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Wow, haven't submitted a new mesh since the previous calendar year. Actually, that's probably a lot less impressive on January 6, isn't it. Three more large ships to go to round out the fleet after this one (aside from a few possible auxiliaries).

Anyway, here we are with the latest ship for the fleet. Corvettes, in this setting, are meant to blur the line between warships and smaller craft like fighters and bombers. Their duties involve things that require more mobility than larger ships are able to pull off, and more firepower or endurance than anything flying off a carrier deck can manage. To that end they're relatively common patrol or even police ships, medium-range scouts, and (with some alterations) AWAC vessels of a sort. They're also cheap enough to be relatively expendable, but that part doesn't go into the orientation package for personnel assigned to one.

The Upham-class in particular is mostly meant as fire support for small craft, able to bring a small point defense umbrella and a beam emitter (built directly into the 'fin' in this case) along to assist fighter and bomber squadrons. They also have a half-dozen torpedo tubes, which lets corvettes punch - and punch *once* - far out of their weight at the start of an engagement. Corvettes often operate in small groups to support each other against multiple targets, or for hit-and-run attacks on isolated large ones.

~svenniemannie's hull plate pattern shows up here, like it does with all my other larger ships, and can be found here: [link]

For the historically inclined, the corvette's class is named after Charles Upham, a New Zealand soldier, one of three people to win the Victoria Cross twice, and fifty percent of people who survived the process. I'd pictured ships of this class, and there would be a lot of them, mostly named after recipients of various countries' top military awards like the Victoria Cross, Param Vir Chakra, and so on.

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Wow, haven't submitted a new mesh since the previous calendar year. Actually, that's probably a lot less impressive on January 6, isn't it. Three more large ships to go to round out the fleet after this one (aside from a few possible auxiliaries).

Anyway, here we are with the latest ship for the fleet. Corvettes, in this setting, are meant to blur the line between warships and smaller craft like fighters and bombers. Their duties involve things that require more mobility than larger ships are able to pull off, and more firepower or endurance than anything flying off a carrier deck can manage. To that end they're relatively common patrol or even police ships, medium-range scouts, and (with some alterations) AWAC vessels of a sort. They're also cheap enough to be relatively expendable, but that part doesn't go into the orientation package for personnel assigned to one.

The Upham-class in particular is mostly meant as fire support for small craft, able to bring a small point defense umbrella and a beam emitter (built directly into the 'fin' in this case) along to assist fighter and bomber squadrons. They also have a half-dozen torpedo tubes, which lets corvettes punch - and punch *once* - far out of their weight at the start of an engagement. Corvettes often operate in small groups to support each other against multiple targets, or for hit-and-run attacks on isolated large ones.

~svenniemannie's hull plate pattern shows up here, like it does with all my other larger ships, and can be found here: [link]

For the historically inclined, the corvette's class is named after Charles Upham, a New Zealand soldier, one of three people to win the Victoria Cross twice, and fifty percent of people who survived the process. I'd pictured ships of this class, and there would be a lot of them, mostly named after recipients of various countries' top military awards like the Victoria Cross, Param Vir Chakra, and so on.