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===ST-1 Covert Ops Scout=== | ===ST-1 Covert Ops Scout=== | ||
+ | Rank: Midshipman<br> | ||
+ | Badges: ''none'' | ||
− | + | ''Stealthy recon ship. Ideally suited for covert surveillance of enemy forces.'' | |
+ | |||
+ | Primary Systems: | ||
+ | :Tachyon Drive x1 | ||
+ | :IE Drive x1 | ||
+ | :Standard Armor x5 | ||
+ | :Beacon x1 | ||
+ | :ECM x6 | ||
+ | :Scanner x1 | ||
+ | :Auxiliary Reactor x1 | ||
+ | Weapon Systems: | ||
+ | :Extended Range Laser x2 | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===ST-2 Assault Corvette=== | ||
+ | Rank: Midshipman<br> | ||
+ | Badges: ''none'' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ''Light attack corvette. Torpedo payload allows it to engage larger ships effectively.'' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Primary Systems: | ||
+ | :Tachyon Drive x1 | ||
+ | :IE Drive x1 | ||
+ | :Standard Armor x5 | ||
+ | :Auxiliary Reactor x1 | ||
+ | :ECCM x2 | ||
+ | Weapon Systems: | ||
+ | :Extended Range Laser x1 | ||
+ | :Proton Torpedo x6 | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===ST-3 Interceptor Corvette=== | ||
+ | Rank: Midshipman<br> | ||
+ | Badges: ''none'' | ||
− | + | ''Light patrol corvette, adept at engaging other light warships from medium range. Modest electronic warfare payload.'' | |
− | |||
− | |||
− | |||
− | |||
− | + | Primary Systems: | |
+ | :Tachyon Drive x1 | ||
+ | :IE Drive x1 | ||
+ | :Standard Armor x5 | ||
+ | :ECCM x2 | ||
+ | :Auxiliary Reactor x1 | ||
+ | Weapon Systems: | ||
+ | :Extended Range Laser x1 | ||
+ | :Heavy Particle Cannon x3 | ||
− | ===ST- | + | ===ST-4 Blockade Corvette=== |
+ | Rank: Midshipman<br> | ||
+ | Badges: ''none'' | ||
− | + | ''Light minelayer. Can deploy high-yield EMP warheads in the path of enemy ships.'' | |
− | + | Primary Systems: | |
− | + | :Tachyon Drive x1 | |
− | + | :IE Drive x1 | |
− | + | :Standard Armor x4 | |
− | + | :ECM x3 | |
+ | :Auxiliary Reactor x1 | ||
+ | :Scanner x1 | ||
+ | Weapon Systems: | ||
+ | :Extended Range Laser x1 | ||
+ | :EMP Mine x2 | ||
− | + | ===ST-5 Bomber Corvette=== | |
+ | Rank: Midshipman<br> | ||
+ | Badges: ''none'' | ||
− | + | ''Light bomber. Capable of attacking enemy troops or basic facilities on planetary surfaces.'' | |
− | + | Primary Systems: | |
+ | :Tachyon Drive x1 | ||
+ | :IE Drive x1 | ||
+ | :Standard Armor x5 | ||
+ | :Scanner x1 | ||
+ | :ECM x3 | ||
+ | Weapon Systems: | ||
+ | :Extended Range Laser x1 | ||
+ | :MiRV Bomb x1 | ||
− | + | ==ICC== | |
− | |||
− | |||
− | |||
− | |||
− | + | ===M-23E Customs Corvette=== | |
− | + | The M-23E is a light escort ship equipped with extra point-defense beams to defend against missile or fighter attack. | |
− | Role: '' | + | Role: ''Point Defence'' |
− | *Weapons: | + | *Weapons: 3 Pulse Beams |
− | *Gadgets: 1 | + | *Gadgets: 1 Scanner and 3 ECCM Devices |
− | *Defenses: 4 | + | *Defenses: 4 Active shields and 1 Composite Armor Plate |
*Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | *Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | ||
*Badges required: None. | *Badges required: None. | ||
− | |||
− | == | + | ===M-24S Recon Scout=== |
− | + | The M-24S Recon is the purest descendant of the original M-20 series. The early M-10 corvettes were considerably larger and heavier than their modern counterparts and a smaller, faster ship was need for forward reconnaissance--thus the M-20 was born. As the role of corvettes changed into smaller, faster attack ships the M-10 series was eventually retired and M-20 variants were designed to fill combat roles. The lead class of the series is still the Recon Scout, equipped with stealth systems and long-range scanners for covert surveillance of enemy forces. | |
Role: ''Recon'' | Role: ''Recon'' | ||
− | *Weapons: | + | *Weapons: 2 Pulse Beams |
− | *Gadgets: | + | *Gadgets: 1 Scanner, 1 Beacon Launcher, and 6 ECCM Devices |
− | *Defenses: 4 Active shields | + | *Defenses: 4 Active shields and 1 Composite Armor Plate |
*Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | *Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | ||
*Badges required: None. | *Badges required: None. | ||
− | ===M- | + | |
+ | ===M-27T Stealth Corvette=== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The M-27A Stealth Corvette is one of the newest innovations of the Confederate Navy. It carries a sophisticated ECM array to help it avoid detection and five torpedo launchers to rapidly dish out death and destruction. Si far it has been used to great success in attacking UGTO logistical targets--their transports, engineering and supply ships--rather than their front-line forces. On a few occasions, large squadrons have brought down battle-damaged Dreadnoughts--but not without casualties. | ||
Role: ''Assault'' | Role: ''Assault'' | ||
− | *Weapons: 1 | + | *Weapons: 1 Pulse Beam, and 6 Fusion Torpedo Launchers. |
− | *Gadgets: | + | *Gadgets: 2 ECM devices. |
− | *Defenses: 4 Active shields | + | *Defenses: 4 Active shields and 1 Composite Armor Plate |
*Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | *Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | ||
*Badges required: None. | *Badges required: None. | ||
− | ===M- | + | |
+ | ===M-25L Sensor Corvette=== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The M-25L is a highly mobile light attack ship employed both by the Confederate Navy and many local police forces. It is among the most heavily-armed ships of its size in known space, and carries a well-earned reputation for lethality. Many a pirate or privateer has tried to meet this little buzzsaw head-on and not lived long enough to regret it. It also carries a modest electronic warfare suite, to help it locate and identify its targets. | ||
Role: ''Gunboat'' | Role: ''Gunboat'' | ||
− | *Weapons: 1 | + | *Weapons: 1 Pulse Beam Laser and 3 Heavy Railguns |
− | *Gadgets: 2 ECCM | + | *Gadgets: 2 ECCM Devices. |
− | *Defenses: 4 Active shields | + | *Defenses: 4 Active shields and 1 Composite Armor Plate |
*Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | *Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | ||
*Badges required: None. | *Badges required: None. | ||
+ | |||
===M-24B Bomber Corvette === | ===M-24B Bomber Corvette === | ||
+ | |||
+ | The M-24B is a light orbit-to-surface bomber. While its limited payload makes it ineffective against a target with even minimal defenses, its high mobility allows it to reach trouble spots rapidly. Rather than attacking enemy planets, this ship is far more often called on to take out UGTO troops that have landed on outlying colonies which will be otherwise unable to repel them. A well-developed network of rapid response bases puts these nimble little bombers within a few minutes' response time from any potential target. In many cases, the response is so rapid that enemy forces are dispatched before allied troops ever catch sight of them. | ||
Role: ''Bomber'' | Role: ''Bomber'' | ||
− | *Weapons: 1 | + | *Weapons: 1 Pulse Beam and 1 MiRV bomb launcher. |
− | *Gadgets: | + | *Gadgets: 3 ECM devices and a Scanner. |
− | *Defenses: 4 Active shields | + | *Defenses: 4 Active shields and One Composite Armor Plate |
*Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | *Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | ||
*Badges required: None. | *Badges required: None. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bomber Corvettes are useful in the routine bombing of unguarded planets, primarily for clearing off enemy troops. Because scouts are so fuel efficient, one could jump directly into the distant enemy back sectors while remaining undetected. However, it is rendered essentially obsolete by the Bomber Frigate. | ||
==K'luth== | ==K'luth== | ||
− | === | + | ===Flea=== |
+ | |||
+ | The Flea is a light attack corvette intended to attack other light warships at close range. | ||
− | Role: '' | + | Role: ''Beam'' |
− | *Weapons: | + | *Weapons: 1 Point Defence Beam, 1 ELF Beam, and 5 Disruptor Devices |
