Ship

Ship refers to any body in space which contains electronic equipment and peoples (crew are required to fly but peoples can be transported across by ships from world to world), which can move (ie mobile) past the speed of light and which can usually receivie and sometimes issue communications to and from an empire. Ships which do not contain crew are known as drones as they are directely controlled by electricity.

Civilian ships

 * Transport ship -  These ships can transport and are designed to transport goods/ressources/weapons/peoples accross space, usually to other ships or to other worlds. Usually lack defencive or offensive capabilities.
 * Sub Class includes armoured transports which are transports armed to defend against aggressors in times of war, and:
 * Raider-Transporters which are transport ships which escort raiding ships and beam the ressources/goods. Often have little weapondary but can carry some; see military heading for more information on raiding ships with transports or converted from transports.
 * Colonisation/Mother-Ship - These ships are used to found new worlds when ready. Motherships have special capabilites like mineral mining capabilities, rare on anything other then minging starships.
 * Mining ship - These have the ability to mine for fuel, ore, raw materials etc which are then used in processing and through refinement to create more usable materials of much higher value. Often have little defencive capabilities.
 * Trade Ship - Designed to carry large amounts of cargo but also with good communications, leisure and defencive capabilities in order to conduct trade well. Usually designed to have good mobile capabilities to move around to conduct this trade, come in variety of sizes and very similar to armored transports.