Liberators

Liberators are the largest class of ships in existance, capable of housing medium sized colonies between three and five million individuals. These enormous colony ships are only limited in their maneuverability and costs. With immense, seperate cabin structures built in they can act to seperate settlements within themselves and create isolated organizations or political entities. They are capable of both peaceful transfers of people and immense destruction in war. Their size is comparable or greater than most major sub satelite stations but have the ability to travel at will. Typically they act closer to an orbital station and are usualy only deployed as a threating measure of obliteration, rather than actually engaging enemies in war.

The Liberators are such a large and rare class of ships that each individual is worth mention here (however more description will be availible on the individual ship pages) Only three are known to exist and all are owned by the 9-100 (driectly as an organization) as a form of mantaining centralized power.

The Cosmopolitan or "citizen of the galaxy is the smallest of the three Liberators at a mesely 30km in length and 2.09 million settled inhabitants. Those who permanently live on the Cosmopolitan often do so to flaunt their personal wealth and/or status. The vessel is seen as a prime vacation spot and offers many popular travel sites such as art structures, rare eco-biomes, and historical artifacts.

The Hofmengi is the middling size Liberator as 32 kilometers in length, and an ability to house up to five million permanently. The actual crew is much smaller as the Hofmengi acts as the war symbol for the 9 100. Its ultimate purpose is as a gathering place for the grand council should Kalish Station be deemed "unfit for governance". For the saftey of all, the exact location of The Hofmengi is only known to a few trusted advisors to the 9 at any given time. (Though it is occassionally discovered traversing different portions of inner space). The security and weapon potential is said to rival even Kalish station, and it has suprising stealth capabilities considering its massive scale. As of writing, The Hofmengi has only been used to hosue the 9 100 on two occassions.
At 35 kilometers long, The Chocorono is the largest space ship in existance. While private citizens are allowed to visit the behemoth, much of its existance remains unclear as vast sections are blocked off for "biological waste repurposing". This vague official purpose has lead to much speculation. The two leading theories involve biological agent testing through unsanction study of either disease vectors or cellular DNA repurposing. This is because those who live on Chocorono full time experience "Choco insanity" a slow progressing loss of mental faculties, ending with hallucinatory visions and violent propensity. Those who leave fully recover in a few months, but those who remain risk full mental decay and accidental death. For Jia r’uk this process appears to take decades, but other species experience changes after a few weeks. Still, the 9 100 offers high salaries for those willing to mantain the ship, and allow for break periods at port stations. This allows a constant replenishment of non=Jia r’uk crewmembers.

Weapons & Armament

Liberators are the only ships known to carry black hole conduits, which act as dead man switched in the event of their destruction to ensure that all local galactic structures are destroyed entirely. These are considered extremely dangerous not only to use, but to mantain as they are seemingly unstable. The science around the conduits is hidden, one of the best kept secrets of the nine. More usual weapons capabilities exist in energy cannons and many hundreds of deployable ships. The Liberators are large enough to act as carriers for even the Guaduite class.

Class

Liberator Ship Class