Space warfare

Space warfare was the use of military starships and other spacecraft for the purposes of warfare. Evolving from the earliest orbital battles, space warfare became a high technology affair that often defined the outcome of the galaxy's most important conflicts.

Technology
While the sizes and capabilities of starships varied, four main technologies drove and were advanced by space warfare: shielding, sublight propulsion, hyperdrive technology and weapon systems.

Strategy and tactics
Strategies in space warfare mirrored those applied on the ground: asymmetric, attrition, conventional and psychological.

The multidimensional battlefield made space warfare tactics complex and difficult to master. In addition to the complexities of space combat itself, related operations and logistics were equally complex.