Warship

Line Combatants (Primary - Capital)				Escort Combatants (Secondary - Subcapital)				Military Auxiliary (Tertiary)
B- Battleship	C- Cruiser	O- Ortillery	V- Carrier	D- Destroyer	E- Escort	F- Fighter	H- Defense/Security	I- Combat Transport	Q- Combat Support	S- Scout	U- Utility	X- Commo	Z- Special

Mercantile Commercial Ships (Trade & Profit)				Non-Mercantile Commercial Ships (Industry & Profit)					Non-Commercial Ships (Nonprofit)			System Craft (Intrastellar)
A- Tramp	M- Freighter	R- Liner	T- Transport	G- Industrial	J- Prospector	K- Expedition	P- Corsair	U- Utility	L- Science	N- Medical	Y- Private	WB- Barge	WA- Satellite	WO- Space Station

Warships are military starships that are intended for combat.

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Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:
Starship:

• Starship User Types
  • Civilian Ship
  • Military Ship
  • Non-Commercial Vessel
  • Paramilitary Ship

• Advanced Ship Classifications
  • Ship Mission Code / Supraclass
  • Ship Type Code / Superclass
  • Ship Class Code / Class
  • Model (TL)
  • Bloc (Lot)

• Basic Ship Classifications
  • Adventure Class Ship
  • Battle Class Ship
  • Capital Ship
  • Fleet Class Ship
  • Size-Role Classification
  • Subcapital Ship
  • QSP
  • USP
  • World Class Ship

• Ships by Function
  • Bigcraft
  • Boat
  • Capital Ship
  • Largecraft
  • Non-starship
  • Smallcraft
  • Spaceplane
  • Spaceship
  • Starship
  • Subcapital Ship
  • Subcraft
  • System Craft
  • Warship

Speed of Travel

• Astronomical Unit (AU)
• FTL
• Light Speed (c)
• Light-week (lw)
• Light-year (ly)
• NAFAL (STL)
• Parsec (pc)

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Description (Specifications)

A warship or fighting ship is a ship that is designed to be a combatant. They are usually deployed by the navy of an interstellar state, but there are warships in the fleet of megacorporations and private military organizations such as mercenaries.

Warships are distinctly different from armed civilian ships, but this line sometimes becomes blurred as civilian vessels are requisitioned or conscripted for use as auxiliaries during wartime. In addition to being more heavily armed and defended, warships are generally capable of superior performance over merchant ships and are specialized for their combat role.

Overview

There are multiple classes of warship, but they can be divided into three main roles. Line combatants, Escort combatants, and Military auxiliaries. Line combatants, also called Capital Ships, are the largest and most powerful vessels that are tasked with projecting force and winning battles. These include Battleships, Cruisers, Carriers, and Ortillery (or siege) ships. Each of these represents a Supraclass designation for a specific combat mission.

Battleships are designed to both deal and withstand damage. Cruisers support Battleships or act independently when a Battleship is not needed. Carriers transport either fighters or Battle Riders not capable of jump to a conflict, and Ortillery ships bombard and subdue worlds.

Escort combatants are smaller than Capital Ships, with a variety of missions to support and protect them. Escorts typically stay with a squadron or fleet and are not considered to be independent force projectors. Some subsector navies and most planetary navies deploy only Escorts as resources allow. There are several specific Supraclasses of Escort combatants that can be grouped into three categories: Destroyers, Frigates, and Corvettes. Each of these categories has some overlap, and what one navy calls a Frigate, another might call a Destroyer Escort or an Escort Corvette.

Auxiliary is a catch-all term for any other kind of support vessel that is brought into a fleet or squadron as needed by the mission or logistics. Some are designed as purpose-built military craft, some are military craft built onto civilian hulls, and some are actually mobilized civilian craft. There are many varieties of Auxiliary warship, including Tankers, Supply/Replenishment ships, Ordnance carriers, Repair Ships, Hospital ships, Troop Transports, and Scouts. Any number of other craft designed to support combat operations is termed an Auxiliary when going to combat, whether originally designed for war or not. Auxiliaries try to stay out of battles and are protected by Escorts as much as possible.

Fleets deployed by and for defense of a specific system (planetary navies) typically do not include jump drives. The reduction in the volume of fuel and power requirements of non-starships makes them less-expensive and more-capable combatants against starships of similar tonnage.

Much like fleets of starships, system defense vessels will include line of battle ships (called Monitors in this role, but often identical in design to Battle Riders), Escorts (called System Defense Boats), and various types of auxiliary craft to support them. The Imperial Navy supports planetary navies for member- and client-states by paying off obsolete vessels into their service. Thus it is possible to find older warships acting in an system defense role, despite the fact that they are technically starships.

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