Pryde Worldship

The Worldship is the Primary vessel of The Pryde of Ma'lkon

## History

Measuring at over 300 million kilometres in length, the Pryde Worldship is one of the most fearsome sights ever encountered by the United Commonwealth of Planets.

Believed to be of extra-dimensional origins, the Pryde Worldship is composed almost exclusively of Eternium, a unique element which is able to effectively break down and reconstitute any material that it comes in contact with. Eternium is silicon-based and therefore impervious to nearly all known technologies and immune systems.

The Pryde Worldship was constructed when the Pryde were forced out of their own universe by unknown forces and in the hope of continuing to survive in our universe, which is normally hostile to them. The Pryde Worship is a massive structure powered by a completely unknown form of *zero-point energy* compressed into an artificial star.

This artificial star also produces a continuous *stabilisation field*, a powerful quantum field that maintains the correct dimensional conditions within the sphere. This allows the Pryde to have control over their phase variances, allowing them to maintain physical form.

Despite this incredibly advanced technology, Pryde civilisation seems somewhat primitive by comparison, built around the idea of worship of a singular *"God"* entity which they claim resides on the Worldship with them and gives them commands.

An elite sect of the Pryde, known as the *Koros*, are responsible for maintaining the systems of the Worldship. They are specifically selected Pryde warriors that reside in the core control of the sphere. It is believed that the *Koros* have their intelligence augmented to many levels of that above normal Pryde warriors through artificial means.

Pryde history is preserved through a large number of tribal paintings which reside around the inner, organically-mesh, cave like structure of the sphere's "crust". These painting tell of the coming of *"God"* and the development of Eternium, which was used to *"flood"* their home dimension, forcing the *Pryde* to leave.

"God" then offered to genetically enhance the Pryde into the species they are today, gaining an immunity to the substance that had ravaged their population and teaching the Pryde how to use it for their own means, due to its organic properties.

Promising them dominion of this universe, the *Pryde* began a long journey from galaxy to galaxy, enacting the forced conversion of all life into Pryde through Eternium infection, stripping planets they encountered bare in order to produce more Eternium.

In 2420, the U.S.S. Trident encountered the Pryde Worldship after an accident with the ship's warp drive, ending up in *Dark Space*, beyond the Zeta Quadrant of the Black Eye Galaxy.

However, In Late 2420/Early 2421, A Plan Was Devised To Draw The Worldship Into Material Space and Prevent It's Phasing Capabilites, With The Help Of The Robun, This Plan was enacted during Operation: Fluidic, Otherwise Known As The Battle of the Pryde Worldship, The Worldship Was Ripped Out Of Subspace Through The Usage Of The Unique Systems Of the R.S.S. Yggdrasil, Being Powered By The Chion Prime (Taon V)Shield Grid Through An Orbital Transference Beam, The Following Battle That Ensued Successfully Cracked The Outer Shell And Allowed Time For The U.S.S. Normandy To Fight It's Way out In a Heavily Damaged State, Allowing The U.S.S. Nemesis To Slip Inside With a Khydallan Antigen and Viral Bioweapon Devised By The U.S.S. Claidheamh Mòr, Who had Also Lent Massive Amount Of Fighter Support To The Point Of Crippling It's Defensive Roll Guarding The Super Weapon, With The World Ship's Husk Being Left Within Chion Prime Space, The Commonwealth Special Air Service Where Quick To Mobilize, Forming a Floatilla And Multiple Defence Stations Around The Wreck, Preventing Access In and Out. However Many Reports Say That Science Ships Can Be Seen Leaving and Entering The Worldship's Inner Biosphere, But Most Of These Reports Have Not Been Confirmed.

The ruins of the Worldship now reside in the Taon Star System.

In 2452, the Jaqc Monocracy briefly invaded the ruins of the Pryde Worldship to steal data regarding the genetic make-up of *Voltarium*, an extremely rare element which is only able to be artificially produced in this universe. A team from the Galactic Commonwealth was able to infiltrate the ruins without alerting the increasingly xenophobic Chioni Collective and stop them, resulting in the death of Bloodmist IX who directed the mission personally.

## Special Systems

#### **Molecular Singularity Cannon**

The Pryde Worldship is equipped with a powerful Molecular Singularity Cannon. This super-weapon is capable of overpowering almost all shielding and armour technology in the Black Eye Galaxy.

The singularity fired by this weapon contains an enormous amount of mass and, consequently, gravity that occupies very little space in the universe. This is because a singularity is so dense that the dimensions around it have collapsed in on themselves, having formed a one-dimensional object. This property offers the singularity the ability to rip through matter as if it were passing through empty space. A singularity does not do kinetic damage like a warhead, rather its massive gravitational pull warps and destroys the object it passes through.