Anthem of Solace

*Anthem of Solace* is the capitol flagship of the Eternal Armada, personal dreadnought of Supreme Commander Rutherford, and the third largest vessel in the Corpus Federation at just over 35 kilometers long. Heavily constructed from ameliorated Trussian and Skaaros technology, *Anthem of Solace* serves as the pinnacle of the Eternal Armada's might.

*Anthem of Solace* was constructed on a secret VEGA Corporation facility on an unnamed moon of Saturn, and gifted to Rutherford after his appointment to Supreme Commander. It saw considerable action and upgrades throughout Corpus's reign and participated in the Great Deposition . However, its status following the war remains unknown.

## **History**

### **Construction**

Through the Ascendancy, VEGA Corporation held a monopoly on space mining and spaceship engineering. This was due to billions of funding provided by Deucalion Bladespawn.

When Trojan Bladespawn assumed leadership of White Fence Security, he sent a secret notice to Deucalion hinting at an inevitable age of space warfare.

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## **Specifications**

### **Hull**

From stem to stern, *Anthem of Solace* has a length of 35,156 meters, a beam of 9,801 meters and a height of 9,473 meters miles. This makes her the largest vessel in the Eternal Armada, and the third largest vessel in Corpus. She is only surpassed by Supreme Overlord Ghost's 50-kilometer flagship *God is a Reaper* and Vulture's 38-kilometer flagship *Ascension*. Her hull is composed of 7.8 meters thick composite. It consists of alternating layers of titanium, nanocarbon fiber and tungsten arranged in a crystal lattice structure and reinforced by a diamond skeleton and kyanite foundation.

*Anthem of Solace* is of a modified catamaran design, featuring two identical parallel hulls from the dorsal midsection. Her array of antimatter railguns are placed behind in the eyeholes, nostrils and mouth of the colossal skull-shaped plate that protects the midsection. The bridge and Rutherford's quarters sits far above it, like the barbed tail of a scorpion.

### **Defenses**

*Anthem of Solace* is protected by an intricate shield system and organic Skaaros carapace.

The shield is of Trussian make and utilizes a mixture of highly-ionized plasma matrices and Bose-Einsten condensate to incapacitate energy projectiles. Improvements by Corpus scientists added rapid regeneration, further enhancing its survivability. The system is powered by four generators, each a cubic kilometer in size, placed inside at the stern and along the two parallel hulls.

Organic Skaaros carapace shaped to resemble metalltic kyanite cover *Anthem of Solace*'s engines, midsection, main fleet bays and the bridge. The carapace magnetically attracts the remains of destroyed vessels, process it and then reinforce its own hull with it. As such, an additional layer of defense is provided that is highly resilient to torpedoes and nuclear weapons.

### **Armaments**

*Anthem of Solace*'s primary armament is an antimatter railgun array. It consists of ten mass drivers of varying sizes launching antimatter-tungsten projectiles. Each railgun functions akin to an accelerator canon, in the sense that projects are launched to hypersonic speeds that can engage enemies up to 20,000 km away. While the four larger railguns are fixated in place in the eyeholes and nostrils of the skull midsection, the six smaller ones can swivel from its position within the mouth to point downwards in any direction. Thus, they become capable of orbital bombardment.

Emplaced throughout the ship are 2,675 torpedo batteries of different types: plasma anti-armor, explosive anti-ship and energized anti-shield. Additionally, 1,900 autonomous auto-canon turrets protect against close-range targets like fighters, boarding crafts and torpedoes. Further armaments include 400 minelayers to form blockades and 47 focus beams that can tractor in enemy ships and/or incinerate them.

*Anthem of Solace* contains four main fleet bays located below the bridge, at the stern and from the bow of the two catamaran hull. Each carry several hundred spacecrafts consisting of *Comet*-class fighters, *Rapier*-class interceptors, *Komodo*-class bombers and *Bastion*-class multipurpose transports. The two fleet bays at the bow of the parallel hulls also hold two 1km-long *Genesis*-class light cruisers and a single 3km-long *Corinthian*-class battlecruiser. The stern main fleet bay holds three 2km-long *Blackguard*-class destroyers. In addition to the main fleet bays, fifty smaller ones are located throughout the vessel that carry a much smaller number of aforementioned spacecrafts.