Faction 1: Defensive Speciality

Overall bonuses and penalties:
-All ships (including miner and colonization ship) have some type of weak defensive turret installed

Combat Lineup:

Miner
     -Kinetic defensive weapon (weak)
Colonization ship
     -Kinetic defensive weapon (weak)

Carrier
     -Kinetic offensive weapon (weak)
     -Kinetic defensive weapon (medium)
Fighter
     -Kinetic offensive weapon (medium)
     -Defensive turret weapon (weak)
     -Requires nearby carrier

Shield Ship -MUST RESEARCH- [Shield Tech]
     -All nearby ships will gain +20% resistance bonus to all types (cannot compound)
     -Defensive turret weapon (weak)
Defensive Tank
     -Very high hitpoints
     -Kinetic offensive weapon (weak)
     -Kinetic defensive weapon (strong)
     -Beam defensive weapon (strong)
Repair Ship
     -Repairs nearby ships
     -Kinetic defensive weapon (weak)
Light Battleship
     -Low-Medium hitpoints
     -Kinetic offensive weapon (medium)
     -Explosive offensive weapon (weak)
     -Kinetic defensive weapon (weak)
Medium Battleship -Must research-
     -Medium-High hitpoints
     -Kinetic offensive weapon (strong)
     -Explosive offensive weapon (medium)
     -Kinetic defensive weapon (medium)

Faction 2: Offensive Speciality

Overall bonuses and penalties:
-All ships (including miner and colonization ship) have some type of weak offensive turret installed

Lineup:
Miner
     -Missile turret offensive weapon (weak)
Colonization ship
     -Missile turret offensive weapon (weak)

Carrier
     -Missile turret offensive weapon (weak)
Fighter
     -Beam offensive gun (weak)
     -Missile turret offensive weapon (medium)
     -Requires nearby carrier
Bomber -MUST RESEARCH-
     -Explosive bomb offensive weapon (strong)
     -Requires nearby carrier

Rocket Ship
     -This ship fires rockets far away, thus preventing any retaliation when it attacks
     -Explosive rocket offensive weapon (strong)
Medium Battleship
     -Medium-High hitpoints
     -Beam offensive weapon (medium)
     -Explosive offensive weapon (strong)
     -Explosive defensive weapon (weak)
Heavy Battleship -MUST RESEARCH-
     -High hitpoints
     -Explosive offensive weapon (strong)
     -Beam offensive weapon (medium)
     -Kinetic offensive weapon (medium)
     -Explosive defensive weapon (weak)
Light Defensive Tank
     -High hitpoints
     -Missile defensive weapon (medium)


Faction 3: Tactical Difference

Overall bonuses and penalties:
Fastest ships in the game

Lineup:
Miner
     -No weapon
Colonization ship
     -No weapon
Portal ship -MUST RESEARCH- [Portal Tech]
     -Portals allow you to travel through only 1 way though.
     -Ship flies to one point and sets the entry portal
     -Ship flies to second point, and morphs into the exit portal
     -The entry portal is fixed and cannot be destroyed
     -The ship becomes the exit portal permanently, but it can be destroy by enemies, thus closing the portal

Carrier
     -Beam offensive gun (weak)
     -Beam defensive gun (weak)
Fighter
     -Beam offensive gun (medium)
     -Requires nearby carrier
Kamikaze Fighter
     -Suicide bomber
     -Explosive offensive weapon (strong)
     -Requires nearby carrier
Stealth Fighter -MUST RESEARCH- [Stealth Tech]
     -Cloaked ship, cannot be seen unless it attacks or an enemy ship goes adjacent to it
     -Beam weapon (medium)
     -Requires nearby carrier

Battle Cruiser
     -Medium-High hitpoints
     -Beam weapon (medium)
     -Explosive weapon (medium)
     -Kinetic weapon (low)
     -Can move-attack-move
Stealth Cruiser -MUST RESEARCH- [Stealth Tech]
     -Low-Medium hitpoints
     -Beam weapon (medium)
     -Kinetic weapon (low)
     -Can move-attack-move

Faction 4: Swarm Speciality

Overall bonuses and penalties:
-Ships can automatically repair themself every turn (basically healthy trait) for a small amount of hitpoints.
-Most ships don't act independent roles as other factions, but rather each ship acts as a dependent limb to the other, to help provide combat bonuses.

Lineup:
Miner
     -No weapon
Colonization ship
     -No weapon

Overlord Ship
     -This ship can make other ships malfunction (slow basically) and can also take over other drones
     -Beam weapon (weak) [Can slow/malfunction other ships]
Leech Ship
    -This ship can leech to all carrier dependent fighters.
    -When a ship is leeched, you gain control of the dependent fighter
    -Fighters will naturally die on the side turn, as they don't have appropriate carriers to support them (your carriers can't support them)

Carrier
     -The carrier here doesn't support/hold other fighters, but really is the base ship to which parts can be added on
     -Can hold up to 2 weapon parts
     -Can hold up to 3 weapon bonus parts
     -Can hold up to 3 utility parts
     -These carriers by default are slow and weak, but parts make these ships run.

~~~Drones are individual units which can be docked to carriers, each drone will be a different unit of course.
~~~Drone stats itself are basically dependent on what type of drone it is, engine drones will be fast drones, hull high hp drones, etc..
~~~All drones are created in a special Drone Factory which orbits like a regular Shipyard

Engine Drone
     -Gives MP bonus when attached to a carrier
     -Gives +5 defense bonus when attached to a carrier
     -Utility part
Hull Drone
     -Gives added HPs when attached to a carrier
     -Utility part
Kamikaze Drone
     -Gives suicide explosive attack to carrier
     -Weapon part
Beam Drone
     -Gives beam weapon to carrier (offensive and defensive)
     -Weapon part
Kinetic Drone
     -Gives kinetic weapon to carrier (offensive and defensive)
     -Weapon part
Missile Drone
     -Gives missile weapon to carrier (offensive and defensive)
     -Weapon part
Beam Strengthener Drone
     -Makes beam weapons more effective
     -Weapon bonus part
Kinetic Strengthener Drone
     -Makes kinetic weapons more effective
     -Weapon bonus part
Explosive Strengthener Drone
     -Makes explosive weapons more effective (including kamikaze)
     -Weapon bonus part