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Ship Classifications

Ships in Homeworld are divided into several broad categories based upon tonnage. Those classes include Strike Craft, Capital Ships and Super Capital Ships. General fleet intelligence is outlined below, while in-depth ship descriptions are also included within this section. Additionally, select ships are available for in-depth study using the Homeworld Unit Viewer provided within this section.

Strike Craft:
This small ship class includes both Fighter and Corvette hulls. While highly maneuverable (Fighters are the only vessel class capable of performing special combat flight maneuvers), Strike Craft are unable to carry enough reactor mass to generate a self-sustaining drive torch, and so they must be refueled. This limits their range from the Mothership, unless a Support Frigate is provided to carry fuel for them. Strike Craft are also too small to carry the hyperdrive module, and so cannot enter hyperspace by themselves.

Capital Ships:
This class of ship represents the first generation of large crew vessels, and includes the Frigate and Destroyer classes of warships along with the larger support vessels like the Cloak Generator, Resource Collector and Grav Well Generator. Capital Ships are the hard backbone of any attack fleet, and what they lack in speed and maneuverability they make up for in firepower and armor. Capital Ships have a limited self-repair capability.

Super Capital Ships: These huge warships represent vast investments of resources, time and technology, and are as valuable as they are powerful. Second only to the massive Mothership in size and capability, these vessels are dreadnoughts of cutting-edge technology. They carry their own hyperdrive modules, and some even have onboard manufacturing arrays in order to replace ordinance or construct smaller vessels. While extremely powerful and able to absorb large amounts of damage, they are still vulnerable to masses of small ships, and should never be deployed without a flotilla of smaller warships.

For individual ships stats, visit our ships page.