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A list of all the voidship classes within the Unified League Interstellar Navy:
*'''Main battle fleet'''
*'''Corvette:''' Corvettes are the smallest type of voidship employed by the ULIN for military operations in a deep vacuum setting. They are generally between 30-40 meters in length, and host small crews of ten, while lacking marine complements as they are not designed or expected to engage in boarding actions outside of localized interstellar patrols and simple customs duties in heavy traffic regions of space. Most designs have a single torpedo tube for long-range combat, and two or three point defense cannons for protection and close-range combat. During wider fleet engagements, corvettes will operate in groups of four or five and target larger moving objects such as cruisers and battleships, helping to draw fire away from their own larger vessels and buy time for them to obtain firing solutions against the enemy combatants. Corvettes are not expected to survive for long periods of time during such engagements, with the consequence of corvette crews having low morale, life expectancy, and consisting primarily of green recruits.
**'''Lancer:''' Lancers are military voidships designed to operate within a constellation of warships as the primary screen defense for the larger cruisers and dominators, and comprise the smallest military vessels designed to take part directly in attacks on enemy fleet formations. While they are not designed to take on larger voidships on their own outside of battle, they are expected to operate in wolf-packs that surround and attack the hardpoints and weapon systems of a enemy vessel. Lancers are somewhat larger than their skimmer counterparts, and have much more potent weaponry for their size due to their role in combat. Similarly, vacuum infantry serve a far more defensive role aboard lancers compared to skimmers, defending the lancer and its crew from boarding attempts during battle rather than proactively attempting to board the enemy vessel. Because of their role in forming the defensive screen for the large ships of the constellation, not all lancers are expected to have vacuum infantry aboard, or if they do, these attachments are limited in size. A typical lancer will be approximately 80-120 meters in length, and have a single light or medium fusion beam cannon as their primary anti-ship weapon, alongside the standard outfit of laser pulse/beam emitters.
*'''Destroyers:''' Destroyers are the second-smallest vessels of the ULIN, but the most versatile of the vessels employed by the military.
**'''Cruiser:''' Cruisers are medium-sized voidships designed to operate in a set-piece battle during confrontations with an enemy fleet. They are heavily-armed with the goal of registering a first strike upon enemy vessels with long-range particle beams, and usually have two or more onboard, with a single medium or large fusion beam cannon within the hull itself. Compared to their interdictor cousins, cruisers while capable of independent patrol tend to stick close to the fleet they are attached too, only splitting off to take part in long-range patrol missions with a flotilla of smaller escort vessels in tow. They have large vacuum infantry detachments for onboard security, as well as to take part in boarding actions during combat in the event that an enemy vessel strays too close during a pass-by of the two engaged fleets. Cruisers further differ from interdictors in that they have a far larger array of weapons and countermeasures designed to deal with all manner of enemy combat capabilities, such as signal jammers, scramblers for torpedo attacks, and advanced electromagnetic screens far and above those equipped on an interdictor. Cruisers can range anywhere from 200 meters in length to more than 500 meters in length, with more recent classes with full anti-gravity capabilities nearing 750 meters in length.
**'''Dominator:''' ''TBD''
*'''Independent patrol'''
**'''Skimmer:''' ''TBD''
**'''Interdictor:''' ''TBD''
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! Classification
! Main battle fleet
! Independent patrol
|-
! Large-sized ships
| colspan="2" | Dominator
|-
! Medium-sized ships
| Cruiser
| Interdictor
|-
! Small-sized ships
| Lancer
| Skimmer
|}
 
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