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Babylon 5 Drakh Entire Templeship

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Name: Templeship
Craft: Drakh Entire Templeship
Type: religious ship
Scale: capital
Length: 1,350 meters (estimated)
Skill: capital ship pilot
Crew: 72; Skeleton: 7/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 5D; Capital Ship Piloting: 5D; Capital Ship Shields: 5D; Communications: 5D; Sensors: 5D; Starship Gunnery: 3D+2
Passengers: 1,250 & 1,000 Priests
Cargo Capacity: 2,500 metric tons
Consumables: 10 months
Maneuverability: 0D+1
Space: 3
Hull: 4D+1
Shields: 4D
Sensors

  • Passive: 16 / 0D+1
  • Scan: 32 / 1D
  • Search: 48 / 1D+1
  • Focus: 2 / 2D

Weapons

  • 4 Pulse Cannons
Fire Arc: 1 forward, 1 port, 1 starboard, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 0D+1
Space Range: 1-3/7/13
Damage: 7D+1

Miscellaneous:

  • Artificial Gravity: Yes
  • Crew: 72
  • Officers / Pilots: 10
  • Sensor Operators: 12
  • Crewmen: 50
  • Average Crew Experience Level: Drakh Line
  • Stealth: 7 (Base Difficulty to Detect Ship)
  • Drakh Gravitic Energy Grid: 2D+1
  • Gravitic Engine

Ship Complement:

Description: Zo’ra’dum, ‘House of the Broken God’
If the motherships are the heart of the Drakh Clanfleets, then the Templeships are the literal seat of the soul. They are by far the most sacred and revered of the Drakh vessels; each Templeship is considered to be a part of Z’ha’dum itself. Drakh tradition insists that just as Z’ha’dum will be (and was) destroyed when touched by anything Vorlon, the clans are similarly vulnerable if the Templeships are profaned in such a fashion.

The Templeships are much more spacious and ornate than the cramped, functional environs of the other ships. Parts of the hull of each Templeship are made from grafted biomatter from a Shadow Cruiser, so the ships closely resemble the ‘Shadow Omega’ hybrid vessels built by EarthForce – the Templeships are partly Drakh but crowned by spires of utter darkness. The lower decks of the Templeship contain the cloning tanks and nurseries where the young Drakh and the more complex items of Drakh biotechnology are grown, as well as the quarters of the junior priests. Higher up the ship are the reefs of cloned brain tissue that maintain the telepathic Entire, as well as archives and genetic banks containing the history of the clan. The heart of a Templeship contains a dimensional fold, a no-space where the Shadows would manifest and speak to their servants. Since the battle at Coriana 6, these places have been silent save for the whispers of the still-vigilant priests.

While Templeships have their own minimal defences in the form of a gravitic energy grid and a battery of small pulse cannons, they are always escorted by at least six Fast Destroyers and Shield Escorts.

Source:

  • Babylon 5: The Drakh (pages 63-64)
  • thedemonapostle
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