The Mech Touch

6928  The Moloch Squadron

Though Ves ultimately got over the novelty of having a Gravitic Catapult at his disposal, he still remained fascinated by the possibilities it opened up. Being able to deliver any payload hundreds or thousands of kilometers away at a rapid speed was incredibly useful.

Speed dictated the outcome of a battle. The faster side had more initiative and could respond to enemy movements faster.

Ves and commanders such as Casella Ingvar understood the importance of speeding up deployments. They would not have to wait precious minutes for their next moves to take effect.

That was how important it was for the Premier Fleet to obtain a fleet carrier that possessed her own Gravitic Catapult.

The much smaller combat carriers of the Premier Fleet could not accommodate such a demanding system. Their hulls were too short and their power generators were too weak to support this feature.

All-in-all, Ves was satisfied with what the Eternal Vulcan Empire had supplied to the Larkinson Clan.

He could do without all of the overt religious iconography, though.

The Vulcanites were not secularists. They designed and built their starships as if they were cathedrals to their human or dwarven god.

Ves had encountered more busts, paintings and projected images of Vulcan throughout the interior of the fleet carrier to last a lifetime!

Aside from this wrinkle, he had little to complain about the fleet carrier. The capital ship added a lot of value to the Premier Fleet.

Due to the presence of the Gravitic Catapult, it was a given that Saint Dise Larkinson and the First Sword Mark III should make their home within the Vulcan's Glory.