List of Cosmic Era warships and spacecraft

This is a list of fictional warships and spacecraft from the Cosmic Era (CE) timeline of the "Gundam" anime metaseries.

Like any military organization, the factions in the Cosmic Era depend on multiple ships to fulfill a wide variety of tasks. Listed below are the ship classes, the known ships of that class, and a simple explanation of the role in the battlefield. Individual ships do not have pages; their information can be found on their classes respective pages.

Earth Alliance/OMNI

*"Agamemnon"-class carrier - A large, wedge-shaped carrier that can carry up to twelve mobile armors or mobile suits and deploy them rapidly using the linear catapults on either edge of the ship. The "Agamemnon" class is the largest warship in the Earth Alliance and OMNI Enforcer until the development of the "Archangel"-class assault ship. Agamemnon-class Carriers are later refitted with only one mobile suit launch catapult.
*"Archangel"-class assault ship - Advanced transatmospheric warships derived from Orb's "Izumo"-class battleships, very well-armed and have high mobile suit capacity; This class was developed to support the mobile suits developed under the G Project. The "Archangel" class mobile assault ships are functionally equivalent to the current day aircraft carrier as their primary mission being to launch and recover mobile suits and mobile armors.
*"Arkansas"-class cruiser - An Earth Alliance naval warship. Designated as cruisers, their primary role is to escort "Tarawa"-class mobile assault ships.
*"Hannibal"-class land battleship - An Earth Alliance land vessel stationed in central Eurasia. Unlike most ZAFT land vessels, the "Hannibal" uses four large tank-like tracks for propulsion. It has a considerable hangar space for F-7D Spearheads and GAT-04 Windam mobile suits, but its primarily purpose is to operate as the base of the gigantic GFAS-X1 Destroy.
*"Des Moines"-class cruiser - An Earth Alliance naval warship. The "Des Moines"-class and the "Arkansas"-class cruiser, which only differs slightly in armament, are also known as the "Danilov" class.
*"Drake"-class escort ship - A light space warship employed by the Earth Alliance primarily for combat against fighters and mobile suits. The "Drake"-class ships are functionally equivalent to the current day destroyer. They are also known as 130-meter class warship.
*"Fraser"-class destroyer - An Earth Alliance naval warship. It is armed with a rapid-fire cannon, three CIWS guns, 2 16-tube vertical missile launchers, and 4 anti-ship missile launchers. The primary role of the "Fraser" class is to escort "Tarawa"-class mobile assault ships.
*"Girty Lue"-class battleship - Stealth warships both manufactured and operated by Earth Alliance. This ship class has features reminiscent of the Cosmic Era's universe Earth Alliance's earlier "Archangel"-class assault ships. There were three that were built.
*"Nelson"-class battleship - The backbone of the Earth Alliance's space fleets. Some ships of the class are also operated by Three Ships Alliance during The Battle of Messiah. They are also known as 250-meter class warship.
*"Spengler"-class carrier - A slightly modified of "Tarawa"-class carrier which has been converted to carry mobile suits, and it deploys these machines via gates on the sides of its hull.
*"Tarawa"-class carrier - The largest navel vessel used by the Earth Alliance. A slightly modified of "Tarawa"-class carrier are also known as "Spengler"-class carrier.

ZAFT/PLANT

*"Compton"-class land battleship - A ZAFT warship first fielded in CE 73. Unlike their predecessors, the "Lesseps"-class, "Compton"-class vessels use four large tank-like tracks for propulsion.
*"Eternal"-class support ship - ZGMF-X10A Freedom and ZGMF-X09A Justice support ship; carries the two METEOR prototype units.
**METEOR - mobile suit weapons support system (Mobile suit Embedded Tactical Enforcer), prototype; extends a Freedom and Justice-class mobile suit into a mobile armor, similar in concept to 's RX-78GP03D Gundam Dendrobium mobile armor.
*"Gondwana"-class supercarrier - A massive space warship used by ZAFT. Dwarfing even the battleship "Minerva", the 1200-meter-long "Gondwana" is the largest space vessel ever built in CE Universe.
*"Minerva"-class battleship A trans-atmospheric mobile suit assault ship, derived from both "Eternal" and "Archangel" but of entirely new design; equipped with two standard linear catapults and a third dedicated catapult for the ZGMF-X56S Impulse and its Silhouette packs.
*"Petrie"-class land cruiser -A ZAFT vessel designed to support the "Lesseps"-class land battleships. Like the larger "Lesseps", they utilize a snake-like "scale system" to travel over both ground and water.
*"Laurasia"-class frigate - A ZAFT primary heavy fire support spaceship during the "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED"'s episodes of Bloody Valentine War [http://www.gundamofficial.com/worlds/ce/seed/mechanics/ship_gamow.html] . Its hull code designated as FFM, resembling the real world hull code for modern United States Navy frigate. Later, in "Gundam SEED Destiny", the newer Nazca class destroyer replaced this class as the backbone of ZAFT's space forces.

