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I always was more in favor of a dyson array.
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Please, do smack me up the head three times, but is there a reason you haven't included fighters or bombers?

No sarcasm intended, serious question.
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Because I'm too lazy to make fighters/bombers.

Also, I'd have digression amongst things like gunboats and shuttles, should they be small ships or fighters?
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Shuttle is absolutely a small ship, and it would be closer to a tiny manuverable freighter armed for defense than it would be a fighter. It is after all, a shuttle. It was designed to move things. As for the gunboat, I guess it depends how tiny it is.
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Oh yeah, in response to Dyson Sphere, I don't really want to add one since a plain ol' circle looks ugly. Ringworlds on the other hand, you get a nice glow effect on them and you wish you could make all your systems ringworld systems.
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Normandy wrote:Oh yeah, in response to Dyson Sphere, I don't really want to add one since a plain ol' circle looks ugly. Ringworlds on the other hand, you get a nice glow effect on them and you wish you could make all your systems ringworld systems.
Another reason why Dyson arrays are better! They look cooler!
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Yes, but they're harder to get look right. With my skills, they looks something akin to a bunch of blobs.
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Monolith? (space structure's, maybe ship)
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Aegis-equipped, or other important shipwide systems.

Well, maybe it wouldn't make much sense in outer space.

(Aegis as in the naval missile system, not the shield.)
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- unmanned

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Not sure if all or some of these are listed, but this is what I found or made up while roaming about...
Random List wrote:Maximus
Magnus
Titan
Helix
Helios
Sol
Felix
Juno
Thunderbird
Roc
Raven
Pheonix
Ares
Aero
Aerosoul
Demeter
Artemis
Discordia
Poseidon
Kronos
Cronos
Crono
Atlas
Dart
Anti (or Anti-)
Chaos
Omega (or Omega-)
Zero-Point
Omni-
Sublight
Liner
Grayhound
Steamer
Rocket
Crownship (or Crown Ship)
Bellweather
ForeRunner
Aerostar (or Aero Star)
Cloudbuster (or Cloud Buster)
Ramjet
Kite
Clay Pigeon
Sloop
Shallop
Schooner
Pointer
Mech or Mecha
Baiter
Baitskiff
Barge
HighLiner
Monolith
obelisk
Obeliskoid
Insectoid or Insectroid
Starcastle
Castleguard
Defender
Barricade
Skywall
Skywriter
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I like a more organised classification- usually ranging something like this

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Ships of the Line::
Frigate  FF
Destroyer  DD
Light Cruiser  CL
  Corvette CC*
Heavy Cruiser  CA
Battleship  BB
  Battlecruiser  BC**
Superdreadnaught  SD

Carrier Vehicles::
Drop Pod  DP
Shuttle  SC
Tender  TC
Assault Craft  AC***
Carrier  CV

Logistics::
Probe
EWP(electronic warfare platform) EWP#
Wild Weasel  WW##

Small Craft::
Drone  D
Interceptor  IC
Fighter  F
Space Superiority Fighter   SF
Bomber  B

Terrestial::
Gravship@
APC   APC
Assault trank  ABT###
Fire support platform  MAT
Main Battle Tank  MBT
Super-heavy Battle Tank  SBT (think bolo's, but not quite that big)
Atmospheric Superiority Fighter   ASF
Atmospheric Bomber  HBC(stands for heavy bomber craft)
Note that often a numeric system is used to indicate power of ships within their class. Such as DD04, or BB03. Typicaly an 05 ship can reliably beat an 01 of the next class size up.

*Tech ship- Firepower and shielding of a light cruiser with the maneuverability of a destroyer, sometimes even faster.
**Tech ship, same as corvette but firepower of a BB02 or less, with the maneuverability of a cruiser
***Assault craft- Large well armored shuttle built to carry Huge numbers of troops. Similar to transports in boloverse in that its only weapons are whatever vehicles are onboard.
#Ussually a small vehicle, slightly larger then a probe- carrys equipment to confuse sensors, deflect weapons system, or some other form of EW system.
##A large platform, the size of a bomber that carries system to ATTRACT missiles and large ammounts of Point Defense.
###Light tank, armor of an APC but caries a slightly smaller gun then MBT's. Ussually grav based, though wheeled forms are also used.
@Gravships are the grav based small vehicles, no larger then a car at most that carry light anti-infantry and anti-vehicle weaponry. Extremely fast and capable of near-flight by riding up the walls of buildings on other solid surfaces.
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I'd say, based on trekkie:

-Warbird
-Predator

Of course, this is for winged ships.
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At least I didn't do it this time...
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