Dragon Carrier

**Dragon Carrier** is a large ship built to mount wyverns and wyvern lords developed by the Parpaldia Empire. Countries from the Second Civilization Area like Leifor, Nigrat Union, and Magicaraich Community also had their own dragon carriers.

## Description

The warship is similar to an aircraft carrier as it launches and retrieve Wyverns and Wyvern Lords. They are sometimes called “Dragon Mother” or “Dragon Carrier Flotilla”. To facilitate the arrival and departure of Wyvern Lords, dragon carriers were twice as large as ships-of-the-line. The total length is around 80 m. It can accommodate 15 to 20 wyverns and wyvern lords on its flight deck. In order to launch and land Wyvern and wyvern lords, the ships need to fold sails. They have virtually no point-defense weapons and rely solely on their own wyverns or other ships of the line to protect them from enemy fire or boarding tactics. They prove to be nothing more than large targets to Japanese anti-ship missiles and were among the first to be sunk during the Japanese-Parpaldian War.

Basically but wooden ships, Parpaldia Empire put anti-magic steel to improve its defense against explosive shells. There are also giant ships that have reached the limits of wooden ship construction technology, such as Parpaldia Imperial state-of-the-art dragon carriers, Veronia and Palkimaera, which has the length of 130 m and has the ability to operate Wyvern Overlords.

The fact that can build a Flotilla powers country that owns it means to have a shipbuilding technology of the level of civilization country does not appear to be many even. Operation has been confirmed in the lower powers of Parpaldia Empire, Leifor and Quasi-Powers like the Nigrat Union. The Magicaraich Community also has a dragon carrier, but the performance is inferior to that of the power.

The nation that can operate the dragon carrier is only a major power such as a power in the civilized country, and the number is less than the magic battle ship, but this cost is the same as the actual aircraft carrier, including the operation of the Wyvern.

In the upper powers like the Holy Mirishial Empire and Mu, the main air force has moved to use fighter planes, so aircraft carriers are being used instead of dragon carriers. In countries that do not have fighter aircraft or aircraft carriers, they are sometimes called “mechanical dragons” or “iron dragons”.

## Known Ships of her class in each country

### Parpaldia Imperial Dragon Carriers

* *Veronia* and *Palkimaera* (a giant ship that has reached the limit of wooden ships has been newly designed and manufactured from scratch to operate the Wyvern Overlords.)
* *Mille*
* *Ganam*
* *Masale*
* *Abys*
* *Gargaon*
* *Sirene*
* and 38 other vessels

Only twelve dragon carriers survived from their main forces after the Great Naval Battle of Esthirant. Most likely several of the dragon carriers are being taken by the Riem Kingdom as a war prize.

### Nigrat Union Dragon Carriers

* *Sgrad*
* *Hedguru*
* and 2 other vessels

## Service History

### Parpaldia Empire

Parpaldia imperial dragon carrier fleet’s flagships sunk in the Battle of Fenn Kingdom.

* *Mille*
* *Ganam*
* *Masale*
* and 9 other vessels

Parpaldia imperial dragon carrier fleet’s flagships sunk in the Great Naval Battle of Esthirant.

* *Abys*
* *Gargaon*
* *Sirene*
* and 17 other vessels

### Nigrat Union

Two dragon carriers were part of the fleet sent to the Eleven Country Leadership Conference and were consequently sunk in the Battle of the Folk Strait. At the Great Naval Battle of Baltica, several more dragon carriers were sent. Most if not all were destroyed.

### Leifor

All Dragon Carriers owned by Leifor are presumably sunk in the Naval Battle of Leifor.

### Riem Kingdom

It is revealed that the kingdom also operated Dragon Carriers before the Japanese - Parpaldian War. During the Great Naval Invasion of Japan, they are tasked to attack Japanese merchant ships harbored at Doric Community and later go northwest of Japan as meat shield for the Guti Maun bombers of the Gra Valkas Empire commence its attack on the Japanese mainland.

## Trivia

* The Dragon Carrier is a Pre-Industrial Revolution-era of Aircraft Carrier (Since it has a similar role as a modern aircraft carrier that brings air power with them).
* In the manga, two variants of dragon carriers are shown: One with a single runway and a counter-balance on the other side of the ship, and one with a runway on each side of the ship. The latter resembles the Holy Milishial Empire's Rodeus-Class Aircraft Carriers.