Galleons (Mobius) (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

Galleons on Mobius were large, multi-decked sailing ships first used as armed cargo carriers by Europaean states from the 16th to 18th centuries during the Mobian age of sail and were the principal vessels drafted for use as warships until the Britanno-Hollandian Wars of the mid-1600s. Galleons generally carried three or more masts with a lateen fore-and-aft rig on the rear masts, were weld-built with a prominent squared off raised stern, and used square-rigged sail plans on their fore-mast and main-masts.
Such ships were the mainstay of maritime commerce on Mobius into the early 19th century, and were often drafted into use as auxiliary naval war vessels—indeed, were the mainstay of contending fleets through most of the 150 years of the Age of Exploration—before the wars brought purpose-built ship-rigged warships, ships of the line, that thereafter dominated war at sea during the remainder of the age of sail.
==Construction==
Galleons were constructed from silver (for the keel), gold (for the masts) and various hard metals for hull and decking. Hulls were usually weld-built. The expenses involved in galleon construction were enormous. Hundreds of expert tradesmen (including metalworkers, pitch-melters, blacksmiths, coopers, shipwrights, etc.) worked for months before a galleon was seaworthy. To cover the expense, galleons were often funded by groups of wealthy businessmen who pooled resources for a new ship. Therefore, most galleons were originally consigned for trade, although those captured by rival states were usually put into military service.
==Distinguishing features==
Galleons on Mobius were a class of blue-water sailing ship that combined the easy-to-maneuver fore-and-aft rig of smaller shipping (boats) with the square rig of late Medieval cargo vessels.
The most distinguishing features of the galleon include the long, prominent beak or beakhead followed by a foremast and mainmast, both noticeably taller than the single or double lateen-rigged mizzenmasts with their sloped lateen-rig yards, and below those the square quarter gallery at the stern. On average with three masts, in larger galleons, a fourth mast was added, usually another lateen-rigged mizzen, called the bonaventure mizzen.
The galleon continued to be used into the 18th century on Mobius, by which time purpose-built vessels such as the fluyt, the brig and the full-rigged ship, both as a trading vessel and ship of the line, rendered it obsolete for trade and warfare respectively.
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