Sa'arm Ships
Sa'arm Vessels
(This is not a definitive list but merely a summary of what has been encountered so far.)
In many cases there does not appear to be a common design philosophy as you would find within a human constructed fleet. Often the vessels are modified copies of the ships of another race, including those used by the Confederacy.
The Confederacy has employed a naming system similar to the way NATO designated Soviet aircraft designs. Vessels believed to be hyper capable are given names that begin with a 'V' whilst vessels designed for in-system use begin with 'L'.
Care must be taken to ensure that the names used -mostly of Roman deities- are not used as vessel names within the Confederacy.
Hyper Capable Ships
| Reporting Name | Class | Comments |
| (Unnamed Courier) | Courier | The smallest starships used by the Sa'arm, these ships generally only carry 10-12 crew, apparently serving as communications relay ships. |
| Vacuna | Scout | A small vessel, often used in threes which appears to be scouting out systems far in advance of the Sa'arm advance. |
| Vagitanus | Corvette | Appears to be a close copy of the Castle class corvette |
| Venti | Destroyer | One of the fastest vessels in the Sa'arm inventory but that is it's only attribute of note. See also CSS Stone |
| Vervactor | Cruiser | Slow and sluggish, like the battleship, it has quite a bit of firepower. |
| Volturnus | Freighter | A Sa'arm vessel somewhere between the Aurora and Kilo class ships in size. The major difference is that it carries its cargo internally. |
| Vesta | Battleship | |
| Volumna | Hive Recon Sphere | 500 troops. 12 attached light ships. May land and lift off again after refueling |
| Virtus | Hive Colonizer Sphere | 10,000 troops and another 100,000 in hibernation/stasis. 27 attached light ships. Lands and stays. |
| Voluptas | Hive Conquest Sphere | 25,000 troops, and another 1,000,000 in hibernation/stasis. Carries many (243?) Libertas gumboats attached to/as outer hull and up to 30 light ships internally. Lands and stays. |
Available names:- Vediovus Veritas Verminus Viduus Virbius
Intra-System Ships
| Reporting Name | Class | Comments |
| Lactanus | Corvette | Appears to be a close copy of the Castle class corvette without the hyper capability |
| Lares | Carrier | Described by one Navy Admiral as a barge the Lares is the home base for the Liber and Lima vessels. It has a minimal maneuvering capability and appears more like a space station than a vessel of war. |
| Liber | Fighter | A small vessel, about the size of a Backfire bomber but used as a fighter. Its primary armament is two lasers of moderate power. Relies more on quantity than firepower. |
| Lima | Bomber | Larger than the Liber it carries two plasma torpedoes as its main strike weapon |
| Lupercus | Shuttle | "Rescue Mission" says the Lupercus can carry 300 Sa'arm internally and is used by the Voluptus and Volturnas. It appears to have external hard points although they have never been seen in use. No weapons have been noted. |
Available names:- Larentina Laverna Levana Libitina Lucina
Atmospheric Craft
Libertas-Class Attached Gunboats
The Voluptas carries many (believed to be 243) "Libertas"-class gunboats as the ship's outer hull. Each gunboat has a heavy starship hull as its lower hull. As armament each Libertas mounts a Medium Particle Beam turret on the bottom, sticking through that hull. See Libertas_Attached_Gunboats.
Sa'arm Ship Manning Estimates
The Sa'arm seem to do everything in threes, or in powers of threes. The following is a conversion table from powers of three to decimal system numbers:
- 3^2 = 9 - Assumed crew of a Lima bomber, Libertas gunboat, or (unnamed) courier ship
- 3^3 = 27
- 3^4 = 81 - Assumed crew of one Vacuna scout/patrol ship
- 3^5 = 243 - Size of a colony ship 'freezer' compartment
- 3^6 = 729
- 3^8 = 6561
- 3^9 = 19,683
- 3^10 = 59,049
- 3^11 = 177,147
- 3^12 = 531,441
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