One of three powerful weapons created from the sick but brilliant mind of Emperor Kiran Joshmaul I, this twelve-kilometer behemoth was created to inspire terror in the enemies of the Empire. This vessel was completed two years after Joshmaul's death, and was commanded by Joshua Underwood in the Battle of L'nhraei. The vessel was originally called the Galaxy's Doomsday, but was renamed Liberator of the Free People by Underwood following its hijacking from Joshmaul's hidden shipyards. The Liberator helped destroy the regime of Emperor Daniel Longstreet I and saved L'nhraei from near-certain destruction.
Length: 12.07 kilometers (7.5 miles)
Width: 3.219 kilometers (two miles)
Beam: 9.656 kilometers (six miles)
Hull Composition: Combination duranium/tritanium
Mass: About 1.3 billion metric tonnes
Crew Compliment: One; the ship is automated
Armaments:
Two Grazer II cannons
One Apocalypse shieldbreaker cannon
350 transphasic torpedo launchers
1,400 pulse phaser cannons
500 standard phaser arrays
Ships in Class:
I.S.S. Liberator of the Free People, launched 2503
Commander: Chancellor Joshua Underwood
Status: Active, Reydovan System
C.S.S. Commonwealth's Freedom, scheduled to launch January 2504
Commander: Undetermined
Status: Under construction
During the reign of Joshmaul I, a titanic weapon of destruction was built by UnderTech Industries, Joshua Underwood's massive industrial empire on Reydovan Prime. The Death Egg was built in the image of Dr. Ivo Robotnik, aka "Dr. Eggman", a demented scientist from Earth's 20th and 21st centuries. The massive station was built in the late 20th, and crashed into the Earth twice before finally being incinerated in orbit.
In 2298, as his reign was beginning, Emperor Joshmaul ordered the reconstruction of the Death Egg to insure that Reydovan Prime's citizens - and the citizens of the Empire abroad - remained loyal and fearful of his vengeance.
However, Joshua Underwood hijacked the Death Egg in February 2501 and used it as his headquarters station. The twin Apocalypse Cannons (the "eyes" on this station) destroyed the Reydovan Headquarters space station orbiting Reydovan Prime, killing the entire Imperial High Council. After the Battle of Reydovan Prime, the station was placed in the Imperial Fringe, as the headquarters station of the aptly-named "Middle of Nowhere Fleet Yards", which was developing the Liberator class.
Currently, the Death Egg serves as the hub for the Reydovan Fleet of the Commonwealth Defense Force.
Diameter: 160 kilometers (99.42 miles)
Hull composition: Combination duranium/tritanium with outer layer of ablative armor plating
Crew: 230,000
Troop Capacity: One million
Armaments:
Two Apocalypse shieldbreaker cannons
63,000 pulse phaser cannons
75,000 phaser arrays
20,000 transphasic torpedo launchers
Ships in Class:
The Death Egg, launched 2341
Commander: Deputy Chancellor-Admiral Jeremiah Neill, Jr.
Status: Active, Imperial Fringe
Kiran Joshmaul I did plenty of travelling through space and time. He also did a bit of dimensional travel in 2300. He managed to infiltrate a secret base of a militaristic Galactic Empire and download the files of an incredibly powerful weapon, the "Death Star". Emperor Joshmaul realized that this space station could be used as a great spacedock for his fleet. Upon returining to our dimension, the Emperor ordered the construction of an enormous space station. Within eighty years, the station was finished and launched into orbit. The planet-destroying superlaser of the station's original dimension became space doors, opening somewhat like a Dyson Sphere (but with eight doors instead of four). The Reydovan Headquarters space station was launched from the high-tech construction yards in the Imperial Desert in 2384. It served as the hub for the entire Imperial Navy until its destruction by Chancellor Joshua Underwood in 2501.
