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Colony Shipby ~Orpheus7

Traditional Art / Drawings / Sci-Fi

The Vulcan class colony ship was developed to carry entire human colonies through the skein and deposit them, along with their orbital habitat, in systems to be colonised. Able to carry about 100 000 people and all of their equipment, these vessels were huge and were the work horses of the corporate colonisation effort. In fact, it was estimated that almost 30 billion colonists were moved from the core system to the colonies using the Vulcan class over a 60 year period.

Colony ships carried no offensive weapons to speak of, although they were equipped with self-defence guns and carried several frigates and fighter wings that equipped the colonial militia.