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{{Quote|Core Dynamics Farragut-Class Battle Cruisers represent the cutting edge in military technology. A single FCB can carry several squadrons of Federal Fighters and multiple Federal Corvettes across hundreds of light years without any difficulty. These deep deployment capabilities, coupled with extraordinarily heavy firepower, practically guarantee that a single FCB will completely overpower all but the most well-equipped opponents.|Excerpt from a GalNet report on the completion of the FNS Nevermore<ref name="CompletesWork">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/8c57c116a6560dcdf309f1bebc9b0a2da0f7d14b GalNet: Core Dynamics Completes Work on New Capital Ship]</ref>}} | {{Quote|Core Dynamics Farragut-Class Battle Cruisers represent the cutting edge in military technology. A single FCB can carry several squadrons of Federal Fighters and multiple Federal Corvettes across hundreds of light years without any difficulty. These deep deployment capabilities, coupled with extraordinarily heavy firepower, practically guarantee that a single FCB will completely overpower all but the most well-equipped opponents.|Excerpt from a GalNet report on the completion of the FNS Nevermore<ref name="CompletesWork">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/8c57c116a6560dcdf309f1bebc9b0a2da0f7d14b GalNet: Core Dynamics Completes Work on New Capital Ship]</ref>}} | ||
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== | ==Trivia == | ||
*[[David Braben]] describes the Farragut-Class Battle Cruiser: ''"...there will be no [[gravity]], you'll just float around. Things like magnetic boots will make getting around very easy, and they wouldn't be great big clunky things like you might see on a diver. These would look like normal shoes but they'll have fancy technology that make them stick to the surfaces...the Federal ship is a lot more sort of Spartan, a lot more just practical warship essentially...the Federal ship's central section, and with design, one of the design briefs we've had, this is trying to design ships with their function in mind...For the Federal ship, it's utility that's important. The reason it's got this central corridor, this is where ships come out of their hangars and it's to try and protect the hangars from outside. So the reason they face inward and the ships fly out, you know they're already up to speed...that would be very very heavily protected and potentially with things like shields around it."''<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4-gyDLRMXg&t=219 YouTube: Elite: Dangerous Progress Diary #6 (3:39)]</ref> | *[[David Braben]] describes the Farragut-Class Battle Cruiser: ''"...there will be no [[gravity]], you'll just float around. Things like magnetic boots will make getting around very easy, and they wouldn't be great big clunky things like you might see on a diver. These would look like normal shoes but they'll have fancy technology that make them stick to the surfaces...the Federal ship is a lot more sort of Spartan, a lot more just practical warship essentially...the Federal ship's central section, and with design, one of the design briefs we've had, this is trying to design ships with their function in mind...For the Federal ship, it's utility that's important. The reason it's got this central corridor, this is where ships come out of their hangars and it's to try and protect the hangars from outside. So the reason they face inward and the ships fly out, you know they're already up to speed...that would be very very heavily protected and potentially with things like shields around it."''<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4-gyDLRMXg&t=219 YouTube: Elite: Dangerous Progress Diary #6 (3:39)]</ref> | ||
*All Farragut-Class Battle Cruisers appear to share the registration tag of FDN-RD5. | *All Farragut-Class Battle Cruisers appear to share the registration tag of FDN-RD5. | ||
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**Routing the Farragut awards the player 500,000 CR. | **Routing the Farragut awards the player 500,000 CR. | ||
*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. | *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. | ||
**The exclusion zone is substantially smaller for capital ships | **The exclusion zone is substantially smaller for capital ships inside of conflict zones, up to the point where the ship is almost touching the battle cruiser. | ||
*The length of the Farragut-Class 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 YouTube: Elite ship scale 3.0]</ref> | *The length of the Farragut-Class 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 YouTube: Elite ship scale 3.0]</ref> | ||
*The majority of Farragut-Class Battle Cruisers are named after past and present warships of the British Royal Navy. | *The majority of Farragut-Class Battle Cruisers are named after past and present warships of the British Royal Navy. | ||
*The Farragut 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. | *The Farragut 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. | ||
*Despite their massive size, battlecruisers are surprisingly weak for their weapon complement. | |||
**After a substantial nerf to prevent farming kills and combat bonds, the [[Engineers|Engineering]] update massively boosted single-pilot vessels, leaving capital ship weapons behind in terms of capability. | |||
==Videos== | ==Videos== | ||