Editing BattleTech Spacecraft (section)

== Notable Battletech Spacecraft==
===JumpShips===
* '''Invader''': In 3025 this single miss-named class of cargo ship constituted about 46% of all Inner Sphere JumpShips.
* '''Merchant''': second most common JumpShip at 32% of Inner Sphere JumpShips, it does have a problem with securing spare parts for the engine power converter.
* '''Tramp''': an older model, it’s more common in the Periphery and has some defensive armament to deter pirates. While originally discontinued in favor of the more capable Star Lord class with twice the DropShip capacity, it was reintroduced once the Succession Wars hit.
* '''Magellen''': ComStar's version of the Enterprise while also possessing a stronger communication system, a built-in HPG node, and a Lithium-Fusuon Battery, it was used to explore the Deep Periphery, one of these ships had the misfortune of stumbling to [[Clan Smoke Jaguar|Chimney Kitten territory]] in 3048 and set off the [[Clan Invasion]].
* '''Argo''': A one-off experimental DropShip created for exploratory missions, the Succession Wars ended any hopes of it being mass produced. It comes with unique experimental features, like three deckpods that can use the ship's inertia to simulate gravity when in motion or open up and spin to simulate gravity through centrifugal forces when stationary. It also came with multiple degrees of advanced, automated medical and maintenance bay equipment for supporting explorers and their gear. Technically only pseudo-canon when it took center stage in the 2018 '''Battletech''' video game, it was canonized in the House Arano (The Aurigam Coalition) supplement published by CGL.

===WarShips===
* '''Leviathan''': The biggest fucking ship in BattleTech at 2.4 million tonnes, built by the Clans in no small part as a flex. 
* '''Nightlord''': The most recent Clan Battleship, whose combat efficiency suffers slightly since the designers decided it should also be capable of langing a whole planetary assauly force on its own. Still, a Clan tech Battleship is stil a serious threat to everyone.
* '''McKenna''': THE Old Star League era Battleship with a mass of 1.9 million tonnes. Armed with massive PPC batteries, and built in numbers only the Star League of old could afford, these were the backbone of the fleet that retook Terra from Amaris.
* '''Texas''': A somewhat older Battleship class, the Texas class were noted for their durability. Was most famous in BattleTech history for being involved in a mutiny during the SLDF's Operation Exodus; which had a major foundational effect on the formation of Clan culture via Nicholas Kerensky.
* '''Fox''': a tiny corvette that wouldn't have raised any eyebrows in the olden days... but these are also the first warship class built after the loss of warship building technology due to the Succession wars. A symbol of the FedCom technology reintroducing proper Warship combat to the Inner sphere.

===DropShips===
* '''Normandy''': The classic egg fulla mechs.
* '''Overlord''': The other egg full of mechs. Also capable of serving as command posts but with only decent defensive armament. Has a clannerscum upgrade
* '''Union''': The other common staple. Basically a metal baseball crammed with mechs. Good enough that the Clans made their own clannerscum upgrade to it.
* '''Confederate''': The rival baseball to the Union. Was more spacious for crew but was smaller and had more advanced components that were harder to maintain.
* '''Intruder''': An example of an Assault DropShip, it’s smaller than the Union like the Overlord but was armed to the teeth and equipped with a medical bay. The Clans made their own version called the Sassanid.
* '''Leopard''': The classical shuttle version of a DropShip. The Clans upgraded all theirs to be the Broadsword.

===Aerospace Fighters===
* '''Shilone''': a Kuritan Aerospace fighter. It’s biggest claim to fame was being used in a kamikaze attack by the Free Rasalhague Republic that killed the IlKhan during the Clan Invasion and made it stall for a year as the Clans elected a new one.
* '''Chippewa''': a Lyran attack aerospace fighter with slow speed but lots of firepower, it was used by Clan Mongoose to design the Chippewa IIC with advanced targeting computers. Unfortunately, Clan Smoke Jaguar, who absorbed them, refused to use the design from such dishonorable schemers.
* '''Spad''': The same way the Mercury BattleMech is the OmniMech’s grandfather, the Spad is the OmniFighter’s grandparent. The Spad was designed to be modular and use off the shelf components interchangeably.
* '''Issedone''': One of the earliest Omnifighters created by Clan Snow Raven and likely the first, it was a successful technology demonstrator but wasn’t top notch compared other fighters. It would serve as a predecessor to the widespread Bakshir Omnifighter.

===Conventional Fighter===
* '''[[Mechbuster]]''': Essentially a conventional aircraft analogy to the UrbanMech. It’s basically a flying AC-20. While possessing a hard hitting gun, it was tied to vulnerable airfields, had limited ammo, little fuel, and minimal armor. 
* '''Angel''': alternatively called the ''Light Strike Fighter,'' this fighter was exported from the Free Worlds League to every industrial power in the Inner Sphere and Periphery while being easy to make. While lightly armored, it has good speed for a conventional fighter.
* '''Defender''': also known as the ''Medium Strike Fighter,'' it is also from the Free Worlds League and is just as widespread due to being easy to make. Even the Clans created a IIC clanner upgrade for it.
* '''Meteor''': additionally referred to as the ''Heavy Strike Fighter,'' it was created by the Federated Suns and was exported or captured on an interstellar scale as the Succession Wars hit; ensuring its spread across all human space.

===Small Craft===

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* '''KR-61 Long-Range Shuttlecraft''': the most common aerodyne small craft in use, it’s usually used for ferrying passengers between ships. Also comes with armed boarding version called the ''NL-43 Battle Taxi'' and another variant with clanner tier armor.
* '''K-1 DropShuttle''': a spherical small scraft, while technically a DropShip due to possessing a Docking Collar, its mass below the 200 tonne definition of DropShip classifies it as a Small Craft. Lightly armed for self defense, the Clans created their own version.
* '''Aquarius/Lyonesse''': the former being younger and larger by several dozen tonnes, both of these Free Worlds League small craft originated as armed surface-to-orbit escort vessels with armament equal to small DropShips. They got superseded by more versalile Aerospace Fighters but made a comeback during the Blakist Jihad with upgrades. The Wobbies in particular converted them into flying artillery craft that land and shoot before flying away.
* '''NL-42 Battle Taxi''': originally brought by the [[Mercenaries (Battletech)#Well Known Units|Wolf’s Dragoons]] Clan mercenaries to the Inner Sphere as the ''Lupus,'' this export version removed the ClanTech but remains in use as an armed [[Boarding Torpedo|boarding]] [[Shark Assault Boat|vessel]].