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Classic Ships
Well-known spacecraft and spacecraft designs from various times and locations.
Above, clockwise from top right: an antimatter drive ship from the First Federation, the Robert Frisbee; an arkship built by GAIA during the Great Expulsion era; a Skylark class arkship from the same period; an early conversion drive Explorer class ship from the Age of Expansion.
Some individual spacecraft and some particular models have become famous over the course of Terragen history and are well remembered or even well represented even in the present age. The list below is representative but by no means exhaustive.
 Image from Steve Bowers | |
| Four veteran interstellar spacecraft at a historical starship rally in the current era. | |
Some individual spacecraft and some particular models have become famous over the course of Terragen history and are well remembered or even well represented even in the present age. The list below is representative but by no means exhaustive.
Articles
- Allosaurus (ship) - Text by Anders Sandberg
Soft Cathedral carrier ship. - Cerberus, FDF Carrier - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Flagship of the Federation Defense Force Fleet during the later First Federation period. - Ceres Astrospace Delta - Text by Grant Thomas
One-man long-range exoatmospheric fighter used for planetary and orbital defense. Designed and built by Ceres Astrospace and later manufactured under license. - Civilization Ship - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
A massive ship holding vast amounts of data; originally designed as a protection against the collapse of civilisation. - Conspicuous Delight - Text by Chris Shaeffer
Halo drive ship of the Utopia Sphere empire - Crescent Class Cruiser - Text by M. Alan Kazlev and 'Total Annihilation'
- Dominator Class Ship - Text by Darren Ryding
- Dragonfly Class ship - Text by Steve Bowers
- Dreams of Avarice, the - Text by Chris Shaeffer
First Federation era trading ship. - Dyaush Interstellar Colony Ship - Text by Steve Bowers
Early interstellar colony ship - En'en Suifu and Tattoi Jueru - Text by Chris Shaeffer
Two famous bioships in the service of the Zoeific Biopolity. - Futurological Congress, The (Civilisation Ship) - Text by Steve Bowers
A civilisation ship with an unusual quest - Hermes ISO - Text by Thorbjørn Steen
Peripatetic Moon-brain ISO - Hummingbird Pod - Text by Steve Bowers
single person multipurpose space workhorses - Juggernaut Class - Text by M. Alan Kazlev; additions by Steve Bowers
Excluding the Keterist battle-moons (which are more ISO than Capital Ship), these are the largest warships ever built in Terragen history. The approach of a Juggernaut Class vessel is an awesome sight: a cylinder some 280 kilometres in length and twenty five kilometres in diameter, accompanied by a swarm of giant autowars that are dwarfed to apparent mote-size by their parent vessel. - Leviathan Class - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
These MPA capital ships were the largest warships of the Version War, and the largest vessels to see combat in the Inner Sphere. - Linelayer - Text by Steve Bowers
Specialised spacecraft used to transport wormhole mouths to distant locations - Magellanica - Text by Anders Sandberg
the first interstellar colony ship from the Federated South America Space Alliance (Gran Colombia, Federation of Brazil and the Argentinian States). - Mind's Eye, The - Text by Chris Shaeffer
Civilisation Ship. - Nuisances - Text by Liam Jones
Nuisance and Annoyance warships of the Sagittarius Preservers - Pyrenian Klarion Explorer Seedship - Text by Thorbjørn Steen
A data-only podship exploration design. - Reason for Diplomacy - Text by Chris Shaeffer
Ascension Class warship: Reason for Diplomacy. - Red (Tau Ceti Colony Ship) - Text by Anders Sandberg, adapted by Steve Bowers
- Starlark, The - Text by Steve Bowers
- Stig Ranes, the - Text by Steve Bowers
Communion of Worlds diplomacy craft - Tricorn Ship - Text by Steve Bowers
Interplanetary or interstellar ships using a tension design - USS Randolph CSGN-04 - Text by Aaron Hamilton
The USS Randolph was the first of a class of powerful (for the time) interplanetary cruisers built by the declining United States of North America. - Valparaiso Cycler - Text by Steve Bowers
Mars Cycler - Yi Sun-Sin (System Control Ship) - Text by Aaron Hamilton, adapted by Steve Bowers
The Eridanus League used System Control ships like the Yi Sun Sin in an ultimately futile attempt to maintain order and cohesion over worlds many tens of light years apart.
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Development Notes
Text by Stephen Inniss
Initially published on 03 July 2008.
Initially published on 03 July 2008.
