Demarchist military vessel

Demarchist military vessels was a larger type of interplanetary military vessel (akin to a capital ship), used mainly in the Epsilon Eridani system by the Yellowstone Demarchy during the 26th century. They seemed to be the largest military vessels available to the Demarchy at the time.

Demarchist military ships saw plenty of action in quelling Banshee pirate bands, but their greatest use was in a standard military role during the Conjoiner-Demarchist War of the later 26th century, all in the Epsilon Eridani system. Despite the efforts of the Demarchist fleets,

Nevil Clavain and a team of fellow Conjoiners visited the interior of a crippled, depressurized Demarchist ship at one point during the Conjoiner-Demarchist War, some time before Clavain's decision to defect from the Conjoiners.

Appearances

• Inhibitor trilogy
  • Redemption Ark (2002) - major appearances

Notes

• No official name or specific classification is provided for this type of vessel, despite some level of description in Redemption Ark. It is unclear whether the ship could be dubbed a "cruiser", "frigate", whether it is related to the deep-system cruisers available to the Demarchists in the prior century (the 25th century) or an entirely different type of capital ship. Hence the rather generic name used for this ship type in this article.
• Based on the description of this ship type's external hulls, this Demarchist design seems to share the design features of their prow/front - a claw-like shape - with a type of shuttle mentioned and seen in action later in the revelation Space series (e.g. in Absolution Gap). It is entirely conjectural whether this shared feature points to a "Demarchist design esthetic" for some ships, regardless of their size, or whether it might be a design feature shared by ship types built by a certain manufacturer.

See also

• Deep-system cruiser - A similar, possibly related type of capital ship used by the Yellowstone Demarchy in their home system (during the 25th century, often in cooperation with the Panoply).

Spacecraft
SHUTTLES AND SMALL CRAFT*
Civilian shuttles/small craft: Trike | Tug | Cutter | Spherical shuttle | Flotilla excursion shuttle
Police shuttles/small craft: Panoply cutter
Individual shuttles/small craft: Melancholia of Departure (spherical shuttle) Remontoire's 'Trident' fighter (outrigger fightercraft)
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ATMOSPHERIC SHUTTLES**
Coalition shuttle | Flotilla delta-winged shuttle Cutter | "Claw" shuttle | Lighthugger orbital shuttle
Individual atmo-shuttles: Scavenger's Daughter | Dominatrix
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INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT (LARGE SPACESHIPS)
Civilian ships: Freighter | Liner | Hospital ship | Lighthugger in-system craft
Police and military ships: Deep-system cruiser Demarchist military vessel | Conjoiner ''Moray''-class corvette
Individual ships: Bellatrix | Democratic Circus | High Catherine Nightingale | Storm Bird | Universal Suffrage
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INTERSTELLAR SPACECRAFT (STARSHIPS)
Generation ships - Flotilla ships: Santiago, Islamabad, Brazilia, Palestine, Baghdad
Ramscoop starships - Atalanta
Lighthuggers - List (Sandra Voi, Nostalgia for Infinity, Zodiacal Light, Nightshade, Hirondelle, Petronel, etc.)
Alien starships - Void warren ("Caleuche")
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SPACECRAFT PROPULSION
Antimatter engines | Ramscoop | Conjoiner Drive | Stealth Conjoiner Drive Dark Drive | Inertia-suppression Machinery | Cryo-arithmetic engine
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SPACECRAFT WEAPONRY AND DEFENCES
Magnetic railgun | Boser | Ack-am | Foam-phase Munition | Pin-head munitions Camouflaging screens | Hypometric weapon | Bladder-mine
* - capable only of flight in the vacuum of space ** - double as both spacecraft and aircraft, depending on the need