Category:Carriers

A carrier is a warship that serves as a mobile base for smaller spacecraft, typically fighters and bombers. It is equipped with flight facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Carriers are capital ships, and allow naval forces to deploy strike craft in space as well as support aerospace superiority operations without depending on local bases for staging aerospace operations. Carriers are expensive to build and are critical assets.

Yamataian carriers typically feature a flight deck, despite the lack of gravity or atmosphere in space meaning that aerospacecraft do not need to take off conventionally like aircraft. The purpose of these flight decks and their associated electromagnetic launch systems is to allow craft to be accelerated to attack speed in a short amount of time, allowing fighter response wings to be rapidly sent into battle. Nevertheless, Yamataian carriers are still able to deploy craft without using "conventional takeoff" procedures.