Babylon 5 Drakh Entire Starships

Drakh Entire Starships

The Drakh Clanfleets are composed of thousands of vessels, from tiny scouts and shuttlepods to the imposing bulk of the slowmoving clanships and the elegant grace of the holy Templeships. The Clanfleet is a tribe on the march, a space-faring nation with its own cities, armies, factories, even farmlands. All those vessels from the smallest to the biggest clanship use similar technologies.

Drakh hulls are a bio-organic composite interwoven with gravity-drive coils. The hulls are not technically alive but they are grown like living material into preprogrammed shapes. The hulls are weaker than a conventional design but this is more than compensated for by the gravitic shielding and ease of construction. The hull plates fuse into each other, bonding so there are no seams or weld lines or other weak spots.

The Drakh use Shadow-technology bioreactors for power generation. They do not understand the principles by which these organic power plants work but have learned to clone new reactors and maintain them. The bioreactors are capable of producing virtually infinite power over time, but the Drakh supplement their energy reserves in emergencies with fusion reactors. The Drakh fleets can harvest hydrogen from the upper atmospheres of gas giants.

Inside, Drakh ships are cramped and lightless – the Drakh have lived on those ships for generations and so know every inch of every corridor, every control and every indicator. The vessels are also eerily silent, as all the machines are maintained so efficiently and so perfectly that they work in almost perfect silence. The Drakh reflect their machines; to conserve oxygen, they sit motionless and silent for days at a time, communing with the Entire and acting only when absolutely necessary. Some have compared a Drakh ship to a flying monastery, but in deep space when the Clanfleets are hiding from the other races, they are closer to spacebound tombs.

The Drakh are extremely conservative ship designers – the same basic hull designs have been in use for centuries, changed only when the Shadows let slip some new piece of technology that can be incorporated into one of the ships.

Capital Ships
Battle Cruiser
Carrier
Courier
Fast Destroyer
Light Cruiser
Mothership
Templeship

Transports
Assault Shuttle
Cargo Hauler
Heavy Scout
Scout
Shield Escort
Shuttle

Fighters
Heavy Raider
Light Raider