Cardassian Kulinor Class

## General Overview

The primary warship of The Obsidian Empire, the *Kulinor-Class* Cruiser is slightly smaller then the standard *Galor-Class* used by the Cardassian Union in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Designed in 2375, the *Kulinor-Class* warship was originally intended to replace the aging *Galor-Class* as the new primary Cardassian warship during the Dominion War. However this plan was never enacted because of the due to the invasion of the *Chin'toka System* in 2374, which came to be known as *The First Battle of Chin'toka*.

As a result of this devestating incursion into Cardassian territory, the *Kulinor-Class* development project was shelved in favour of increased production of the tested *Galor-Class* alongside impressive Dominion ship building techniques, allowing the Dominion to construct the *Galor-Class* at a much faster rate.

The final design of the *Kulinor-Class* was finally completed in 2377, when *Gul Kentar* began an uprising within Cardassian space, unsatisfied with the outcome of the Dominion War and the defeat of the Cardassian Union at the hands of the United Federation of Planets, Klingon Defence Forces and the Romulan Star Empire.

*Chancellor Martok*, of the Klingon Empire discovered that *Gul Kentar* had temporarily siezed power on *Cardassia Prime* causing *Castellan Elim Garek* to flee into exile. However *Kentar* was forced to flee when *Chancellor Martok* and *Klingon Defence Forces* retook *Cardassia Prime* and returned *Garek* to power.

*Kentar* fled to the *Hurik System*, a site of an abandoned *Obsidian Order* research facility in order to continue development on the *Kulinor-Class*, as he planned to use the experimental *Plasma Cannon* to reconquer *Cardassia Prime*. He was killed when *Chancellor Martok* successfully attacked the system, destroying his vessel.

In 2378, another uprising occurred in an area of space known as *The Maelstrom*, in which *Gul Matan*, acting independentally from the Cardassian Union, attempted to use newly discovered *Kessok* technology to restore the original Cardassian Union, successfully creating a hybrid design of Cardassian and Kessok technology, which was then succesfully destroyed by the *U.S.S. Sovereign* before it could be deployed.

Despite a resolution to this crisis, Kessok technology greatly improved the development of the *Kulinor-Class* allowing fringe elements of the Cardassian's post-war military to continue to develop the vessel, incorporating Kessok *Solarformer* technology into the *Kulinor-Class's* original *Plasma Cannon* design, making it significantly more destructive and granting it the ability to destroy stellar bodies such as stars.

In 2420, former Obsidian Order agent *Zannek Vystan* successfully formed The Obsidian Empire within the Black Eye Galaxy, after fleeing from Cardassian authorities. After a battle within the Australis system, *Vystan* was able to escape past the blockade formed by the United Commonwealth of Planets in an attempt to prevent a Cardassian incursion into the Black Eye Galaxy.

Due to the destruction of most of the *Galor-Class* vessels during the initial assault, *Vystan* made the *Kulinor-Class,* the primary cruiser of The Obsidian Empire, fleeing into an unknown location within the Black Eye Galaxy.

Unlike the *Galor-Class*, the *Kulinor-Class* is equipped with a powerful *Forward-Mounted Multipulse Cannon*. Originally designed as the *Plasma Cannon* of the *Kulinor-Class* and located on the ventral side of the vessel, the *Multipulse Cannon* has been redesigned to function in the same way as a particle emitter, able to create a variety of different particle energy beams, at significantly more power then the standard *Particle Emitter* found in the *Main Deflector* of most Federation starships.