Superheavy Warship
While most interstellar civilizations are capable of producing battleship, far fewer can create superheavy starships. Essentially a heavily-armed megastructure capable of FTL travel, superheavies are immensely destructive fleet-killers which command the same level of caution as a starcracker or Nicoll-Dyson beam.
Fundamentally a strategic weapon in the shape of a warship, superheavies are a relatively new (first produced by the Union, though the Federation and K472 arguably started first) class of ship designed to obliterate any fleets that attempt to oppose it. They range from oversized conventional craft, like the Assault Station-class SCS World Eater IV, to the Violence Engine-class (weaponized planetoids) and Indomitable Resolve-class (first of the Defensive Ringworld Assets). Theoretically, superheavy starships have made obsolescent all smaller classes of warships that came before them, but there are some practical limitations.
Such weapons are staggering investments (especially the larger ones) difficult to mass-produce even for the likes of the Federation and Sagittari, and non-galactic actors would struggle to build and maintain even a single superheavy given the requirements. Particularly powerful Kri'tak Clans and the NS Network do have one or more as centerpieces of their navies. In such small numbers, a superheavy can only be in one place at a time, and therefore requires careful consideration given how many conventional ships could have been made instead.
Fundamentally a strategic weapon in the shape of a warship, superheavies are a relatively new (first produced by the Union, though the Federation and K472 arguably started first) class of ship designed to obliterate any fleets that attempt to oppose it. They range from oversized conventional craft, like the Assault Station-class SCS World Eater IV, to the Violence Engine-class (weaponized planetoids) and Indomitable Resolve-class (first of the Defensive Ringworld Assets). Theoretically, superheavy starships have made obsolescent all smaller classes of warships that came before them, but there are some practical limitations.
Such weapons are staggering investments (especially the larger ones) difficult to mass-produce even for the likes of the Federation and Sagittari, and non-galactic actors would struggle to build and maintain even a single superheavy given the requirements. Particularly powerful Kri'tak Clans and the NS Network do have one or more as centerpieces of their navies. In such small numbers, a superheavy can only be in one place at a time, and therefore requires careful consideration given how many conventional ships could have been made instead.
