Republic Vessel Classes

The Republic prefers referring to the various classes of ships using Greek mythological figures and places when it comes to humans. As such, the various class names are often representative of their intended purpose. However, if these names were ever spoken to a soldier not

### Prisoner Vessel Classes

Prisoner vessels are meant primarily to hold a population within. The Republic has few needs for prisoner transports, but the need does arise often enough across their sprawling empire to warrant the building of multiple different prisoner vessels of various classes

#### Tartarus-Class

The Tartarus-class is a massive prisoner transport class and the second largest class of vessel in the entirety of Republic fleet. Due to its massive size, required technology and manpower, and purpose, vessels of this class are prohibitively expensive. There is only one vessel of this class and is so large, it holds an entire fully-equipped Ares-class vessel within its belly to be deployed in emergency, as well as countless smaller combat and transport vessels.

###### *RPS Tartarus*

The *RPS Tartarus* is the only Tartarus-class transport in the entire Republic fleet of ships. It was designed to hold and train a population of humans for war and was eventually repurposed to hold prisoners of high-import before its destruction in 2032.

#### Hades-Class

Hades-class vessels are designed to hold prisoners who need to be moved around frequently. These vessels are agile and feature minimal defense. There are often at least two of these vessels in any attacking force, so as to immediately house captured leaders to be interogated and transfered to a Charon-class vessel.

#### Charon-Class

Charon-class vessels are used to hold prisoners destined for death. These vessels are usally small, cheaply made, and without proper names as they are built to be flown into stars or black-holes. Specific designations cannot be made about this ship because each one is created to fit only the prisoner onboard with no extra room, leaving some as small as an average dog and others to be larger than average houses and a rare few to be even bigger than that.

### Combat Vessel Classes

Combat vessel make up the majority of the Republic fleet. They range from the massive Ares-class capitol ships to the smaller, harassing vessels of the Enyo-class.

#### Ares-Class

Ares-class ships are large ships meant to command a fleet and participate in massive off-world battles. These massive ships can hold a small fleet on retainer, but generally will work in conjuction with an on-world reserve or a massive advance fleet consisting of multiple Ares-class fighters. Some Ares-class ships like the *RCS Campe* were parts of smaller fleets.

##### *RCS Campe*

The *RCS Campe* was the only Ares-class fighter in the *Tartarus* escort fleet. While well out of the element for a standard fleet, the crew aboard the *Campe* were specialized in battles against all odds. Despite this, the ship and its fleet were destroyed in minutes during the destruction of the *RPS Tartarus* in 2032.

#### Deimos-Class

Deimos-Class fighters are small and nimble, meant for precision strikes on large targets or to fly in formation and they excel in dogfights in space. Their use of stealth tech

##### *RCS Dyskolía*

The *RCS Dyskolía* is the ship that belonged to Tau-714, a team that had boarded the *RPS Tartarus* for restock shortly before the attack occurred. A single survivor of Tau-714 led the remnant humans of the Fall of the *Tartarus* to the ship which they then fled the wreckage in, and the ship eventually became the *RSS Homeward Bound*.

#### Phobos-Class

Phobos-Class fighters are much larger and slower

### Transport Vessel Classes

Transport vessels are often unarmed vessels meant to either get people somewhere fast, or get lots of people somewhere at the same time.

#### Helios-Class

These are large vessels originally developed for civilian transport and were later adopted into the Republic's Navy as a troop transport. These large vessels can move many squads of even the largest of species, as well as their equipment and vehicles, across the known universe, but cannot be used in atmosphere and thus require worlds with large enough space elevators or repair docks to dock and deploy forces.

#### Aethon-Class

These are lightly-armed, heavily-armored troop transports designed to deploy a single team near combat zones. They can withstand space travel with slight modification, but do not come standard with this ability and are intended to be deployed from a carrier vessel in-atmosphere. All Aethon vessels aboard the *RPS Tartarus* and *RCS Campe* are modified for space travel.