Flying

Ships and classes

Eight classes, three faction lines, and sixteen hulls that actually exist.

A hull's class decides its size: how fast it is, how much it can carry, how much powergrid and CPU it has to spend on modules, and how many slots it has to spend them in. Its faction decides only how that size is distributed — Carinae tilt toward speed, Velorum toward shields, Praetoria sit in the middle and are the line with every rung.

That is the whole rule, and it is worth stating because it is unusual: two hulls of the same class are the same ship budget spent differently. There is no faction whose Destroyer is simply better.

The classes

Class	Cargo (m³)	Powergrid	CPU	What it is for
Fighter	140	48	155	The starter. Cheap enough to lose while learning.
Interceptor	110	42	175	Fast and small. Its last utility slot is reserved for tackle — it is the ship that catches things.
Assault	380	175	300	The first real warship.
Destroyer	450	260	285	Five gun slots. Its last utility slot is reserved for electronic warfare.
Battleship	1 100	1 250	620	Heavy line.
Carrier	2 200	1 400	780	Drones rather than guns. No hull is drawn for it yet.
Hauler	9 500	190	260	The biggest hold in the game and two gun slots, one of which only mines.
Titan	4 000	4 800	1 900	The only T5 gun racks there are. Months of training.

The three lines

Carinae	Praetoria	Velorum
Cuneus — Fighter	Pilum — Fighter	Scintilla — Fighter
Vectis — Interceptor	Spatha — Interceptor	Radius — Interceptor
Malleus — Assault	Impedimenta — Hauler	Speculum — Assault
Onerarium — Hauler	Hasta — Destroyer	Auspex — Destroyer
Incus — Destroyer	Ballista — Battleship	Prisma — Battleship
—	Legio — Titan	—

The lines are uneven: Carinae has no Battleship and no Titan, Velorum has no Hauler, and Praetoria is the only line that reaches the top of the ladder. Pick a faction knowing what it can and cannot fly.

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