Light carriers are a smaller carrier variant designed more for security duties than the frontlines of battle. With their relatively small fighter compliments and minor armaments, these ships are often ignored in favor of more powerful assets. However, they are still highly effective should one know how to use them properly.
Characteristics
Light carriers are far smaller than a regular carrier, usually being around the size of a cruiser. Due to their size, they only carry around a couple dozen fighters at any given time. This leaves them hopelessly outgunned when compared to more proper warships. Even frigates typically have little trouble dealing with light carriers.
Light carriers rarely see any frontline action, often relegated to duties such as border patrol or acting as a police force for recently-conquered territories. Commanding a light carrier is, more often than not, a thankless job, with any work they do being regarded as trivial compared to the massive fleets waging war across Cosmoria.
But despite their drawbacks, light carriers can still be highly effective in large engagements. For one, they can deploy their fighters much faster than a regular carrier. This makes them devastating when in groups, quickly disgorging clouds of fighters to swarm their targets. Many captains have fallen after arrogantly underestimating the capabilities of their foe’s fleet, forgetting to take into account the threat that light carriers can pose.
Notable Examples
TBA