicated carriers are limited to certain navies with highly-advanced technology and a fleet doctrine that supports fighter use. In addition, a few nations have more exotic ships, like giant flying guns or dedicated sensor and communications vessels.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_7ac9ac71	comment	Alexis Carew follows Age of Sail naval classifications, with boats,note non-FTL shuttles carried by bigger ships, capable of atmospheric flight cutters and pinnaces,note small single-mast FTL ships barquesnote bigger, single mast, sloops,note two masts on the dorsal and ventral surfaces frigates,note three masts and ships of the line.note subdivided into third-, second-, and first-raters, with multiple decks of guns There are also cruisers, STL-only defense ships far too big to go FTL due to the cost and complexity of the required sailplan, but since they don't have to deal with the energy-dampening effects of darkspace they can carry more advanced armaments such as missiles and laser cannons that are powered directly by the reactor, rather than the hand-loaded single-shot capacitor-powered guns on FTL ships.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_7b199ad	comment	From corvettes to dreadnoughts, the whole Jutland lineup is present in Celestus.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_7dad8347	comment	FreeSpace had Cruisers as the smallest capital ship, with Destroyers actually being the "Battleship" class. In the second game, the "Corvette" class was added as an intermediate size between Cruiser and Destroyer. Other ship classes include freighters, science vessels, and AWACS ships. The Blue Planet mod adds the United Earth Federation's "frigates", which are a classic example of a Gundam-style Assault Carrier. It also introduces huge logistics ships on all sides. Blue Planet tech room descriptions go into detail how the shocking defeats of the second game led to a shift in GTVA doctrine regarding space combat. In short, big, slow Destroyers are outmoded (the newest designs are produced in fewer numbers and built for mobility and tactical flexibility), Corvettes are the new ships-of-the-line, and massive forward firepower is prioritized alongside the Hyperspeed Ambush. The Wings of Dawn mod runs straight with it, though Destroyer class ships are nowhere to be seen as of the first installment. The unique ship Guardian Angel technically is an assault carrier, much smaller than Freespace's Orion and houses only a squadron of strike crafts instead of a whole fleet of them.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_7de8951a	comment	Big ships are the deciding factor in any given Traveller battle however no fleet can do without small ships as they can help dominate space or prevent domination and are thus an important strategic asset. In the Intersteller Wars, a vast Vilani armada could be paralysed because Terran raiders had done so much damage to the space lanes.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_7efcefbb	comment	Star Realms has the main focus of the game trying to build the trope. Starting off with weak Scouts and some "Vipers" (something like obsolete space fighter), the players use these to get stronger and more powerful ships and bases. One of the factions, the Blobs, have a ship called the "Ram". Based on the name and the artwork, it's used to plow through other ships. Another ship, the Parasite, looks like it latches itself on other ships and taking it over — a cross between a puppeteer parasite and Boarding Pod. Despite the name, the Cult's Mech ships are not humanoid mecha.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_7fcecc80	comment	The Wings of Dawn mod runs straight with it, though Destroyer class ships are nowhere to be seen as of the first installment. The unique ship Guardian Angel technically is an assault carrier, much smaller than Freespace's Orion and houses only a squadron of strike crafts instead of a whole fleet of them.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_81692f99	comment	If you can imagine it, you can build it in StarMade. Although you can build theoretically anything, ships inevitably tend to drift towards a few types that prove the most practical, while most generated NPC ships are already fairly standard. You can even reconstruct the Enterprise (or any ship from any sci-fi story ever, but usually it's the Enterprise).
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_84dfb5d5	comment	Galactic Civilizations has tiny (fighter), small (bomber), medium (corvette), large (cruiser) and massive (battleship) chassis for ships, and space stations. Depending on what you stick on the chassis, they may fill several of the above-mentioned roles — you can, for instance, make a massive-sized Colony Ship by sticking several colony modules on a massive chassis. With a high Logistics rating, you can even create actual standard sci-fi fleets by mixing together everything from battlecruisers to heavy fighters. Or you could just go with There Is No Kill Like Overkill, build nothing but the biggest hammers you have available, and begin blasting. However, Galactic Civilization fighters lack what is often their primary asset in fiction, a greater chance of dodging shots fired at them. Instead, the advantages of building warships with smaller hulls are lower technology requirements, ships that are usually cheap enough to be built quickly (even by your less industrialised worlds) and fielded in larger numbers (thanks to lower upkeep costs), the fact these small vessels can be combined into larger squadrons/fleets than their bulkier counterparts, and the related effect that this allows them to take apart larger ships because the bigger vessels can only kill one at a time.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_85b998b	comment	Conquest: Frontier Wars, at least for the Terrans. The Celareons also qualify, except they don't have fighters and carriers, while the majority of the Mantis fleet is made up of carriers, including their heaviest ship. The Terrans also have a space gun, capable of shooting halfway across a star system and can One-Hit Kill almost any ship. Interestingly, Terrans don't have any fighters or carriers until the technology is provided by the Mantis. Yes, humans have forgotten how to build carriers and can't build small ships. During the first part of the campaign, their typical role as disposable grunts for Terrans is performed by the Corvettes, which are actually the only Terran ships that automatically destroy enemy fighters.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam is the (sub-) Trope Namer for the Assault Carrier, which often serves as the Cool Starship for the main cast, and otherwise features primarily Cruisers and Battleships with Mobile Suits as their primary space fighter. As well as, naturally, Space Colonies and other stations. It should be noted that after the One Year War, nearly all ships in the Universal Century (and in most of the Alternate Universes for that matter) carried Mobile Suits, so the Battlestar and Carrier classifications were pretty redundant. In the original Mobile Suit Gundam, the White Base was an experimental assault carrier designed to carry, service and launch mobile suits in addition to engaging enemy ships. It was uniquely able to fly in atmosphere and re-enter, while conventional ships launched their own re-entry pod. The Salamis-Class and Magellan-Class were designed for 'big gun' engagements, the Salamis a fast cruiser, the Magellan a straightforward battleship. Their lack of mobile suit capability, however worked out disastrously against Zeon. Suits had to be strapped wherever there was empty space on the hull. Columbus-Class ships, unarmed vessels used for resupply, were converted to suit carriers and repair stations to fill the gaps, and in the Girhen's Greed series of games, the Salamis and Magellan were converted to carriers by attaching massive external hangars to them. They were refit for 0083 with additional guns, though they were still fairly Point Defenseless. In Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam these Salamis ships became the Salamis-Kai, with the front of the cruiser converted to a four-suit hangar and catapult. Zeon, on the other hand utilized mobile suit carriers from the start, the Musai-class carrier being able to carry two suits internally and two more in its re-entry shuttle. However, they were literally Point Defenseless with not a single anti-air gun and encountering Federation mobile suits with them was predictably disastrous. The RX-78 GP03 Gundam Dendrobium from Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory is an example of a mecha (the Stamen) with a Detatchable Drive (the Orchis). This also applies to the METEOR units for both the Freedom and Justice Gundams in Gundam SEED Most Gundam shows set in the Universal Century make use of Base Jabbers, a detachable drive system that the mobile suits could stand upon and use to save fuel. They came in two flavors; an atmospheric variant with jet engines in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, and a space-faring version, little more than rocket engines with a cockpit for manual flight. They could be used with or without a crew and were often launched into enemies when their fuel was nearly expended as improvised weapons. Spacefighters were used fairly heavily in the original series. 