here's an idea although maybe it would be considered more of a super weapon than a frigate

Name- Genesis

Role- Anti Fleet/Planet

Fires a massive "gamma ray" lazer capable of taking out multiple ships at once or even a planet in a single shot though in all fairness it should have a massive cooldown time. may also be able to fire from one planet to another (similar to the Tec Novalith cannon but is capable of movement)

Ability 1- Cloaking

although it can cloak it should be forced to de-cloak about 15 seconds BEFORE it fires (Simulating that it has to divert power from cloaking so it can charge the massive amount of energy required to fire. also it should not be able to recloak for a full minute after firing. essentially cloaking not so much as beneficial to combat as much as it helps to meerly move from place to place undetected.

Ability 2- Hangar defense.  After all, you wouldn't to leave this weapon undefended

This idea isn't entirely original,  if you Image search on google for "gundam genesis" you'll see what this weapon should look like.  original or not, it's still an idea though.

also, if you like i could build a 3d model for you although you may have to do the UV mapping (coloring) yourself.

Actually I already made something like this . The Yggdrasil (mothership) can upgrade to a superweapon. The upgrade has 9 stages and the weapon wil be avaible at the last stage (not sure if it should also require a research). Its a beam weapon/ability which can target any planet and will destroy everything in the gravitywell including own/friendly units.

And also thx for offering the 3d model. Currently the ships looks/originality almost deal more damage then their weapons .

I have however close to no knowledge or skills when it comes to modelling and skinning (such as uv-mapping). SO i would still only be halfway. I haven't gone on any modeller hunt yet since I have a tendency to mod in a period and then have a long pause, so I wanted to be as close to finished as possible so I wouldn't make anyone waste their work.

oh, and due to something i read in another forum, 30 frigates may not be possible.  If i remember right it was said that the limit is 9 of each class of ship (capital, frigate, and cruiser). although combined the total will be close to 30 you'll probably have to divide them between those classes.

not sure how accurate this info is but you may have to check it out.

Actually, as I said, only the 15 will be constructed. The limit is as MacKnightt says doe to a limit in the space on the construction page where there can be 9 on each page. Because these are made from a star base which would be the same as a normal factory, except I can increase the build rate through upgrades , there  is only 2 avaibel pages, the frigate page and the cruiser page which means a total of 18 spots (still leaving 3 spaces free). The last 15 will be spawned from an ability which becomes avaible on the original ship once the research for the upgraded ship has reached level 1. Since frigates spawned by abilities don't have to be listed anywhere besides the entity.manifest it doesn't have ny influence on the buildlimit.

But thx for warning me could see myself working my butt off for some weeks just to not be able to use half of it QQ.

Also thx for offerring your help it's really apreciated especially with the few modellers there are in the sins modding community, but as I said, I want to be sure that almost everything is done before involving others so that they don't waste hours of work on nothing .

btw. your model looks interesting, though I have a hard time imaging a way that it would fit with this faction

How about "Scooty Puff Junior"  Na! only joking.

what about "Terror Glide", "Bolter"or "Scourge"

One thing i did notice when i textured this one is "Apparently" Mod tool, being the free version of XSI, decreases the quality of the textures once you run rendermap (combine all the various textured used into 1 single image) as well as add the annoying dotted lines along the sides.  Likely their attempt to get you to buy the full version. before i ran rendermap the texture i used for the hull of the ship was much better looking, it kinda looked like the ship was covered with all kinds of plates and panels, kindalike this:

 but now the textures are blurred so it just looks grey...  I'm looking into better texturing programs.  Maybe deep paint 3d, last time i used it was about a decade ago and it seemed ok back then so i'm sure it's top notch now.  Just not looking foward to buying the full version of that either...

lol, the version i used before mod tool was back in school, bought and paid for. If I remember right, at the time it was somewhere around a $3,000 program. One interesting note (although not particularly usefull) is the activation key, where for most programs is about 16 digits, it was about 2 pages.   Try hacking that .  I don't think any other version of softimage (it's previous name) allows use without buying.  I will, however, look into it further. 

Another program, i believe i mentioned earlier, is Deep paint 3d (also used back in those college days) was MUCH different than applying textures normally. Imagine using a regular image editor (eg. Photoshop, Gimp, or even Mario paint )  only instead of "Painting" on a flat object like normal, you load your 3d "Object" and paint DIRECTLY onto it, rotating it in any direction to get the desired angle.  However it was also an expensive program.  I haven't checked them out in a while but maybe they now have a free version out.  But I suppose i'll have to settle for what I can get my hands on.

I watched your movie and it looks really cool I think. though it is similar to the TEC Novalith Cannon, it is nice to see a beam of variant of it. I also have an idea for an ability you might like to mount on one of your cruisers: What about a tractor beam?   I haven't seen it anywhere else on the forum yet and it would be a unique way to counter enemies whom make use of huge fighter/bomber squadrons. I hope you like my idea, but of course it's up to you to use it or not. Good luck with your new race!

Teun-A-Roonius

Updated info, hope to hear some suggestions

And here is an updated version of the Genesis for those interested: