Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26084195-20170425182352

Many of the vessels you see below, unless of a fighter or corvette size or specifically stated otherwise, are equipped with an amount of torpedo banks appropriate for a vessel of its size, as well as banks of laser blasters, which are smaller wide arc turrets used for point defense and limited ship-to-ship combat. Also note that the descriptions below do not always apply, and vessels may be equipped with alternate or experimental weaponry as needed.

Dagger Boarding Pod: Sleek and fast as an arrow, the Dagger class boarding pod is more self-propelled projectile than anything. Only when it pierces the hull of a ship, rather than explode it unleashes a squad of Mjolnir heavy infantry, which get to work securing strategic points in the ship to bring in reinforcements.

Rapier Multi-role Fighter: This sleek, wicked fast fighter is a staple of Terran power. Equipped with twin photon cannons, it can tear apart an enemy fighter in seconds. The cannons have two settings, one full auto for use in dog fights, the other single-shot but more powerful, for use in attack runs. However, its most useful function is its ability to fight in the void and in atmosphere. The fighter’s skinny design allows vessels to carry an impressive complement of these fighter craft.

Broadsword Bomber: The Broadsword is wide and long, but really quite skinny in terms of height. The Broadsword is equipped with a magazine of armour-piercing “bunker buster” missiles, which have a limited self-guidance ability. It is also equipped with a plasma cannon on its nose, one of the few Terran navy vessels to be equipped with such a weapon. It, like the Rapier, is capable of fighting in void and atmo alike. They may be modified to carry larger Terran ground vehicles.

Claymore Troop Transports: The Claymore is a sleek, speedy vessel, about the size of a corvette, with multiple floors and the capacity for 100 Legionnaires. This vessel is mostly equipped with broadside banks of rapid firing anti-infantry lasers, used for clearing LZs. The ship is mostly used to land soldiers in established beachheads on the planets below, but is sometimes used to drop troops off in captured hangars in enemy starships to help take it.

Ceres Class Corvette: A hunter of smaller vessels. This vessel is equipped with a deadly Terran weapon known as a plasma cyclone. The weapon is deadly at short range, but near useless at longer ones. Fortunately, this vessel is not only fast and comparatively small, but also comes equipped with minor stealth systems. It was designed primarily to hunt down frigates, troop deploying ships, and the like. However, it has found success against the ultra-large ships of the Rin and the Mindnet, for those big ships have trouble dealing with Santiagos at close range. It can enter atmosphere.

Titania Frigate: While it lacks the Santiago’s discreteness and maneuverability, the Toulon makes up for it with range and better defense. The Toulon is the main gunnery frigate of the Alliance, with a trio of light laser cannons. They usually come in groups of four, and with speed superior to Alliance cruisers, are often used to flank the enemy.



Oberon Frigate: The Taipei replaces two of the Toulon’s laser turrets with four torpedo turrets. This ship is designed for slightly closer quarters than the Toulon, as the closer they are, the better chance the torpedoes have against enemy point defence. However, these frigates are very useful to stripping an enemy’s shields.

Umbriel Frigate: Rather than torpedoes or an extra pair of turrets, the Jakarta is equipped with substantially superior laser blaster banks. These weapons are not so good for ship-to-ship combat, but they are wonderful for dealing with torpedoes, fighters and bombers, and even corvettes, and they can be used for major ship-to-ship in a pinch. They are often used to escort larger, more important vessels and provide essentially extra point defense.

Ariel Carrier: On the chassis of a frigate, this atmospheric-capable ship is loaded with Alliance dropships, which carry ground assets, mainly tanks and mechs, as well as some troops. These are the first wave in an Alliance ground attack, the Orleans class vessels penetrating the cloud layer and disgorging swarms of dropships, which unleash hardy Terran tanks. Once their beachheads are established, the Claymores come next. By then, it’s likely too late for the enemies of the Alliance.

Eris Destroyer: This vessel, while larger than a corvette and slightly slower, is very well protected by some of the Alliance’s most advanced stealth systems. These deadly vessels are designed to hunt in packs, coordinating the fire of their deadly fixed-channel boring lasers. They are often used to make surprise strikes at high priority targets behind enemy lines, or disrupt enemy supply chains. In a major battle, they are hunters of things larger than themselves.

Nereid Light Cruiser: The Osaka is a vessel that often works in pairs to get the most out of its armament; a pair of laser turrets. While these are effective weapons, these cruisers have to be used carefully due to their fragility when compared with normal cruisers.

Proteus Light Cruiser: The New Cairo is a ship that punches above its weight, armed with a cruiser version of the Terran boring laser. This weapon is deadly, but the New Cairo suffers from similar drawbacks to the Osaka, compounded by the fact that the boring laser has a slower fire rate and a fixed channel of firing.

Ganymede Cruiser: The Ganymede is larger and equipped with heavier armour than the Nereid, though it is a touch slower. It is equipped with four laser turrets, two along the front and two facing either side nearer the end of the ship.

Enceladus Cruiser: Similar to the Ganymede, this cruiser has stronger armour than its more lightly armoured counterpart, but is a touch slower. Rather than a pair of laser turrets along the front, it has a boring laser, and two laser turrets on the flanks.

