Starlit Court Navy: Difference between revisions

===Destroyer===

Destroyers are fast, maneuverable ships designed to escort cruisers and battleships, or to act as the backbone of smaller lighter battle groups of corvettes and frigates. Destroyers carefully balance firepower, and speed while maintaining their size category to be able to screen and escort larger vessels while in larger battlegroups, while being able to act as raiders and harassers during independent operations. Destroyer crews typically number under a hundred individuals, and when acting as a carrier can support up to three lances or the equivalent in strike craft.

Sometimes referred to as standard cruisers, these medium warcraft typically act as supports for battleships and heavy escorts for dedicated carriers. Most Cruisers are equipped for flexibility, carefully balancing firepower, speed, and armor within their hull size. Many knightly orders in the starlit court call a cruiser their flagship, as cruisers are the smallest capital class warships that the starlit court deploys. However if any ship in a fleet would be given over to a specific battlefield specialization, it will likely be a cruiser. A cruiser is typically crewed between a hundred and two hundred men at arms, and when acting as a carrier can house between five to ten lances of mechs with support and strike craft escorts. Additionally, Cruisers often fall into one of three sub-categories based on size and intended battlefield role, consisting of light, heavy and assault cruisers.

 

Light Cruisers trade armor, firepower, and mass for greater than normal speed and maneuverability. Sometimes called heavy destroyers due to their size, light cruisers are notably larger and more heavily equipped than destroys. Light cruisers typically take the lead role in smaller scouting detachments or strike fleets for their relative durability while being able to keep up with what would otherwise be escort craft.

Heavy cruisers are typically the same size and mass as their other counterparts, but trade speed and maneuverability for armor and battlefield endurance. Heavy Cruisers are typically dedicated supports and escorts for larger, slower vessels, and can therefore afford to trade off the typical speed and agility that a cruiser is afforded by its size while still accomplishing its intended battlefield role.

Sometimes called light battleships or destroyer killers, assault cruisers are larger than normal cruisers designed to take advantage of the speed and maneuverability of a cruiser, while being equipped with the most weapons and firepower a cruiser hull can mount. Assault Cruisers are often the flagship in a strikefleet formation for their sheer firepower and their ability to keep pace with their destroyer escorts.