Corvettes

Typically the smallest type of capital class warship. Corvettes field light armaments and small crews and are not designed to go toe-to-toe with any vessels for a prolonged gun battle.

Corvettes are commonly used a picket ships and blockade vessels. Meaning they maintain hold over a planet, preventing ships from leaving or landing on a planet. They also are common scouts and screening vessels. Traveling ahead and around a fleets main body of warships to scan for threats at great distances and to prevent small swift Micro-Ships from closing in on the larger, slower warships.

Once two opposing fleets close in on each other Corvettes will typically form into "wolf packs" and finish off larger vessels that have taken near critical damage. They will use they're greater speed and maneuverability to avoid larger warships that could easily destroy them.