Part 4; Misc. Database Entries
1.Starships
There are thousands of types of starships; from droid-controlled mining rigs to civilian luxury liners and the massive dreadnoughts used by powerful naval forces.
1.1 Civilian starships
Civilian starships are usually cheap, mass production ships. Small and unarmed, except for the personal ships of important corporate personnel, who are mostly authorized to sport point defense. Offensive weapons are banned from civilian ships.
Classification for Civilian starships, small to large
1.1.1 Mining rig (usually droid controlled or via central intelligence)
1.1.2 Transport vessels; light freighter, medium freighter, heavy freighter, superfreighter, tanker, supertanker, personnel transport, mail transport, bulk transport, agricultural transport
1.1.3 Luxury vessels; Class 3 yacht, Class 2 yacht, Class 1 yacht, Luxury liner
Civilian starships are banned from using strategically important FTL relays, and rely on using their hyperdrives to reach those relays open to the public for usage.
1.2 Military starships
Military starships are xactly what the name suggest, starships used by the military. Usually armed and shielded for specifically for their role. They are mostly expensive, as only the most modern ships are good enough.
Classification for military starships;
1.2.1 Starfighters; Light, Medium, Heavy, Space-Superiority
These are light, single or two-manned craft, focusing on scouting, escort and combating other Starfighters in so called 'dogfights'.
1.2.2 Starbombers; Light, Medium, Heavy, Torpedo-bomber
Starbombers are slower than Starfighters and are a rare sight. Usually used to attack heavy capital ships, they carry little direct weaponry, and focus on heavy missile/torpedo launchers.
1.2.3Monitor
Monitors are scout vessels, used to protect civvie routes in wartime or during pirate/privateer threats. They are fast and sport only a single heavy gun.
1.2.4 Corvettes; Scout, Missile, Light, Medium, Heavy, Assault
Corvettes are nimble, light starships that carry a variety of both light and medium weaponry. They tend to rely on flanking enemy ships, and using either long range, high damage weaponry or point-blank chainguns, disruptor beams or other fast-firing weaponry.
1.2.5 Frigates; Scout, Missile, Torpedo, Light, Medium, Heavy, Assault
Frigates are the lightest of fully fledged warships. Used to protect larger fleets from starfighter or bomber attacks, they are deployed ahead of larger armadas to scout and clear the way. Groups of frigates can engage larger opponents up to cruiser class, although they are no match for the larger dreadnaughts.
1.2.6 Destroyers; Missile, Light, Medium, Heavy
Destroyers are versatile warships, with armament that focuses on dealing heavy damage in shorts amount of time. Usually deployed as the bulk of an armada, or in hunting packs, destroyers are a deadly opponent for anything smaller than a cruiser, and can take down larger warships in packs.
1.2.7 Cruisers; Missile, Light, Medium, Heavy, Communications, C&C (Command and Comms), Super, Armoured
Cruisers are mighty combat vessels, often referred to as mini-dreadnoughts. They carry advanced packets of heavy weaponry, often relying on broadside tactics to bring all their guns to bear. They are slow and heavily armoured, and some are large enough to serve as mobile command centers.
1.2.8 Carriers; Light, Medium, Heavy, Assault, C&C, Super
Carriers focus on deploying large groups of starfighters and starbombers into engagements, and supporting them with long range havy weaponry. They are slow and cumbersome, but are a though opponent for any type of vessel. They can also double-serve as PD vessels in larger armadas, as they carry impressive amounts of AA to fend off enemy fighters.
1.2.9 Dreadnoughts; Combat, C&C, Rex, Armoured, Mandatory
Dreadnoughts are massive, lumbering behemoths, carrying impressive amounts of weaponry, armour and shielding. They are considered a strategic resource, and are only used as flagships in larger engagements, or as command platform for entire wars. Some are known to carry fighters, just like the Carrier type, but they focus on bringing an amount of firepower to bear that dwarfs even a supercruiser.
Rex Dreadnoughts are a special class. Often referred to as special flagship classes, these starships are only built by the most powerful species or factions. Costs are immense, the amount of crew required impressive, and losing one could mean the end of an entire war effort, simply because of the ensuing drop in fleet morale.
The MRA is currently attempting to build a Rex Dreadnought, the
Necronomicon class. Given it's name in honour of the first Dreadnought to fall at the recent battle of Cortese, these vessels are currently under construction on a secret location, although some have speculated that the only shipyards large enough to build such a monstrosity would be the Old Alliance shipyards. Popular believe is that the MRA is using the shipyards at Alliance Dyson Installation #1,
Embrace, although the station was completely locked down after evacuation.
2. The Plague
Developed by the To'Hol Venaari as the ultimate nation killer, the Plague is a highly adaptive nanovirus that has proven it's barbaric worth a dozen times over. Used against several powerfull races, this thing has made more deaths than war over the past thousand years.
The virus itself is a marvel of genteic engineering, though; it attacks the immune system, much like AIDS does, but in a far more sophisticated way. Macrophagii that eat it will be infected with substances that make them believe that the bodily cells themselves are viruses, turning the immune system against the body itself. The effects of this gruesome, as the body starts to decay from the constant stress of destruction on a cellular level.
The effects of the Plague. Note, not for sensitive viewers.