08th MS Team and Stardust Memory. In addition to standard spacefighters like the Saberfish, 'Core Fighters' doubled as escape pods for the protagonist mecha — this was also used in many other Gundam series. While they were reasonably effective used in tandem with the protagonist mechas, transformable mobile suits made fighters a rarity in the later Universal Century. MS IGLOO takes a look at a few prototype weapons, two of them are a missile ship and a space gun. The original Mobile Suit Gundam has the RB-79 Ball, a weaponized Utility Pod used to support Mobile Suits. Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team features a close-range variant of the Ball, the RB-79K, which one character uses to take down a Zaku. In 'MS IGLOO,' Zeon develops an equivalent weapon called the 'Oggo,' which uses standard mobile suit hand armaments fro economy. The Mobile Armors of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED is a fighter based on a Utility Pod design. Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn has the Garencieres, a camouflaged Sleeve freighter seen in the opening sequence. While it lacks any sort of armament, it is fully outfitted to repair, launch and resupply most standard mobile suits. In a pinch, it can defend itself by extending robotic arms to use mobile suits and their hand weapons as turrets. Additionally, nearly every other ship class from the UC verse makes an appearance at some point. Many vehicles served double duty in the Ground forces as well, and vice versa. Detachable Drives were often used to deploy and transport Mobile Suits through the air in planetside battles, while Mobile Armors operated in space as much as they did on the ground, often in the place of Space Fighters as in SEED.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	Corvettes, Frigates, Destroyers: Namechecked by the Corellian Corvette (Tantive IV, Leia's ship from A New Hope, is one of these), Lancer anti-fighter frigates, and Marauder destroyers. More generally, any self-respecting work in Star Wars has at least one of these.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_8df64af6	comment	Another, stand alone book by David Weber, The Apocalypse Troll, begins with two full Standard Sci-Fi Fleet battle groups. All of the cruisers and destroyers on both sides are either destroyed or go incoherent before the big ships make the Takashita Translation but after that there is still the Defender (a Battlestar) and an enemy dreadnought and a carrier surviving. They proceed to blast the crap out of each other across time and space until only the fighter wing commanders from both sides become the Sole Survivors and a Terminator Twosome since they find themselves a handful of centuries in (their) past.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_8fe84226	comment	Multiplayer strategy space sim Allegiance (2000) has a wide variety of ships that a team can develop for its players, the better to crush the other team. Because the emphasis is on small ships, most of the classes would fit under "Space Fighter" in the standard sci-fi fleet. All factions start with Scouts, which are very light fighters with good sensors. Most also get either Fighters, which are Jack of All Stats of combat ships, or Interceptors, which are tougher and less flexible, designed for short-range combat. A team must protect its miners to get the resources to develop more ship types, and better versions of the ones it has. There are also Stealth Fighters, designed to take down the enemy's Mining Ships. And there are Bombers, Stealth Bombers, and Troop Transports, which are used to capture enemy bases. Mining Ships and Constructors are basically specialized Cargo Ships. And rich teams can also get capital ships, which is risky, but can turn the game into a Curb-Stomp Battle if successful. The largest are the Battleships, which can win a game single-handedly with a bit of luck, but are very expensive to get. There are also Assault Carriers, which are a toned-down variant of The Battlestar with weak cannons, but the ability to teleport in smaller fighters and repair them. Lighter capital ship classes are also present. Because each faction is different, some have specialized ships that others don't have access to: One faction also has a sort of Heavy Fighter, light Torpedo Bombers, and, essentially, Space Guns.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs has pretty much the whole gambit. The small craft are the Bug Fighters, and the Andalite craft they were stolen from, differentiated by the placement of the 'tail' that holds the Dracon cannon. Bigger is Visser Three's Blade Ship, and the biggest are the Yeerks' Pool Ships and the Andalite Dome Ships, whose front halves seperate to double as medium-sized fighters. Possibly a Detachable Drive kind of thing. Notably, neither the Bug Fighter nor the Andalite fighters are of the "single-seat cockpit" type more commonly seen in fiction — there's enough room inside for several people, they have their own FTL drives, can function in a wide variety of environments, carry a lot of weapons (the Andalite fighter has main guns, several secondary weapons, and a complement of missiles) and can function on very long term missions by themselves. They're more like little starships (smaller than the capital ones, that is) than "fighters", in this sense.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_90e2f673	comment	In the BattleTech universe the only ships capable of interstellar travel are fragile JumpShips (basically detachable drives that ferry smaller ships and cargo pods) and heavily armored WarShips, which are divided into the usual designations (frigates, cruisers, battleships, and such). The Succession Wars destroyed all known WarShips in the Inner Sphere, leaving JumpShips as the only means of interstellar travel. This forces DropShips filled with mecha into heavy use and limits space combat to fighters trying to kill said DropShips before they reach a planetary surface. The return of the Clan forces and their full armada of WarShips changes the equation a bit. Special mention must be given to the DropShips — as you might expect, a ship intended to ferry groups of 100-ton mechs from ground to orbit and back are huge(indeed, the limits of "Largest Dropship" and "Smallest Warship" overlap), and impressively well-defended. Even a "standard" Hrothgar-pattern dropship carries as much firepower as an average lance of Assault Mechs. With the loss of Warships in the Inner Sphere, Dropships have expanded to take the roles of Carriers, escorts, and Assault ships as well as troop carriers. When the Warships came back, they picked up a new role: The "Pocket Warship"; up-gunned Assault ships armed with Sub-Capital weapons and even Capital-scale missiles, that can damage and even destroy full-sized Warships. Perhaps as a consequence of such formidable DropShips, Aerospace Fighters in Battletech are no joke themselves. Most of them being every bit as armed and heavily-armored as a Tank or the series' signature Battlemechs. It's also notable that since they are Lost Technology the Inner Sphere's Ares Conventions prohibit attacking JumpShips and thus they rarely even bother with armaments. Though they appear often enough that the distinction is made based on their drive type, JumpShips have full-sized K-F drives with bulky solar collectors, whereas WarShips have miniaturized drives. While the Clans don't suffer any such restrictions since they never lost the technology and don't hesitate to blast them out of the sky.