Ships of the Sol Defence Corps

The Sol Defence Corps Navy operates and maintains hundreds of ships in active service. This page details the ships and ship classes that make up the brunt of the SDC's Fleet.

Flag Carriers (FCV)
Carriers that act as flagships for their Fleets, FCVs are the largest ships in the SDC, often measuring up to kilometres in length. These carriers are capable of deploying entire small corvettes as part of their carrier deployment along with hundreds of smaller shuttlecraft, bombers, dropships and fighters.

Space doctrine has transformed the role of a carrier into doubling as a mobile shipyard for fleet repairs and supplies. As a result, they are invaluable to naval battlegroups and serve an additional role as providing support.

Light Carriers (LCV)
Smaller in size than Flag Carriers, Light Carriers carry fewer craft and are more lightly armoured, designed to keep up with smaller ships. While they do not possess mounted corvettes, they still carry craft and dropships. As a result some light carriers serve dual purposes as landing ships for Marines, capable of carrying entire companies of troopers from planet to planet.

Battleships (BBS)
The rise of long-distance space warfare has once again given rise to the illustrious Battleship, heavily-armed capital ships with extreme amounts of firepower. They often carry the largest guns, the most missiles, and are capable of laying waste to the face of an entire planet.

During planetary campaigns, battleships can also act as bombers, shelling planetary surfaces with their railguns as orbital bombardments.

Cruisers
Cruisers are the most versatile ships of a battlegroup, and can take on many roles. Larger than a destroyer but smaller than a battleship, they possess large amounts of armament and sometimes can even be considered as "mini-battleships".

Destroyers
Destroyers form the largest amount of ships in the fleet. These vessels are capable of performing equally as well solo as in a battlegroup. These are frequently dispatched for counterpiracy operations or patrols throughout the Sol system.

Frigates (FGS)
Frigates are similar in size to destroyers, however they are distinguished from destroyers by having more support and niche specialisations that don't often involve weaponry. These ships usually have much lighter armour and weaponry.