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What is a corvette in Sci Fi?
In Sci-Fi – Corvettes would be the smallest warships, designed for escort and patrol, anti-mine, or anti-stealth. They would be used where larger ships with more firepower are not deemed necessary (such as backwater worlds or low-risk areas) or where a larger ship would be unsuitable for deployment.
What is a Space Frigate?
A frigate was a type of military spaceship. Recorded usage of the term varied extensively, but it typically denoted a capital ship designed to serve in a skirmishing role to protect larger ships, or more generally, a ship designed to serve in a support role.
What are the names of the ships in Star Wars?
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- 1.1 Death Star.
- 1.2 Executor (Super Star Destroyer)
- 1.3 Home One (Mon Calamari cruiser)
- 1.4 Imperial landing craft (Sentinel-class landing craft)
- 1.5 Imperial shuttle (Lambda-class shuttle)
- 1.6 Imperial Star Destroyer.
- 1.7 Millennium Falcon (YT-1300 light freighter)
- 1.8 Rebel Medical Frigate (Nebulon-B frigate)
What is the largest space ship?
Currently the heaviest spacecraft is the International Space Station, nearly double Shuttle-Mir’s mass in orbit. It began assembly with a first launch in 1998, however it only attained its full weight in the 2020s, due to its modular nature and gradual additions.
What is the most popular Star Wars ship?
Not only is the Millennium Falcon arguably the most iconic ship in all of Star Wars, but it is one of the most iconic ships in all of science fiction.
Flagships are often capital ships (as they generally want to be the biggest, most powerful ship in the fleet), but by definition whichever ship has the fleet commander on board will fly the flag and thus be considered the flagship. Usually, this is a specifically designated vessel but the title can jump around as needed between ships.
What are the problems with sci-fi ships?
A further problem (which comes up very often in sci-fi) is technological superiority; that is, a ship classification in one species’ navy may not be equal to the ships of the same classification in another species’ navy.
Can a fleet have multiple capital ships within it?
A fleet can have multiple capital ships within it; the term simply describes the capabilities of a particular vessel. But an individual fleet will only ever have one flagship at a time, the “lead” ship, which the admiral/general/fleet commander resides on and operates from.
What is a capital ship in Star Citizen?
In short, a capital ship is a ship that doesn’t need the rest of the fleet to function, and can operate independently of a fleet while being the main target of other capital ships (not that they are impervious to the fire of other ships, but that generally capital ships will seek each other out for direct confrontation).