Frigate Wars

The Frigate Wars were the name for a glut of frigate models flooding the human ship market after the conclusion of the 
== Background ==
As the production demands of the Human-Covenant War required more and more factories to convert their production lines to replace lost ships under license, companies that had no previous experience with military vessels suddenly found themselves in a position where they were required to manufacture them, and in many cases these relative newcomers decided to try to expand into this niche full-time after the war. This led to a sudden influx of shipbuilders challenging the near-monopoly operated by before and during the war, most notably in the market.
The procurement offices of the UNSC were largely completely unaware that these manufacturers that had previously only built civilian ships were attempting to design and build their own military vessels after the war; in many cases, these manufacturers were using to disguise the relevant development costs as costs required to convert assembly lines and expand production for the war effort, and the UNSC did very little investigation into these inflated costs as the potential extinction of humanity was considered to be a more pressing issue.
== Notable Manufacturers and Ships ==
=== Lamborghini Astronavi ===
Lamborghini Astronavi were founded as a division of the tractor division of Lamborghini, and as such primarily made agricultural support ships before the UNSC ordered them to start producing the under license in 2545. Realizing the value of this market that had been previously ignored, Lamborghini Astronavi decided to invest in the development and production of its own type of frigate (using its own financial assets, no less). Their efforts culminated in the Pleiades-class frigate in 2554.
=== Aerofabrique SA ===
 were already known to the UEG, having previously produced the successful in 2499, and spent most of the war producing sensor packages for other vessels - including starting in 2544. After all but strong-arming its way into finding out more details about the UNSC Infinity during its construction, it petitioned the designers to add a separate hangar bay for deploying frigates directly - and designed two frigates specifically intended for deployment from the Infinity, the and frigates.
=== Terra Firma Aerospace Manufacturing ===
Terra Firma Aerospace Manufacturing had already manufactured some ships for the UNSC Navy before the war, but had not fielded any new ships since before the war started. In fact, it had spent much of the war repairing and refitting the ships it made that were already in service, and its production capacity was already fully occupied with these efforts - or at least, that's what it told the UNSC. This suited the UNSC just fine, though, as before Terra Firma successfully campaigned for the two contracts it had won, SinoViet had grown largely complacent in its ship design, and losing those contracts to Terra Firma served as a "wake-up call" for it that led to the large-scale internal reform project that enabled it to successfully design most of the UNSC's mainline wartime ships. Terra Firma, meanwhile, was taking lessons from its own ships in the field and using them to adjust its designs for a postwar world. This eventually culminated in the development of the Barramundi-class frigate, the successor to its prewar Falcon-class frigate.