Space fleets of the various factions and their historical/modern equivalents

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

This topic inspired me to create a topic specifically for discussing the various factions’ fleets including historical/modern equivalents based relative armament and in game as well as lore.

since I covered battle barges and strike cruisers in the above topic, and I think their destroyer and frigate options don’t need much said(feel free to ask about them or bring them up if you’d like) about them so here I’ll be moving on to the Imperial Fleet.

 

battleships

Emperor class- closest to the handful of ‘battle-carriers’ that were built or drawn up on paper.

Nemesis class- super carrier, like the Nimitz class.

Oberon class- kind of a weird one, I’d just fit it as a battleship with a few extra catapult aircraft than typical.

Retribution class- lots of guns, clearly just a battleship

Victory- another battleship

Vanquisher- battleship

Invincible- battleship

Incarnate- WWII fleet carrier

Tyrant- battleship

Ascension- battleship scale version of the USS Vesuvius. Not sure if that was an actual inspiration, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was.

 

things will get weird with Grand Cruisers as they’re larger than Battlecruisers and we never had anything between battlecruiser and battleship.

 

Grand Cruiser

Avenger- it would seem to be an aviation heavy battleship. Maybe closer to an outdated battleship like a pre-dreadnought in a post dreadnought world, but carrying airplanes, and given a refit for more armor.

Exorcist- early fleet carrier like the USS Lexington, a carrier built on the hull of a battlecruiser and armed with 2 twin 8” turrets.

Vengeance- is called out as being outdated so again, seems like a pre-dreadnought battleship in a post dreadnought world.

Furious- battleship maybe a ‘pocket battleship’ since they’re noticeably smaller than battleships.

All in all the grand cruisers generally seem to be equivalent to either up armored pre-dreadnoughts, or not so coastal-coastal battleships. A few big powerful guns like a coastal battleship, but not on par with full fledged battleships, and the range of a cruiser.

 

Battlecruisers

Armageddon- standard battlecruiser. Meant to outgun cruisers, but not to join the line of battle.

Chalice- maybe more of a ‘panzerschiff’ heavier weapons than a heavy cruiser but not on the same level as a typical battlecruiser.

Mars- Escort carrier

Overlord- another textbook battlecruiser

Dominion- escort carrier

Mercury- more of a ‘large cruise’ or ‘super cruise’ than a true battlecruiser.

Long Serpent- same as mercury

Jovian- escort carrier

 

Lesser Cruisers (Heavy and Light)

There are so many classes here I’m going to just give some generalities 

Heavy cruisers

Lots of Hangars- Cold War helicopter carriers, like the Moskva, more heavily armed versions of the San Antonio class LPD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskva-class_helicopter_carrier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio-class_amphibious_transport_dock

gun/laser focused- standard heavy cruisers, maybe even ‘large cruiser’ if given abnormally heavy armament.

Light Cruisers

hangar decks- WWII sea plane cruisers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSwMS_Gotland_(1933)

guns/lasers/torpedoes- pretty standard light/scout cruiser

 

Escorts

Theres 3 classes of heavy frigates, but not much about any of them I can find, but the escort classification in general is a bit weird from a modern or WWI-WWII PoV. Frigates fill the role of what we’d recognize as destroyers, with the heavy frigates presumably being destroyer leaders.

The Firestorm Frigates I would liken to destroyers like the German Narvik class of DDs, with 150mm/5.9” guns they did mount what were essentially light cruiser guns, on a destroyer.

Meanwhile the BFG destroyer is more akin to the ocean going torpedo boats of the period roughly between 1880 and 1910. Only reason for their existence being torpedoes, with other armament just barely sufficient to engage other ships of their class.

 

 

To be continued

 

 

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Inquisitor_Lensoven