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| - | Work In Progress | + | This article is intended to act as a guideline and idea of ship sizes and classes and how they work. __Design your ships how you please__ and feel free to reference this as to what that ship class might entail to give you ideas. |
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| Starships, as a term, are self-explanatory. A vessel that travels through space in the Calliope Star Cluster and can be of military, civilian, corporate, independent, | Starships, as a term, are self-explanatory. A vessel that travels through space in the Calliope Star Cluster and can be of military, civilian, corporate, independent, | ||
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| ==== Capital Ships ==== | ==== Capital Ships ==== | ||
| - | Capital ships are uncommon ships that almost always act as the flagship or anchor for a large fleet. These can be powerful Battleships with devastating weapons and armor, Carriers with tens of dozens of fighters or bombers that can cripple smaller fleets, | + | Capital ships are uncommon ships that almost always act as the flagship or anchor for a large fleet. These can be powerful Battleships with devastating weapons and armor, Carriers with tens of dozens of fighters or bombers that can cripple smaller fleets, |
| === Battleships === | === Battleships === | ||
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| Fast Battleships sometimes trade some of their weaponry to have light-carrier capabilities. | Fast Battleships sometimes trade some of their weaponry to have light-carrier capabilities. | ||
| - | + | === Carriers === | |
| + | Carriers are large but not heavily armed or armored vessels that carry large amounts of fighters, bombers, boarding craft, shuttles, gunships, and even sometimes smaller ships such as corvettes or gunboats. It can often carry a couple of hundred fighters or other craft and can overwhelm entire fleets if properly protected. | ||
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| + | == Gunship Carriers == | ||
| + | Gunship Carriers act as a strange and niche type of carrier that instead of carrying fighters or bombers deploy a small number of small ships such as corvettes, gunboats, or gunships. These types of carriers are often used in military invasions in order to deploy ships and marines or borders into a system where such smaller vessels would not have the range to reach. | ||
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| + | == Stealth Carrier == | ||
| + | A rare and very niche vessel. Stealth carriers are often small but still capital-grade carriers the size of a large cruiser and are used to infiltrate enemy territory alongside other stealth vessels and deploy stealth fighters and bombers to either support such stealth vessels or perform first-strike attacks. | ||
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| + | === Marauders === | ||
| + | Marauders are the capital class of ship and are a very broad term for a type of close-quarters vessel that trades the heavy-firepower of a battleship for a massive degree of medium and light weapons, often in a broadside, to combat small and medium ships. Where a battleship struggles to target faster cruisers, destroyers, and frigates with its weapons; A marauder is made to turn such vessels, or even small fleets of them, into proverbial pin-cushions with massive salvos of smaller weapons. | ||
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| + | === Force Auxilaries === | ||
| + | Often coined as //Seige// or // | ||
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| + | Force Auxiliaries are extremely rare due to the nature of their weapons and are almost never brought out unless absolute space-superiority can be assured while it is present. | ||
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| + | ==== Super Capital Ships ==== | ||
| + | Super Capitals are the end-all-be-all ships of massive scale and purpose and almost always the flagship for an entire war effort. Due to the sheer raw materials, manpower, and logistics needed to field them they are a rare sight only ever employed in the direst of circumstances and anyone nation should never have more than one of these ships. | ||
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| + | === Drednought === | ||
| + | A frightening bulwark of armor and weapons. A Dreadnought is a massive iteration of a Battleship to an extreme degree. They carry weapons enough and of all types to end an entire battle by themselves and could cripple a planet outright or even destroy a moon. They are quite possibly the slowest thing to ever traverse the Calliope Star Cluster and are about as noticeable as staring at the sun; Making their arrival all but advertised well before it enters a system. | ||
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| + | A battle between dreadnoughts is speculated to last for //days// if one should ever occur, and the loss of a Dreadnought could very well cripple the morale of a nation if not financially devastate them if not turn a war altogether. | ||
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| + | A nation capable of building a dreadnought should not be able to do so and should take a massive undertaking of supplies, time, finances, and logistics. And just fielding one should be no trivial matter. | ||
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| + | === Fleet Carrier === | ||
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| + | A carrier of massive scale, able to deploy enough fighters, bombers, or even smaller starships enough to fight an entire war on its own; A Fleet Carrier can field a thousand or more heavy fighters, bombers, gunships, etc. While being just an upscaled carrier it is by no means a paltry combatant and carries enough craft to overwhelm an entire starsystem or large fleet. | ||
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| + | Compared to the Dreadnought, | ||
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| + | Due to its size, a Fleet Carrier is still not remarkably fast and very easily detectable. Its size also allows it to have the facilities to manufacture its own fighter and bomber craft on demand; Making it a very self-sustaining and dangerous threat the longer it is allowed to remain in a system. It is not at all uncommon for resource stockpiles in a system to be raided and delivered to such a vessel to feed the immense demand of providing almost an entire war effort demand of craft. | ||
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| + | ==== Other types of Ships ==== | ||
| + | Not quite conventional or common in any fleet, the following ships are uncommon or unique but still common enough to warrant most Nations investing in them. | ||
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| + | === Q-Ships === | ||
| + | Q-Ships are often a niche type of stealth vessel that trades stealth systems and subsystems of incognito camouflage to lure in or trick enemy ships. Q-ships can be any size of ship even up to a cruiser and are disguised as civilian or merchant ships on the outside while hiding their weapons in bays and their armor under the surface. | ||
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| + | They excel at surprise attacks, first strike actions, and infiltration. | ||
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| + | === Mobile Dry Docks === | ||
| + | As large as a supercapital ship and almost as rare. A Mobile Drydock is a massive repair yard able to enter FTL and is used to move to fleets with a large number of damaged ships incapable or making it home or even leaving a system. They also have limited fabrication functions that can replace entire starships if given the raw material. | ||
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| + | ==== Ships by Nation ==== | ||
| + | Here is a list of all Primary Nations starships. (I will add unaligned nations later. -Char) | ||
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| + | ===== Standard Ship Template ===== | ||
| + | The standard ship template to help you make a nice looking starship article on the wiki~ | ||
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