Starcraft

Starcraft is a term for any vessel that is able to move about through the void of space. The majority are able to travel between planets and the void, though some larger vessels are unable to function inside an atmosphere due to their tremendous size. Many starcraft are outfitted with warp drives, which enable ships to travel at faster than light speeds.

Warships
Battleship: Large, heavily armored and heavily armed, battleships make up the core of most fleets due to their tremendous firepower. They often have a contingent of starfighers that can be deployed. Battleships carry the guns and guidance systems to be effective in combat at nearly any range. They are generally used as the centers of any warfleets.

Carriers: Used to carry ground troops, land based attack craft, and starfighters into battle, carriers are huge and cumbersome, heavily armored, but lightly armed, relying on their massive starfighter cargo as their main source of firepower.

Corvettes: Small, lightly armed and armored warships capable of faster than light travel, generally used as quick and nimble craft in battle, and to defend more cumbersome vessels in close to medium range ship combat.

Cruiser: Midsized warships primed for speed, cruisers often serve alongside larger vessels, but are also meant to be perfectly capable in independent missions.

Destroyer: Mid sized warships, fast and nimble, gifted with heavy amounts of firepower, yet relying on evasion rather than armor to survive. Destroyers specialize in long to mid range combat, relying on guidance systems to destroy enemy craft whilst outside their range. Destroyers typically function as escorts to larger, more cumbersome vessels, and are not designed to function independantly.

Frigates: Mid sized and highly versatile warships, frigates are recently well armed and armored, not suited particularly towards short or long range combat, and are still reasonably fast. They do not specialize in any particular area, and are thus highly versatile.

Starfighters: Small attack craft that generally lack warp drives, used to engage enemy ships, and require a large carrier to house them.