Diameter: 120 kilometers (74.56 miles)
Hull composition: Combined duranium/tritanium with outer layer of ablative armor plating
Crew: 470,000
Troop Capacity: Three million
Armaments:
50,000 pulse phaser cannons
35,000 phaser arrays
19,000 transphasic torpedo launchers
Ships in Class:
Reydovan Headquarters
Commander: Emperor Kiran Joshmaul I
Status: Destroyed, 17 June 2501
After the first Reydovan Headquarters station was launched in 2384, Joshua Underwood secretly ordered the construction of another, from the massive underground silo that built the Death Egg. It was only three-quarters completed when Reydovan Prime was wiped out by massive storms and earthquakes in 2503. The unfinished space station launched from its silo with its recently-installed launching thrusters and attained high orbit, where it remains. The Reydovan Fleet of the Commonwealth Defense Force will be homeported here after its completion, which is scheduled to be sometime in early 2504.
Specifications: Equal to Death Egg, minus the Apocalypse Cannons
Ships in Class:
Reydovan Headquarters II
Commanders: The Reydovan Council of Chancellors
Status: Under construction, but active, Reydovan System
The Event Horizon is the brainchild of one Dr. William Weir, an Australian scientist from the mid-21st century. The vessel was developed as a top-secret government project to create a vessel capable of faster-than-light flight. The actual product was a gravity drive, a artificial black hole used to open a dimensional gateway that made the ship's location and the destination co-exist in the same space and time. The Event Horizon was launched in 2039 under the command of Captain John Kilpack and headed into deep space using conventional thrusters. In 2040, it reached a safe distance from Earth and was given the go-ahead to open the gateway to Proxima Centauri. However, the Event Horizon disappeared without a trace near Neptune.
The events after it was rediscovered near Neptune in 2047 is incredibly vague, but it seems that of the eight-man crew of the U.S.A.C. Lewis and Clark, the search-and-rescue ship sent to investigate, five - including Dr. Weir and the Lewis and Clark's Captain Miller - were reportedly killed. However, according to XO Lieutenant Starck, one of the three survivors, Miller disappeared into the dimensional gateway opened from the detached engineering section of the massive vessel. Presumably, Weir disappeared with him, but Starck claims she saw him sucked into space, out of the broken bridge viewport.
In 2502, Chancellor Joshua Underwood looked over Dr. Weir's original plans and managed to make a much safer version of the gravity drive, based on captured Borg transwarp gate technology. The result was a ship that could pop out of nowhere and surprise the enemy.
Length: 1 kilometer (0.6214 miles)
Hull composition: Duranium, ablative armor plating on central corridor
Crew: Sixteen
Armaments:
four transphasic torpedo launchers forward, six aft, one port, one starboard
Five phaser arrays forward, eight aft
Ships in Class:
R.S.S. Event Horizon, launched 2502
Commander: Captain Second Rank Jenner Vincent
Status: Active, Imperial Fringe
The Neill-class assault frigates were launched in 2503 as a memorial to the fallen Chancellor Jeremiah Neill, slain by Imperial sympathizers commanded by General Daniel Longstreet. One of the smallest Reydovan ships, the Neill class was built for small-scale fleet actions and close quarters fighting. The Jeremiah Robert Neill was launched on June 17, 2503, the second anniversary of the death of Emperor Kiran Joshmaul I.
Length: 715 meters (0.4443 mi)
Armaments:
Eleven pulse phaser cannons
Two transphasic torpedo launchers
Crew: 1,217
Ships in Class:
R.S.S. Jeremiah Robert Neill
Commander: Emperor Jeremiah I (Jeremiah Robert Neill, III)
Status: Active, Imperial Fringe
Developed by Emperor Joshmaul's scientists, the Infiltrator-class stealth cruisers were built specifically for hit-and-run attacks. Equipped with a cloaking device and sensor masking systems, the Infiltrators could sneak up behind the enemy undetected and deliver a crippling blow. The Infiltrator was launched under Emperor Joshmaul's command in 2361 and was active before being destroyed in the Dominion War in 2376. Approximately 17,000 of these ships are still in service.
