One thing that HW2 is missing is proper names for the ships.
Really, navies aren't going to call their brand new shiny warships, armed with the most powerful and state-of-the-art weapons they can think of names like Torpedo Frigate, or Heavy Missile Frigates....
Blah, blah, blah.
We need some real names for these things. At the very least, they're needed for all the fan-fic writers, and they're just plain cool. Maybe, if we can get any of these names made official, we can even think up some longer descriptions for them, like in the Cata manual.
The only ships that seem to have any names are the Lance Fighters and Missile Corvettes, which, according to HW Shipyards, are the "Harridan" and "Hammer", respectively. It should be noted that "Hammer" was the name of the Kushan Heavy Corvettes from HW1, so even that name is suspect.
Here's a full ship list for quick copy/pasting. If I missed anything, let me know.
Hiigaran:
Scout:
Interceptor:
Bomber:
Gunship Corvette:
Pulsar Corvette:
Minelayer Corvette:
Torpedo Frigate:
Flak Frigate:
Ion Cannon Frigate:
Defense Field Frigate
Marine Frigate:
Destroyer:
Battlecruiser:
Carrier:
Mothership:
Shipyard:
Gun Platform:
Ion Cannon Platform:
Resource Collector:
Mobile Refinery:
Probe:
Proximity Sensors Probe:
Sensors Distortion Probe:
Vaygr
Scout:
Assault Craft:
Bomber:
Lance Fighter:
Missile Corvette:
Laser Corvette:
Command Corvette:
Minelayer Corvette:
Heavy Missile Frigate:
Assault Frigate:
Infiltrator Frigate:
Destroyer:
Battlecruiser:
Carrier:
Mothership:
Shipyard:
Gun Platform:
Heavy Missile Platform:
Hyperspace Gate:
Resource Collector:
Mobile Refinery:
Probe:
Proximity Sensors Probe:
Sensors Distortion Probe:
) names. It should be noted that the closest thing to an Earth history connection (Besides Biblical references) was the Imperator-class Carrier, which is a Roman title roughly equivilent to Commander-in-Chief. It was taken permanently by the Caesars and is the origin of the English word emperor.
