Titan-I Battleship

The Titan-I Battleship, formerly known simply as the Titan, is a Titan class Battleship designed by Zirix and the Royal Dracian Shipworks on the orders of Hendrax to serve as the flagship of the Royal Dracian Space Forces and the Plantery Alliance's expeditionary space fleet. She was commissioned in 780 AET on the orders of Hendrax as the most advanced battleship.

Early Ideas and Design
Hendrax, king of Dracia and founder of the Planetary Alliance realised the dangerous potential of the Space Pirates against intergalactic trade between the planets of the Alliance. To respond to this threat, he ordered for the creation of a sufficiently capable Spaceship to help him in creating and enforcing the Planetary Alliance's rule across the systems the Alliance encompassed, including the Drakon and Xeler systems which were the primary systems of the Alliance.

As such, the king of Dracia ordered the Royal Dracian Shipworks to develop a more advanced Battleship than any prior design, that would be built on the older designs of battleships as seen on Infina Magna as well as the other smaller capital ships that the Royal Dracian Space Fleet fielded. The resulting design, with its Trans-Warp Factor T2 capable engines and triple nacelles, was approved by Hendrax and Zirix shortly after its introduction and became an official project of the Dracian government.

Construction
Construction occurred in the headquarters of the Royal Dracian Shipworks near the Dracian Palace, and was overseen by Zirix, Shadon and Hendrax himself. It was equipped with state-of-the-art Twin-Barrelled Energy Cannons and smaller Energy Machine-Guns that were to protect it from threats.

The armaments were sufficiently powerful to make the Titan-I the most powerful spaceship in the galaxy and, as such, allowed for Hendrax and the Planetary Alliance to project and enforce their power with little to no resistance from civillian spacecraft. Its then high speeds would also make it one of the fastest spacecraft, allowing it to chase down fleeing spacecraft rapidly.

All these attributes added to the status of legendary symbol of galactic justice and order that Hendrax and the Planetary Alliance stood for.

Early Usage
The Titan-I was commissioned in 780 AET, on the 750th anniversary of the Dracian Kingdom and the 500th anniversary of the Planetary Alliance, and was launched personally by Hendrax. Its first mission was an exploration mission to Estron and back, which it completed with success.

The early ship was primarily used as a mission ship by the Planetary Alliance, but Hendrax soon afterwards gave his apprentices Lev, Fyxan and Zirix command over the ship, with the three serving as the commanders and primary bridge crew of the ship.

The trio utilised the battleship as a means to end Space Pirate blockades on Estron, defeat Space Pirates that raided trade ships, as well as generally act as the exploration ship of the Combat Masters' League, to explore new and uncharted territories.

Fall of Dracia, Refugee Crisis and Falling into Disrepair
When Fyxan graduated to become a fully-fledged Combat Master, he took a step back from operating the by-then famous battleship in order to focus on his home planet of Dracia. Lev and Zirix remained in command of the battleship until, eventually, it was discovered that Zirix had become interested in the Six Holy Elements and how Titanus had wanted to use those during the Second Great Infinus War. Hendrax then forbade the Toa of Iron command of the Titan-I, leaving only Lev as the ship's captain.

Once Dracia fell as a result of Zirix's betrayal against Hendrax, the Titan-I was one of the largest refugee carriers and became the flagship of the fleet of ships that fled the devastated planet. Initially drifting through the Drakon system endlessly without aim, the ship then entered Trans-Warp into the Xeler system where it sought to settle its refugees.

With supplies running out at a quick rate, conditions on the ship worsened until the ship was forced to apply to land on Arcturus Magna. With much reluctance, the government of Arcturus Magna accepted the battleship's landing, leading to the unloading of thousands upon thousands of refugees unto the icy planet.

For the next several years, the battleship continued to serve as the primary cargo freighter of the Arcturan government that would carry supplies to and from Arcturus Magna in order to aid in the construction of the magnificent new Arcturus City. After the Dracian Refugee Crisis, the ship was commissioned as part of the Arcturan Space Fleet.

