Nobles of the Tsanic Host who maintain holdings across the solar system and beyond utilize a number of traditional vessels, the most common and utilitarian of these is the Kadiphonek Class noted for its spacious interior, impressive manueverability, and durability. Many of the first generation of vessels of this class are still in service thanks to their integrated self-repair sub-systems.
Hull Details: (size) 1,000' along ventral axis, main section 400-500' along horizontal axis (varies by model), 250' along vertical axis. Hull is also molecularly bonded and covered with a seamless 12 inch nanosheath over a translucent polymetallic fiber-ceramic Eryxian shell with molecular phase inscribed warding.
Drives: Riemann, Blue/Nithic, Red/Yothic, Black/Zin, Oneiric and standard gravitic polythruster nodes. (Some models have additional drives installed in one or more of the four Polythruster Nodes.)
Perceptual Metacortexes coupled with Somniplex Interface Orbs grant the full range of sensoria experience and perceptual capabilities required for the operation of the vessel in transplanetary space and beyond. Sleepers and dreamers hooked into the somniplex can be maintained and kept fit for close to a century before they require downtime. Later models no longer provide access-points for installing braincases.
Core Artilect: Typically these vessels began service with Colossus Rated Artilect. Often these were upgraded as a sort of token of status amongst Nobles.
Forward Resonator Assembly: Range of 10,000 miles, 500 terawatt output.
Autodefense Armament: Dual primary autoturrets, Shield generation.
Offensive Armament: Trapezohedral Array, Missile Extrusion Systems, Grit Cans, Dynamo Charges, Photo-Emiters, Plasmacasters, antimatter accelerators, Psychohedron Globes, and more. Most Nobles prefer to customize and continually upgrade and rework their armament subsystems, even more than their drives.
Engineering: Rated A by Clan Martense and fully staffed by licensed and nano-bonded family-clusters. No Kadiphonek Class Vessel has ever been abandoned by its slave engineers. These areas below decks have been sealed for generations and are completely off-limits to everyone except for the slave engineers themselves.
All Kadiphonek Class Vessels originally came equipped with 32 crio-sarcophagi arranged along the interior nanogel buffer. Some vessels (notably slavers) adopted the practice of stacking row after row of crio-sarcophagi along the inner buffer zone, some managing to fit over a thousand of the things. Troop transports generally never had more than the initial 32 crio-sarcophagi, instead relying on other methods such as Reanimation, Essential Reduction, or the simple expedient of downloading troops into quick-extruded drone-forms at the destination.
The floor of each of these vessels is made up of mentally-responsive tiles that adjust themselves under the direction of any authorized crew-member. This allows the crew to adjust and reconfigure the interior sections as required or desired at any time.
The Kadiphonek Class of Transplanetary Vessels has a long and illustrious history that goes back nearly to the Second Interregnum and the Voola Uprising. These vessels are tried and true workhorses that have built the Solar Possessions and gone on to blaze the way and maintain the trade routes essential to the continuation of the Near Colonies.
Hull Details: (size) 1,000' along ventral axis, main section 400-500' along horizontal axis (varies by model), 250' along vertical axis. Hull is also molecularly bonded and covered with a seamless 12 inch nanosheath over a translucent polymetallic fiber-ceramic Eryxian shell with molecular phase inscribed warding.
Drives: Riemann, Blue/Nithic, Red/Yothic, Black/Zin, Oneiric and standard gravitic polythruster nodes. (Some models have additional drives installed in one or more of the four Polythruster Nodes.)
Perceptual Metacortexes coupled with Somniplex Interface Orbs grant the full range of sensoria experience and perceptual capabilities required for the operation of the vessel in transplanetary space and beyond. Sleepers and dreamers hooked into the somniplex can be maintained and kept fit for close to a century before they require downtime. Later models no longer provide access-points for installing braincases.
Core Artilect: Typically these vessels began service with Colossus Rated Artilect. Often these were upgraded as a sort of token of status amongst Nobles.
Forward Resonator Assembly: Range of 10,000 miles, 500 terawatt output.
Autodefense Armament: Dual primary autoturrets, Shield generation.
Offensive Armament: Trapezohedral Array, Missile Extrusion Systems, Grit Cans, Dynamo Charges, Photo-Emiters, Plasmacasters, antimatter accelerators, Psychohedron Globes, and more. Most Nobles prefer to customize and continually upgrade and rework their armament subsystems, even more than their drives.
Engineering: Rated A by Clan Martense and fully staffed by licensed and nano-bonded family-clusters. No Kadiphonek Class Vessel has ever been abandoned by its slave engineers. These areas below decks have been sealed for generations and are completely off-limits to everyone except for the slave engineers themselves.
All Kadiphonek Class Vessels originally came equipped with 32 crio-sarcophagi arranged along the interior nanogel buffer. Some vessels (notably slavers) adopted the practice of stacking row after row of crio-sarcophagi along the inner buffer zone, some managing to fit over a thousand of the things. Troop transports generally never had more than the initial 32 crio-sarcophagi, instead relying on other methods such as Reanimation, Essential Reduction, or the simple expedient of downloading troops into quick-extruded drone-forms at the destination.
The floor of each of these vessels is made up of mentally-responsive tiles that adjust themselves under the direction of any authorized crew-member. This allows the crew to adjust and reconfigure the interior sections as required or desired at any time.
The Kadiphonek Class of Transplanetary Vessels has a long and illustrious history that goes back nearly to the Second Interregnum and the Voola Uprising. These vessels are tried and true workhorses that have built the Solar Possessions and gone on to blaze the way and maintain the trade routes essential to the continuation of the Near Colonies.
