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What kind of starship in this game could be used to simulate a corvette, like those in Stellaris? There are base frames explicitly labelled things like Destroyers, Cruisers and Battleships, which are other, larger military ships in Stellaris.
It's a difficult task to fit a corvette in this system, since it's based on size and corvettes vary in size from 50 to 100 Meter.
I think I would go with the transporter or explorer frame.
I picture it around shuttle size. Shuttle's have a crew of 4 and are still larger than the the tiny fighter bay ships. They're fast and maneuverable but you'd have to add weapon mounts. I think if you deck it out for combat, or modify the frame a bit, you could have a good comparison.
I'd probably just go up the line from there then, skipping medium ships. You could also take Tryn's suggestion and start with a medium explorer instead of a small shuttle for a corvette.
Stellaris > Starfinder
Corvette > Shuttle (small)
Destroyers > Destroyers (large)
Cruisers > Cruisers (huge)
Battleships > Carrier/Battleship (gargantuan)
Diamond-tier ships > Dreadnought (colossal)
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Interesting interpretations, thank you!
My gut instinct was Explorer, since that seems to be the "default" ship type for a party of adventurers...I imagine this is because I don't really know what a real-world corvette boat is like, what it's like on the inside and what it's meant to do...anyone have a clearer picture of that they could contribute, please?
The Littoral Combat Ships (US: Independence and Freedom class, Sweden Visby Class, German K130) are good examples for current time corvettes.
Unfortunately their statistics/equipment/mission profile can't be duplicated with medium ships in Starfinder.
I would look more to scifi-sagas (e.g. Mass Effect or Babylon 5) for comparison.
Normally a Corvette is the smallest multi-crew vessel in a combat fleet, their mission profile include light combat scenarios like reconnaissance, stealth operations or pattrol duty .
So how much CAN you fit into a shuttle, anyhow? I was under the impression they were cramped and you can't really "live" on them the way adventurers do. Am I picturing that wrong?
Which is why I would assume a medium base frame for a corvette.
A single person can fly it, but 'needs' six to crew it properly.
Plus crew quarters for the night crew, and you've got yourself a corvette.
Of course, if you're talking scifi. The medium frame is the millenium falcon. The large frame is a closer match to a star wars style corellian corvette.
The StarWars CR90 Corvettes are on the upper scale of what a corvette today is (even more toward a destroyer).
Let's take the USS Freedom (one of the most modern LCS/Corvettes) and compate it to a CR90 from SW.
Attribute Freedom / CR90
Crew: 15-50 / 165
max Crew & Passengers: 75 / 165 + hundreds
Length: 115m / 150m
Always be carefull when using stats/ships from scifi sagas/games/books/films, not many of them are realistic in numbers.
If you want to take a ship from star Wars as inspiration for a hero ship in Starfinder I would go for a mix between the CR90 and the Defender Class Light Corvett from SWtoR.
Also keep in mind, if you use real-world ships as comparison that most starships have much more equipment on board then todays navy ships (engines in all directions, life support, structural reinforcements etc. etc. etc.), so having a smaller crew on a similar sized vessel is total reasonable.