List of fictional spaceborne heavy cruisers
Science fiction of a military orientation is rife with huge fleets of combat starships plying the galaxy, engaging each other in titanic exchanges of missile and laser fire. While there are many different types of these vessels, a commonly seen class is the heavy cruiser. In some universes, heavy cruisers seem to represent the pinnacle of naval shipbuilding, serving as the heavy hitters and centerpieces of battle fleets. In others, they are commonly deployed as patrol and fleet support ships, or as escorts for still heavier classes of warship. In all universes, heavy cruisers are presented as large, powerful starships.
List of fictional spaceborne heavy cruisersStar Trek: Federation Constitution-class heavy cruiser, Klingon Vor'cha-class heavy/attack cruiserStar Wars: Rebel Alliance/New Republic Mon Calamari Star Cruiser (various models), "Dreadnaught"-class heavy cruisers, some texts claim Imperial Star Destroyers as heavy cruisersBabylon 5: EarthForce Hyperion-class heavy cruiser, Narn G'Quon-class heavy cruiser, Minbari Sharlin-class war cruiser/heavy cruiserAndromeda: Systems Commonwealth Glorious Heritage-class heavy cruiserWing Commander: Confederation Waterloo-class, Tallahassee-class, and Plunkett-class heavy cruisers, Kilrathi Fralthra- and Fralthi II-class heavy cruisersGundam: Federation Salamis- and Alexandria-class heavy cruisersStargate SG-1: Earth Stargate Command Prometheus (ostensibly)BattleTech: Star League Aegis-, Avatar-, Luxor-, and Sovetskii Soyuz-class heavy cruisers, Free Worlds League Agamemnon-class heavy cruiser, Draconis Combine Kirishima-class heavy cruiserHonorverse: Star Kingdom of Manticore FearlessStarfire: Terran Federation Majestic-, Iowa-, Bulwark-, Swiftsure-, Goeben, and Pommern-class heavy cruisers This is only a partial listing. There are many other vessels in science fiction which, while not specifically designated as heavy cruisers, are of a tonnage and armament to fall within that category, and many others that are classified as such but are given no class name.
List of fictional warships that could be conjectured as heavy cruisersStar Trek: given its role as the Constitution class's successor, the Federation's Excelsior class can be conjectured as a heavy cruiser, and the same with the Ambassador-class to the ExcelsiorStar Wars: New Republic Majestic-class battlecruiser (referred to in some texts as a heavy cruiser, but in the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy as a battlecruiser)Robotech: Robotech Defense Force/Robotech Expeditionary Force Tristar- and Ikazuchi-class large cruisersMacross: UN Spacy Haruna-class stealth cruiserBattleTech: Federated Suns Avalon-class cruiser, Capellan Confederation Feng Huang-class cruiserGalaxy Quest: National Space Exploration Administration Protector
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