Ship classes

Name Analogs Notes

Warships

Spy-Ships

Star Dust   Special ultra small ship (measures few nanometers - few centimeters)

Clock-Work Orange

 

Small automatic interstellar scout

Sky-Eye

   

Fighters

Star-Fighter Tie-Fighter
{StarWars}
Not able to fly in an atmosphere
Defender   Planetary defense (anti-space) fighter
Stormer   Planetary assault (anti-ground) fighter-bomber
Interceptor   Fast autonomous fighter
Designed for interplanetary patrol and guarding system
Terminator B-Wing
{StarWars}
Ultimate interstellar fighter

Anti-Fighter Ships

Destroyer   Attack anti-fighter ship
Escorter   Defense anti-fighter ship

Military Shuttles

Assault shuttle   Heavy armored, has some firepower
Designed for descent
Bears troopers and vessels
Assault capsule   Single use assault shuttle
Boarding shuttle

Breaching Pod
{Babylon-5}

Heavy armored, has some firepower
Designed for boarding

Simple Ships

Gunboat Millennium Falcon
{StarWars}
Some armor and some firepower
May have ability to landing
Armor-clad   Max armor and some firepower
Battleship   Heavy armored and with max firepower
Flying fortress Death Star
{StarWars}
A Fortress with stellar-drive
Heavy armored and with max firepower
Carries fighters and shuttles
May carry small ships (especially escorters)
Very slow
Military transport   Armored transport
May have some firepower
May have ability to landing
Troopship   Assault and boarding shuttles carrier
In a close-combat can board ships, without using any shuttles
Carrier   Fighters carrier
Super-Carrier   A Cruiser-Carrier designed for carrying small ships — especially for destroyers, escorters & small monitors
Ultra fast and with enormous cruising radius
Interdictor   GDI carrier, blockader/protector
Can make an artificial eclipse (with nuclear winter effect) or warming (by reflection of light)
Cocooner   SDI carrier, blockader/protector
Cruiser  Sharlin Class Warcruiser
{Babbylon-5}
Ultra fast and with long cruising radius
Battle cruiser Shadows Battle-Crab
{Babbylon-5}
Max speed and firepower
Cruiser-Carrier

G'Quan Class Starcruiser
{Babbylon-5}

A Cruiser designed for carrying fighters
Troop Cruiser

 

A Cruiser designed for carrying assault and boarding shuttles
In a close-combat can board ships, without using any shuttles
May have ability to landing
Raider

 

A Cruiser designed for carrying troops
Doesn't carry any assault and boarding shuttles
In a close-combat can board ships, without using any shuttles
Have ability to landing
Monitor Excalibur
{Babbylon-5}
Fast, armored ship with heavy firepower
Carries few shuttles and fighters
Explorer   A Cruiser designed for exploration
Observer   An Explorer designed for space observations

Compound Ships

    Compound troopship

Virtual Ships

Spy’ web   Seefplaced network of spy-ships
Virtual   

A cruiser surrounded (rendezvoused with) by anti-fighter ships

Virtual  

A destroyer surrounded by fighters

Virtual cruiser-carrier    
Virtual interdictor   Seefplaced GDI
Cocoon   Seefplaced SDI

Colony ships

Settler   Single use colony ship
Can be compound
Colonizer   Reusable colony ship
Can be compound

Civilian ships

Shuttle    
Trader    
Liner    
Plant    
Tractor    

GDI — global defense initiative

SDI — star defense initiative

Compound ship — a multi-section ship, designed to be separated into its component sections for lift-off after planet-fall