Mass Effect category
Starships
12 entries tagged Starships, 12 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Normandy SR-2 and Omega.
- Citadel Fleet: the Council's defence force and what one battle cost itThe Citadel Fleet was the Council's main space defence force, mostly turian ships led by the asari dreadnought Destiny Ascension. Sovereign's attack in 2183 caught it scattered across the relays, and Shepard decides who survives.
- Starships: the warships and vessels of galactic civilizationStarships were spacecraft capable of crossing the void between star systems on thrusters and faster-than-light drives. The navies of the galaxy sorted their warships into four weights, from nimble scouting frigates to kilometer-long dreadnoughts, with the count of dreadnoughts any fleet could build fixed by the Treaty of Farixen.
- Collector CruiserThe Collector Cruiser was the only known vessel type used by the Collectors, an immense hybrid of organic growth and metal superstructure. A single cruiser could carry enough troops, creatures, and stasis pods to abduct an entire human colony, and one such ship destroyed the original Normandy in 2183.
- HarbingerHarbinger was the first Reaper ever created, forged from the Leviathans and serving as the template for every Reaper that followed. It directed the Collectors from dark space, possessing them to fight in person, and later led the assault on Earth as the oldest and largest of its kind.
- Keelah Si'yahThe Keelah Si'yah was an Andromeda Initiative ark, a quarian vessel uniquely engineered to carry six different species across the 600-year void between galaxies. Bearing some twenty thousand colonists in cryosleep, it survived a catastrophic plague during its long voyage toward a new home in the Heleus Cluster.
- UT-47 Kodiak Drop ShuttleThe UT-47 Kodiak Drop Shuttle was a rugged personnel carrier capable of planetary flight and limited FTL travel. Nicknamed the Combat Cockroach for its durability, it ferried Commander Shepard's ground teams aboard the Normandy SR-2 throughout the campaigns of 2185 and 2186.
- SSV Normandy SR-1The SSV Normandy SR-1 was a Systems Alliance prototype deep-scout frigate, the first of the Normandy class, co-developed with the Turian Hierarchy under Council sponsorship. She served as Commander Shepard's flagship until her destruction in a surprise attack in 2183.
- Normandy SR-2The Normandy SR-2 was an advanced stealth frigate built as the successor to the original Normandy and served as Commander Shepard's base of operations against the Collectors and, later, the Reapers. Built by Cerberus and later turned over to the Systems Alliance, she became one of the most storied warships of her era.
- OmegaOmega was a sprawling space station built in the hollowed husk of an asteroid in the Terminus Systems, a haven for criminals and outcasts ruled by the asari warlord Aria T'Loak. Often called the dark counterpart to the Citadel, it had no central government and changed hands only through violence.
- Sovereign: the Reaper vanguard the geth called NazaraSovereign, called Nazara by the geth, was the Reaper vanguard that posed as the flagship of the rogue Spectre Saren Arterius. It spent fifty thousand years waiting to summon its kind from dark space, and in 2183 it launched the assault on the Citadel that ended in its destruction.
- SSV NormandyThe SSV Normandy SR-1 was a prototype deep scout frigate of the Systems Alliance, co-developed with the Turian Hierarchy and famed for its experimental stealth systems. She served as Commander Shepard's first command and base of operations before being destroyed by a Collector attack in 2183.
- Tempest: The Pathfinder's Scout ShipThe Tempest was the survey ship of the Andromeda Initiative's Pathfinder team, a state of the art scout vessel used to explore the worlds of the Heleus Cluster in search of new homes for Milky Way colonists. After its sister ships were lost, it became the one of a kind home and base of the human Pathfinder.