[Droid803]

I used it as a destroyer, works pretty well.

[Solatar]

Trivia: the Atropos from TVWP was called a 'frigate' because we decided naming something a 'corvette' before Freespace 2 brought them in would break canon (I remember something about the Deimos description being a "new class").  It's the same damn thing, honestly. 

Although in my own little world, frigates are more specialized than corvettes.  Corvettes are powerful warships, frigates are designed to do something else.  Iceni has ETAK, Hippocrates (suspect, but still) is a medical frigate. 

[Petrarch of the VBB]

"Medical frigate" is more a nod to Star Wars than anything else, I'd say.

[Shivan Hunter]

'Vettes seemed to be the next logical step for FS2- a ship that could really pack a punch but wasn't as huge and all-purpose as a destroyer (carrying squadrons, serving as bases of operation as well as combat, etc). After that, the next step would seem to be to specialize this class: frigates would be ships between cruiser and destroyer size that are compact and geared completely towards combat, and a "carrier" class could be a destroyer-lite with less emphasis on weaponry (The Shivan Moloch seems to be more a carrier than a frigate, whereas the Deimos and Sobek, and especially the Iceni, lean toward the "frigate" side of the spectrum).

Probably has very little basis in reality or even plausibility, but it's the way I've imagined the next step in FS ship development since I started playing FS2.

[sigtau]

"Medical frigate" is more a nod to Star Wars than anything else, I'd say.

That, and the Hippocrates looks like it took heavy inspiration from the medical ship at the end of The Empire Strikes Back.

[S-99]

"Medical frigate" is more a nod to Star Wars than anything else, I'd say.

That, and the Hippocrates looks like it took heavy inspiration from the medical ship at the end of The Empire Strikes Back.

Just like how in the ship was a frigate and did medical duties like luke getting a new hand.

[Aardwolf]

WAT.

No, he meant it looks similar.

[S-99]

After two people in a row said that the medical frigate looks like that one medical ship out of star wars twice in a row. I had to make fun.