Bioship

Bioships over Crossers Prime

Surface Defense Systems

Bioships are New Titanian Empire gunships, built with both solid armor and synthetic coverings, mainly being comprised of biotech.

## Description

Bioships are large, biotech-based Titanian Uux gunships, with a rounded hull and relatively small wingspan, loosely resembling some sort of marine creature, such as a manta ray. Trailing behind the ship is a series of tentacles, which can condense and combine into extra thrusters when the Light Drive is in use. Covering a large part of the ship, especially its spine-like topside and rather spindly skeletal wings, is a form of regenerating Sub-Celestial biomesh, an organic material with some Celestial properties, not unlike Celestial Biotech Units. The Bioships themselves are colored shades of blue, with two visible engines that extend from their sides, right under the wings. The front of these engines contains dozens of small tracking missiles. While Bioships have no visible viewports, they do have what appear to be several camera-like optics on their cockpits, and a visible cannon port on the cockpit's underside. Other cannons are retractable, but can be extended on its top and on its backside, right beneath the tentacles. A Surface Defense cannon can retract and extend from their undersides, which can serve in space combat. Within the Bioships is a seating area for troops and passengers, a cargo area, gunner ports, and a cockpit. The interior of the Bioships is mostly hard metal.

## Capabilities

Bioships are very durable gunships, equipped with heavy armor, and a near-equally durable Sub-Celestial biotech mesh, which gives heavy supernatural defenses, and allows the ship to absorb and discharge energy fired at it, granted that the energy does not go past a certain capacity. The most notable feature of the Bioships is that even when their autopilot is not active, they have a semi-sentient AI system imbued through the biotech mesh. This gives them a greater autopilot control than other ships, and also allows them to make decisions and give advice. The biotech mesh can regerenerate if damaged, and they have shields and Point-Defense systems as backups. Bioships are armed with a main Energy Stone cannon on the underside of their noses, with a smaller ground cannon on their bottom surface, a top-mounted retractable Energy Stone cannon, and another retractable Energy Stone cannon on its backside. These cannons can be manned by a gunner or by the Bioship itself. Their tentacles can be used to collect, channel, and redirect energy, and can also be used as weapons against anything trailing them. When idle, Bioships often "sleep" and recharge, although, like living beings, they can be found moving close to each other and conversing in a computer language. They are also known to be able to converse with space-faring creatures and any other organism they come across, but still hold their loyalty to the New Titanian Empire, following all just orders.

## Background

Bioships were developed in the last years of the Old Titanian Empire, but development and production on them was halted until the War for the Chronicle Timeline, when aspects of the old Celestial Biotech were rediscovered by Titanian scientists.