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Ships in A Billion Suns<\/a> are categorised from the tiniest fighters up to huge dreadnoughts. We’ve created a handy chart that puts all of our spaceship models into the appropriate category for the game, which you can download as a PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Not every fleet has a ship for every category – but for us this was a handy exercise as it shows up where there are gaps in some of our major fleets that need to be filled. For utility vessels you can also pick from our range of Merchant Ships<\/a>, which are ideal and can serve in any fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ships in A Billion Suns are categorised from the tiniest fighters up to huge dreadnoughts. 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