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| - Soul Collector - only known variant in use
- Soul Collector - only known variant in use From SW1ki, a Wikia wiki.
- Escort carriers were lightly armed large vessels used to transport starfighters, providing security for vessels without them.
- The Escort Carrier carries an entire starfighter wing and it augments the overall starfighter strength of whatever fleet it is attached to. These ships are particuarly valuable to the Galactic Empire as they provide a hyperspace platform for TIE fighters, thus giving the starfighters a method for quick travel via light speed. Escort Carriers do not generally involve themselves directly in combat. They are armed, but they are not considered offensive weapons and their whole function is to launch starfighter support at a distance. Each Escort Carrier also has limited field repair facilities.
- An escort carrier is an extremely small ship used to carry fighters. They were no larger than a big Destroyer. It's fighter capacity was smaller than nearly any Light carrier, it was small and very suitable for mass production. They were designed for that reason. Hannah Avram designed them during the Seige of Danzig. Hannah had them produced because she needed the ships fast and a small ship is much more suitable for true mass production when production capacity is limited. This is also shown when she opted for over thirty destroyers while only building four Battlecruisers. The first class was the Sand-Fly class escort carrier which Hannah used. By the time Danzig was liberated she had over 14. They were also critical to the Battle of Thebes. By the time of ISW-4 they were a hopeless fleet
- The escort aircraft carrier or escort carrier, also called a "jeep carrier" or "baby flattop" in the USN or "Woolworth Carrier" by the Royal Navy, was a small and slow type of aircraft carrier used by the Royal Navy (RN), the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, and the United States Navy (USN) in World War II. They were typically half the length and 1/3 the displacement of the larger fleet carriers. While they were slower, less armed and armored, and carried fewer planes, they were less expensive and could be built in less time. This was their principal advantage, as escort carriers could be completed in greater numbers as a stop-gap when fleet carriers were scarce. However, the lack of protection made escort carriers particularly vulnerable and several were sunk w
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* 6 Light Transports
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| - Soul Collector - only known variant in use
- An escort carrier is an extremely small ship used to carry fighters. They were no larger than a big Destroyer. It's fighter capacity was smaller than nearly any Light carrier, it was small and very suitable for mass production. They were designed for that reason. Hannah Avram designed them during the Seige of Danzig. Hannah had them produced because she needed the ships fast and a small ship is much more suitable for true mass production when production capacity is limited. This is also shown when she opted for over thirty destroyers while only building four Battlecruisers. The first class was the Sand-Fly class escort carrier which Hannah used. By the time Danzig was liberated she had over 14. They were also critical to the Battle of Thebes. By the time of ISW-4 they were a hopeless fleet unit because of their extremely light armor. They simply could not survive if they were but in range of enemy missile batteries. Another threat was the Arachnids Gunboats. And yet, people still found much use in them. While not viable battle line units, they were a cheap way to ferry fighters through Warp points. They could also help bolster battle line units by replacing combat loses and what-not. They could also funcion as frontier pickets and warp point defense units.
- The escort aircraft carrier or escort carrier, also called a "jeep carrier" or "baby flattop" in the USN or "Woolworth Carrier" by the Royal Navy, was a small and slow type of aircraft carrier used by the Royal Navy (RN), the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, and the United States Navy (USN) in World War II. They were typically half the length and 1/3 the displacement of the larger fleet carriers. While they were slower, less armed and armored, and carried fewer planes, they were less expensive and could be built in less time. This was their principal advantage, as escort carriers could be completed in greater numbers as a stop-gap when fleet carriers were scarce. However, the lack of protection made escort carriers particularly vulnerable and several were sunk with great loss of life. The light carrier (hull classification symbol CVL) was a similar concept to escort carriers in most respects, however they were intended for higher speeds to be deployed alongside fleet carriers. Most often built on a commercial ship hull, escort carriers were too slow to keep up with the main forces consisting of fleet carriers, battleships, and cruisers. Instead, they were used to escort convoys, defending them from enemy threats such as submarines and planes. In the invasions of mainland Europe and Pacific islands, escort carriers provided air support to ground forces during amphibious operations. Escort carriers also served as backup aircraft transports for fleet carriers, and ferried aircraft of all military services to points of delivery. In the Atlantic, the escort carriers were used to protect convoys against U-boats. Initially escort carriers accompanied the merchant ships and fended off attacks from aircraft and submarines. Later in the war, escort carriers were part of hunter-killer groups which sought out submarines instead of being attached to a particular convoy. In the Pacific theater, CVEs provided air support of ground troops in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. They lacked the speed and weapons to counter enemy fleets, relying on the protection of a Fast Carrier Task Force. However, at the Battle off Samar, one U.S. task force of escort carriers managed to successfully defend itself against a large Japanese force of battleships and cruisers. The Japanese were turned back by a furious defense of carrier aircraft, screening destroyers, and destroyer escorts, proving that CVEs had the striking force, if not speed and strength, of full CVs. Of the 151 aircraft carriers built in the U.S. during World War II, 122 were escort carriers. Though no examples survive to this day, the Casablanca class holds the distinction of being the most numerous single class of aircraft carrier ever built, with 50 having been launched. The Bogue class comes in a close second, with 45 launched.
- Soul Collector - only known variant in use From SW1ki, a Wikia wiki.
- Escort carriers were lightly armed large vessels used to transport starfighters, providing security for vessels without them.
- The Escort Carrier carries an entire starfighter wing and it augments the overall starfighter strength of whatever fleet it is attached to. These ships are particuarly valuable to the Galactic Empire as they provide a hyperspace platform for TIE fighters, thus giving the starfighters a method for quick travel via light speed. Escort Carriers do not generally involve themselves directly in combat. They are armed, but they are not considered offensive weapons and their whole function is to launch starfighter support at a distance. Each Escort Carrier also has limited field repair facilities.
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