Io Fleet Carrier: This valuable vessel is built on the same chassis as the Ganymede cruisers, however, it has a substantial difference. Rather than rear turrets, the maneuvering fins have been enlarged and a pair of fighter and bomber bays have been installed. These vessels are valuable to the Alliance for being able to launch fleet assets and participate in a main battle.

Callisto Cruiser: This vessel is also constructed on the same chassis as the Ganymede, with a significant difference. Instead of a pair of standard cruiser-grade laser turrets along the front underside of the ship, there are a pair of Alliance bombardment cannons. These guns are downwards-facing rapid fire railguns that fire tungsten rounds. The effects of these weapons are impressive, and they can even be used to attack in-atmosphere targets like corvettes and strike cruisers.

Titan Shield Cruiser: This unique vessel is about the same size and weight as a standard cruiser. It is equipped with a cruiser grade laser turret, however, it is not used for combat. It is equipped with a special generator which boosts the shield harmonics of nearby Terran vessels. These are sent in with the frontline attack ships, making them more difficult to crack.

Kuiper Troopship: This vessel is kind of built along the same lines as a standard cruiser, with a pair of laser turrets to the rear. However, it is slower than average, and the reason is that instead of an underslung fore weapon, it has a massive bay full of Claymore troop transports. These vessels almost never participate in a fleet assault, staying back until they have an opening to move in and launch their invasion force.

Deimos Heavy Cruiser: The Deimos is a staple of Alliance combat, and is rightly feared. It has a complement of six laser turrets, two under the front of the ship, two on top, and two on the flanks to the rear. They are also equipped with even heavier armour.

Phobos Heavy Cruiser: This ship, similarly to the Deimos, is more heavily armoured than any other cruiser-sized ship, though its weapons are quite different. It is equipped with the turrets on the flanks to the rear, but it’s also equipped with two boring lasers to the front, one on top one on the bottom. This version is less common than the Deimos, but is also even scarier.



Triton Gunship: This unique vessel type is comparable in size to the heavy cruisers of the Alliance, though it eschews their more resilient hull in exchange for greater firepower. It is equipped with four turrets, two along either flank. However, it is equipped with far more substantial torpedo banks than any other medium sized Alliance vessel. These torpedoes are often equipped with greatly varying warheads, from nuclear to corrosive to plasma to Devastator warheads.

Mercury Battlecruiser: At last bridging the gap between the mediums and larges, the Mercury is a painful foe to face. Equipped with much heavier armour than a cruiser, four underslung cruiser-grade laser turrets, with two on the flank, and two large fighter bays, it’s a pain to have to fight one. This thing is well known for leading most patrol fleets, and it has been the bane of many pirates, slavers, and other criminals.



Luna Battlecruiser: This battlecruiser is an interesting beast, and is not often seen leading patrols but rather incursions into enemy territory. It is equipped with four cruiser grade laser turrets on the flank, but its main armament is the massive battleship grade “Viper” boring laser underslung on the fore of the ship. It’s a devastating weapon, able to slice right through a light cruiser in one shot. The problem with such a weapon is that it causes a signature spike.

Mars Battleship: At last, we’re into the true beasts of the Alliance. The Mars Battleship, like all Alliance battleships, is equipped with heavy armour and powerful shield systems. For weapons, it wields no fewer than eight battleship grade laser turrets, four underslung on the front, and two on either flank. Also, smack dab in the center of this vessel’s prow is a battleship grade boring laser. This is a true heavyweight, capable of slicing an enemy ship to bits with shining beams of red light.

Europa Battleship: The Europa is built almost exactly like a Mars battleship, with one substantial difference. Rather than four underslung laser turrets on the front, it is equipped with four battleship-grade bombardment cannons. While it delivers ship-to-ship capabilities comparable to that of a Luna battlecruiser, it also decimates entire cities on the planet below.

Venus Battlecarrier: The favourite vessel of admirals everywhere. It keeps the four flank turrets of the previous two battleships, however, that and the chassis is where the similarities end. Instead of any underslung weaponry, it has a massive fighter and bomber bay. And instead of a boring laser, there is a tube with two infamous Ragnarok torpedoes, one behind the other. These hulking torpedoes are self-guided and very heavily armoured, nearly totally immune to point defense. These torpedoes penetrate an enemy ship and then explode, in a blast capable of cracking a cruiser in two.



Terra Dreadnought: Buckle up, kids. This is the biggest ship the Terran Alliance fields. With no less than ten dreadnought grade laser turrets (four underslung on the front, three on the flanks), A dreadnought grade boring laser, two Ragnarok torpedoes on either side, and a fighter capacity comparable to a Venus, not to mention the most extensive complements of torpedoes and blasters, the Terra is equipped to face just about anything the Milky Way throws at it. It is also equipped with not only the strongest starship shield available to the Alliance, but a special sectored shield. This shield generator is able to transfer power from other shield sections to provide extra power to others. So if the dreadnought is taking intense fire from the front, it can make the shields weaker in the back to make them stronger in the front. 