Dragoian Starship Classes

The Dragoians have varying classes of Starships. All Dragoian starships are shielded, and due to the way SoulTech shields work, the shield strength is directly proportional to the ships power output, meaning that a Fighter will have very weak shields, while a Dreadnought's will be almost indestructible, despite being the exact same shield. No vessels have a prefix infront of their name.
Both the Royal Dragoian Navy and TwinBragia's Navy use the same types of ships.
==Military==
====Fighters====
A Dragoian fighter class ship is any military craft smaller than a military shuttle. Unlike larger ships, fighters are not given a class name, and are referred to only as fighters. Typical armament consists of Light SoulTech cannons as primary weapons, and also several SoulTech anti-fighter cannons.
====Shuttles====
Dragoian shuttles are small craft, less than 30m long, that carry Light SoulTech cannons as primary weapons, and also a few SoulTech anti-fighter cannons. The main difference between shuttles and fighters is that shuttles are also designed to carry personnel and equipment and have their weapons for defensive purposes rather than offensive ones. The only type in military use is the Un-Dra Class Shuttle.
====Cruisers====
Dragoian cruisers are the most common Dragoian military starship class. They normally mount a single Heavy SoulTech cannon, and higher numbers of Medium, Light and Anti-Fighter SoulTech cannons. The primary job of these cruisers is to scout ahead of the main force, and will often be assigned to survey a star system. There are only two types of cruiser, the Tri-Dra Class Cruiser, and the Quad-Dra Class Cruiser with the Tri-Dra being the oldest and most numerous while the Quad-Dra is barely in production and was built with a greater shuttle and fighter complement in mind.
====Battleships====
Dragoian battleships, while not the most numerous, are considered the most effective ships in Dragoian navies. Packing more large weapons and heavier shielding and armour than a cruiser. Battleships also tend to mount 2 or more Heavy SoulTech cannons which, due to the battleships' large Soul Crystal reactors, can be fired more rapidly than those found on cruisers. The three types of Dragoian battleship are the Twin-Dra Class Battleship, the Tri-DraX Class Battleship and the newest, the Quad-DraX Class Battleship. Twin-Dras are the most numerous class, with the newer two classes not seeing the level of production as the Twin-Dra.
====Dreadnoughts====
Dragoian dreadnoughts are the most powerful mass-produced class of starship in any of the Dragoian navies and are even larger and more heavily armed and armoured than a battleship, in addition to mounting the fearsome fixed-mount SoulTech super heavy cannons, making them a valuable asset in any fight. Dragoian Dreadnoughts typically have the ability to carry smaller ships in a large hangar bay that has rudimentary dry-dock functionality, allowing for the dreadnought to serve a useful non-combat function as well as it's formidable combat functions. The 2 types of dreadnought are the Twin-DraX Class Dreadnought and the Sin-Dra Class Dreadnought, with the number of Twin-DraXs easily outnumbering the Sin-Dras, of which only 14 were ever built, one notionally for each Dragoian Noble House as well as one for TwinBragia.
====Super-Dreadnought====
The super-dreadnought is a class limited to a single starship, the Dralkyrian Power. The Super-Dreadnought was simply too large to mass produce, dwarfing even a Sin-Dra Class Dreadnought, and took over 10 years of near non-stop work to build just the hull and basic systems, taking another 5 non-stop to finish the interior. The super-dreadnought's purpose was to be an entire small fleet and repair facility contained within one vessel, with multiple hangars capable of containing and repairing both Twin-Dra Class Battleships and Tri-Dra Class Cruisers. Before being named, the only super-dreadnought was known as the Sin-DraX Class Super-Dreadnought.
==Civilian==
====Shuttle====
Civilian shuttles are smaller than their military counterparts, and are also not armed or fitted with hyperdrives. These little shuttles come in two forms, the "Standard" which is capable of carrying a small number of passengers and small amounts of cargo, with cargo limited primarily by the size of it's entry hatches. The second variant is the "Container", which is an elongated "Standard" with a shorter cabin and the middle cut out to allow it to carry a Dragoian standard shipping container.
====Liner====
Only one form of Dragoian passenger liner is known to exist, the Barge Class Liner, a variant of the Barge Class Freighter. These ships are capable of docking with City-Ships. Their typical purpose is to serve as a ferry between City-Ships and planets. These ships possess 2 fixed SoulTech medium cannons mounted in a limited movement turret on their bow and a few SoulTech Anti-Fighter cannons for defensive purposes. Their hyperdrives are comparable to those of a Tri-Dra Class Cruiser although their shields and armour are nowhere near comparable. Unlike the majority of full-size military ships, the Civilian liner is designed to land on planetary surfaces and possesses large under-belly loading ramps and retractable landing gear.
====Freighter====
There are 2 types of Dragoian freighter, the Barge Class Freighter which is largely similar on the outside to the liner variant, but has less windows due to be being specialised to carry cargo instead of passengers. The other type is the Starfire Class Freighter, a ship designed to carry large bulky loads in it's large easily accessed cargo bay. The Starfire Class Freighter is decidedly unpopular with the Separatists, as it's unusual shape makes transferring cargo between it and other ships from it's primary cargo bay all but impossible without landing on a planet first. Both types of freighters carry shuttles, and can land on planetary surfaces.
====City-Ship====
A Dragoian City-Ship is a large vessel used by the Dragoians as a colonisation vessel, with Civilian fleets led by one or two of them flying a colony's worth of Dragoians, humans (for food) and building materials, to the intended site of the new colony, then remaining in orbit while the colony is built to provide support, and when the colony is built, serving as part of the defensive force and also home for anyone who does not want to live on the actual colony. It is also known for fleets of City-Ships to roam around the colonies of the Dragoians for those who want life aboard a starship, but are unfit for military service, e.g. those with a family with young children.
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