- Dimensions: 12km long, 1.3km abeam at fins approx.
- Mass: 60 megatonnes approx.
- Crew: 60,000 crew, 200,000-500,000 potential passanger capacity.
- Accel: 0.5 gravities max sustainable acceleration.
Stretching some twelve kilometers from stem to stern, a mass conveyor appears at a distance to be a slim, elegant craft. However, as one slowly approaches it, this misleading impression is replaced with a horrified awe, as what appears to be radio masts resolve into gigantic towers the size of hive stacks. The ship’s true scale manifests itself as an observe realizes that entire cities twinkle and shimmer along its flanks.
To construct a Universe-class mass conveyor is a massive undertaking. To build one requires such an immense outlay of resources that they can only be constructed above the richest Imperial worlds and voidstations. They are pure cargo haulers, relatively simple in design, but conceived on a truly epic scale. They are almost self-contained worlds, where entire voidborn communities live out their lives, uncaring as to the vessels current owners or identities. Simply unloading the vessel is a mighty undertaking, requiring months at a time. There are larger ships but the Universe class still dwarfs most Imperial ships it comes across.
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