Note: due to the large size of the model, two additional 2mm holes have been added to the base to hopefully reduce any issues with cleaning out-distortion.
The Colloidal is the largest Cybertank ship commonly seen. Until the appearance of the Effluvium class, vessels larger than the Colloidal seemed to be either unique or so rare as to only be encountered the once.
Over a mile long and massively bulky, the Colloidal is slow and cumbersome, at only 20 MEUs and with an acceleration of only 2.3mc. 7800TXq shields protect the armour, itself with an AIC of 5200 TXq. Despite its size, with two exceptions, the Colloidal’s configurations lend it more to a hybrid support role, rather than a full combat warship.
The Colloidal is dominated by the massive hangar/repair bay in the forward hull which masses roughly 25% of the hull. Capable of holding a cruiser as large as a Pyramid inside it, the Colloidal acts as a mobile shipyard, enabling a Cybertank fleet to repair – and reconfigure – on the fly. It is most often seen as part of a reserve fleet when deployed.
The configurable payload is comparatively small, as the Colloidal mounts a large number of fixed weapons. Port-and-starboard pairs of particle laser cannons are rated at a combined 1250TXq, with an accuracy envelope of around half a million kilometres. These are largest conventional beams the Cybertanks can build, elsewhere found only on the Pyramid and Mobius Warship. The fixed mounts are backed up by 2080 TXq of large particle laser batteries with the same range. The Colloidal mounts ECM and point-defence arrays rated to 5600TXq as standard.
The Warship configuration enhances these weapons with additional particle laser batteries, bringing the total to a combined 3120TXq. It also adds two 2200TXq-heavy particle laser beam arrays, six standard Cybertank missile racks and a pair of three-salvo forward-and-rear torpedo tubes with 240 800TXq-yield torpedoes. The defences are bolstered by a further 2900TXq of interdiction-defence weapons.
Seen probably the most regularly of the configurations, the Fleet Support configuration uses most of the payload space for cargo and a massive array of tractor beams, with only a single additional PD array. This version is never seen outside of a reserve fleet.
The Fleet Command configuration leads very large Cybertank fleets as the command ship. Retaining only the missile racks of the Warship configuration, the rest of the Fleet Command’s payload is dedicated to massive sensor and communication arrays to better direct fleet operations.
The most dreaded configuration of the Colloidal is the Colloidal Assassinship. Hitherto to the sightng of the Colloidal Heavy Attack, it was the only configuration not to sport a repair bay, instead using the space to mount a pair of massive torpedo tubes, each firing a sextuplet of enormous 3000TXq-yield torpedoes. Like the Warship, it has two heavy particle laser beam arrays. It has two-thirds more shields than the regular Colloidal, up to a round 13000TXq, and twelve missile racks. A veritable plethora of PD and ID systems with a combined total of 10600TXq output complete its armament.
However, why it is most roundly feared is that it also mounts both a footprint magnification system and a cloak. This means that, aside from cloaking, it can also disguise itself as a smaller vessel by using the footprint magnification system in concert with the cloak. As its name suggests, the Assassinship is deployed – sometime alone – to hunt down and destroy a particular target. Fortunately, the Cybertanks rarely prioritise killing a particular target over potential mass devastation, and encounters with Assassinships are thus quite rare.
The Heavy Attack configuration has been spotted once so far, at the Second Battle of Ventrig. This configuration appears to essentially be a version of the Colloidal Warship, except with the removal of the hangar bay. Additional shielding and armour follow the pattern of the Assassinship; like the former, the Heavy Attack Colloidal has six more missile racks, bringing the total to twelve. Primary all-aspect particle beams are increased to 3180TXq output and secondary particle beam strength to 2600TXq output.
Most notably, however, the hangar base module housed two huge spinal-mount mega particle beam cannons. These weapons are estimated to have an accuracy envelope of two million kilometres and and output of 10040 TXq. While devastatingly powerful against capital ships, with the Colloidal’s very poor maneouvability, this makes the weapons of rather more limited use due to their small firearc. This might explain why this configuration has not been seen before, as it may have been a test of the set-up to see if it was truly viable.
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Range: Cybertanks
Race / Species: Cybertank
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