Crimson Lance (Dreadnaught)

Not to be confused with the United Nations of Eracustas' Space Navy, the Crimson Lance

The TCA Crimson Lance is a Dreadnaught-class voidship that saw service in the Lance Incursion, but has not been used since the war ended in 588 BCW. It remains the only remaining voidship of its design. The voidship was used mostly by Admiral Reyuis Crimson, leader of the Crimson Lance, before being captured by Hertalli Bacara's Resistance in the final months of the Lance Incursion.

Design
The massive hulk of a voidship spans the length of an average human city from end to end, at 5,520 meters, and has a minimum mass of nearly 1.2 million metric tons. The Crimson Lance is thus more than twice the length, and ten times the mass of the TCA Kaiser, the largest voidship currently in service to the Crimson Armada. She is designed to be crewed by 408 officers and a maximum of 5,463 enlisted personnel.

She is powered by Ten Antimatter-Combustion Reactors, and is propelled by massive engines toward the back that are meant to counteract the ship's huge mass. Much of the interior space is split between ammunition magazines (providing for the numerous turrets, PDC's and missile pods), and computers and servers meant for doing much of the menial tasks of keeping the voidship running.

Upkeep and Secrecy
The knowledge of one of the most powerful voidships in history being leaked to the galactic public was something Grand Admiral Bacara desperately wanted to avoid. Hertalli Bacara thought that people would look to infiltrate and take over the Crimson Lance for themselves. Thus, he took a vow to keep the Crimson Lance hidden beneath the icy lakes of Tytanica, until a grave danger threatened and sought to destroy a collapsing Armada. This co-incited with a new naval doctrine involving smaller battleships accompanied by dozens of destroyers per section.

In the Despot War of 550 BCW, the Crimson Lance was discretely transported back to Tytanica after a significant and pyrrhic battle. Publicly, Hertalli acknowledged that the Crimson Lance was lost in the battle, when in reality, it had been stowed away in a massive hangar beneath Tytanica. From that day forward, the monstrous voidship laid silently, like a dragon in its mountain lair; being maintained and updated yearly, should its use be needed again.