United Earth Confederacy
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Trident
Standing as the UEC's mainstay frigate, the Trident embodies everything that defines UEC fleet design. Like most UEC ships, the entirety of its frame is designed around its main weapon, the Hyper Accelerator Cannon, or HAC for short. HACs are effectively gigantic gauss cannons that run the length of their ships, and they are incredibly devastating. With each Trident having its own HAC, even a fleet of frigates can be quite devastating, and that doesn't even account for the rest of its weaponry. Possessing a cold and brutalist design that emphasizes the layers and layers of cold steel that comprise its form, the Trident stands bright as the shining example of peak UEC ship design.
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Cutlass
Effectively a giant flying gun, the Cutlass battleship represents the core of the UEC battleship divisions. Much like the Trident, it’s built around an HAC, though the battleship variant is far larger. Its form is straightforward and simplistic in design, but do not let that fool you. Cutlass battleships are incredibly bulky and can deliver a nasty amount of fire from the array of weapons they support, and the damage they can take is equally impressive. Effectively balancing defense with offense, the Cutlass is a Swiss army knife that can fit into many fleet formations, and any fleet that tries to engage these long-ranged ships at a distance will quickly learn why their HACs are so feared.
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Katana
Unlike the Sapphire Eye, the UEC does not have a supercarrier. Instead, the Katana operates as their standard carrier. Katana's share some similarities with the origin of their namesake, the fronts of these ship vaguely copying elements from old samurai helmets from imperial Japan. While they lack the bulk and sheer defense of an Orca, they do possess an array of anti-ship and fighter defenses that allows them to be a little more flexible in fleet formations, and they possess large enough troop holds to deploy sizeable regiments in any battlefield. Thanks to the flexibility of their fighter holds, Katanas can swap out their squadrons of Hornets for bombers or any other type of fighter craft to adapt to any situation, making them a core component of any UEC defense fleet.
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Hornet
Over the course of thousands of years, UEC fighter craft have steadily evolved and grown to utilize the most cutting-edge technology of any given era, and the Hornet is simply the newest evolution of that chain. Building off their predecessors, Hornets are incredibly swift and versatile fighter craft. Their main cannons are more than capable of catching up to enemy fighters and gunning them down with precision, and they each have sizeable missile bays that give them options against both larger ships as well as ground forces. Although small in size, Hornets form the backbone of the UEC navy, and they have more than earned that title.