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_9472b00d	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn has the Garencieres, a camouflaged Sleeve freighter seen in the opening sequence. While it lacks any sort of armament, it is fully outfitted to repair, launch and resupply most standard mobile suits. In a pinch, it can defend itself by extending robotic arms to use mobile suits and their hand weapons as turrets. Additionally, nearly every other ship class from the UC verse makes an appearance at some point.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_9a0c0ffa	comment	Andrey Livadny's The History of the Galaxy series has several human powers fielding Standard Sci Fi Fleets, most notably the Earth Alliance and the Confederacy of Suns (also its forerunner the Free Colonies). These include escape pods, a great number of Space Fighters (some capable of FTL travel), assault shuttles (each has enough firepower to take out an average military base), corvettes, missile boats, gigantic repair stations, technical tugs, frigates, cruisers, and flagship cruisers (a Battlestar). All ships (including fighters) are ridiculously oversized, with 500-meter corvettes and 7-kilometer flagship cruisers. Crew requirements are listed as much smaller than one would expect. Standard flagship cruiser crew complement is 150, although it can be crewed by up to 2000. This is due to the ubiquitous use of AI modules to run most systems. It should be noted that in one of the later novels, the powers-that-be have determined that a Standard Sci-Fi Fleet is incapable of dealing with the threats to the far-reaching Confederacy and has been relegated to protecting the core worlds. A new doctrine was developed for protecting the outlying colonies using patrolling carriers and a newly-developed type of modular Space Fighter, which can be refitted to a completely different role (fighter, bomber, anti-capital ship) within an hour.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_9e603932	comment	The Templin Institute has a video titled "Building Your Interstellar Navy" that goes into detail on the many ship types seen in sci-fi stories, and how the definitions of different types are often nebulous. Since so much space-based science fiction operates by the principle that Space Is an Ocean, towards the end it also looks at the real-life structures and doctrines of the American, Soviet, and German navies past and present to use as guides for creating a realistic space fleet.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_a0bfcecb	comment	Haegemonia: Legions of Iron has these for all three races. You start with just fighters, then can build corvettes, followed by cruisers and, finally, battleships. There are also unarmed support ships, which repair damaged warships in flight, although these are the last to be researched. There are freighters, Colony Ships, and spy ships. Space stations (asteroid mining stations and military starbases) can move before deploying (they can be undeployed in the expansion). Orbital guns can be built on colonized worlds to defend against attackers. The expansion adds troop transports and several other ship types armed with Solon weaponry.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_a2a386c9	comment	Orion's Arm uses pretty much the whole variety. There are small ships like Landers, Singleships, Gravity Tugs, and Miners, transports like the Grapeships, a variety of Explorers, Cargo Ships, Colony Ships, Seedships, and Generation Ships, giant habitats like Cyclers, and Worldships, and detachable drives like Boostbeams and Solar Moths. Then there are oddities like Museum Ships, Civilization Ships, Arkships, Linelayers, and others. As far as warships are concerned, Corvettes, Cruisers, Carriers, Dreadnoughts, and massive Leviathans have all been used in the past, with the largest ever being the Juggernaut Class. Capital ships are also accompanied by self-replicating robotic escorts called Autowars. There are also some truly bizarre ships, like the Zoeific Bioships, the Muuh Iceships, and the Voidships.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_a40b1126	comment	The aliens in Independence Day have an impressive armada. They move their entire civilization in an enormous mothership, which is over 500km in diameter. Their primary assault ships, or destroyers, are fifteen miles wide and contain a central Wave-Motion Gun that can torch an entire city. For defense, they possess countless fighter craft which make short work of any attempted counter-strike. In addition, we get a glimpse of transport ships getting ready to bring their ground forces to Earth.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_a6ece007	comment	Battlefleet Gothic gives most fleets a mix of Frigates, Cruisers, Assault Carriers, Battleships, and Battlestars supported by fighters, bombers, and drop pods. Most factions also have a Missile Boat frigate class, some have Space Guns, and Chaos and the Imperium also get Worldships in the form of the Blackstone Fortresses. Ships of the Imperial Navy are generally grouped thus (from smallest to largest): Escort ships: corvettes, destroyers, frigates. Capital ships: light cruisers, cruisers, heavy cruisers (deemed obsolete in frontline service due to doctrine changes over ten thousand years, still found in civilian forces or reserve ... or in the hands of traitors), battlecruisers (using the standard cruiser chassis, these are often times badly damaged cruisers that were given an upgrade to go with their repairs), grand cruisers (almost as big as battleships, with appropriate armour and firepower, they've been removed from most frontline duties due to not fitting modern imperial strategy), battleships. Most ships are armed with a mix of lances (high-power lasers) and macrobatteries (which depending on the ship can be anything from enormous cannons firing shells the size of buildings to plasma- or laser batteries), with most capital ships and dedicated escorts and cruisers also usually carrying torpedoes. Those cruisers and battleships that don't have torpedoes have Nova Cannons, railguns that fire what amounts to mini supernova warheads capable of incinerating entire squadrons of escorts and cruisers and cripple battleships on near misses, instead, with escorts that don't have torpedoes usually having hangars or single lances. Notably, the Imperium doesn't really use pure carriers, but Battlestar-type ships that combine launch bays with turrets do exist (and are in fact quite effective, but tend to be looked down on by the Navy for not matching their idea of a "proper" warship, i.e. one that blows up the enemy with broadsides from its many, many guns). There are a few rare examples of pure carriers, with all their broadsides swapped out for massive numbers of hangar bays. Usually, the pure carriers are converted from damaged battleships as its cheaper to remove broken gun batteries and place a hangar there, while direct carrier production is low due to a desire for versatility when it comes to capital ships at the highest standard weight class. It is more common to see escort carriers and cruiser weight carriers than full battleship sized carriers. Even pure carriers still have gun turrets to defend themselves and hybrids tend to have long range guns to support the line battle while they safely deploy squadrons. The Orks have an oddity, not enough for a subversion, called the "brute ram ship" because Ramming Always Works.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_adb93baf	comment	The iOS port Starbase Orion has all the original classes, except the Doomstars are called Mammoths, most of which look like large ships instead of mobile planetoids. Only the Cyban Mammoths still look like space stations (then again, many of their larger ships have the rounded look, and the developers admit their Borg and Cylon inspirations). Additionally, the original class differences between the destroyer and the cruiser were less linear. The destroyer was faster, more maneuverable, and had more equipment slots. The cruiser had more tougher and had more weapon slots. Later, the game was rebalanced, and the trade-offs between the destroyer and the cruiser were eliminated in favor of the relationship typical of the rest of the classes (i.e. cruisers have more weapon and equipment slots).
