Emperor-class Battleship



The Emperor-class battleship is a slow and ponderous vessel that serves as one of the mainstay capital ships of the Imperial Navy. The Emperor-class dispenses with the normal armoured prow and instead carries a mass of sensor probes and forward turrets. The Emperor-class also may carry squadrons of Shark assault boats.

Design


The Emperor-class it is one of the oldes Imperial starship designs still in use, due to the discovery of the Emperor-class vessel called the Divine Right that was fused into a Space Hulk for some ten thousand years. Emperor-class battleships along with the Retribution-class battleships are known to have a huge golden monument relating to the Imperium atop its bridge. The Emperor-class' monument is a cloaked angel with a sword and shield.

Weapons


The main armament of the Emperor-class is made up of its 8 squadrons of Shark assault boats or other Imperial Navy attack craft. These are able to roam far from the battleship, to engage enemy capital ships that would otherwise be out of range of the battleship's main batteries.

Void Shields
Void shields on Imperial vessels (and enemy vessels for that matter), are larger and more powerful versions than those found on titans and other war machines. A void shield is created by single generator that creates a sphere of energy around the ship that protects it from direct and indirect enemy fire. It prevents damage from energy weapons and prevents actual critical structural damage occurring on the ship. Any vessel large enough to be built with a shield generator thus as a shield but energy weapons overload the generators so once fire as been absorbed, the void shield collapses. The shield regenerates several minutes later assuming the ship isn’t attacked again and that subsequent attacks do not damage the shield generator. Ordnance like torpedoes and fighters are not affected by the effects of shields and can do direct damage to the ship unless engaged by turrets. The Emperor Class has four shield generators and thus has four shields.

Propulsion
Every Imperial ship is equipped with a plasma drive for normal propulsion through the depths of space. Running up to a third of the ship's length, the aft section is a mass of drive tubes, engine compartments and plasma reactors. Most Imperial Navy starships employ Warp drives to breach the barrier that separates realspace from the Immaterium and allow for interstellar travel. Implosion of these drives can lead to the creation of a warp rift.

Famous Emperor-class battleships

 * Divine Right - took part in the Gothic War
 * Dominus Astra - played a important role in defeating Hive Fleet Behemoth and ending the Battle for Macragge during the First Tyrannic War
 * Indomitable Wrath
 * Legatus Stygies
 * Lord of Light