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Defense in depth: First you'd have a low cost garrison force that that is used to defend colonies. Ships of this force will be designed to be cheap as possible while still also being effect. Mostly fighters can gunboats. The goal of these ships should be to destroy pirates and delay more...

Given its intended role, the galaxy was probably designed to get the most fuel efficiency at cruising speed rather than pushing its maximum warp speed. An experiment in design doctrine that quickly fell out of favor because maximum speed is improves emergency response capabilities and...

The defiant is ultimately a shore monitor. Its deep water performance is terrible, but its a monster at home. Since it is designed to make its home in realspace rather than subspace, I would imagine that its warp nacelles have some minor optimizations to improve the performance of its impulse...

The primary role of fighters is that they are cheap battle effective spacecraft that you can ship out to colonies to leave as a garrison. They should have an advantage at the air-space interface compared to full sized cruisers. They can also be used for close air support.