Ship Classes feature - Voidnex Game

Ship Classes

 
There are 4 classes of ship: Destroyer, Carrier, Battlecruiser and Interceptor.

Destroyer

A Destroyer is a heavily shielded/armoured juggernaut designed to take a tremendous amount of fire while closing on its target in order to tear them apart with its brutal array of close ship-to-ship combat weapons.

A few of the primary weapons that can be fitted to this ship are:

Halberd Ram
Essentially an extremely robust force field shaped like a halberd that is generated at the front of a ship, capable of cleaving an enemy starship in two.

Heavy Thermite Thrower
A large pyrotechnic device firing a huge spray of molecular thermite, incinerating any enemy that dare venture too close.

Artillery Ram
An extremely high calibre but short range and inaccurate howitzer, it is devastating but best used at point blank range.

There are several more common, rare and unique weapons also available.

Battlecruiser

A Battlecruiser is built around one core concept: Firepower, relying on improved reactor output to sustain its complement of energy or compound weapons. However this firepower comes with a price, a distinct lack of defensive subsystems.

A few of the primary weapons that can be fitted to this ship are:

Particle Pulse Projector
Projecting deadly masses of exotic particles, unfortunately while creating the particle is easy, making it actually move is extraordinarily energy consuming. As a result the particles move at a frustratingly slow pace.

Heavy Rail Gun
A compound weapon that uses electromagnetic energy to propel a large calibre slug at a high velocity, it is also one of the longest range weapons to be mounted on a cruiser.

Large Radius Laser
A directed energy weapon, 3 times the size of a standard beam laser it is capable of cutting through even the most robust armor.

There are several more common, rare and unique weapons also available.

Interceptor

An Interceptor is constructed with speed and stealth in mind, usually capable of using either melee or ranged weapons, the interceptor works best when striking while cloaked and using its short range jump drive to escape when targeted.

A few of the primary weapons that can be fitted to this ship are:

Sword Ram
A fast moving robust force field shaped like a sword, while smaller than those that are fitted to a destroyer, it is capable of moving much faster allowing for quick and deadly strikes.

Heavy Autocannon
Almost twice the calibre of the standard Autocannon, this weapon sacrifices damage per shot for an extremely high rate of fire.

Plasma Projector
Fires a large mass of high density ionised gas, capable of causing massive thermal damage to an enemy as well as the effects of whatever chemical the gas was made of before being ionised.

There are several more common, rare and unique weapons also available.

Carrier

The carrier focuses on the manufacture and deployment of remote controlled drones of varying types and supporting those drones using state of the art electronic warfare and support modules.

The carrier can utilise one of three types of Drone Control Unit:

Drone Control Unit
Manufactures, controls, deploys and repairs medium drones, these drones are the most commonly used due to their combination of speed, range and firepower.

Mass Deployment DCU
Controls and launches a large number of light drones in rapid succession, light drones sacrifice firepower for vastly increased speed and range, allowing them to strike further from the carrier and making rearming a quick process.

Catapult Assisted DCU
Utilising a large pneumatic catapult this Drone Control Unit launches the deadly heavy drones with the catapult providing a much needed boost to range, heavy drones have extremely high firepower, but take up a large amount of space and are slow moving.

There are several more rare and unique DCUs available.