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_aedc983a	comment	Naturally, as a space sim, Wing Commander has most of the standard fleet loadout. The Frigate and Destroyer are reversed in size compared to their Real Life counterparts, though, if not in firepower. Carriers get broken down into several sub-categories, influenced by the series original focus of the Pacific campaign of World War II IN SPACE!, including the original escort carriers being first built off of modified transport hulls. Battleships, however, are relegated to being mostly target practice, only seen in the novel Action Stations, set at the start of the Kilrathi war.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_b0f977aa	comment	The Last Hope refers to Eldarian destroyers and cruisers, with the word "battleship" being used for smaller battlecrafts. Eldarian cruiser is said to be about 250 meters long, while when an Earthlingnote Yes, Earthling. The series liberally refers to Human Aliens as "humans", making the specification necessary. spaceship is upgraded by Morphus, it's also refered to as a "cruiser", despite being measly 80 meters long.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_b358111c	comment	In Till the End of Time all combat ships are reffered to as "battle-class ships", or battleships, and said to be about 300 meters long. There are also "combat explorers" that carry some weapon and exceed 1 kilometer in length, but are inferior in combat to battleships due to, well, being explorers.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_b4fe32c9	comment	The Irken Armada in Invader Zim is an example of this trope, having the Capital Ship (referred to as The Massive) be the size of a small planet (and which has large containers filled with snacks of all things) and countless smaller ships orbiting around it.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_bbe35da	comment	In Ark Royal, the larger human powers tend to rely more on carrier-based fleets with frigates being used in front-line fighting. The carriers are expected to stay back and are, thus, fragile. The titular ship is unique in that it's a Battlestar design that is considered to be obsolete 70 years later: it can launch fighters, but can also act as a front-line battleship with heavy Magnetic Weapons, missile launchers, and thick armor. Naturally, when aliens show up, whose Plasma Cannons are capable of gutting any modern carrier, the Royal Navy brass decide to Break Out the Museum Piece, figuring its thick armor will allow it to survive. It works, more or less, and all the human powers start to scramble to design and build more ships like that, as well as more heavily-armored frigates to support them. The aliens themselves also rely on carrier-based fleets, although their frigates also have One-Hit Kill plasma guns, and their plasma-based point-defense is good enough to intercept most human missiles and even mass driver shots, not to mention fighters. Later, bigger alien capital ships start showing up. In the Warspite sequel trilogy the top brass are divided between those who want to build more heavy fleet carriers along the lines of the Ark Royal, and those who think they should focus on research into new technologies and abandon fighters in favor of heavily armed and armored battleships. HMS Warspite is a cruiser designed to test the new spinal mount plasma cannon technology.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_bd5dcafd	comment	MS IGLOO takes a look at a few prototype weapons, two of them are a missile ship and a space gun.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_bee580c4	comment	The Divine Force features two Federation warships, which are alternately called "battleships" and "battlecruisers". Despite allegedly being in the same class, one of them is twice the other's size, being about 250 and 500 meters long respectively. Raymond's second ship, Aldous, is referred to as possessing cruiser-tier firepower, despite also being about 250 meters long (although it pulls double duty as a cargo ship). Additionally, Scorpium uses integrated Space Whales as spaceships, which are also called "battleships", while being over 900 meters long.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_c007e9c8	comment	Space: Above and Beyond featured space-going aircraft carriers prominently (that featured lasers and weapons on par with The Battlestar) and their "Hammerhead" Space Fighters. However some fleet scenes showed other craft that looked like heavy cruisers or another ship type, maybe assault ships or troop ships rather than carriers. The same series had large shuttle-like vehicles that were supposedly for in-system travel but sometimes seemed to be used for interstellar travel; they came in several variants and could serve the role of a dropship, even having a rack for a large, detachable habitat or cargo container that can serve as a temporary base-shelter for a squadron on deployment off-world. These shuttles could also mount guns for defensive purposes when deployed without other combat supports. The discrepancy in the show about interplanetary vs. interstellar travel capabilities of various ships has to do with the series being oddly inconsistent about how spacecraft (human and alien) actually travel interstellar distances, mentioning both opportunistic wormhole travel as well as various technological means of faster-than-light travel. So while Faster-Than-Light travel does exist in the show, it's not clear which ships can achieve this on their own using what's implied to be some sort of "drive" and which ships would need to rely on a wormhole to cross interstellar distances. The humans' enemies, the "Chigs," also had single-person fighters (including an Ace Custom with special technology, and a Red-colored variant that could skip across the gravity well of a black hole), a small "bomber" type ship operated by a small crew, more heavily armed and longer-ranged than the fighters, a diplomatic shuttle/cutter type similar to the "bomber" but possibly not a military vehicle, (if the Chigs have civilians), a "Stealth Destroyer" type of ship with low-observation technology and various conventional and "soft kill" weapons, and a rarely seen large, hexagonal ship that's probably either a heavy cruiser/dreadnought type or a carrier ship for the fighters. The "Silicates," humanoid androids of Earth origin who are allied with the Chigs, are said to have stolen "military spacecraft" during their uprising, but the rare glimpses of Silicate spacecraft we saw look pretty primitive and not exactly combat-worthy. These "space capsule" type vehicles may be dropships launched from larger, unseen craft. On the human civilian side, the series also shows as two medium-sized Colony Ships, a "Pleasure Cruiser" called the Bacchus that approached the Carrier 'Saratoga'' in size, and a large merchant freighter.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_c3e4d044	comment	Star Fleet Battles had almost all of these ship types except* the mecha fighter.*
