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A vehicle/ship class from the Star Wars universe
The TIE/D(roid) is a fully automated starfighter based on the TIE fighter chassis. The craft can be recognized by its slanted, rectangular wings. The TIE/D was devised by the reborn Emperor Palpatine as a way to compensate for the scarcity of good pilots. By wiring a droid brain into a simple TIE fighter, the craft could perform reasonably...

A vehicle/ship class from the Star Wars universe
The TIE defender was an advanced TIE model equipped with an impressive array of weapons and abilities. With a respectable shield system and a hyperdrive, it was in fact a tacit admission by the Imperial Navy that Rebel starfighter tactics were successful, and that ordinary TIEs and TIE interceptors were the inferior craft of an inferior doctrine....

A vehicle/ship class from the Star Wars universe
Like a swarm of locusts, TIE fighters seem to have endless numbers no matter how many are killed. Practically the definition of 'cannon fodder,' TIE fighters are poorly defended, minimally armed, non-FTL, and very cheaply produced craft designed for maximum expendablity. Despite their reputation for being flying tin cans, however, TIE fighters are ...

A vehicle/ship class from the Star Wars universe
The TIE interceptor was designed as a replacement for the rather weak TIE fighter. By the Battle of Endor, 20% of TIE fighters had been replaced by these craft. TIE interceptors are superior to TIE fighters in all but two areas: they still lack a hyperdrive and are still unshielded and poorly armored. They are, however, faster, far more ag...

A vehicle/ship class from the Wing Commander universe
The Tigershark is a development of the Hellcat design and like the Hellcat is a jack of all trades but master of none. A good pilot can pull off impressive results with this fighter though and it is replacing the Earlier Hellcats in the Confed fleet. The armament is impressive, with two laser cannons...

A vehicle/ship class from the Battletech universe
The Timberwolf Omnimech, known as the Madcat in the Inner Sphere is one of the iconic mechs of the Clans. It is also one of the most versatile of the earlier designs. Most often used by Clan Wolf, although used to a lesser extent in all Clans, it was the first Mech encountered in the Inner Sphere from a C...

A vehicle/ship class from the Babylon 5 universe
While an ineffective vessel on its own, the T'Loth soldiers on in the service of the Narn Regime as an Assault Cruiser carrying large amounts of troops which, once the orbital defences are eliminated or subdued are landed to take over planets. The T'Loth is a ship of primarily Centauri technology as it was cobbled together with bits and pi...

A vehicle/ship class from the Babylon 5 universe
The T'Ralie class transport is the standard light freighter of the Narn Regime. It is in use both by civilian and military organisations and some variants are armed. Like all Narn ships it is relatively sturdy. It can carry a decent amount of cargo, and it only needs a small crew to operate. The Narns have also used these ships ...

A vehicle/ship class from the Trigan Empire, The universe
This craft was heavily used in the early days of the Trigan Empire largely because a large number of them were captured from the Lokans. It's reasonable to assume that the Trigans later manufactured them themselves with relative ease as Peric stated that they were originally a Tharv design that the Lokans ...

A vehicle/ship class from the Battletech universe
The Union-C is a Clan developed version of the venerable Union Class dropship. Incorporating many of the Clan developments over the centuries, these vessels have generally been kept in good condition. They also have been equipped with Clan tech weaponry and heat sinks. A large number of Unions accompanied the ...

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The Union Class Dropship is one of the most common Dropship classes in the Inner Sphere, used by most Successor States and even some Mercenary Companies. A Union can carry a full company of twelve Battlemechs plus two Aerospace fighters in its bay. For a dropship in the medium class, its armament is impressive. The ...

A vehicle/ship class from the Lensman universe
The Lensman series features several unique ships, particularly for Civilisation. The Z9M9Z, Dauntless, Velan and Britannia are all one-off ships that were never (in the books) repeated except to replace the original one (eg in the case of the Dauntless).

A vehicle/ship class from the StarCraft universe
The Valkyrie is a midsized vessel designed by the United Earth Directorate. It was manufactured by the UED prior to its invasion of the Koprulu Sector, as a countermeasure against the Zerg Mutalisks which had proven capable of equaling or defeating the Terran Confederacy's Wraith fighters. Unlike the Wraith, which is an air-superiority a...

A vehicle/ship class from the Star Wars universe
The Venator-class Star Destroyer is a large warship which entered service at the end of the Clone Wars. While the Venator has top-of-the-line heavy weapons - in the form of eight double-barreled heavy turbolasers - it lacks any substantial medium- or light-turbolaser batteries. It compensates for this limitation with a major starfighter transport ...

A vehicle/ship class from the Star Wars universe
Victory Star Destroyers appeared at the very end of the Clone Wars, preceding both the Venator Star Destroyer, which was a carrier, and the superior Imperator Star Destroyer. At 900 meters long, it was one of the largest ships of the era. The VSD is a capable combatant, carrying ten quad turbolasers, forty double turbolasers, eighty conc...

A vehicle/ship class from the Battlestar Galactica (2004) universe
The Viper MkII was heavily used in the latter part of the Cylon War and was the fighter variant used by Commander Adama when he was a young fighter pilot. With far less computerisation of their systems, these ships were not susceptible to the Cylon Jamming technology and it was just fortunate that there was a large number of these ships available ...

A vehicle/ship class from the Battlestar Galactica (2004) universe
The Viper Mk VII was the mainline fighter of the Colonial Fleet. Unfortunately the Galactica only has a small number of these ships left due to horrendous losses sufferered in the initial Cylon attack as a result of their computer controlled flight systems suffering from infiltration from a Cylon designed virus....

A vehicle/ship class from the V universe
The Squad ship is a medium transport vessel which, like all Visitor transport ships, seemed to be based off the same modular concept as the Skyfighter. A medium sized transport module is sandwiched between the cockpit and the rear gunnery position. It's not known if Squad ships are armed or not but the basic design suggests that if they are not, ...

A vehicle/ship class from the V universe
Visitor Tankers are large sluggish vessels around the size of one of the large troop transports, however the central passenger section has been removed and replaced with two large cylindrical tanks. The visitors use these to ferry some of the water that they have plundered, but their primary use was as decoy vessels when loading the lifesa...

A vehicle/ship class from the V universe
Even larger than the Squad Ship, the Troop Transporter was first seen in Los Angeles transporting technicians down to the chemical plant set aside for their use. Onscreen estimates show that as many as 70-80 technicians and their equipment could be carried on board these large transport ships. The handling of the transporter is more slugg...