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Mass Effect 2 Codex Database: Entry Details
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Starships: Carriers |
| Category: Ships and Vehicles |
| Type: Secondary |
| Installation: Base Installation |
All races provide their fleet with organic fighter support. Cruisers handle a handful in space between internal pressure hulls and exterior armor. Dreadnoughts have a hangar deck within its hulls. Humans, who had only recently "graduated" from surface to space combat, were the first to build ships wielding fighters as the main armament.
In fleet combat, carriers stay clear of battle, launching fighters bearing disruptor torpedoes. Fighters are the primary striking power of the ship; if a carrier enters mass accelerator range of the enemy, things have gone very wrong.
It is possible to recover and rearm fighters during combat, though most carriers seal the flight deck and try to stay out of the way. The flight deck is essentially a corridor through the armor and into the heart of the vessel. A single well-placed torpedo is enough to gut a carrier.
Alliance carriers are named after great leaders, artists, and intellectuals from human history. |
| Obtained: | | • Lazarus Research Station - Received at start of game |
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