Greatships

**Greatships** (called ***Dazvani*** in the Dialect) are massive spacefaring vessels built to house the entire Human population of the Diaspora. Construction on these massive vessels began roughly 3500 years ago, about 200 years following the Zalmoxian Gambit. Production of these vessels took decades, and legend holds that at least one whole planet nearby to Earth was consumed nearly in its entirety to facilitate their creation. Ranging in size, from 25 to 32 kilometres long, each ship can house potential millions of humans, and can be modified to allow for the accompaniment of *Deuteroi* as well. As of the 4th millennium following the Zalmoxian Gambit, there are known to be 36 active Greatships of the original 51.

## List of Active Greatships

* ***Aiolos*** -
* ***Andraste*** -
* ***Anubis*** - *Anubis* remains active and is currently operating in the Exarites Sector conducting humanitarian missions to counteract the apparent efforts of *Ares*.
* ***Apollo*** - *Apollo* remains active and is currently involved in military operations in the Upper Core.
* ***Ares*** - *Ares* maintains semi-frequent contact with the rest of the greatship community. Its exact activities are somewhat obscure but likely involve artifact extraction from the inhabited worlds of the Exarites Sector.
* ***Artemis*** - *Artemis* remains active and irregularly provides assistance to operations both in the Upper Core and against the Armeron Aggregate.
* ***Astarte*** - *Astarte* remains active and is involved in operations in the Upper Core.
* ***Athena*** - *Athena* is active and is involved in military operations in the Upper Core.
* ***Asklepios***
* ***Astraios*** -
* ***Boreas***
* ***Demeter*** - *Demeter* is presumed active but has not been encountered in over 300 years since it went into semi-voluntary exile 832 years ago.
* ***Dionysos*** - *Dionysos* is estranged from the rest of the greatship community due to its excessive zealotry. Its exact activities are thus unknown but has been confirmed active by *Hermes* several times and has come into semi-frequent contact with other greatships over the past few hundred years.
* ***Eos*** - *Eos* is active and involved in operations in the Upper Core.
* ***Ersa*** - *Ersa* remains active but engaged in an arduous campaign directly against the Notionals.
* ***Garuda*** - *Garuda* remains active and spearheads the campaign against the Armeron Aggregate.
* ***Hekate*** - *Hekate* is active and providing logistical and intelligence support to the *Ersa*’s campaign.
* ***Helios*** - *Helios* remains active and is involved in operations in the Upper Core.
* ***Hephaistos*** - *Hephaestus* remains active and continues its search for ancient artifacts of potential technological importance.
* ***Herakles*** - *Herakles* remains active and is assisting *Garuda* in its campaign against the Armeron Aggregate.
* ***Hermes*** - *Hermes* continues its duties as inter-ship communicator, as it has for nearly a millennium.
* ***Horos*** - *Horos* is currently in the midst of major repairs after experiencing critical damage suffered at the hands of the planetary weapons of an Armeron Aggregate world. Time to completion and recuperation is estimated at 20-30 years.
* ***Mithra*** - *Mithra* remains active and is involved in military operations in the Upper Core.
* ***Epona***
* ***Nerthos*** - *Nerthos* remains active
* ***Nike***
* ***Notos*** -
* ***Ploutos*** - *Ploutos* remains active and continues its large-scale mining operations.
* ***Sabazios***
* ***Semele*** -
* ***Serapis*** - *Serapis* remains active and is currently deployed in military operations in the Upper Core.
* ***Skiron*** -
* ***Tanit*** -
* ***Targitaos***
* ***Teutates*** - *Teutates* remains active and has ongoing operations in both the Upper Core and against the Armeron Aggregate.
* ***Zephyros*** -

## List of Formerly Active Greatships

* ***Bia*** - Much of the crew and occupants of *Bia* settled a Class-E world, called Verok, as overlords and conquerors, with a skeleton crew to continue manning the vessel. *Bia* itself would be destroyed during the liberation of Verok only a few years ago.
* ***Zeus*** - Crew of *Zeus* initiated self-destruction protocols under unknown circumstances years ago.
* ***Hestia*** - *Hestia* fell into neglect and disrepair after several years before its life-systems failed and was finally abandoned 389 years ago. Now exists as an engineless derelict in the asteroid belt of the star Deneb.
* ***Sirona*** - *Sirona* was abandoned 308 years ago following accidental release of unknown bioengineered contaminants from an onboard lab, resulting in an estimated 2 million deaths. Assumed derelict in orbit of 31 Vulpecula B.
* ***Hyperion*** - *Hyperion* was destroyed in action at the Battle of the Twin Suns of Voluskaya 764 years ago.
* ***Eurus*** - *Eurus* was destroyed 956 years ago during the First Contact with the Timeworn.
* ***Phaethon*** - *Phaeton* was destroyed 956 years ago during the First Contact with the Timeworn.
* ***Poseidon*** - *Poseidon* was forced into and trapped within the gravity well of the star Arcturus by a fleet of Blemishers 356 years ago. It was subsequently destroyed.
* ***Hera*** - *Hera*, along with Eris, was the core of the Civil Strife 412 years ago. Both *Hera* and *Eris* were destroyed at the Battle of Balka, which was that war’s climax.
* ***Eris*** - *Eris*, along with *Hera*, was the core of the Civil Strife 412 years ago. Both *Hera* and *Eris* were destroyed at the Battle of Balka, which was that war’s climax.
* ***Zelos***
* ***Proteus*** - *Proteus* was destroyed battling the Blemishers during the doomed defence of the Mureans 233 years ago.
* ***Selene*** - *Selene* abandoned its duties to the Diasporic Community 679 years ago. The fate of the vessel itself is unknown but its crew is known to have settled a Class-E world.