
Minkin's Fighting Starships is the definitive Core Systems resource for physical specifications, performance data and visual identification on all known (declassified) vessels in current and historical military service. Currently in its 85th Edition and delivering for the first time physical specifications and holo/flatpic images of Jensai warships, Minkin's embodies the state of Republic knowledge of shipbuilding.
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Ship Classifications
The Core Systems Republic Navy vessel displacement ranges are used to determine the relative type of a vessel, primarily for classification purposes. Spartan vessels are expected to devote more volume and armament to their definitions of a given vessel than a ship made by the Republic Navy, and Jensai ships - at least for the time being - should be considered more formidable than their mere size would suggest. These size ratings are an abstraction for classification purposes, and should be seen as guidelines more than hard and fast rules. Carriers are often special cases falling into the Captiol Ships range, but as their function is frequently folded into the hull of cruisers or battleships, there is no common classification for the dedicated carrier class size (as it varies quite a bit).
- Super-Capitol Ships
- 400,001+ dtons: Dreadnoughts (DN)
- Capitol Ships
- 100,001-400,000 dtons: Battleships (BB)
- 75,001-100,000 dtons: Battlecruisers (CB)
- 50,001-75,000 dtons: Heavy cruisers (CH)
- 30,001-50,000 dtons: Light cruisers (CL)
- 15,001-30,000 dtons: Escort cruisers (CE)
- 2,001-15,000 dtons: Destroyers (DD)
- Escorts and Gunboats
- 1,501-2,000 dtons: Battle frigates (FF)
- 1,001-1,500 dtons: Escort frigates (FE)
- 501-1,000 dtons: Corvettes (CV)
- 100-500 dtons: Gunboats (GB)
- Small Craft
- 10-30 dtons: Light Fighter
- 40-60 dtons: Heavy Fighter
- 60-99 dtons: Assault Fighter/Bomber
Core Systems Free Republic
Core Systems Republic Navy
Super-Capitol Ships
- Ramsgott-class dreadnought
- 12 vessels in service, 3 hulls under construction
- Premiere capitol ship of the CSRN. Introduced 2488 to anchor Naval capitol ship formations.
Capitol Ships
- Kyrie-class battleship
- deMarquis-class heavy cruiser
- Antonin-class pocket carrier
- Valiance-class destroyer
- c. 200 vessels in service. Not currently in production.
- Fast destroyer. Produced 2470 as skirmishing counter to Spartan Phalanx-class destroyer.
Escorts and Gunboats
- Miri-class SWACS frigate
- Svathana-class marine frigate
- Burke-class escort frigate
- Longbow-class gunship
Fighters and Service Craft
Core Systems Scout Service
Exploration Vessels
- Compass-class Scout
- c. 1,000 in CSSS service, innumerable under construction
- Lavigne-class explorer
- Offshoot of Artemis-class frigate, initial purchase order of 12