Editing BattleTech Spacecraft (section)

=== WarShips ===
WarShips are JumpShips that have two defining features. First of all and most obvious is that they are heavily armed, armored, and are made for combat. Secondly they have Compact KF-Drives which do the same job as the regular civilian models while being half the size, but come at a price-tag five times higher than normal. This means they have space left over for fuel, weapons, armor, redundant systems, engines that can get around a system faster than a metaphorical space tortoise and similar. These range from comparatively  small frigates a couple hundred meters long to two-kilometer long Dreadnoughts. Mass-wise, their upper limit is theorized to be 2.5 million tonnes.

The thing about WarShips is that one of them in orbit of a planet can drop a lot of fuckload of nukes and cause a lot of devastation, as well as being able to provide less apocalyptic orbital support to forces on the ground. After the collapse of the old Terran Alliance, the powers that had the resources to build WarShips of their own were able to impose their social orders onto systems and planets which lacked them, giving rise to the [[Inner Sphere|Successor State]]s. When the peer powers met, this caused it's own problem. The best response to a WarShip is another WarShip, hopefully to intercept before it reaches a populated world or if that fails as a means of retaliation. The [[Ares Convention]] was put into place to prevent worlds from burning and [[Star League]] tried it's best to demilitarize the Inner Sphere to avoid that. Unfortunately, their worst nightmares came true after the First Succession War when the Successor States proceeded to spend their fleets bombing everyone back into the stone age. 

During the Succession Wars, Warships became LosTech to most of the Inner Sphere the Near Periphery. All examples were destroyed and the survivors had only a limited capacity to churn out a few new civilian JumpShips every year. ComStar had a few Warships squirreled away in distant asteroid bases as well as the technical data in hidden vaults. The only place were WarShips were actively being made was [[The Clans|Clanspace]], in which bigger and badder WarShips than ever before were coming out of Clan drydocks, on top of a lot of old SLDF WarShips that had been part of the Exodus.