Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26084195-20161224085603

The Terran Navy was not nearly as impressive or important as it is today. These days, the Navy does a lot of the Alliance's dirty work. Not so back in the early days of the Alliance. Back then, the first starships were completely unarmed, used to ferry people from planet to planet. However, after the Europa Incident and the formation of Naval Intelligence, the first Terran battlecruiser was constructed. This represented the beginning of the proper Terran Navy.

The Alliance mainly used only three classes for their battle-capable starships: the small and numerous frigate, the larger and better armed cruisers, and the rare but more heavily armed battlecruiser. The experimental Terran starship, the Valiant, was the first starship to be classified as a battleship. It was also the first in many other things, including the first Terran ship to use nothing but lasers and torpedoes.

Most Terran military starships were equipped with torpedoes as their main armament, with cruisers mounting a few kinetic weapons such as gauss cannons, railguns, mass drivers, whatever you want to call them. As time went on, Terran ships were able to be equipped with more of these. In the later stages of the generation one navy, some Terran ships even equipped laser armaments. However, the Terran Navy suffered near total losses in the War for Sol, and had to be reconstructed. It was only after reconstruction was finished that the Terran Alliance adopted the Generation Two construction templates for the Navy.

 