The Navis Inlaqueator-Class Battlecruiser

**The Navis Inlaqueator-Class Battlecruiser** is a class of battlecruiser used by the Cthonian Imperial Navy that measures 7.51 Kilometres in length and 5.36 Kilometres in width, with six 723 metre long Gravity-Well Generators (used to prevent nearby vessels from escaping into Slipspace) with vast arrays of heavy modernised Macro Cannons and railguns along with several batteries of light flak guns and Anti-Fighter batteries. It also has four hangers that can house well over 340 Boarhawk Fighter-Bombers, 200 Peregrine Interceptors, 75 Void-Cracker Heavy Bombers and 20 Gastornis (boarding and transport variants) Heavy Gunships. Due to the amount of heat produced by the numerous Gravity-Well Generators the ship required many outlets to remove the heat, but this flaw within the ship was in reality what spawned one of the vessels most deadly weapons, the Heat Focusers. The Heat Focuser is a cannon-like device built over each of the vessels generators heat exhaust and is made up of reflective metals (Titanium, Adamantium, Steel and 7068 Aluminium) that can coagulate the produced heat to an extreme degree and direct it at nearly faster-than-light speeds towards a target with devastating effects, piercing even the strongest of shielding and melting the hull and armor of whatever it hits. The Heat Focuser can also be fired upon a part of a planet, setting the very ground the beam touches aflame around the target and completely erasing whatever the beam was targeting.

During the mid-2700s (496.M03), the Cthonian Imperium was brought into conflict with the Galagax Consortium, a small yet efficient criminal syndicate that had been causing much irritation for the Imperial Navy, but they were not alone in this conflict, ArcTec had taken a much more active role in the conflict after numerous corporate centres were pillaged and attacked by the Consortium. Though the fleets did do a number on the Consortium's pirate flotillas they had a much harder time stopping those ships who were fleeing into Slipspace to avoid capture or destruction. At the behest of Lord Admiral Jaax Kuljan IX, the appointed Lord Admiral of Battlefleet Klaudanus, the local ArcTec supervisors and administrators got to planning out a means of preventing the creation of Slipspace portals along with a means of disabling minor systems within capital ships. This squabble for a solution was brought to an end when Chief Ship Designer Lasghiro when he forwarded the concept of what would soon become one of the galaxy's most feared kinds of vessels, the Navis Inlaqueator-Class Battlecruiser.

The first of this class, **The Judicator** was first built in the span of five Terran years upon the forge-world of Verinto by the ArcTec subsidiary Verinto Ship-Yards & Manufacturing (VSY&M) and first deployed along with a escorting fleet upon the Galagax Consortium's world of operations, Galagakyros. It was during this battle against the Consortium that the Judicator fired all of its weapons upon its foes, decimating ships in close range with its batteries and effectively erasing the Consortium's capital ship at long range with its array of Heat Focusers.

After this brutal display of power by the newest weapon of the Imperial Navy the Galagax Consortium surrendered quickly once Cthonian Imperial Ambassadors were summoned to the world. The Consortium's leaders were removed from power and incarcerated upon the Imperial Prison-World of Imperialis-Repentia and thusly the world was liberated from the system-spanning crime syndicate that was the Galagax Consortium and was in time absorbed into the territories of the Cthonian Imperium.