Hey folks, I made a little faction loosely based on the Trek Federation with a number of ships. The ships will need version 0.4.4 of the Abh mod by Lafiel which can be picked up here; https://forum.cosmoteer.net/d/299-abh-mod
The Star Corporation
The Star corporation is a faction interested in exploration, discovering new technology and then breaking the economies of those other nations they come into contact with until they are totally dependant on trade and resources from the Star corp itself. They are very proud of their shield technology and energy weapons, frowning on most ballistic and kinetic weapons as "primitive" with the exception of especially advanced intelligent missiles and mines that have been employed on some ships.
Their ships
The Star Corporation ships are heavily shielded, with even the smaller vessels carrying shields and are always armed with banks of phase weapons sometimes backed up on the heavier ships by photon torpedoes. Their strengths include mobility, very powerful, multiple layered shielding and extreme firepower on their larger vessels but their weaknesses are that they typically fit most of their ship engines in a traditional manner at the rear of the vessel and have very little in the way of solid armour modules.
The Star Corp fleet;
Phaser fighter
This vessel is extremely quick and agile and has a surprising number of shields for a smaller vessel. However its phaser banks may leave it coming up short in combat against longer ranged enemies or those with missile weapons.
Line Frigate
A powerful and balanced vessel for combating other frigates and light cruisers. Long banks of phasers allow it to focus down larger prey, burning through hull with ease while its heavy shielding protect it. Beware however its lower engine segment becoming exposed.
Explorer class destroyer
The Star corporation developed this large line of destroyers with efficient placement of weapons in mind. Instead of layering the ships lower systems in "primitive" plate metal they instead added more shields and lined the hull in phasers instead giving the ship a heavy bank of energy weapons along both sides giving it a fearsome broadside.
Endeavor class heavy cruiser
Along the outer rim a Star Corp expedition found a nation that had developed intelligent mines that could be fired in barrages at long range with great accuracy. After infiltrating and breaking apart the nations government and planting puppets that in just a few years managed to drum up enough propaganda to "entice" all major business into dealing exclusively with Star Corp goods these mines were mass produced to be fitted aboard a new line of heavy cruisers.
The Endeavor class is quickly identifiable by its diamond shaped bridge. Taking the lessons from the Explorer class destroyer the Corporation lined its hull with phasers while adding the new mine launchers periodically. This gave the ship incredible punch at longer ranges.
Phase cruiser
This experimental design was the child of a large number of eminent Star Corp scientists who were developing a "prototype" super ship for the distant future. The phase cruiser has an unusual hull for the Corporation, its dagger shape allowing more phasers to be brought to bear from more sides and their generally exposed engines fitted safely within the hull makes it exceptionally hardy. It was never designed to carry ballistic weapons or torpedoes sadly making it slightly under-armed for modern conflicts but a number of these ships were taken alongside fleets that were thought to require defense against fighters who feared the ship for its exceptional coverage.
Torpedo Battleship
During a costly war against an incredibly warlike race who plated their ship hulls in heavy armour and long cannon made it clear that the reliance on phaser weaponry would limit the Corporations reach. Vast funds, several systems worth of revenue went into the development of a devastating long range weapon that could be used with the same energy batteries that powered the old phaser technology. The photon Torpedo was born and a new generation of vessels simply called "Torpedo Battleships" were developed taking into account all lessons previously learned. Heavy shielding was afforded alongside banks of the new torpedo weapons and additionally a new development of the smart mines previously fielded on the Endeavor class which had more powerful warheads and engines that allowed them to be fired at ever greater ranges than before.
This battleship marked a golden age in ship design for the Star Corporation.
Photon battlecruiser
As resources grew the Star Corporation thought bigger. The Photon battle-cruiser was very much like an enormous version of the Torpedo battleship built before. The Torpedo technology having matured, the battle-cruiser has a terrifying broadside and is more than capable enough of demolishing whole fleets of opposing ships.
Next Generation Titan
The work on the phase cruiser prototype had continued for decades, its hull prepared for the introduction of exceptionally advanced technologies. The Star Corporation had come across a vast hull from a progenitor ship that had long since been left derelict. Not wanting such technology going to waste they salvaged it and found marvels that pushed their science to unimaginable levels.
The Titan of the "next generation" as it was called in propaganda commercials had a power beyond even entire fleets of the Star Corporation and most other nations in the known universe. Powerful phase mounts that were operated by sophisticated A.I needed no crew and were personally shielded creating an almost invulnerable shell around the ships main systems. New quantum torpedoes had such payloads that they could completely burn through even other heavy cruiser sized vessels.
The Titan was used as a weapon of fear, few fleets could stand against it and only its creators knew what little weaknesses it has for the fear that it could be turned against them led them to develop tiny "holes" in its defenses. Despite all this, it is a vessel representing galactic supremacy.
Thanks folks for reading/any comments or tips on these ships. I may make more factions in the future with different themes and am working on a mod to put them into the bounties list so they spawn as enemies which has been interesting and led to some crazy fights to say the least! ha
