Ruins of Harbinger II
The Fallen Titan
Sunken awkwardly in the middle of Lake Falnen are the remains of the Harbinger II, Torrenheim's greatest technological creation of the Xandrian Era. A starship designed for planar travel, the Harbinger II spanned half a mile lengthways, containing smaller transport vessels (specifically variants of the Lance model) in its hangar. The ship accommodated for upwards of 10,000 personnel at any one time; this crew would operate the navigation of the ship, trajectory planning, gravity stabilisation and recalibration, and the firing and maintainence of the many weapons on the starship (which was armed with 52 ion cannons, 96 laser turrets and 320 railguns). In its prime, the Harbinger II was capable of accelerating to 600mph, though barely did so, as the overclocked KP-3 generators would have a high risk of blowing their fuses in terminal conditions.
Following the destruction of its predecessor, the Harbinger I, during the Battle of Soro, King Greyyig Karthavak of Jürtürath (back then one of the richest and most influential individuals in the realm) commissioned the Tarkham Federation 50,000,000 Flecks to rework the blueprints of the Harbinger I to create another larger, faster and deadlier starship that would win the war for the Overbloods. After its completion in 5 LY, the ship was placed under the control of Captain Davy Drax of Mon Alvir, a respected commander of the planar navy who would later lead the ship in 239 naval battles, 178 of which were confirmed victories. Following the Wars of Xandria, there was talks of the ship being decommissioned, and although it was dismissed from the naval fleet in 1 AXR, Drax convinced the King of Jürtürath to let him keep the ship to be used as a future mobile powerbase for Avaløn, in case the post-war ceasefire was shortlived. Drax later acquired the hilt of the Astral Key from the remaining Knights of the Four Corners a year later, both of whom entrusted it to him to keep away from the hands of evil forevermore.
But it's never just as simple as that.
Although Drax kept a close eye on the fragment of the Astral Key for years after it was gifted to him, he couldn't help but feel paranoid of an eventual mutiny of his crew, in which they would grasp the hilt from out of his clutches. And his suspicions were confirmed to be correct in 36 AXR, when one of Drax's most trusted men, Lieutenant Achernon Gartner turned his men against him to gain the Astral Fragment for themselves. In the commotion, the ship's gravital calibrator was terminally damaged, causing the entire Harbinger II to plummet back down to the ground. It crashed in the Forgotten Wealds, instantly killing everybody on board on impact. For the next 500 years, the ship lay abandoned, with nearby scavengers fearing that the vengeful ghost of Davy Drax would haunt them to their graves if they dared approach the carcass of the ship. And so the fallen titan sprawls, submerged in the crystal waters of Lake Falnen, slowly succumbing to restless army of mother nature.
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