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 {{Quote|The Federation's capital ships are brutal, practical war machines inside and out. Airtight doors split the interior into many separate compartments. Grab-handles abound, as do access panels and all the paraphernalia of a military vessel. There would be no mistaking a Federal ship's interior with an Imperial one.|''The Art of Elite Dangerous''<ref name=":0">''The Art of Elite Dangerous'', August 17 2016</ref>}}
 The Farragut Battle Cruiser is over two kilometers long, heavily-armed with classified weaponry, and equipped with hangars capable of transporting multiple [[Federal Corvette]]s and [[F63 Condor]] squadrons. It is equipped with a capital-class [[Frame Shift Drive]]<ref>[https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?p=4088631&viewfull=1#post4088631 Frontier Forums: UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn, comment #7791 (Michael Brookes)]</ref> with an undisclosed jump range. The [[Federal Navy]] uses the Farragut as an integral part of its Intervention Fleets, which are used to investigate and intervene in larger-scale conflicts.<ref name="EE">''[[Elite Encounters RPG]]''</ref>
+From 3278 to 3302, the construction of Farragut Battle Cruisers as well as other capital ships was restricted by the terms of the [[London Treaty]], which was created to prevent an arms race between the superpowers that was projected to occur with the introduction of the [[Frame Shift Drive]]. Imperial Senator and Fleet Admiral [[Denton Patreus]] publicly spurned the London Treaty on October 21, 3302 in a speech in which he declared he would build as many capital ships as the Empire needed for its defence, marking the Empire's withdrawal from the treaty and heralding its dissolution.<ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/57ada8c69657baeb6e876c6d Galactic News: Economic Turmoil Ahead?]</ref><ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/5809dff79657baf8216962ee Galactic News: Patreus Rails against London Treaty]</ref>
 Since the outbreak of the [[Second Thargoid War]] in 3303, multiple Farragut Battle Cruisers have been destroyed by [[Thargoid Interceptor]]s due to the former's vulnerability to [[Thargoid]] shutdown fields. Since the anti-xeno countermeasures developed for smaller ships have proven prohibitively difficult to scale-up for capital ships, the international research and defence organisation [[Aegis]] has declared that capital ships are ineffective at protecting outposts, planets, and shipping lanes from Thargoid attacks at present. Instead, anti-Thargoid efforts have been spearheaded by militias of personal-scale craft.<ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/59f30dd4826c1776ca623242 GalNet: Galactic News: Capital Ships Vulnerable to Thargoid Attack]</ref><ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/59fb5178adf339781710741f Community Goal: Operation Andronicus]</ref>
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 * After destroying all of the Faragut's Heat Relays the ship will escape from battle by activating its [[Frame Shift Drive]].<ref>[http://www.twitch.tv/mercenarythorrn/b/602359547?t=286m MercenaryThorrn's twitch broadcast @04:46:00]</ref>
 * Routing the Farragut awards the player 500,000 CR.
-* Capital Ships have an exclusion zone. Flying too close to a Capital Ship is considered a threat and will make you a target, even if you are friendly. The Capital Ship will often inform you when you are getting close, telling you to back off.
+* Most Capital Ships have an exclusion zone, and flying too close to one can provoke it into attacking even if the player is on friendly terms with its controlling faction. In these cases, the Capital Ship will issue warning messages to ships that invade its exclusion zone.
 == Trivia ==
-* The Farragut Battle Cruiser length (2040m) is roughly the same length as six real life Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers (operated by the U.S. Navy) lined up end to end (337 m).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nDYYYqrhp4 Elite ship scale 3.0]</ref>
+* The length of the Farragut Battle Cruiser (2,040 meters) is roughly the same as six [[wikipedia:Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier|''Gerald R. Ford''-class aircraft carriers]] (337 meters) lined up end to end.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nDYYYqrhp4 Elite ship scale 3.0]</ref>
-* The majority of the Farragut-class battlecruisers are named after past and present warships of the British Royal Navy.
+* The majority of Farragut Battle Cruisers are named after past and present warships of the British Royal Navy.
-* The Farragut class most likely gets its name from David G. Farragut, the first American Admiral, for whom two U.S Navy destroyer classes have also been named.
+* The Farragut class most likely gets its name from [[wikipedia:David Farragut|David G. Farragut]], the first American Admiral, for whom two U.S Navy destroyer classes have also been named.
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