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A vehicle/ship class from the Battlestar Galactica (1978) universe
The Destroyer is the primary strike and patrol craft of the Eastern Alliance. Carrying a crew of around half a dozen, the Destroyer is relatively long ranged, so much so, that a destroyer could reach distant Paradeen without any concerns about refuelling or resupplying. Destroyers seem to patrol singly, although it is assumed that in cert...

A vehicle/ship class from the Wing Commander universe
The escort carrier line was a stopgap design to refill the Confederations carrier forces after heavy losses. A dozen of them could be built for the price of one fleet carrier. It was a makeshift design that had serious flaws and had only limited space to accomodate only three squadrons of fighters, and it also had a very limi...

A vehicle/ship class from the Star Wars universe
The E-wing is a late-model superiority fighter fielded by the New Republic. Designed by the same team that designed the X-wing, the E-wing is an impressive craft. A typical E-wing mounts three laser cannons and a single proton torpedo launcher with 16 torpedoes. The craft has the speed and agility of a TIE interceptor, and is much more dur...

A vehicle/ship class from the Star Trek universe
Overview: The Excelsior class has enjoyed remarkable longevity in the Federation, from it's first appearance in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock to it's final appearance in Star Trek: Voyager's 'Endgame'. It is likely that the ship continued to be used after 'Endgame', but with the end of Voyager, this cannot be known....

A vehicle/ship class from the Star Wars universe
The Executor-class of star dreadnought is a massive vessel, some 16 km long. The ships maintain some 5000 heavy turbolasers alone, with additional medium turbolasers, ion cannons, and concussion-missile launchers. They carry at least two wings of fighters and at least 200 other support and combat craft. They also carry a number of Stormtroopers gre...

A vehicle/ship class from the Wing Commander universe
The Excalibur class fighter was the peak of technological fighter innovation that was ready for operation in the last days of the Confed-Kilrathi war. One of the early production vessels was assigned to the TCS Victory and was later used to deliver the Temblor bomb weapon on Kilrah. The Ex...

A vehicle/ship class from the Wing Commander universe
The Panther is a modern Space Superiority fighter, yet it is essentially a second line vessel compared to larger fighters like the Vampire. It's smaller size though means that it has tremendous acceleration, and some pilots actually prefer the Panther to its bigger brother. The gun armament isn't the best though, consisting of onl...

A vehicle/ship class from the Wing Commander universe
One of the newest of Confeds heavy fighters, the F-109 was first deployed on board the TCS Midway. These ships were heavily armed even for their weight class and fared well against the Nephilim forces. Primary armament consisted of 4 Tachyon Cannons and 2 Particle cannons while a heavy load of disposable ordnance was carried....

A vehicle/ship class from the Wing Commander universe
The Wasp is a new point-defence fighter intended as a close in defence for capital ships, especially carriers. The Wasps task is primarily to intercept bombers and anti-cap ship missiles before they impact. Sometimes it takes advantage of a jettisonable rocket pack to reach an area without using its afterburner. After the rocket booster fuel is ...

A vehicle/ship class from the Wing Commander universe
The Thunderbolt VII is used in the last days of the Terran-Kilrathi war. Manufactured by Douglas Aerospace, it is a heavy fighter capable of absorbing tremendous amounts of punishment. It is also capable of being used as an ad hoc bomber when Longbows are not available by mounting a single Torpedo on the centreline pyl...

A vehicle/ship class from the Wing Commander universe
The Hellcat V is the baseline fighter used in the latter days of the Confed-Kilrathi war. The workhorse of the Terran Confederation carrier fleet, it is a capable fighter but has a 'jack of all trades, master of none' feel to it. The ship is decently armed and armoured. Fixed weapons loadout is the same as the...

A vehicle/ship class from the Wing Commander universe
The Arrow class light fighter manufactured by Douglas Aerospace is the primary short range fighter of the Terran Confederation in the latter years of the Confed-Kilrathi conflict. The Arrow primarily serves as a short range scout fighter and as an interceptor where its nimbleness and high speed make it eminently suitable....

A vehicle/ship class from the Wing Commander universe
The Longbow Bomber, manufactured by McCall industries was the standard Confed Torpedo bomber in the last years of the Confed-Kilrathi conflict. It replaced earlier bombers like the Broadsword, though it is assumed that with the sheer numbers of earlier designs deployed, total replacement had not yet happened. U...

A vehicle/ship class from the Babylon 5 universe
The Narn Frazi class Heavy fighter is the mainstay of the Narn Regime Armed forces and is armed with two pulse discharge cannons similiar to those found in the Earth Starfury Aurora class fighter. The Frazi unlike the Aurora is capable of Atmopheric flight but it's lower speed and greatly reduced manueverability....

A vehicle/ship class from the Wing Commander universe
The normal civilian version of this vessel is representative of the civilian freighters found throughout human inhabitated space. Despite the normal craft not being modified to the same extent as the TCS Bonnie Heather, the captains of such craft very rarely leave them in their factory spec configuration. Thereby, no two ships of th...

A vehicle/ship class from the Halo universe
Dimensions:- Over 500 meters in length Weaponry:- 26 Archer missile pods, each loaded with 30 Archer missiles- 1 MAC cannon- 3 Shiva nuclear missiles- 1-3 squadrons of Longsword interceptors Armor:- 60 centimeters of titanium-a battleplate

A vehicle/ship class from the universe
Designed and constructed by Nexus V, it was the ultimate weapon used by the Hadean Crown in their war with the Olympian Council. Nexus constructed them from a new strain of bio-metal which was based on the war-like nature of humans. In the end though, the agressive nature of the furies proved to be sentient and uncontrollable and the Cthon...

A vehicle/ship class from the Star Trek universe
Overview: The Galaxy class starship was the premier Starfleet vessel through the mid-24th century. A multimission craft, the Galaxy class were few in number and were deployed either on important specific missions or on very long lasting expeditions of deep space exploration. During the course of the Dominion War, the Galaxy ...

A vehicle/ship class from the Star Trek universe
The Galor is the mainstay of the Cardassian fleet, making up over half of their total Naval forces. When it first entered service in the 2340's the Galor was intended to oppose smaller and older vessels such as the Miranda, Excelsior, Norway and New Orleans classes. Initially the Cardassians wanted to also develop a much larger, more powerful desig...

A vehicle/ship class from the Gundam SEED universe
The Strike Dagger is one of the ultimate demonstrations of the phrase 'Quantity has a quality all its own.' An inferior performer to contemporary designs, it nontheless altered the balance of the Bloody Valentine War in the Earth Alliance's favour. A massively simplified version of the GAT-X105 Strike Gundam, the Strike Dagger was one of t...