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While looking over your newest advances; Alavis pings you with something interesting. As it is high time to replace your HCDFV class ships, Alavis lays out a new ideal size and shape for a new brand of starship.
Thus far, you have only used Fighters and irregular type ships, prototypes and special cases like exploration vessels and experimental hyperdrive vehicles. However, there are a few sizes of ships that will probably be very common in the galaxy- ships of a size large enough to make maximum use of a fusion drive, with enough space to hold a crew, to be roughly aerodynamic when traveling through an atmosphere or nebula, and other such universal concerns. You've found the first “sweet spot”.
You have unlocked the <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">Frigate</span></span>.
Your space engineers have been at work testing and destroying empty starship hulls in your own system for practice. Generally speaking, a spaceship will be as structurally sound as its hull armor, shield battery, and computer core can possible make it. The actual shape and design of ships past a certain size, in this case, is <span class="mu-i">culturally and aesthetically driven</span>. Alavis sends you three 3d mockups of possible Frigate designs. All are exactly equivalent in terms of speed, defense, general dimensions, weapon platforms, and so on. She is just asking which one you <span class="mu-s">think looks best</span>.
The artstyle choice of your Frigate will also <span class="mu-i">determine the artstyle of all future ships produced by the Jaaxtian Hegemony</span> from now on. Which one do you want your frigates to look like, Supreme Ruler?
