Guardian Spacefleet Ships

Capital Ships

GSF Blackbird 2 Light Cruiser The Blackbird 2 is the workhorse of the GSF. Its distinctive, dragonfly-shaped hull is the signature Guardian vessel, and the most visible part of the GSF's presence in all the Dimensions the Kingdom has an interest in. The Blackbird is adequately armed and armored for a ship of its size -- though, true to form, it bears the typical Guardian forward-reinforcement for ramming maneuvers. In addition to standard energy and missile armament, Blackbirds can carry a compliment of 40 fighters -- mixed between Epochs and Dactyls, as befits the Admiralty.

GSF Omen class Battleship These larger vessels tend to serve as command ships for flotillas of Blackbirds; as such they are not as numerous, nor as visible. The Omen is a large white wedge, pulsating with lights and brimming with weapons nearly across every inch of its surface. In combat it is less an agile dancer than a stationary damage spoonge/gun platform. In combat the Omen relies, for the most part, upon its Blackbird escorts to do most of the fighting. However, on its own it is far from defenseless. It carries twice as many fighters as the Blackbird, and boasts two massive Luminaire turrets -- by far the largest of the energy weapons that bristle out of its hull.

GSF Phoenix class Battleship The Phoenix is a larger version of the Blackbird 2, with redesigned wings and a neat red-orange paint job. Like most GSF models, the Phoenix is built to handle ramming attacks, but that is not its main purpose. The Phoenix is a capital-class orbital bomber -- the only vessel of its kind in the GSF's ranks. The Phoenix also carries a 40-fighter compliment, and is like the Blackbird in most other respects save for its being much less prominent in the Fleet. The flagship of the GSF, the GSFV Crownguard, is a modified Phoenix Battleship.

GSF Interdictor Cruiser About the same size as the Phoenix, but shaped more like the wedge-like Omen, the Interdictor was developed in response to Kuvalla's use of R-X-Z devices to jam dimensional strands during the Moogle Wars™. The Interdictor's main function is to override R-X-Z devices with the use of a special frequency sent out on the ship's transponders. The frequency jams R-X-Z devices, thus allowing access to dimensions that would otherwise be closed due to R-X-Z masking. As an added bonus, Interdictors also are able to intercept R-X-Z navigation paths. Ships travelling using R-X-Z drives that pass by an Interdictor will be dropped out of the X-Zone and return to the prime plane. The Interdictor was, at the time of its introduction, probably the weakest of Guardia's capital ships in terms of weaponry, but it carries a 100 fighter complement and is almost never without at least 2 Blackbirds. Only a few Interdictors remain in active service in the Fleet, and all are attached to the Home Fleet in Gatespace. No additional Interdictors are being produced now, as their need dried up when the R-X-Z drive went out of commission due to its inherent deadly flaws.

GSF Rabbit class Light Cruiser Another modified Blackbird design, like the Phoenix, the Rabbit is the GSF's minelayer. Rabbit was actually a joke name that stuck after the designers couldn't come up with anything better. Rabbits lay special Turd-mines (also a joke name that unfortunately stuck) that are designed to look like asteroid debris. Turd-mines can be made invisibile to conventional radar/sensor scans (though the Rabbit has a specialized method of keeping track of Turds). When a Turd comes into contact with a non-Turd, it releases an exorbitant amount of energy from its Luminaire power core, shorting out shields and doing a goodly amount of hull damage. One Turd is usually not enough to take down your average sized capital ship, but with shorted out shields and a nice-sized hull bruise, it may make the crew think twice about advancing further into mined space.

GSF Tyrano class Warship The Tyrano class warship is the Guardians' heavy cruiser. It is the big boy of the Fleet; typically, you will only find one or two of these vessels serving as the command ship(s) for an entire Dimension's fleet -- save in Gatespace, where a flotilla of ten are attached to the Crownguard as escorts. For a good long while after its introduction, the Tyrano was the largest ship in Web space (being well over 4 miles long at the keel). Tyranos are large, and shaped almost like the gigantic reptile for which they are named; they have a distinctive "tail" which trails behind them, and is in actuality a Thundersnake coil (one of the Tyrano's more insidious weapons). The ship's head has a gaping, fang-filled maw, which opens and shuts and houses multiple Luminaire missile batteries. Tyranos carry a complement of 300 fighter craft, and they have enough weapons to make an Omen battleship feel strangely inadequate.

Starfighters

GSF Epoch 3 Star Assault Craft The Epoch 3 (E3-SAC) is the next generation of the Epoch, marrying its previous Fighter and Bomber incarnations into one craft. The E3's design was a labor of love for the GSF engineers responsible for it; the Epoch is a sturdy, never-failing fighter design that continues to stand the test of time and prove itself again and again and again in the void. Its distinctive rounded body, swept wings and cresting dorsal fin are nearly as trademarked an image of the GSF as the Blackbird cruiser.

GSF Dactyl 2 Voidfighter The Model 2 Dactyl class Voidfighter is sleeker than its predecessor, the Dactyl 1. Shaped somewhat like the reptile for which it is named, the D2 serves as a skirmisher and high-speed interceptor, balancing against the E3's toughness and role as a bomber. The Dactyl sacrifices a lot in the way of armor for speed, but in the hands of an adept pilot the Dactyl is a graceful and deadly weapon, virtually untouchable on the field.

GSF Clownfish Defender The newest member of the GSF family is the stocky Clownfish fighter. With a distinctive fish-like design and vertical orange-and-white body stripes, the Clownfish is built as a slow defense-type fighter, as opposed to the faster and more aggressive Epochs and Dactyls. Attached mostly to Rabbit cruisers, Clownfish are most well known in the fleet for their ability to clear and deactivate mines (especially of Turd mines) without detonating them.

GSF Peryton Gunship The Peryton is a larger, more heavily-armed and armored variant of the Dactyl fighter, designed as a supporting missile-lobbing backline fighter craft. The Peryton is heavy-hitting and somewhat slow, and is almost never deployed without an escort of Epochs.