Poor picture taken with a phone camera in lieu of a scanner, which I'll rectify tomorrow, but I wanted to post this for reference on Nocebo military orbit-orbit spacecraft, which enter combat in squadrons called Battle Constellations. This picture is meant to give an idea of the general scale of the vessels, especially the larger ones, which are drawn to scale with respect to each other - although not to the goat pilot nor the Lancer.

Huge warships in the Nocebo system are much more expensive than their smaller counterparts to build and maintain per unit mass, but they are preferred when possible for their much greater weapons capacity. Structural components and essential systems tend to grow more slowly with a ship's size than the ship itself, and while many combat spacecraft in the Destroyer mass-range go down to 15,000 tons total mass - roughly the size of a modern destroyer - the largest spacecraft range into the 150,000-ton class, larger than a modern Nimitz supercarrier. For any of these ships, 3/4 of this mass is actually propellant, leaving around ~4,000-40,000 tons of actual ship. However, larger ships can field up to 20,000 tons of weapons systems, or Lancers, while the smallest ships can field only 500.

The six main warship types' roles within a Battle Constellation can be summarized like so:
• Sentinel: Observatory spacecraft that coordinate the Constellation's maneuvers and track enemy movements, using large Hubble-sized optical telescopes as well as various smaller ones. They carry more heliograph-signaling equipment than the other spacecraft, visible as rectangles mounted on stilts jutting out from the ship's hull. Sentinels may serve more as a command center, or they may be geared more toward observation duty. They carry large crew complements and relatively light payloads of weapons, but wield beefier engines and more propellant to help them avoid threats.
• Minestar: These vessels are the first combatants in a battle, and fire shots long before any other ship in a Constellation. Minestars carry large payloads of mineshot, which can be likened to gigantic shotgun shells filled with large spheres of iron shot. These spheres' large, solid mass and simple design allows them to be cheaply manufactured to puncture enemy hulls without being slowed or vaporized by armor. Once launched, a clockwork timer is activated within the mineshot to trigger a detonation that scatters the iron spheres along a wide cone of trajectories. These ships have few other weapons and are operated by a skeleton crew.
• Destroyer: The smallest class of proper warship, Destroyers field anywhere from 500 tons of armament up to the mid-thousands, which can include mineshots, and may be regarded as a template for the larger two classes. A cluster of up to seven nuclear liquid-core engines drives the spacecraft to thrust at up to three gees of acceleration, around the maximum survivable by Nocebo sapients at long durations. Huge gun turrets line the spacecraft's exterior at regular intervals all around its circumference, with 24 of them on this model providing full coverage of the spacecraft's surroundings. Destroyers that are refitted for journeys into the Outer System are called Deep-System Cruisers.
• Battleship: Larger sisters of the Destroyers that field anywhere from thousands to ~20,000 tons of weaponry. Their guns are bigger, more numerous, and they can dominate over many equivalent Destroyers with firepower and armor, although they cost proportionally much more.
• Carrier: These massive hulls carry Lancers as fighter-bombers. They can be built of any size, but in modern times it is generally only Battleship-size hulls that are considered Carriers.

All Nocebo largest-scale spacecraft are powered by liquid-core nuclear-mechanical reactors, which operate in a constantly molten state that helps heat a spacecraft's propellant liquid to high temperatures, making it shoot out the rocket nozzle faster and accelerate a spacecraft more efficiently. Without electronics, they are armed with kinetic weaponry, and use Lancers as a form of guidance to deliver warheads more directly to a target. Orbit-orbit artillery mounted on large spacecraft include combustion light-gas guns, a chemical-powered system offering accelerations similar to a railgun, as well as gyroscopically stabilized rockets. Machine guns are mounted as CIWS.