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_cbad9b62	comment	In Legend of the Galactic Heroes navies are built up of small one-man space fighters, carriers of said fighters, and normal cruisers that are mostly of the space gun type (with the ratio of carriers to cruisers being approximately 1:50 in most navies). The Empire has one model of each and The Federation has one model of each. Admirals of the fleets have flagships that are usually little more than Ace Customs of the normal cruisers, though some flagships are big enough to serve as ships of the line. In addition The Empire is also shown using Destroyers and Gunships (really small Cutter/Corvette type ships) and also built at least two Space Fortresses, but the latter are static defenses that are immobile until they attached huge engines to one and sent it against the other in an attempt to render the other inoperational.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_cbf0ee94	comment	EVE Online has Corvettes, Frigates, Destroyers, Cruisers, Battlecruisers, Battleships, Carriers, Dreadnoughts, Force Auxiliaries (capital sized repair ships), Supercarriers and Titans, with everything above Battleships considered a Capital Ship by the game's standards. There's also fighters, which are NPC controlled and launched from Carriers and Supercarriers, as well as various non-combat ships and specialist ship types (such as interceptor or electronic warfare). Almost all non-specialized Eve Online ships carry drones which are unmanned Fighters. Some very tiny ships qualify for Battlestar status if drones and guns satisfies the Fighters and guns requirement, such as the Algos-class Destroyer, Tristan-class Frigate, and Taranis class Interceptor (Advanced Frigate). The definition of a Fighter blurs even further because Frigates are comparable to the size and power levels of NPC fighters launched by player Carriers. Eve ships are all quite sizeable in the lore. While frigates may look tiny compared to battleships, they are actually built on scale comparable with the Statue of Liberty. This was easily seen when "walking in stations" features were available, and you could compare the size of your pilot against them. It's actually rather surprising they can only fit the drones that they do. Carriers, Force Auxiliaries, Dreadnoughts, Supercarriers and Titans have very slow speeds compared to the subcapital ships. There are actually no engines designed to fit on them, leaving them to rely on maneuvering thrusters once on a battlefield. The only real way to position them is managing the FTL systems used to deliver them to the battlefield, warp drives and jump drives, so that they land where you want them. This leaves them feeling pretty stationary once they get into combat. To go even further, Force Auxiliaries and Dreadnoughts can enter Triage and Siege Modes respectively which leaves them immobile but much more effective at their roles. Also all but the dreadnought fill support roles. The Carriers and Supercarriers do healing and transport including taking backup ships into combat for players who got blown up. Titans have clonebays aboard so players can spawn there if they die, and can open jump bridges which allow entire subcapital fleets to move long distances rapidly. Hence they fill the World Ship role to some degree. Attack Battlecruisers are a rare example of Battlecruisers in the original sense. They have the special ability to fit weapons normally seen on Battleships, but have the speed, agility, and resilience of a Cruiser (and the price tag of a basic Battlecruiser, which tends to be half or less that of a basic Battleship, and Faction and other advanced Battleships only become more expensive).
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_cc49cf71	comment	Il Ã‰tait Une Fois...... l'Espace has many, even if few ship classes are mentioned: space freighters and a sort of space liner — the Cosmopolitan — are among the civilian ones. Among warships there are cruisers — the top of the line are heavy cruisers like the Nautilus-class of Cassiopeia — plus frigates, fighters — ranging from one-man SpaceFighters to considerably larger ships — and finally in the case of the Humanoids up to planet-killer weapons that also act as full-fledged battleships as well and even a city ship.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_d109f322	comment	The Andromeda Ascendant can be best described as a Battlestar, having several fighters, drones, and drop pods along with enough firepower to depopulate a planet in eight minutes. The Eureka Maru is a blockade runner. The Commonwealth Argosy also had a number of other ships classes such as battleships and troop carriers, which occasionally make appearances 300 years after the fall. The Magog have a worldship that is more accurately a mobile artificial star system. Of note is the Siege Perilous-class Deep Stand-off Attack Ship II, which is a cross between a dreadnought and a space gun, as its primary role is to enter the battle from far away, unleash hundreds of ship-killer missiles at the enemy, and enter slipstream before the enemy got close enough to shoot back, as the ships of this class are Point Defenseless. Only 4 were built prior to the Nietzschean Revolt with one of them destroyed in port. One (Wrath of Achilles) was captured, and one (Balance of Judgment) managed to escape and survived the Fall. The Resolution of Hector is the first ship of this class to be built by the New Commonwealth. The Wrath of Achilles was recovered and added to the New Commonwealth fleet only to be destroyed with the majority of the fleet due to Collector treachery. The Andromeda, like the other Glorious Heritage-class cruisers (AKA XMC-class cruisers), is also armed with the space equivalent of strategic nukes, turning it into the Cold War-era nuclear attack submarine. Nobody ever expected the Nova bombs to be used, as only a madman blows up stars, and they mainly served as deterrents (the Andromeda had 40 of them). This didn't work on the Nietzscheans, as they correctly figured that the "weak" High Guard would never use them.