This is awesome. I spent far too many hours as a kid orchestrating imaginary space-battles based on the ships from Homeworld[1], also closely considering the specialised roles and hierarchy of the ships as presented in that world.

Since then, reading the "Essay on Realistic Space Combat"[2] took a lot out of the fun of those sorts of considerations, as you realise that actual space combat would be more like relativistic cold wars and sudden genocide[3] than the dashing image of privateering and admiralty fleet manoeuvres.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeworld 2: http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/essay-on-realistic-sp... 3: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/04/on-the-g...