Interceptors — main duty is fighting other fighters, catching fast frigates and sometimes some point defence.

Talon — cheap and fragile, with
relatively decent firepower. Chews
up frigates good.
Damage: main gun is frag,
missiles are HE.
Wasp — also fragile, but slightly
more expensive, is better at
handling PD duty and other
fighters.
Damage: mines deal frag, EN
otherwise.
Spark — all around the best and
also the hardest to get interceptor,
the only one to get shields.
Damage: all EN.

Heavy Fighters — these are supposed to attack bigger ships.

Broadsword — pair with bombers
to ensure reliable delivery through
breaking shields and screening
with flares. Can last for some time.
Damage: all KE.
Warthog — something of a
bomber alternative, hangs around
shooting mortars and providing
some flare screen. Tougher than
Broadsword, but still no shields.
Damage: all HE.
Lux — a fighter that’s a mix
between the Broadsword and the
Warthog. Decent against all
defences, sports flares and
shields for high survivability.
Damage: all EN.

Gladius — halfway between an
interceptor and a fighter, can catch
up to most ships and prepare
them for slower fighters.
Damage: mainly KE, some EN.
Thunder — a pursuit fighter, the
fastest in the game and focused
on hitting ships from unexpected
angles and disabling their engines
Damage: KE, EMP, a little HE.
Claw — when mixed with some
other fighters they provide reliable
disabling power. Shielded.
Damage: little EN with lots of EMP

Support Fighters — fighters that stay near other ships and provide supplementary firepower.
Mining pod — very cheap and less fighter, more Xyphos — potent support figher, roams near the
flying piece of armour with a laser pointer and a escorted ship and provides some ion beam fire
quick replacement time. support and burst laser point defence. Shielded.
Damage: EN. Damage: mainly EMP, some EN.

Bombers — deliver their payload, then go back for a reload. Damage is all HE, save for Longbows.
Piranha — cheap, hard to use bomber with a high Khopesh — a decent cheap bomber, which shoots
chance of friendly fire. Reliable only against annihilator rockets. Provides a lot of targets, making
immobile targets. it hard to shoot down by some PD.
Payload: decent damage, many bombs, unguided. Payload: small damage, many missiles, unguided.

Perdition — a bit more expensive and reliable than Cobra — needs flares or other targets to cover for
the Khopesh. Total payload is smaller, but gets the lone Reaper it carries, but hurts like hell if it
through the armour much better. connects. Shielded.
Payload: big damage, few torpedoes, unguided. Payload: huge damage, single torpedo, unguided.

Longbow — the only kinetic bomber in the set, which
makes it a decent alternative to the Broadsword. Has
shields and burst lasers.
Payload: big kinetic and EMP damage, few missiles,
guided.
Flash — functions similarly to the Piranha, but due to
the proximity fuse it’s easier to use and can be used
as an area denial tool or accidental fighter sweeper.
Shielded.
Payload: decent damage, many bombs, unguided.

Dagger — expensive, all around good bomber, is Trident — something of a Dagger clone, with smaller
shielded and its missiles have good enough tracking wing size, but each fighter carrying two torpedoes
to hit frigates, if they have to. Shielded. and being much tougher, especially the shields.
Payload: big damage, some torpedoes, guided. Payload: big damage, some torpedoes, guided.
KE = kinetic, good against shields
HE = high explosive, good against armour
EN = energy, no strengths and no weaknesses
Frag = fragmentation, only good against hull.