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica (2003)'s Cylons avert the trope, because their fleets mainly consist of just basestars and their Raider complements, along with perhaps a Resurrection Ship. The Colonials, on the other hand, don't — before the nuclear holocaust, it appears that the Colonial Fleet was divided into battlestar groups — BSGs — consisting of battlestars and (presumably) support vessels. This doesn't really affect the show, because the only two military vessels to survive are the battlestars Galactica and Pegasus. Cruisers and Destroyers do get mentioned as having been a part of the Colonial Fleet during the First Cylon War, but it's not clear if these are also considered "battlestars" or if they are still in service at the time the series begins. "Blood and Chrome" shows the Orion-class Battlestar, a smaller, submarine-like "picket battlestar" with stealth technology in the form of a DRADIS-reflective hull. It also had some sort of massive antennae complex, likely long-range sensors. Perfect for the role of a "scout" Battlestar that can deploy Vipers and Raptors like its bigger cousins. There's also the Valkyrie-type Battlestar in "Hero," which also reappears in "Razor," "The Plan," and "Blood and Chrome," which is a smaller (but larger than the Orion) like like all Battlestars carries fighters and support vessels (primarily Vipers and Raptors, but also specialized stealth ships for recon missions) and has ship-to-ship missile launching capability. It seems that in the series, a "Battlestar" doesn't refer to a specific size or armament, but rather to any capital ship capable of launching Vipers. Cylon Raiders are unmanned, and have a pack animal intelligence; though they are technically Living Ships, they fulfill the role of drone fighter that rarely makes it into sci-fi. The Heavy Raider fills the Heavy Fighter/Dropship role (like the Colonial Raptor). The Cylons were also shown to have had obelisk-shaped freighters as support vessels for Basestars, as well as Recon Drones, in the Miniseries and in "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part Two." On the civilian side you've got some highly specialized ships like a sewerage treatment ship that was deemed expendable enough to be sent off on what was potentially a wild-goose-chase for a couple of months. They also built a stealth-fighter as a pet project.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_d59d9e99	comment	The R-Type series has the player's R9 spacefighter, Bydo fighters, carriers, mecha, a modular cruiser, and a recurring mega-battleship boss that occupies an entire level in each game it appears in. Some levels take place inside worldships or supercarriers.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_dacffea0	comment	Chakona Space: Both Doove and one of his contributing authors, Allen Fessler have written stories featuring interstellar freighters. Naturally, the 'Verse's Federation Star Fleet runs a wide variety of different military vessels they use to police interstellar space. Pirate-operated Q ships, Fleet cruisers, and fighter carriers are also mentioned.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_dc30219c	comment	Lancer: Battlegroup covers basically the whole catalog of ship types between frigates, carriers, battleships, escorts, and (fighter) wings. Interestingly for a spin-off of a mecha game, mechs have only a minor role as an expensive type of wing that can perform boarding actions. Frigates and larger ships are classified as "capital ships" as they're capable of independent nearlight travel, while escorts and wings are treated as capital ship systems.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_e235270c	comment	Stellaris has several categories for ships, which can be configured in different ways depending on their size and what technologies you've unlocked. Corvettes are the only ships you have access to in the early game. They are the cheapest, smallest, fastest, and weakest ships, but their evasiveness means they can dodge large-sized weapons, and when outfitted with missiles or space torpedoes, corvettes can do a lot of damage for their size. Destroyers are a little bigger, and the first ship class able to mount large-sized weapons, but they also make good picket ships when outfitted with lots of point-defense systems. Cruisers are big and extremely flexible, and can mix-and-match hangar bays, missile launchers, artillery mounts for large weapons, or broadside mounts for smaller ones as needed. Battleships are bigger and better (and slower) than cruisers, and can uniquely use "XL"-sized weapons in a spinal mount, turning the entire ship into a self-propelled Wave-Motion Gun. Battleships can also swap some or most of their heavy guns for hangar space carrying strike craft, effectively turning them into battlestars or carriers respectively. With the Apocalypse expansion, players can also build titans, which are so enormous that an empire can only support a limited number of them, pack a main weapon even larger than a battleship's XL weapon, and provide an entire fleet with an offensive or defensive aura. The same expansion also introduces the Colossus, a defenseless Kill Sat that can pacify an entire planet in a single blast with one of five weapons: a Global Pacifier that wraps it in an impenetrable force field and cuts it off from the rest of the galaxy, a Nanobot Diffuser that sends down a stream of nanobots to assimilate the population into the Hive Mind (available only to machine empires with the Driven Assimilator civic), a Divine Enforcer that causes a psychic religious experience in the entire population and converts them all to spiritualist ethics while killing all cyborgs, robots, and hive-mind units (available only to spiritualist empires), a Neutron Sweep that kills all organic life on the planet while leaving infrastructure untouched, or a World Cracker, which delivers a good old-fashioned Earth-Shattering Kaboom. The last two are not available to pacifist empires, effectively leaving them with the Global Pacifier as their only colossus weapon unless they're also spiritualists, while the Neutron Sweep is also not available to spiritualist empires. The Federations expansion introduced, alongside all the diplomacy stuff, the Juggernaut. Armed with six strike craft wings, two battleship XL guns, and five medium guns, alongside an aura that can do things like make strike craft even stronger or make jumps cool down faster, and on top of that two shipyards to repair and build ships on the move. All of this in a package comparable in size and shape to the Supremacy. Defenseless non-combat ships include science ships to survey systems and research anomalies, construction ships to build mining stations and outposts to claim systems, colony ships to bring settlers to new worlds, and transports to shuttle armies to their next conquest.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS: Spaceships has given stats for everything but a worldship (though it does get a name check).
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_e5fd2cef	comment	In the Lensman Series there are a variety of spaceships. The fleet invading the Second Galaxy, for example, is described as having scout cruisers, light cruisers, cruising bombers, heavy defensive cruisers, maulers, battleships, super-dreadnoughts, and what may be the ur-example of the banner ship: "Technically the Z9M9Z, socially the Directrix and ordinarily GFHQ." In addition there are one- and two-man speedsters, space tugs, space freighters, space liners, and science ships, among other things. What's lacking are the short-ranged small craft — shuttles, fighters, drop pods etc. There explicitly are "ship's boats", though, which likely fulfil the functions of shuttles and drop pods (as well as lifeboats, in their most important mention).
