Starships

Starships, also known as spacecrafts, spaceships, and Void ships/craft, are the vessels that all known alien civilizations use in order to travel across the vast distances between stars and planets.

Battleships
Battleships are more frequently the slowest, heavily armoured, and very well armed warships with omnidirectional firing arcs. It is not designed for agility in space battles as it is designed to absorb incoming damage with its armour and shields. It acts more as a mobile weapons platform.

Carriers
Carriers are armed transports ships that carry materiel (strikecraft, troops, vehicles) into active warships. They are most commonly encountered along with an escort fleet of destroyers and frigates that defend it from dedicated warships. They are sometimes slow moving while only carrying point defences and missile batteries, while others are fully combat ready.

Battlecruisers
Battlecruisers are a hybrid between the cruisers and battleships. Similar to heavy cruisers, they possess heavy firepower with omnidirectional weapons. They are slow and bulky, but are still rather versatility, moreso than battleships. They have a wider variety of weaponry than heavy cruisers and can operate independently.

Cruisers
The cruisers within a fleet are the smallest ship class to generally possess omnidirectional armaments. Modular designs that can be adapted to suit various purposes, often more than one at a time (stealth, recon, medical, communications, etc). They are vital ships within a fleet, but can operate independently, unlike smaller ships. They are more commonly found to be command ships of smaller fleet units.

Destroyers
Destroyers are deployed as pure warships compared to other ship classes, acting as glass cannons frequently. Their onboard armament are, for the most part, focused for forward firepower, rather than omnidirectional. To survive in the middle of a warzone, they require the support of frigates and cruisers.

Frigates
Considered the little brother to the destroyers, frigates are used as metal links in a chain within a fleet, acting as a member of a bulwark in large numbers. They are deployed to complement an escort force for heavier warships and protecting specialized vessels within a fleet. Despite what ever their purpose, they are designed to operate as a part of a whole.

Corvettes
Corvettes are the smallest type of warship used by most space navies, barring small patrol craft. They are often fast and manoeuvrable vessels in combat, usually operating alongside a formation to assist in fleet actions, or independently to conduct specialized roles. Many of their most used roles is for reconnaissance, communications, or stealth missions.