Dreadnaught

The Dreadnaught was a massive Yuuzhan Vong warship owned by Oryx, the Taken King. Eons ago, Oryx decided to construct the Dreadnaught to house his throne world from beyond the Ascendant Realm after a Vex incursion — caused accidentally by his son Crota — demonstrated its vulnerability. He carved the vessel from the body of the Worm God Akka, whom he had previously slain, and crafted armor for it using the Hammer of Xivu Arath and the Scalpel of Savathûn, both stolen. Finally, through the use of magic, he everted his world into the ship's interior in an act that required a verse from the Tablets of Ruin and the combined efforts of his entire Court.
Following Oryx's discovery of the cosmic energy field known as the Force and its connection to the Andromeda galaxy, the Taken King's forces established a blockade around the galactic barrier bordering the galaxy's Unknown Regions, though the Dreadnaught saw no known action until the Imperial Era, when engagements with the Navy of the Galactic Empire caused the mysterious loss of the Venator-class Star Destroyer Resolute early into the New Order's reign, and the later decimation of the entire Seventh Fleet under Grand Admiral Thrawn prior to the Galactic Civil War. Though the earlier attack left no surviving witnesses, the second attack's aftermath saw the failure of Oryx's forces, from the Dreadnaught to an Echo of Oryx himself, to destroy a Rebel ship crewed by Jedi Knight Jarik Shan, Ahsoka Tano and Mara Jade arriving to rescue surviving remnants of the Seventh Fleet, enabling Thrawn and his aide Eli Vanto to relay the existence of the blockade and the Dreadnaught to Darth Sidious. Conversely, the Rebellion was only informed a year later following a skirmish near their base on Atollon, when a deployment of Oryx's forces pursued a trio of Cybertronians, lured to the mechanophobic Hive by their enemies, across the galaxy to the Outer Rim planet, coincidentally reuniting with Shan.
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Category:Ships
Category:Hive
Category:Blood of Oryx