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“The Malik wanted very much to help, I think they felt a bit bad for not being able to do much for years as they built their facility on the other side and we built it’s other half here. Originally they were to build the Commonwealth’s first cruiser….but then the Kongo design came along and delays caused the first Golgatha to literally and figuratively take on a life of its own. The ships size ballooned as the original restriction of being a cruiser was then moot. What emerged from the shipyards just a few years ago was enough to steal the wind from the proud and proverbial sails of the carrier fleet. The carriers of the navy were no longer the largest, and no longer the big symbol of power. Only the abnormally slow construction time of the Golgatha’s kept them from being more numerous.”

“Terrifying, that’s what it is, moving about on unseen power, slits along its sides flaring like the gills of some oceanic monster long forgotten. The Golgatha was so large and so radically different that even the admirals attending were not sure what they were looking at. This primordial beast resembled the nightmares that man had long ago convinced itself to be the work of an fevered mind. It defied horizontal design convention and as if to mock you further it had the strange habit of fading in and out as though wrapped in dense fog or smoke denying you the means to keep watch on it lest it devour other vessels whole.”

“Marvelous! The Hulegu brought their raiders, their big man ‘o war’ line vessels and what appeared to be a dreadnought for lack of better identification. It looked bad for Zebulon, the defenses were just not ready. Command promised us something but they avoided saying what and then the communications block occurred and…we thought it was treachery, the new government leaving us out here to die. Then….’It’ arrived….the Hulegu stopped their advance no doubt as bewildered as we were. Cracking energy lept across the spires in the thing’s central body spiraling energy washed across the Hulegu dreadnought and then…it was gone just like that….others followed but for once the Hulegu fled. Well they TRIED to flee, that thing lashed out again and again until none remained and then, the communications block lifted and it sailed off into the depths of deeps space without a word. I don’t know what that was, but if it’s on our side maybe the hulegu will never return.”

Dimensions*
Length: 4,185 meters
Height: 2,095 meters
Width: 2,511 meters

Armor: Unknown, presumed to be some form of carapace or organic based hull.
Propulsion: Unknown, no propulsion emissions have been observed.
Speed: Noted encounters all agree it appears to be slow moving.
Armament: Only one weapon was observed to be used it is an as yet unknown energy weapon.
Crew: Unknown (seriously…we have no idea!)
Nationality: Commonwealth….maybe.

*Dimensions are at best an estimation, information from the government is scarce and the few images of the vessel which have allowed for the above artist’s rendition are logical engineering estimates.

Description
“The Malik wanted very much to help, I think they felt a bit bad for not being able to do much for years as they built their facility on the other side and we built it’s other half here. Originally they were to build the Commonwealth’s first cruiser….but then the Kongo design came along and delays caused the first Golgatha to literally and figuratively take on a life of its own. The ships size ballooned as the original restriction of being a cruiser was then moot. What emerged from the shipyards just a few years ago was enough to steal the wind from the proud and proverbial sails of the carrier fleet. The carriers of the navy were no longer the largest, and no longer the big symbol of power. Only the abnormally slow construction time of the Golgatha’s kept them from being more numerous.”

“Terrifying, that’s what it is, moving about on unseen power, slits along its sides flaring like the gills of some oceanic monster long forgotten. The Golgatha was so large and so radically different that even the admirals attending were not sure what they were looking at. This primordial beast resembled the nightmares that man had long ago convinced itself to be the work of an fevered mind. It defied horizontal design convention and as if to mock you further it had the strange habit of fading in and out as though wrapped in dense fog or smoke denying you the means to keep watch on it lest it devour other vessels whole.”

“Marvelous! The Hulegu brought their raiders, their big man ‘o war’ line vessels and what appeared to be a dreadnought for lack of better identification. It looked bad for Zebulon, the defenses were just not ready. Command promised us something but they avoided saying what and then the communications block occurred and…we thought it was treachery, the new government leaving us out here to die. Then….’It’ arrived….the Hulegu stopped their advance no doubt as bewildered as we were. Cracking energy lept across the spires in the thing’s central body spiraling energy washed across the Hulegu dreadnought and then…it was gone just like that….others followed but for once the Hulegu fled. Well they TRIED to flee, that thing lashed out again and again until none remained and then, the communications block lifted and it sailed off into the depths of deeps space without a word. I don’t know what that was, but if it’s on our side maybe the hulegu will never return.”

Dimensions*
Length: 4,185 meters
Height: 2,095 meters
Width: 2,511 meters

Armor: Unknown, presumed to be some form of carapace or organic based hull.
Propulsion: Unknown, no propulsion emissions have been observed.
Speed: Noted encounters all agree it appears to be slow moving.
Armament: Only one weapon was observed to be used it is an as yet unknown energy weapon.
Crew: Unknown (seriously…we have no idea!)
Nationality: Commonwealth….maybe.

*Dimensions are at best an estimation, information from the government is scarce and the few images of the vessel which have allowed for the above artist’s rendition are logical engineering estimates.