City Ship



City Ships are very large vessels of the Preliator Empire that ply the Mu Arae system. A sort of cross between a city, battleship and mining facility city ships are not built to a standardised design. All City Ships are considered Imperial property and thus are given the designation His Imperial Majesty's Ship, the same designation as the Imperial Navy's warships. The Imperial Navy Auxiliary crew and maintain the city ships but the command of a city ship is given to its Member of Parliament. All city ships are heavily armed (though most are not intended to be used in battle) and self sufficient in terms of food thanks to high yield hydroponic farming systems onboard. As most of the population of a City Ship have served 50 years in the Imperial Armed Forces a City Ship is a terrifying prospect if boarding is ever involved. Outsiders have noted that should the Empire so wish they could easily move their entire civilisation to a different planetary system. Current estimates are that the Empire has 11 of these ships in total, the most well known are listed below.

Known City Ships

 * HIMS Urbanus - The Capital of the Empire the Urbanus houses the Muneris and Parliament central offices as well as the High Court and Imperial Palace. All embassies are housed onboard the Urbanus at the edge of the ship so that they may have private docks. It is rumored that the Urbanus can eject any Embassy into space virtually at will, though this is probably just what the citizens of the Empire consider a joke to put visitors at ease. Urbanus is by far the largest of the city ships with a population of over 10 million.


 * HIMS Decimator - The Flagship of the Imperial Fleet is designed to be at the forefront of any battle and still emerge unscathed. The bastion of Imperial military might the Decimator can also repair Imperial patrol ships.


 * HIMS Vigilant - Imperial Army HQ is a combination of barracks and training ground. When the military attache of the Neo-Terran Directorate was given a tour of the Vigilant it is alleged that he commented "Its the biggest frakking planetary assault platform in the galaxy!".


 * HIMS Industrious - The Industrious is dedicated to mining operations and manufacturing and produces much of the Empires goods.


 * HIMS Navis - A vast shipyard that produces all of the Imperial Navy's vessels plus many other ships.


 * HIMS Civitas - Second largest city ship after Urbanus, the Civitas is the Empire's centre of trade, culture and learning. It is the only city ship that non citizens of the Empire are permitted to stay upon and thus is the only City Ship that is well known to those outside the Empire. Although non citizens stay on the Urbanus this is only permitted within their own Embassy, which is not technically part of the Empire.