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CSN Dragon
Dragon is the largest and most powerful military vessel in existence, second
to none.
Background
The largest and most powerful battleship in existence, Dragon, like
Minotaur, is in a class of its own.
The flagship of the CSN and symbol of
power of the Confederation,
Dragon
would be dispatched to handle conflicts of great significance.
The Honour of the Knights
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The ship was hijacked in early 2617, under mysterious circumstances. Of
the total 50,000 serving crew members only the acting captain,
Anthony Hawke, survived.
After its hijacking, Dragon disappeared from all galactic
surveillance systems; its current whereabouts or fate, a mystery.
Around June 2617, it was tracked moving around a number of uninhabited
independent-declared regions of space.
The battleship was one of the main targets of Operation Menelaus.
The Confederation aimed to recover it by using an in-built
fail-safe: a remote deactivation system. The attempt failed when the
Pandoran forces occupying the vessel purposely complied with the
de-activation request and lured the allied forces into a trap. It
then turned its main gun, an antimatter cannon, on Grendel,
destroying the ship.
It was summoned as back-up by Anthony Hawke when he failed to
destroy Griffin, with Julian Rissard at the helm. The ship's
attempt to turn its anti-matter cannon on Griffin failed when
it was engaged by the White Knights and five ATAFs. After being
hit by the combined forces of five plasma accelerator beams,
Dragon was forced out of combat.
The Third Side
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Dragon was a latecomer to Coyote, only arriving after the Pandoran forces had evacuated Mythos and had
nuked the planet. The battleship's opening act was to immediately take down Erik the Red and another UNF
warship, driving into between the two and delivering the full power of its port and starboard accelerator
beams to destroy the ships in seconds. It then made to eliminate the more powerful CSN and UNF vessels,
targeting Griffin immediately with its anti-matter cannon. It never succeeded, however, the imminent
destruction of Grendel's Mother and the danger posed by the explosion of the Tachyon Star Bombs forcing it to
abandon its attack. It fled Coyote shortly after the incident.
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Technical Details
| Type | Battleship |
| Class | Python |
| Captain |
Anthony Hawke |
| Manufacturer | Confederation |
| Introduced | 2564 |
| Status | Stolen (2617) |
| Length | 4,680 meters |
| Crew | 50,000 |
| Starfighter Complement | 1050 |
| Armaments |
1 x Antimatter Cannon
8 x Plasma Accelerators
Innumerable Laser Cannons
Innumerable Mag Cannons
Innumerable Torpedo / Missile Launchers
Innumerable Plasma Cannons
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