ships

• The Wayward Star

  Captain Sera Venn’s damaged independent frigate and the first ship to carry the Kestrel claim.

• The Frostbastion

  A mobile aerial fortress built to keep fighting where ground bases cannot survive.

• Seryth · Corvette

  Find danger and reach survivors first.

• Varyk · Frigate

  Protect the ships beside it.

• Kelvar · Destroyer

  Disable a dangerous enemy ship.

• Othrenn · Cruiser

  Coordinate a task force and hold its line.

• Vaelkar · Capital ship

  Give the formation a heavy protected center.

• Thalen · Assault carrier

  Deliver intervention teams and receive evacuees.

• Saervan · Tender

  Keep the fleet repaired, supplied and alive.

• Frigate · Escort family

  Screen, pursue and protect.

• Destroyer · Disabling-fire role

  Break the target’s ability to fight or maneuver.

• Carrier · Launch platform

  Put smaller craft into the operation.

• Dreadnought · Line anchor

  Hold the dangerous part of the battle line.

• Capital ship · Banner flagship role

  Direct a Banner-scale operation.

• Oath · Cruiser

  Provide cruiser-weight combat and command capability.

• Sanctuary · Tender support

  Receive casualties and sustain operations.

• Escort frigate

  Protect convoys from missiles and raiders

• Precision destroyer

  Disable hostile drives at Hammer Range

• Carrier-support ship

  Deploy small craft and sustain local operations

• Reconstruction tender

  Repair damaged ships and restore infrastructure

• Relay escort

  Verify traffic and protect approaches

• Line cruiser

  Disable resistance and carry seizure command

• Gate assault carrier

  Deliver boarding forces to transit infrastructure

• Forge-house tender

  Keep relay fleets operational

• Transit patrol ship

  Enforce imperial route authority

• Enforcement cruiser

  Project provincial command and heavy fire

• Expeditionary carrier

  Land and supply imperial occupation forces

• Fleet supply tender

  Sustain distant imperial deployments

• Compliance corvette

  Inspect traffic and pursue violations

• Praetor cruiser

  Carry seizure command and disable opposition

• Ascension carrier

  Deploy Ascendant Legion cohorts

• Reliquary tender

  Transport repair, archive and secured biological support

• Integration escort

  Secure absorbed transit routes

• Suppression cruiser

  Disable hostile command and maneuver

• Worldhammer carrier

  Deploy assault craft and drone control networks

• Campaign tender

  Supply a standardized invasion force

• Censer cruiser

  Disrupt command signals and suppress relays

• Ascendant battleship

  Crack resistance and anchor sieges

• Coffin barge

  Deliver assault cadres for leadership capture

• Chain tender

  Move prisoners and sustain conversion logistics

• Skirr-class pursuit corvette

  Close rapidly on exposed ships

• Clampjaw-class boarding frigate

  Grapple targets and force entry

• Cinderback-class missile barge

  Overwhelm defenses during the approach

• Kilnback-class forge tender

  Strip wrecks into new war material

• Recovered gun hull

  Supply local direct fire

• Recovered line hull

  Support the fleet combat line

• Assault transport hull

  Deliver boarding personnel

• Command hull

  Carry fleet coordination and heavy support

• Maintenance escort

  Protect working convoys

• Endurance cruiser

  Hold the line through accumulated damage

• Habitat support carrier

  Move work craft and restoration equipment

• Reclamation tender

  Repair worn machinery and recycle resources

• Surveillance picket

  Verify identities and monitor approaches

• Interdiction cruiser

  Isolate hostile control systems

• Assault insertion carrier

  Deliver authenticated command-seizure teams

• Secure support tender

  Sustain technical custody and military operations

• Clan escort

  Cover the muster and its approach

• Boarding cruiser

  Disable prey and support close seizure

• Assault carrier

  Deploy massed clan boarding troops

• Muster support ship

  Sustain inherited ships away from port

• TNS Vanguard

  One of the first Hjertstedt dreadnoughts: a 5,800-meter fleet-command and siege vessel built to endure, break the line and preserve the fleet.

• Hrafn Spear

  The armoured House transport that carries two hundred elite troops, Christer and Daniel von Hjertstedt through the Coalition screen to Kestrel.

• Værdoren-class

  The crimson Vaerdoren-class recovery flagship stabilizes wrecks, rescues survivors, repairs damaged ships and secures contaminated salvage behind an escort screen.

• Rackline modular hauler

  Move interchangeable cargo modules between serviced ports.

• Cairn sealed bulk carrier

  Carry bulk commodities in protected enclosed holds.

• Lantern lane liner

  Carry passengers along established lanes and through serviced ports.

• Mender recovery tender

  Recover damaged craft and support repairs away from a fixed yard.

• Causeway troop lander

  Deliver troops through a controlled approach to a secured landing site.

• Latch boarding cutter

  Bring a boarding team to a controlled sealed entry point.

• Telltale survey probe

  Collect remote observations without exposing a crew.

• Farwatch relay scout

  Inspect relay traffic and return verified reconnaissance.

• Last Covenant

  Siege and battle-line anchor.

• Silent Meridian

  Precision command-suppression dreadnought.

• Patient Thunder

  Endurance and convoy-defence dreadnought.

• The Unanswered Crown

  A Throne lord’s mobile seat of command and imperial authority.

• Bulwark convoy escort

  Protect convoy traffic with distributed defensive fire.

• Threshold fleet carrier

  Support fleet launch and recovery from protected side galleries.

• Grey Nomad

  An old, unmarked transport-frigate arrives at Kestrel under independent registry.

• Resolute Dawn

  Mara Vale commands the ship drawn into Garran Holt’s prisoner-escort contract.

• Captured cruiser

  A connected shipboard setting of staging spaces, service passages and command areas.