Hi I'm PK_Ultra and welcome to my guide.

This guide is meant more for the shipbuilders out there who want to better categorize what kind of ship they are building and understand the naming conventions.

We will be looking at 6 major ship types:

• The Freighter
  
• The Shuttle
  
• The Corvette
  
• The Frigate
  
• The Destroyer
  
• The Cruiser

Below is a handy-dandy guide that infers a lot of detail but simplifies them in a way that is understandable at a glance.

You may have heard the terms "Light" Frigate, or "Heavy" Destroyer at some point. Those prefixes refer to how big a ship's guns are. With that understanding you can decide whether your ship is a light or heavy version of itself. Since I can't tell what weapons you'll be using, I'll be referring to each ship-type as their default.

edit: after giving it some more thought, a lightly armed ship would probably be using the lasers and machineguns/missiles vanilla setup, while heavily armed ships would use particle beams and turrets. But again, I leave the distinction up to you.

Battleships have an interesting real world history. They became obsolete after the second world war because they were too big of a target and were replaced by the more practical fleet carriers.

As for the game, I didn't add a Battleship type for the flowchart because we technically can't build or have one. These are the Legendary M-Class ships like the UC Vigilance, or the ones you run into in deep space with the 7000 hull points surrounded by escort ships.

If you think you have a battleship, you probably have a Cruiser, a heavily armed freighter or shuttle instead.

It bugs me that we don't have space fleet carriers though, but I digress.

I'm PK_Ultra and this is my favourite guide on the Citadel.

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