A starship was any manned spacecraft that was capable of viable interstellar travel, i.e. any manned spacecraft that had the ability to transport and support a crew across interstellar distances. Most starships accomplished this via the employment of some form of faster-than-light spacecraft propulsion technology.
A class of starship was a term referring to the design of a group of vessels built to the specifications, capabilities, modifications, or type arrangement and outfitting. Many cultures named separate series or classes based on these qualities. A starship classification was usually used to refer to the general abilities of a vessel, but a specific class designation referred to its shape or layout in differing degrees, according to how specific species and cultures used the term.
In military terms, space fleets form the most important aspect of controlling a stellar nation, or sending one into war. Infantry forces and planet-based tools of war will always be a part of occupations and defensive engagements, but a stellar nation, corporation, or private individual with an advantage in space assets has the upper hand in most conflicts. In the Second Galactic War, this was proven true. The epic battles of the conflict were the clashes of stellar navies. The stellar nations divided their assets into task forces and sector groups that defended their own territory or charged into the heart of their enemy's. When a fleet moved into enemy space, drivespace detectors recorded the invasion; a dispatch to the nearest task forces guaranteed that a battle would ensue shortly after the enemy's arrival. Only after the battle in interplanetary space was over could assault ships land and establish a beachhead on enemy shores.
Strategies vary from nation to nation, as do techniques of building and philosophy of design, but military vessels fall into classes that describe their mission and capabilities.
Each starship must register a Starship Identification Designation Code, or SIDC.
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Ship types
Ultranaught
Base Ship
Dreadnought
The largest vessel designed strictly for military purposes, dreadnoughts are about 500 to 1,000 meters long and carry crews of 1,000 to 2,000. A dreadnought can stand up to a fortress ship for a short time, but is quickly outgunned. Four or five together are a match for a lone fortress ship. Dreadnoughts are almost always driveships, capable of 25- to 35-light-year starfalls, and always equipped with an internal drivespace communications relay. Light dreadnoughts are typically called battlecruisers. They're faster than dreadnoughts, skimping on either protection or armament in exchange for speed in normal space. Dreadnoughts and battlecruisers are expensive, and most stellar nations don't have more than 70 such ships in their fleets.
Battleship
Carrier
As military fleets rededicate themselves to peacetime operations, the carrier grows in popularity. The full carrier bears some 200 fighters, useful for patrols, escort missions, and exploration.
The light carrier usually supports between 50 and 70 fighters. In a confrontation between carrier and dreadnought, the dreadnought usually proves victorious; carriers succeed only when they keep the dreadnought at a distance while the carrier's fighters do their work.
Cruiser
Cruisers are the backbone of every space fleet, consisting of both drive cruisers and system cruisers. Cruisers fill a wide variety of missions, so heavy cruisers, light cruisers, missile cruisers, and survey cruisers are common. On average, a stellar nation's fleet includes 1,000 cruisers; cruisers also em- body the heaviest form of military craft owned by independent planets and corporations. Cruisers range from 200 to 400 meters long and carry crews of 200 to 500. Most naval personnel are guided by a dream of commanding their own cruiser, leading independent expeditions across the galactic arm.
Bulk Freighter
Heavy Freighter
Destroyer
Used to screen capital ships and convoy merchant vessels in wartime, destroyers and frigates are escort vessels detached for scouting duties or special missions. Produced in equal numbers as driveships and systemships, destroyers range from 150 to 250 meters long and carry crews of 100 to 150 people.
Transport
Explorer
Light Freighter
Shuttle
Fighter
Interceptor
Racer
Concord Starships
Battleship
Carrier
Cruiser
Destroyer
Dreadnought
Explorer
Fighter
Light freighter
Heavy freighter
Bulk freighter
Interceptor
Racer
Shuttle
Transport
Veskarium Starships
Base Ship
Cruiser
Destroyer
Dreadnaught
Fighter
Light Freighter
Shuttle
Transport
Ultranaught
Titanomachy Starships
Battleship
Destroyer
Corpsefleet Starships
Dreadnought
- Barrow Cenotaph-class
Carrier
- Barrow Eulogy-class
Cruiser
- Barrow Reaper-class
Bulk Freighter
- Barrow Catacomb-class
Destroyer
- Barrow Spectre-class
- Crypt Warden
Explorer
- Barrow Reliquary-class
- Pale Butcher Scout
Light Freighter
- Barrow Dirgesinger-class
- Cairncarver
Shuttle
Fighter
- Death's Curtain necrofighter
Racer
- Barrow Boneshard-class
Neogi Starships
Cruiser
Dreadnought
Rigunmor Starships
Fighter
- Storm Raider Class, constructed by austrin-ontis-unlimited
Voidcorp Starships
Dreadnought
Battleship
Carrier
Cruiser
- Agente-class
- Nagoian-class Heavy Cruiser
- Orbital Defense Platform
Destroyer
- Atla-class frigate
- Atlet-class corvette
- Magear-class
Shuttle
- Seva-class gunship
Fighter
- Anura-class drone fighter
Interceptor
Thuldan Starships
Ultranought
Dragon Starships
Devil Starships
Battleship
Cruiser
Destroyer
Interceptor
Drow Triumvarate Starships
Battleship
Cruiser
Dreadnought
Fighter
Other
- Torture
- Corsair
- Shrike, bomber
T'sa Starships
Cruiser
- K'chal-class (Guardian)
Beholder Starships
Destroyer
Eladrin
Battleship
Dreadnought
Fighter
Interceptor
Other
Illithid
Battleship
Cruiser
Dreadnought
Interceptor
Shuttle
Aventi Star Empire
Dreadnought
Carrier
Freighter
Transport
Shuttle
Fighter
Racer
Starship Manufacturers
- Austrin-Ontis Unlimited - Consortium Rigunmor Golden Fleet, Military Technology
- Blackwind Engineering - Eoxian ships
- Blood Mountain Clans - Veskarium Ships
- Brodyaga Systems - Concordian Commercial spaceframes
- Cerir Shipbuilding - Consortium adventure and explorer ships
- Creek Shipbuilding - Consortium heavy freighters and tankers
- Compiler Enterprises - Anacite Ships
- Darkstorm Engineering - Drow Military Ships
- Death's Head - Undead ships
- Starship Demetrius - Thuldan explorer and science ships
- Demolisher Company - Consortium Badass racers
- Dragoon Craftworks - Concordian Long range transport
- Starship Erbleke - Thuldan luxury transport
- Gulix Shipbuilding - Consortium heavy transport
- Lophir Shipbuilding - Consortium luxury transport
- Lorrid Shipbuilding - Concordian small military and adventure ships
- Manifest Industries - Concordian Automated ships
- Osakin Shipbuilding - Consortium shuttles and launches
- Pohlov Corp - Concordian Medium and large military ships
- Pracht Corp - Thuldan Extreme luxury
- Promenade Corp - Thuldan War behemoths
- Starship Rayleigh - Thuldan Stylish racers
- Silverbuck Industries - Consortium Beautiful High speed ships
- Solar X Shipbuilding
- Starmech Inc - Thuldan Dependable sturdy vehicles, Cybernetics and robotics
- VoidStar - VoidCorp Ships, Stardrive Technology
- Zolmir-Yung Corporation, civilian starships
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