The Sunlight is an extremely small, extremely fast light combat vessel. With little in the way of armour and moderate shields, most of its energy output is taken up by a hefty inertial dampener allowing it to periodically slow hard or make sharp turns. This allows it to periodically completely change attack vectors, and its respectable laser arrays pack a respectable punch. Sunlight gunboats can be remotely operated by the ship’s computer of a heavy cruiser or larger, but otherwise are usually automated.

Length: 60m

Almost identical to its cousin, the Starlight’s main differences are in armament. Unlike the Sunlight, the Starlight boasts only the minimum of anti-fighter weapons. What it instead possesses is a selection of extremely powerful antimatter missiles. While its inertial dampener is less high-powered than the Sunlight’s, this is compensated for with the capacity to temporarily overcharge shields. This usually lasts for a minute at most. Like the Sunlight, Starlights are totally automated and are operated through a mixture of distributed processing power and remote control from larger vessels.

Length: 280m

A well-rounded but mostly unremarkable vessel, the Ascension is mostly used as a patrol ship during peacetime. Its armaments are well-balanced and allow it to square off effectively with most smaller-sized vessels comfortably. Due to its usual role, it is outfitted with powerful engines, solid communications arrays, and superb active sensor arrays. Ascension-class frigates also carry a complement of two sensor drones, each boasting the kind of sensor array normally seen on a heavy cruiser. Operating these drones usually relies on a wireless energy transfer which leaves the frigate vulnerable and the drone tends to burn out after repeated use, but the tactical edge this capability offers is considered well worth the risk.

Length: 340m

The Logophile is a rather strange vessel. Its main armament is a rapid-fire anti-fighter array, leaving it capable of comfortably heading off enemy carrier-based craft and light craft at best. Instead, its main features are more specialized. An unusually large reactor allows the Logophile a decent shielding array. Its main combat role, however, is to spread confusion. During a battle, a Logophile can temporarily boost its heat output to match that of a standard cruiser. Its engines, also unusually massive, can be modified to various degrees of efficiency as well. Each Logophile is equipped with a selection of drones capable of deploying reflective meshes to modify the Logophile’s radar profile. Each Logophile is also equipped with a powerful communications array, capable of both intercepting enemy active scans and broadcasting huge quantities of signal noise, junk data, and simulated enemy communications. It is also equipped with a respectable electronic warfare suite, as well as various flak batteries capable of dispensing chaff and heat buoys. Logophiles are generally handled by extremely small crews and lack the capability to act independently.

Length: 390m

The Howler is a bizarre destroyer – maneuverable and heavily shielded. Its main weaponry tends to be shorter-ranged but abundant, and is mainly composed of an absurd quantity of rapid-firing coilgun arrays. One of its more esoteric potential weapons arrays is a wide-bore railgun cluster which dispenses flurries of micro-mines. These would be completely ineffective against any larger vessel, but potentially deadly against a fighter with limited shields making a rapid approach and lacking the finer detection instruments of a large vessel. More controversially, debates have begun in the Defence Committee about equipping Howlers with anti-fighter micro-nuke launchers.

Length: 430m

The Vanguard’s military purpose, on the other hand, is clear. Its salient features are a menacing mid-range coilgun array hefty enough to give a heavy cruiser pause and an impressive shielding array. Its engines tend to be unremarkable. The Vanguard’s on-board reactor is decently high-powered. Its sensor arrays and targeting systems are unimpressive. However, its communications systems are excellent and it boasts an unusual and extremely efficient wireless energy transfer reception system.

Length: 840m

The Bastion is the core of any Istanistani fleet, and to be posted to one is considered an honour. Bastion vessels boast extremely powerful computers, cutting-edge on-board targeting computers, and cutting-edge communications software. While the Bastion’s armour and shielding is mediocre, its on-board reactor is superb and its selection of coilguns would not go amiss on a battleship. Bastion weaponry teams often boast of their ability to hit a subluminal moving pin from an AU away, although it is an open question as to whether this is hyperbole or field-tested fact.

Length: 1.8km

No Istanistani fleet group is complete without the Republic-class battleship, a staggeringly menacing vessel. These ships are equipped with the best shielding, weaponry, and hardware Istanistan has to offer. While their vast twin reactors – hosted separately from most of the main systems – are harmful to most sentient life when pushed during combat conditions, this is considered to be an acceptable price for the edge these offer when combat is joined. The vast coilguns capable of firing fridge-sized chunks of depleted uranium at significant fractions of the speed of light, sprawling command and control systems capable of remotely managing entire formations, and the redoubtable shielding technology all make the Republic a deadly threat.

Length: 2.9km

The Confederate is widely seen as an impractical vessel, but it serves its purpose as the core of any mass fleet engagement. Its ultraheavy mass drivers, vast shielding capacities, and fleet control systems make it an extremely effective force multiplier. The Confederate was also created in response to the preponderance of heavy vessels available to potential Terran foes – while it is unlikely that any single Confederate would be capable of confronting a prestige Earther “specialist” ship, it can instead sync an entire fleet’s firing systems through its state-of-the-art central control systems and wield a battlegroup as a single instrument of destruction. The Confederate’s 3km mass also allows it to host onboard repair facilities, foundries, and medical facilities to extend the longevity of a fleet past a battle of annihilation, making it the perfect instrument for a counteroffensive.

DF of 35000/1000 = 35 * 50 = 1750

800 Corvettes * .25 = 200
215 Frigates * 1 = 215
200 Destroyers * 1 = 400
100 Heavy Cruisers * 6 = 600
20 Battleships * 8 = 160
7 Superdreadnoughts * 25 = 175

Total = 1735