− | *Gadgets: | + | *Gadgets: Cloaking Device. |
− | *Defenses: | + | *Defenses: 4 Organic armor plates. |
*Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | *Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | ||
*Badges required: None. | *Badges required: None. | ||
+ | |||
===Talon=== | ===Talon=== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Talon is the standard K'luth Raptor, roughly equivalent in size and function to human Corvettes. Unlike the humans, who have unarmed Scouts and armed Corvettes, all Raptors have a combat role. The Talon in particular is a fast, light attack ship, intended to engage and destroy enemy craft of roughly the same size. It also carries a long-range scanner, allowing it to monitor human colonies while cloaked and report back to the fleet on potential targets. | ||
Role: ''Gunboat'' | Role: ''Gunboat'' | ||
− | *Weapons: 1 | + | *Weapons: 1 PD beam, 2 Psionic cannon, and 3 Heavy Psionic cannons. |
− | *Gadgets: | + | *Gadgets: 2 ECM device and a Cloaking Device |
− | *Defenses: | + | *Defenses: 4 Organic armor plates. |
*Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | *Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | ||
*Badges required: None. | *Badges required: None. | ||
+ | |||
===Extruder=== | ===Extruder=== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Extruder is a light bomber Raptor, equipped with biowarfare weapons to attack human settlements. In the early days of the conflict, before the humans were aware there was an alien presence in the sector, Extruders were able to induce considerable strife between the human factions by attacking outlying colonies on both sides, making them blame one another and provoking tensions between them. Even years after the discovery of the K'luth, human intelligence agencies have not fully sorted-out their level of involvement in starting the Fourth Interstellar War. | ||
Role: ''Bomber'' | Role: ''Bomber'' | ||
− | *Weapons: | + | *Weapons: 2 Point Defence Beams and 1 Bio Bomb launcher. |
− | *Gadgets: 1 ECM | + | *Gadgets: 2 ECM Devices, 1 Scanner, and a Cloaking Device |
− | *Defenses: | + | *Defenses: 4 Organic armor plates. |
+ | *Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | ||
+ | *Badges required: None. | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ===Wasp=== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Wasp is a light attack corvette optimized for stealthy approach. It's Torpedo payload allows it to engage larger ships effectively. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Role: ''Torpedo Boat'' | ||
+ | |||
+ | *Weapons: 1 Point Defence Beam and 8 AM Torpedo Launchers | ||
+ | *Gadgets: 2 ECM Devices, 1 Scanner, and a Cloaking Device | ||
+ | *Defenses: 4 Organic armor plates. | ||
+ | *Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | ||
+ | *Badges required: None. | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ===Antenna=== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Antenna is a stealthy recon ship. It's Ideally suited for covert surveillance of enemy forces. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Role: ''Electronic Warfare'' | ||
+ | |||
+ | *Weapons: 3 Point Defence Beams | ||
+ | *Gadgets: 7 ECM Devices, 1 Beacon Launcher, 1 Scanner, and a Cloaking Device | ||
+ | *Defenses: 4 Organic armor plates. | ||
*Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | *Rank Requirement: Midshipman. | ||
*Badges required: None. | *Badges required: None. |
Latest revision as of 21:43, 29 April 2014
Scouts are the smallest starships that players can pilot in Darkspace, and are the only combat oriented ships available to midshipmen.
Scouts are also known as corvettes. Technically, Corvettes are scouts that are geared towards more direct warfare (shooting the enemy), however as time and conflict has progressed the two terms have become almost interchangeable.
UGTO
ST-1 Covert Ops Scout
Rank: Midshipman
Badges: none
Stealthy recon ship. Ideally suited for covert surveillance of enemy forces.
