Ships of Earth Fleet

Heavy Cruisers
And Light Cruisers

Long Beach-class Heavy Cruisers: 19 in service

The newest heavy cruisers to be launched, the Long Beach and her sisters will be the first non-capital ships built with the new second-generation gravity drives. This will allow easier transit into hyperspace, faster acceleration, better shielding, and better maneuverability. She will also be well armed, mounting 6 Lance Torpedo tubes, 2 Grav Lasers, 16 fusion cannons, and 30 particle phalanxes. Also she will mount the most up-to-date sensor system designed. The Long Beach is the smallest vessel to date that carries a gravity drive. These ships are designed for a wide variety of roles including escort, assault, scouting, and blockade running. Therefore she is designed with modular sections that can be switched at a spacedock to customize her to the needed role. She also has an auxiliary ion drive for stealth maneuvers. Originally built as a class of 24, but several vessels were lost in the recent war.

Akagi-class Heavy Cruisers: 16 in service

These were built shortly after the Nicodemus class was, and therefore they are starting to see the end of their useful days. Several of them have had their forward Chemlasers and both Grav Lasers removed in favor of eight more torpedoes so that they can operate as fire support vessels.

Prince of Wales-class Light Cruisers: 42 in service

A fairly new Light Cruiser design incorporating several new technologies. Too small to justify a gravity drive, she is the smallest ship to carry a gravity laser, although it only carries one. Like the Long Beach they are modular and can be outfitted for various roles, by swapping out the turrets for different mixes of fusion cannons and chemlasers, although the gravity laser cannot be removed

Niteroi-class Light Cruisers: 24 in service

The Niteroi class of ships were built just before the Prince Of Wales class. They are slightly larger, but non-modular. They carry no Fusion Cannons but make up for it by carrying two particle beam cannons, a weapons system normally mounted only on much larger ships. They carry fewer weapons mounts than other cruisers, but each mount is more powerful than normal for a ship of it's size.