The Valkyrion

The Valkyrion (Designation AES 1025) Is an Ultra Carrier and the largest starship in the Empires space faring fleet. The culmination of over 3 decades of planning and construction birthed the largest, most powerful ship ever designed by the Empire. The Valkyrion is the flagship of the Empires space fleets and its most valuable asset, often used in invasion operations.

History
The Valkyrion was commissioned in the year 970 A.C. by then ship architect Lance Sterlison, a prominent spaceship builder at the time. With the help of many drawven architects he completed plans by 980 A.C. and the ship was laid down in a massive secret facility on Dellvicon. Throughout the construction process, many of the thousands of workers were forced to live on site away from their families and were made to keep of vow of secrecy to keep the knowledge of the ships construction out of foreign intelligence.

Throughout the ship building process, the Valkyrion was continuously outfitted to keep it up to date with the latest and best technological advances through the ever growing and evolving scientific community throughout the Empire. Eventually the ship was completed by the year 1000 A.C. and a large ceremony, given by Emperor Ariel Soverien was arranged to christen the ship as a symbol of the Empires military might.

Specifications
The Valkyrion was the single largest vessel ever to come into inception throughout the empire, far larger then even the Andromeda class super carriers at the time. It was original designed as a deep exploration vessel, able to go on missions far longer then any other ship before thanks to its anti matter reactor core. The ship itself is completely self sustaining with farms and manufacturing plants. Although originally intended space exploration, the ship is also a bit of a psychological factor to keep peace throughout the galaxy. The mere site of this giant is enough to keep would be assailants for staying there hands and many would dare not plan an attack on it. The ship is able to hold a complement of an entire field army numbering three million, able to launch an invading force on a neighboring planet if the task were to be assigned. The ships huge hanger bays were able to hold an entire fleet within itself, including various cruisers, heavy cruisers and even carriers. With such a large compliment of various fighters, bombers and capital ships at its disposal, the Valkyrion is quite capable of engaging star fleets of other nations with ease.

The ship is heavily armed, with many heavy plasma cannons and other defensive weaponry. One particular weapon that sets it apart from most is the "Dragons Maw" an experimental super weapon who's true power is still being tested. The weapon harnesses power from the core of the ship, channeling it through magnetic rings to keep the anti matter away from contacting the ships surfaces. Once enough power has been siphoned off from the core, static rings engage near the command structure of the ship and the weapon is fired. Although only tested, the weapon is able to single handedly obliterate other star ships with a single hit, and thanks to its anti matter properties, it is also able to cause chain reactions that can destroy other nearby ships caught in the blast. Although only suspected, it is believed that at full power the weapon could destroy entire planetary bodies. This however is only a theory as many scientists that worked on the ship warn of grave instability issues if the weapon was to be fired at full power, believing it could cause grave instability in the ships core and doom the whole vessal.

Another issue with the super weapon is the power demands. During the firing sequence the ship has to partially power down it's shields to use the weapon effectively. This leaves the ship vulnerable to attack from other star ships within firing range. More tests are being conducted in order to curtail these setbacks and make the weapon more efficient without the use of draining the ships primary shielding.