Primary Systems:
- Tachyon Drive x1
- IE Drive x1
- Standard Armor x5
- Beacon x1
- ECM x6
- Scanner x1
- Auxiliary Reactor x1
Weapon Systems:
- Extended Range Laser x2
ST-2 Assault Corvette
Rank: Midshipman
Badges: none
Light attack corvette. Torpedo payload allows it to engage larger ships effectively.
Primary Systems:
- Tachyon Drive x1
- IE Drive x1
- Standard Armor x5
- Auxiliary Reactor x1
- ECCM x2
Weapon Systems:
- Extended Range Laser x1
- Proton Torpedo x6
ST-3 Interceptor Corvette
Rank: Midshipman
Badges: none
Light patrol corvette, adept at engaging other light warships from medium range. Modest electronic warfare payload.
Primary Systems:
- Tachyon Drive x1
- IE Drive x1
- Standard Armor x5
- ECCM x2
- Auxiliary Reactor x1
Weapon Systems:
- Extended Range Laser x1
- Heavy Particle Cannon x3
ST-4 Blockade Corvette
Rank: Midshipman
Badges: none
Light minelayer. Can deploy high-yield EMP warheads in the path of enemy ships.
Primary Systems:
- Tachyon Drive x1
- IE Drive x1
- Standard Armor x4
- ECM x3
- Auxiliary Reactor x1
- Scanner x1
Weapon Systems:
- Extended Range Laser x1
- EMP Mine x2
ST-5 Bomber Corvette
Rank: Midshipman
Badges: none
Light bomber. Capable of attacking enemy troops or basic facilities on planetary surfaces.
Primary Systems:
- Tachyon Drive x1
- IE Drive x1
- Standard Armor x5
- Scanner x1
- ECM x3
Weapon Systems:
- Extended Range Laser x1
- MiRV Bomb x1
ICC
M-23E Customs Corvette
The M-23E is a light escort ship equipped with extra point-defense beams to defend against missile or fighter attack.
Role: Point Defence
- Weapons: 3 Pulse Beams
- Gadgets: 1 Scanner and 3 ECCM Devices
- Defenses: 4 Active shields and 1 Composite Armor Plate
- Rank Requirement: Midshipman.
- Badges required: None.
M-24S Recon Scout
The M-24S Recon is the purest descendant of the original M-20 series. The early M-10 corvettes were considerably larger and heavier than their modern counterparts and a smaller, faster ship was need for forward reconnaissance--thus the M-20 was born. As the role of corvettes changed into smaller, faster attack ships the M-10 series was eventually retired and M-20 variants were designed to fill combat roles. The lead class of the series is still the Recon Scout, equipped with stealth systems and long-range scanners for covert surveillance of enemy forces.
Role: Recon
- Weapons: 2 Pulse Beams
- Gadgets: 1 Scanner, 1 Beacon Launcher, and 6 ECCM Devices
- Defenses: 4 Active shields and 1 Composite Armor Plate
- Rank Requirement: Midshipman.
- Badges required: None.
M-27T Stealth Corvette
The M-27A Stealth Corvette is one of the newest innovations of the Confederate Navy. It carries a sophisticated ECM array to help it avoid detection and five torpedo launchers to rapidly dish out death and destruction. Si far it has been used to great success in attacking UGTO logistical targets--their transports, engineering and supply ships--rather than their front-line forces. On a few occasions, large squadrons have brought down battle-damaged Dreadnoughts--but not without casualties.
Role: Assault
- Weapons: 1 Pulse Beam, and 6 Fusion Torpedo Launchers.
- Gadgets: 2 ECM devices.
- Defenses: 4 Active shields and 1 Composite Armor Plate
- Rank Requirement: Midshipman.
- Badges required: None.
M-25L Sensor Corvette
The M-25L is a highly mobile light attack ship employed both by the Confederate Navy and many local police forces. It is among the most heavily-armed ships of its size in known space, and carries a well-earned reputation for lethality. Many a pirate or privateer has tried to meet this little buzzsaw head-on and not lived long enough to regret it. It also carries a modest electronic warfare suite, to help it locate and identify its targets.
Role: Gunboat
- Weapons: 1 Pulse Beam Laser and 3 Heavy Railguns
- Gadgets: 2 ECCM Devices.