Soon after, however, the old Dracian battleship became primarily used as an example to build newer, better spacecraft, larger and smaller. Trans-Warp Factor T2 became a universal standard for Arcturan battleships and the Titan-I fell into disrepair.

It was put on non-active when the Galactic Council Space Fleet was founded, and became unused except for occasional backup missions despite the fact that it had, years before, served as the most state-of-the-art battleship in the galaxy.

Kraka Minor and the Nui Tower of Time
Once a Turaga on Kraka Minor discovered irregularities in the pattern in which Time flowed, and alerted Filius and Acritus, the Arcturan government and Galactic Council sent Fyxan, Lev, Shadon, Aquila and Jareroden to the small planet Kraka Minor where they'd be briefed.

Once there, the Titan-I underwent a significant restoration and refitting process, which involved installing state-of-the-art missile launch pads and upgrading its engines and weaponry. When Kratus and Fairon were introduced to the group, the group was completed and became the crew of the new Titan-I battleship.

The battleship was present during their mission towards the Nui Tower of Time and in the subsequent Collapse of the Nui Tower of Time, and the remnants of Fairon's team fled in the Titan-I to Estron, where they have been since.

Technical Details
Like all Battleships, the Titan-I had a hull based off of the hulls of water-bound battleships seen on planets, made more suitable for space travel through the usage of the material of reinforced Protodermis steel. It is driven, like other battleships, by a highly radioactive nuclear energy reactor, located below the bridge in the engineering section.

Bridge
The bridge of the Titan-I is a large room located high above the rest of the battleship in a large tower. It is the command centre of the battleship and its primary "brain", from where all the ship's operations and technologies are controlled.

The bridge contains a captain's chair located on a platform above the rest, with a command table behind it. In front of the captain's chair, an aisle is located with panels left and right to control the technologies that power the ship, including radar, engines and weaponry. It also includes a digital screen that is projected onto the main window.

Trans-Warp Nacelles
Like other Trans-Warp capable spacecraft, the Titan-I features a set of Trans-Warp nacelles, in this case three. Two of these are located on the top of the hull, slightly astern of the bridge, one on starboard and one on portside, while another is located on the bottom of the hull in the middle. These nacelles provide the ship with propulsion during Trans-Warp travel and enable it to travel at Trans-Warp Factor T2.

Armaments
The Titan-I is equipped with four double-barrelled Energy Cannons which function as its primary high-powered armaments. These cannons have an extremely high firepower, high firerate and relatively high accuracy even at longer distances, making them effective against other battleships.

In addition to the primary armaments, the Titan-I carries an array of smaller armaments including 300 Energy Machine-Guns and 50 rocket launch pads, which serve to protect the ship from attacks at a closer distance.

Crew
The Titan-I battleship can, at max, carry a crew of approximately 1.750 beings, but its upgrade meant it could operate its main armaments and engines with as little as three beings operating it. To be fully operational to its maximum potential, though, the crew needed to be at least 75. When Zirix, Lev and Fyxan operated the ship, they could operate the ship even when they were its only operators, but not to its full potential.

Computer Systems
The Titan-I was ahead of its time by introducing a computerised way to control machinery and engineering throughout the ship by simply commanding the computer to do so. This eliminated the need for an extremely large crew and resulted in the ship's crew being ever smaller while the ship could still conduct its operations efficiently.

Legacy
The Titan-I left a legacy on the Spaceship and Battleship technologies of their time, and marked a leap from the smaller spaceships of the days before to the larger, more advanced, more powerful and faster spacecraft that succeeded it. As the primary ship of the Combat Masters' League at the peak of its service, the Titan-I also became an intergalactic symbol of justice, peace and order.

After the Universal Paralysis occurred and it became used by Fairon and his team as their main vehicle, it became a symbol of resistance against the tyranny imposed by the Temporal Empire.

Trivia

 * The Titan-I was based off of Space Battleship Yamato, like many other spacecraft in the Kronian Multiverse Storyline.
 * The Titan-I originally was an airship called the Titan MK.I Airship and appeared in the original drafts of Dark Future as the main airship operated by the resistance.

Appearances

 * Dark Future (first appearance)