*"Nazca"-class destroyer - A fast, well-armed space warship in the ZAFT forces. During the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED's episodes of Bloody Valentine War, this class is ZAFT's newest model of warship while on Gundam SEED Destiny they make up the main force of the ZAFT's space fleet replacing Laurasia-class frigates. The class's role and shape parallel those of the "Musai"-class cruiser from the original Mobile Suit Gundam.
*"Lesseps"-class land battleship- Land battleships which are both manufactured and operated by ZAFT. In Astray manga series, Junk Guild also operated modified lead vessel, "Lesseps". This class is designed to travel half-submerged in the sand, using the arrays of microscopic scale motors on its lower hull to liquefy the ground and propel the ship forward.
*"Vosgulov"-class submarine - A naval mobile suit carrier submarine. They are both manufactured and operated by ZAFT. They gave the ZAFT forces based on earth the complete control of the seas.

Orb Union

*"Aegis"-class cruiser - A trimaran naval warship that is 200 meters long and mounts a 250mm rapid-fire gun, along with formidable multiple anti-air and anti-ship weapons . They are both manufactured and operated by Orb Union.

*"Izumo"-class battleship - Powerful warships of the Orb Union. Elements of their design were also used in the construction of the Earth Alliance's "Archangel" class assault ships, including their extremely powerful armament of "Lohengrin" positron blaster cannons and "Gottfried Mk. 71" dual beam cannons.

*"Kuraokami"-class destroyer- A monohull naval warship. They are both manufactured and operated by Orb Union.

*"Takemikazuchi"-class carrier- A trimaran naval carrier vessel that built and serves as the Orb Union's flagship.

Other

Civilian

*"Silverwind" - A civilian space shuttle.
*"Tsiolkovsky" - The space exploration ship designed by George Glenn.

"Acidalium"

Initially, the vessel that would become the "ReHOME" started life as a prototype tender ship ("Cornelius"-class) for the Earth Alliance's new "Archangel"-class assault ships which were in development. However, the destruction of Heliopolis, where the "Archangel" and the prototype tender were in development, caused the tender to be abandoned. From there, it was salvaged by unknown parties and ended up on the civilian vessel market.

When the Junk Guild team lead by Lowe Guele began to plan a return to space after some time on Earth, Coordinator Liam Garfield was sent to space to acquire a new ship, and managed to purchase the prototype tender. After modifications to the ship both on the exterior and interior, it was christened "ReHOME", and began service under the Junk Guild flag. However, the plans were apparently recovered, and more "Cornelius"-class vessels were constructed for use as effective cargo ship for the Earth Alliance space fleets, including the "Archangel"'s sister ship "Dominion", in June CE 71.

The "ReHOME" is a rather striking vessel, with sleek lines reminiscent of the ship she was designed to support. The forward bow is especially evocative of "Archangel", and for good reason - the two vessels were designed so that they can easily connect to each other, allowing for resupplying of the "Archangel" to be done easily and rapidly. The Junk Guild is known for extensive modification of any vessel under their control, and "ReHOME" is no exception - two manipulator arms were added, as well as a set of laminated shields (for countering beam fire) and a set of chunky "wedge-shaped" shields (for countering physical attacks) for defense. However, the most important modification was done to the ship's computer - integrated into it is the GG Unit - a device that contains the brain of George Glenn, the first known Coordinator. Because of this, Glenn functions as the "ReHOME"'s captain, and can pilot any of the mobile suits carried aboard as long as they can maintain a telemetry link to "ReHOME". The "ReHOME" would serve well as the home vessel for Lowe's team throughout the remainder of the Bloody Valentine War, as well as serving as a tender for the Three Ships Alliance. After the war, "ReHOME" discovered another GENESIS unit, named GENESIS Alpha. The crew used GENESIS Alpha to fly to Mars and back. While the "ReHOME" was at Mars, a "Lohengrin" type positron cannon was fitted beneath one of the hangar doors. Later, in C.E. 73 the "ReHOME", along with Serpent Tail, the Out Frame and Rondo Mina Sahaku's forces tried unsuccessfully to use the GENESIS Alpha to push away the remains of Junius Seven.

Another ship of this class was also seen when the "Archangel" met with Admiral Halberton's 8th Fleet at Earth's orbit. The "Cornelius"-class resupplied the "Archangel" and supplied it with two FX-550 Skygraspers just before the Battle of Orbit

One more ship of this class can be seen resupplying the "Dominion" during its pursuit of the "Archangel".

A handful more can be seen supplying nuclear warheads to the Earth Alliance Forces' 7th Fleet after the Battle of Boaz.