- Defenses: 4 Active shields and 1 Composite Armor Plate
- Rank Requirement: Midshipman.
- Badges required: None.
M-24B Bomber Corvette
The M-24B is a light orbit-to-surface bomber. While its limited payload makes it ineffective against a target with even minimal defenses, its high mobility allows it to reach trouble spots rapidly. Rather than attacking enemy planets, this ship is far more often called on to take out UGTO troops that have landed on outlying colonies which will be otherwise unable to repel them. A well-developed network of rapid response bases puts these nimble little bombers within a few minutes' response time from any potential target. In many cases, the response is so rapid that enemy forces are dispatched before allied troops ever catch sight of them.
Role: Bomber
- Weapons: 1 Pulse Beam and 1 MiRV bomb launcher.
- Gadgets: 3 ECM devices and a Scanner.
- Defenses: 4 Active shields and One Composite Armor Plate
- Rank Requirement: Midshipman.
- Badges required: None.
Bomber Corvettes are useful in the routine bombing of unguarded planets, primarily for clearing off enemy troops. Because scouts are so fuel efficient, one could jump directly into the distant enemy back sectors while remaining undetected. However, it is rendered essentially obsolete by the Bomber Frigate.
K'luth
Flea
The Flea is a light attack corvette intended to attack other light warships at close range.
Role: Beam
- Weapons: 1 Point Defence Beam, 1 ELF Beam, and 5 Disruptor Devices
- Gadgets: Cloaking Device.
- Defenses: 4 Organic armor plates.
- Rank Requirement: Midshipman.
- Badges required: None.
Talon
The Talon is the standard K'luth Raptor, roughly equivalent in size and function to human Corvettes. Unlike the humans, who have unarmed Scouts and armed Corvettes, all Raptors have a combat role. The Talon in particular is a fast, light attack ship, intended to engage and destroy enemy craft of roughly the same size. It also carries a long-range scanner, allowing it to monitor human colonies while cloaked and report back to the fleet on potential targets.
Role: Gunboat
- Weapons: 1 PD beam, 2 Psionic cannon, and 3 Heavy Psionic cannons.
- Gadgets: 2 ECM device and a Cloaking Device
- Defenses: 4 Organic armor plates.
- Rank Requirement: Midshipman.
- Badges required: None.
Extruder
The Extruder is a light bomber Raptor, equipped with biowarfare weapons to attack human settlements. In the early days of the conflict, before the humans were aware there was an alien presence in the sector, Extruders were able to induce considerable strife between the human factions by attacking outlying colonies on both sides, making them blame one another and provoking tensions between them. Even years after the discovery of the K'luth, human intelligence agencies have not fully sorted-out their level of involvement in starting the Fourth Interstellar War.
Role: Bomber
- Weapons: 2 Point Defence Beams and 1 Bio Bomb launcher.
- Gadgets: 2 ECM Devices, 1 Scanner, and a Cloaking Device
- Defenses: 4 Organic armor plates.
- Rank Requirement: Midshipman.
- Badges required: None.
Wasp
The Wasp is a light attack corvette optimized for stealthy approach. It's Torpedo payload allows it to engage larger ships effectively.
Role: Torpedo Boat
- Weapons: 1 Point Defence Beam and 8 AM Torpedo Launchers
- Gadgets: 2 ECM Devices, 1 Scanner, and a Cloaking Device
- Defenses: 4 Organic armor plates.
- Rank Requirement: Midshipman.
- Badges required: None.
Antenna
The Antenna is a stealthy recon ship. It's Ideally suited for covert surveillance of enemy forces.
Role: Electronic Warfare
- Weapons: 3 Point Defence Beams
- Gadgets: 7 ECM Devices, 1 Beacon Launcher, 1 Scanner, and a Cloaking Device
- Defenses: 4 Organic armor plates.
- Rank Requirement: Midshipman.
- Badges required: None.
Pirates
C-55 Type A "Ray" Scout
Role: Scout/Recon
Weapons: Unknown
C-55 Type B "Stingray" Scout
Role: Gunboat
Weapons: Unknown
C-55 Type C "Mantaray" Scout
Role: Bomber
Weapons: Unknown