My ideas imagined ships that looked more realistic, like the ISV-Venture Star from Avatar, and the Sulaco from ALIENS. I stopped seeing a vast space going fleet based around a wet-navy, and filled with various classes of ships. That ended when I read the ALIENS: The Colonial Marines Technical Manuel, then I saw battles in space as rare and violent, fought over habitual planets and in orbit. I grew up with Star Trek, Star Wars, and Babylon 5, and saw the traditional big fleet concept in sci-fi, and I thought that is how it should be in my own sci-fi. If you wish to know more in-depth information about sci-fi military spaceship classes, check it out on the "Master List" side bar section.
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UPDATE From the Future:This old FWS blogpst would give rise to the popular Ships of the Line blogpost series. How it works and the rules of how it travels through space determines a great deal about your fictional universe. For those sci-fi creators out there, it seems to me, that in the realm of a space-going warships, the most important consideration is their faster-than-light (FTL) drive system. For example, a "Battleship" is part of the main fleet, and operates with other vessels, while the "Battlecrusier" is designed for independent operations and can hold it's own in ship-to-ship engagements. Over at Atomic Rockets website, Ken Burnside came up with a table matrix that divided up space-going ships by if they were capable independent patrol or had to a part of a larger main fleet. This is not meant to be entirely hard science discuss, if you want that, than the link above is your best bet, nor is it completely soft on science, more in between the two. After reading the article on Atomic Rocket ( ), I decided that would make an excellent article for FWS! Just like with the real navies, money, mission, area of operations, and range of the drive system would determine the scope and size of the space-going fleets of the future.Here is a list of the major seaborne naval warship classes verse the spaceborne warships, comparing and contrasting the two. As someone that grew up with Star Trek/ Star Wars you would expect when there is a real-space-going fleet, there would an vast array of warships, like the wet navies of the world maintains now. During my writing of my first military sci-fi novel, Endangered Species, I researched the types of military space combat vessels that would exist in reality (since the book is more hard than soft sci-fi).