Starship Types

A Starship Type is a description of the purpose of a Starship. This should not be confused with Starship Class, which is a particular design. Each design is usually assigned to a particular type of starship, and each type will usually have many different classes.

Sometimes a starship will move from one type to another. For example a Heavy Cruiser is a front-line warship, however as they age, and technology advances, a class may be no longer fit for the front-line, and moved to a more secondary role such as Frontier Cruiser. Sometimes the same design with different armaments will be of a different type (e.g. Strike Cruiser vs Cruiser)

Starships are grouped into Military or Civilian uses, though Civilain ships can be used by the military, and some military ships do get into civilian hands.

Military Types

Ships with the Strike Prefix usually have higher Jump Drives than others types.

Heavy Warships

• Dreadnought - 500,000 - 1,000,000 Tons
• Battleship - 200,000 - 700,000 Tons
• Strike Battleship
• Light Battleship

Riders

• Battle Tender - 200,000 - 1,000,000 Tons
  • Battle Rider - 100,000 - 300,000 Tons
• Cruser Tender - 30,000 - 750,000 Tons
  • Cruiser Rider - 10,000 - 75,000 Tons

Carriers

• Heavy Carrier - 100,000 - 500,000 Tons
• Carrier - 50,000 - 100,000 Tons
• Strike Carrier - 20,000 - 100,000 Tons
• Fleet Carrier - 75,000 - 200,000 Tons
• Light Carrier - 5,000 - 30,000 Tons

Cruisers

• Battle Cruiser - 100,000 - 300,000 Tons
• Strike Cruiser - 20,000 - 75,000 Tons
• Heavy Cruiser - 50,000 - 100,000 Tons
• Cruiser
• Light Cruiser - 5,000 - 30,000 Tons
• Armoured Cruiser
• Patrol Cruiser - 100 - 2,000 Tons
• Command Cruiser
• War Cruiser
• Fleet Intruder
• Frontier Cruiser

Destroyers

• Destroyer Leader
• Destroyer - 3,000 - 10,000 Tons
• Destroyer Escort - 500 - 2,000 Tons
• Strike Destroyer
• Pursuit Destroyer

Frigates

• Fast Frigate
• Frigate - 200 - 1,000 Tons
• Light Frigate
• Patrol Frigate

Smaller Ships

• Missile Boat
• Corvette
• Escort Corvette
• Close Escort - 200 - 500 Tons
• Fleet Escort - 1,000 - 5,000 Tons
• Commerce Raider
• System Defense Boat 10 - 10,000 Tons
• Gunboat
• Patrol Boat
• Fleet Tanker
• Fleet Tender
• Fleet Tug
• Assault Transport

Fighters

• Heavy Fighter 50-99 Tons
• Strike Fighter 50-99 Tons
• Light Fighter 30-75 Tons
• Interface Fighter

Civilian Types

Mercantile

• Armoured Merchant
• Bulk Cargo Carrier
• Far Trader
• Free Trader
• Luxury Liner
• Merchant Cruiser (Armed Merchantman)
• Merchant Liner
• Subsidized Merchant

Non-Commercial

• Asteroid Miner - 50 - 800 Tons
• Corsair
• Courier - 100 - 400 Tons
• Express Boat
• Laboratory Ship - 100 - 2,000 Tons
• Mercenary Cruiser
• Police Cruiser - 100 - 600 Tons
• Scout Ship - 100 - 200 Tons
• Scout Tender
• Survey Cruiser - 100 - 1,000 Tons
• Tanker
• Tugs - 100 - 10,000 Tons
• Yacht - 100 - 1,000 Tons

Auxiliary

• Pinnace
• Shuttle - 20 - 200 Tons

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