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_e66a25a9	comment	Rifts used shuttles of various types for the Mutants In Orbit Sourcebook, and also used Powered Armor and mecha in space, just like on the ground. The Phase World/Three Galaxies setting had all that, and also ships of every kind mentioned above.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_e740c8b	comment	Starsector, being based on naval fleets, has a multitude of different ships that perform (or can be equipped to perform) a whole host of roles. Carriers, battlecarriers, battlecruisers, destroyers, frigates... This also allows the use of real-life tactics, such as pincers and hammer-and-anvil.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly features a classic Blockade Runner which can be considered a co-Trope Codifier. It also carries two shuttles. The Alliance ships include a Carrier or possibly a Battlestar (the Tohoku-class cruiser, a.k.a. the Flying City Block) and a small Cutter/Corvette (the ASREV Gunship, the four-man space police car the size of a modern jet plane). Reavers use almost exclusively re-purposed civilian craft. One small Colony Ship (the homesteader) also makes an appearance.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_e8054edf	comment	Raumpatrouille: Due to the budget limitations of this 1966 series, basically only two major warships were shown: the Orion VII, its practically identical sister-ship, the Orion VIII, and the Hydra. Though designated as fast cruisers, they are fairly small craft, crewed by four or five persons, although they can accommodate more. This type of spacecraft carries up to four Lancet shuttles, which normally carry two persons, and twice that at a pinch. In episode 3, when the Orion goes missing for a time, Training Fleet 18 is diverted to look for it; it is said to consist of 22 battleships (GroÃŸkampfschiffe), 40 space cruisers and 132 satellite-launching boats.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_e89f120b	comment	The original Mobile Suit Gundam has the RB-79 Ball, a weaponized Utility Pod used to support Mobile Suits. Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team features a close-range variant of the Ball, the RB-79K, which one character uses to take down a Zaku. In 'MS IGLOO,' Zeon develops an equivalent weapon called the 'Oggo,' which uses standard mobile suit hand armaments fro economy. The Mobile Armors of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED is a fighter based on a Utility Pod design.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_eaeeea9b	comment	In StarCraft II the Protoss get the Void Ray, a Space Gun, which is pretty much engines and a cockpit floating around a laser crystal. They also get a Mothership that's basically a floating city with which can cloak allies and generate temporary wormholes. The Terrans also get a bomber unit, the Banshee, and the new fighter unit is a Transforming Mecha.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_ec9965ca	comment	The Culture fields many types of ship, most of which are pretty big and bad even if they're not actually warships. The General Systems Vehicles are effectively Worldships, capable of housing hundreds of millions of people and building entire fleets. Medium and Limited Systems Vehicles are older, smaller versions of such being merely 5 or 10km long compared to the 80km+ length of the larger examples. General Contact Units are more versatile and significantly smaller vessels, usually carrying as many as hundreds of people in comfort but fulfilling Cruiser or Destroyer roles when required. Very Fast Pickets are demilitarised true warships, smaller and faster than GCUs and still capable of packing a nasty punch. They often carry around smaller groups, maybe dozens of people or fewer. Rapid Offensive Units and General Offensive Units fill the Cruiser and Battleship roles. They're ranked as some of the most dangerous bits of military technology in the Galaxy. Limited Offensive Units are the Frigates or Corvettes of the Culture. Notably, Culture Vehicles can effectively turn themselves into warships by fabricating weaponry, but the VFP, ROU, GOU and LOU Minds are built solely for the purpose and are exceedingly skilled combatants, strategists and tacticians. Other races shown tend to name their warships more warship-like names. The Culture tends to feel a little embarrassed about its military side, other races such as the Homomda are rather more pragmatic and some such as the Affront positively glory in it with ships designed to look badass first and foremost. It's worth noting that no-one fields Space Fighters. Anything smaller than an ROU offers about as much threat as a rowboat against the Yamato at full battlestations in open sea. It can't fit big enough engines, sensors, weapons or stealth equipment to be of any worth. There are no Missile Boats or the like either... any weapon that can't travel at lightspeed (at the very minimum) is just too slow and too easily dispatched to be hazardous. Warheads are generally just displaced into their target for maximum effectiveness.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_ecef0113	comment	Gratuitous Space Battles was explicitly designed to provide a pure fix of this trope. The player designs a fleet of fighters, frigates and gargantuan battleships then pits them against another fleet in a firestorm of technicolour glory.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_ede28baa	comment	In Vanquish, the ship that Sam uses to infiltrate the World Ship Providence looks very similar to a Star Wars Blockade Runner.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_eeaaec28	comment	Martian Successor Nadesico has the title ship as an Assault Carrier, with a number of cruisers on both sides, and a Jovian Worldship. However, it's referred to in-show (and in the original title) as a "High-mobile Battleship", making it a fast battleship or battlecruiser.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_eec1183e	comment	Crimson Dark has most of the above. Both sides have fighters, bombers, frigates, destroyers, and carriers. The Republic calls their big warships Battleships, while the Alliance equivalent are called Heavy Cruisers. Their are also a variety of civilian freighters seen in the comic.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_ef06b063	comment	A Crown of Stars: Avalonâ€™s space fleet covers all types of space ships: it has huge, moon-sized bases, space carriers and tinier jet fighters and mechas.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_ef076a36	comment	Several different Krenim Ships were seen in the "Year of Hell" Voygaer two parter: a small patrol ship, encountered in timelines where the Krenim were a second-rate minor power, and a battlecruiser, encountered in timelines with a strong Krenim Imperium. The episode's main villain operated a specialized temporal weapon-ship, a huge gun whose beam could erase an object as small as a single molecule or an entire civilization from the timeline.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_f04b4111	comment	While not the main focus of the Metroid games, in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Samus gets a closer look at the various ship types The Federation and the Space Pirates use. While both have the standard fighters, cruisers and carriers, the Space Pirates have Boarding Pods that smash straight into enemy ships to deploy troops, while the Federation has recently introduced a new class of capital ship equipped with an organic supercomputer (and yes, it is suspiciously similiar to Mother Brain) that replaces most of the usual crew requirements. They use the extra room for more weapon systems.