Notes on Commonwealth Ship List

Notes on the Commonwealth Ship List.

For the purposes of this guide, it is assumed the events of 'Division' and subsequent missions have not yet taken place. The advent of SecPat will be taken into account in a later revision

When I first started to compile the ship list, I thought that (as with all such things) there were going to be several problems thrown up. However, it became quickly apparent that there weren't quite as many as I had at first anticipated, this is a great credit to the game's programmers and designers. Having said that, there are a few points that it's probably best if I explain.

In the intro movie, we see the Destroyer Havard with the registry number CNV-222. However, later on in the game (during the mission 'Under New Ownership'), the captain of the Destroyer Budapest states that his ship has that number. I'm assuming that the Havard 'really' has that registry number, because it can actually be seen in the game, and that the Budapest's captain was just having a bad day and read out the wrong number. I've given the Budapest the conjectural registry CNV-223.
The Tripoli's registry number (CNV-355) was taken from the video clip in the mission 'Routine Patrol' which sees the Tripoli and the Dreadnaught travelling alongside each other.
The intro movie features a section where Admiral Brett is standing in front of a screen listing a lot of Commonwealth ships, along with their registry numbers. Those ships whose names I have been able to make out have been included in the listing, but it is possible that some of the names and registry numbers are wrong. Sorry.
We know that the Dreadnaught was the prototype for all the other Corvettes that followed and that the Alabama was the first fighter-carrier of her class, so it's assumed that there were prototypes for all the other ship classes.
Since this revision was finalised, Russell Patterson (owner of the Independence Movement I-War site) has worked out a way of getting some of the 'hidden' missions in the game to work. Although in later revisions of the guide many of the ships seen in these missions will be ignored (under the premise that, because they were removed from the game, they are not 'officially' part of the universe), one will: the Omaha. This is an LST, a ship-class mentionned in the DOCs of the game and seen in some of the publicity shots. The Omaha is the first LST and, therefore, all current LST models are Omaha-class.

FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE: Working out registry numbers.