Length: 1.5 kilometers (0.9321 mi)
Armaments:
Grazer Cannon
Sixteen phaser arrays
Six transphasic torpedo launchers
Crew: 1,720
Noted Ships:
I.S.S. Infiltrator
Commander: Emperor Kiran Joshmaul I
Status: Destroyed, 2376 (Dominion War
Developed by Chancellor Joshua Underwood in 2398 to better move large compliments of troops and equipment to their intended destinations, the Night Haunter-class was intended for stealth as well as speed, equipped with the same cloak/sensor mask system as the Infiltrator-class stealth cruisers. The Emperor was pleased with the development and allowed the production to continue. These ships were at the forefront of Underwood's campaigns against the Empire in 2501-2503.
Length: 950 meters (0.5903 mi)
Armaments:
Fourteen pulse phaser cannons
Two transphasic torpedo launchers
Crew: 17
Marine Compliment: 2,000
NOTE: This design is the Hiigaran Battlecruiser from the upcoming "Homeworld 2", copyright Sierra Games, Inc. Image courtesy of the Well of Souls Homeworld Shipyards.
The Stryker class battlecruisers were released into the Reydovan military at the behest of Chancellor Joshua Underwood as part of Project Reconstruction in late July 2503. Unlike most Reydovan capital ships, the Stryker, the prototype, was built for speed and stealth rather than brute force. At three kilometers in length, she was deemed the "perfect replacement" for the aging Inquisitor class battlecruisers, which had given over 130 years of service to the Reydovan people. The only functional Inquisitor-class battlecruiser is Chancellor Underwood's Atrus.
The Stryker was involved in a wargame with the Atrus as a test of its capabilities. The ship is well-equipped, and requires a crew of only seventeen hundred due to the advanced automation of Reydovan technology. Normally, a ship of this size would require at least twenty-eight thousand crewmen, but Chancellor Underwood has insisted that automation be encouraged, to avoid any kind of deficit of available crewmen.
It is said that after the Atrus is decommissioned in January, Chancellor Underwood will move his flag to this new vessel.
The Grazer Cannon is a terrifyingly powerful weapon capable of causing massive seismic upheaval. The original concept is a satellite-based weapons system built in the late 20th century. Created by Travis Dane, a brilliant but demented technical genius, Grazer One was launched into Earth orbit by the United States military in 1995, disguised as a weather satellite. Grazer One was commandeered by Dane shortly thereafter and used to cause massive destruction in China. However, Dane was stopped by an ex-Navy SEAL before he could fire on Washington, D.C.
The Grazer Cannon, created by Emperor Kiran Joshmaul I using Dane's plans, was more powerful than the satellite and was first installed on Joshmaul's flagship, the Absolution. It was used on all the Absolution and Absolution II class ships, as well as the Liberator class juggernaut.
The Apocalypse Cannon is the horrifyingly effective brainchild of Emperor Kiran Joshmaul I. Also referred to as the Shieldbreaker, the Apocalypse was created in 2300 and was first officially used by the Death Egg space station in 2391. The cannon has two power settings - disable, which fires an electromagnetic beam, and destroy, a frighteningly high-powered Grazer variant that can rip apart the target in a single stroke. Both beams can penetrate the shields of space stations or even planets with frightening ease and can cause massive destruction. The disable setting was tested on the Death Egg in 2391 during the Belle Terre Uprisings, sending the planet into a technological Dark Age which lasted for a century. The destroy setting was tested, again on the Death Egg, by Joshua Underwood in 2501. The twin beams shattered Reydovan Headquarters, killing the entire High Council and destroying the greater bulk of Joshmaul's war fleet.
The disable setting came in handy for dealing with traitors as well, as Emperor Daniel Longstreet I soon found out when his flagship Auriga was disabled over L'nhraei in 2503.
