WIP Name: Vres, Morl (lesser chieftain) and Void Raider (privateer) of the Anansi Federation. The Anansi Federation is a tribal pseudo-nation that resides outside the jurisdiction of the Kingdom. Race: Azu, which are bipedal feline Augmentations: N/A Rank: Muruku Secondary (Squadron Leader) Alias: N/A [hider=Physical Appearance] [img]https://static1.e621.net/data/7d/09/7d0979ec544f6f6d4e73285da530ce7c.jpg[/img] [/hider] Personality: Conservative, cold and a tad bit touched in the head from what a lifetime of warfare has shown her. Maintains a taboo (and understandably covert) relationship with her warship's artificial intelligence for her own emotional comfort. Personal History: [hider=IC Sample] stuff [/hider] Ship Name:[i]Apedemak, Last of the Greats [/i] Ship Type: Arsenal-class Gun-Runner (HSR3 'Artillery Ship') Semi-Sentience Profile: Aggressive and murderous though prideful and vengeful. Regards the three escort spacecraft charged with his protection as valuable allies, but does not like Aker's handler, Captain Melrek, at all. Vres has attempted to appeal to the warship's mode of thinking on multiple attempts, but Apedemak's hate for Melrek has no discernible justification whatsoever. [hider=Escort Ships] [i]Aker, Nobel Beast[/i] (Support-class HSR2): Missile ship. Similar technical layout to Apedemak with 60 warriors and a crew of 940. High-yield nuclear missile payload permits Aker to punch well above his own tonnage. No hangers. Captained by Melrek, a newly-trained tenderfoot of female stock that hopes to become as great as Vres someday. [i]Kokou, Violence Incarnate [/i] (Support-class HSR2): Missile ship. Similar technical layout to Apedemak with 60 warriors and a crew of 940. High-yield nuclear missile payload permits Kokou to punch well above his own tonnage. No hangers. Captained by Tormu, a rational, calm and experienced azu female that has a strong love for orbital bombardment and a slight fetish for dominating others. [i]Oya, Scourge of the Small[/i] (Flak-class HSR1): Anti-fighter ship. Similar technical layout to Apedemak with 15 marine defenders and a crew of 60. Oya is armed with dozens of conventional point-defense turrets for anti-missile and anti-shell work and a number of electrothermal-chemical cannons that typically fire guided munitions or canister shot at irksome strike craft. No hangers. Captained by Kul, a male azu who succeeded in persuading Vres to vouch for his service enlistment despite the necessary ban on azu male military membership. [/hider] Ship Details/History: [center][img]http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/113/6/e/simple_lion_head_tribal_by_shadow696-d3eptdc.png[/img][/center] -[i]Apedemak's War Totem[/i] From her own experiences with war, Vres has come to praise the wizened yet proven missile and the primordial but mature artillery cannon for their mutual reliability, raw potential for destruction and their impressive effectiveness against both voidships and planetary targets, but she is not overly fond of strike craft or DEWs. Ergo, Vres has had Apedemak stripped of his hanger bays and phased x-ray laser arrays, with both original installments being surrogated by a generous selection of supplementary launch cells loaded with high-yield thermonuclear missiles, orthodox close-in weapon emplacements and a network of super-heavy fission-pulse gun batteries. Apedemak's hull is divided into thirty independent fighting compartments cumulatively refereed to as [i] Apedemak's Teeth[/i]. Each Tooth possesses its own dedicated crew complement, shield projector, fission-fusion hybrid reactor, auxiliary power systems, armaments, gun targeting computers, life support systems, crew accommodations, and other necessary facilities and apparatuses commonly ascribed to a basic martial space vessel; four of the compartments fully encompass Apedemak's CIC module, gifting Vres, the warship's intelligence node and the CIC's command staff with additional protection from enemy attacks. Forward thrust is delivered by a clutch of exceedingly potent atomic detonation torch drives that can be re-purposed into a dauntingly powerful (but very short-ranged) directed-energy weapon if dire combat circumstances arise. Apedemak's engines bless him with an unusually-high measure of tempo for such a substantial beast of metal and circuits, though his weight and weedy reaction control systems limit his maneuverability by a sizable margin. -Complement: 2,500, 250 of which are warrior detail. Much of the ship's crew consists of damage control engineers, medical technicians and Teeth Masters (officers). Warrior detail is not the primary solution to boarders; this crucial role falls to Apedemak himself. -Length: 5.1 kilometers [center][hider=Visual Aid for Apedemak's Appearence] [img]http://1dut.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Volume-3-of-awesome-spaceship-designsartworks-and-concepts-1dut.com-8.jpg[/img] [/hider][/center]