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_f0d57197	comment	The Dark Forest: Earth builds a very impressive fleet consisting of two thousand ships armed with gamma-ray lasers, hydrogen bombs, railguns, and Space Fighters, and capable of reaching ten percent of light-speed. Unfortunately, the Trisolarans, being a Technologically Advanced Foe, have technology that is literally Made of Indestructium, and Earth's whole fleet is destroyed by a single probe that rams each ship one by one. In other words, this trope only makes sense when Space Age Stasis is in effect for both sides.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_f355e44e	comment	Children of a Dead Earth subverts this trope to hell and back, being a scientifically accurate space war simulator. Anything that isn't a drone, a missile or a nuke is considered a "capital ship" and space battles are more like a mix between a joust, a fireworks show and a drive-by shooting.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: The major powers operate just about the whole list except for mecha. Battlestars are exceedingly popular. Notably, the terminology on B5 varies wildly from one race to another. While most races use "Cruiser" or some variation ("Star Cruiser", "War Cruiser", etc.) for their largest warships, the humans prefer the term "Destroyer" for their Battle Star type ships, and use "Heavy Cruiser" to describe their smallest class of warship (although still over a kilometer long), with "Dreadnought" as the second-smallest seen. Presumably a case of advancing technology and ship sizes causing their old class designations to become obsolete, as the Omega and Warlock class Destroyers are massive (at least 1.7 km long). The Minbari, Centauri, Narn and Shadow Cruiser-types explicitly support fighter craft, making them examples of The Battlestar as well. Some medium ships like White Stars and Earth Force Hyperion-class Heavy Cruisers also have a small number of fighters. Even the smallish Drazi Sunhawk can launch a single Drazi fighter. Most major races have a cruiser or two, a fighter, and a transport that serves as a generic civilian ship, plus a couple types of space stations: The Narn, Minbari,and Centauri fit this pattern; the Centauri in particular have several small shuttles and transports, and Minbari have their personal flyers. Vorlon and Shadow fleets are slightly more diverse, with several small Vorlon ships and the Shadow scout vessel filling the small/medium capital ship role between fighter and cruiser; most League races only have one or two ships The Vorlons and the Shadows also implement Planetkillers which are escorted by the various ship classes they have. Fighters and mid-sized ships such as the Drazi Sunhawk are used to harass larger capital ships, while the larger capital ships serve as both battleship and fighter carrier roles. Gunships like the Whitestar are essentially flying cavalry ships built to match (or outgun) traditional (and larger) battleships as well as being nimble enough to outmaneuver even fighters. Some background materials of questionable canonicity also include a number of carrier classes present in EarthForce (Poseidon, Essex, Shinano), although those are actually variants on the existing Omega and Nova classes with Starfury bays replacing many of the weapons. There is also the obsolete Olympus-class corvette. Fighters and other small, sublight ships (which are usually civilian freighters, transports, and military and civilian shuttles/small transports), can make use of jumpgates to cross interstellar distances through hyperspace. This only works with fixed points, I.E. jumpgates, since the fighters and other small craft typically have no onboard Jump Drive to open up their own jump-point or re-enter normal space without a gate. Some of the smaller capital warships, most notably the somewhat fighter-like Drazi Sunhawk (one of the smaller alien warships), also lack onboard Jump Drives and most rely on jumpgates. This means that in the B5 'verse, where gates are an option, a carrier vessel can deploy fighters over interstellar distances. Most smaller (non-fighter) space vessels in B5 that aren't big military warships are also reliant on jumpgates.
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_fa5e90fd	comment	There are currently nine classes of ships: Cruisers, Escorts, Science Vessels, Raiders, Raptors, Dreadnoughts, Warbirds,note Which isn't really a ship class in the sense used in this trope, as it is essentially just denotes that the ship is a Romulan ship and therefore has a singularity core and a cloaking device. Available warbirds include amongst others light, manoeuvrable warbirds somewhere in the frigate/destroyer/corvette area, tactical carrier warbirds, science warbirds and huge lumbering dreadnought warbirds. Battle Cruisers and Carriers. Player abilities and ship modifications will probably blur the lines further, as Cryptic is notorious for nonstandard class structure. However, some of these ships tend to have problems with the blurring because of how they're depicted on TV than they are in games. There's a tenth class, the Frigate, but those are only used to classify Terran Empire Miranda-class ships. The player's version is referred to as a "Light Cruiser".
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_fb07494a	comment	In Nexus: The Jupiter Incident, the Noah and the Gorgs have full fleets, including multiple types of fighters, gunships, and bombers, Space Marine shuttles, frigates, destroyers (scout, tactical, torpedo, heavy), cruisers (escort, heavy, battle), support ships, and battleships. The Vardrags have massive city-ships and smaller scout ships (which are still cruiser-sized). The Ghosts utilize destroyers, cruisers, and battleships, although their ships are meant for scouting and are exclusively armed with lasers to quickly disable enemies (although their heavy lasers do some hull damage as well). Raptors limit themselves to two types of destroyers and carrier-type cruisers. The less advanced Earth government and the Mega Corps use corvettes (regular, light) and frigates (regular, heavy).
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_fb9fefa6	comment	Hc Svnt Dracones has, in rough order of increasing size, drones (including breaching pods and small ship-to-ship shuttles), "personal ships", corvettes, frigates, destroyers, carriers, cruisers, battleships, and dreadnaughts. Destroyers and larger (except battleships) have drone bays. Corvettes are probably the closest thing to manned fighters in that they can be crewed by one man and are incapable of interplanetary travel, but can carry up to 12 people. The seven Mega Corps make different variations on the standard design, MarsCo ships have nothing but Omni-Slots that can fit any modifications but no standard equipment, Pulse's are more maneuverable, even in atmosphere, and TTI grows Living Ships for instance.
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Stellaris Invicta (Web Video) / int_15d6b534	type	Standard Sci-Fi Fleet
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