About: Stronghold-class Commerce Vessel

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In most cases these ships withdraw their small craft and disengage if challenged but in some instances have inexplicably turned on their attackers with a surprising ferocity. It is worthy of note that every known encounter between Demiurg and Ork vessels has resulted in combat and that Imperial renegade elements have often hired Demiurg vessels to fight as mercenaries in interplanetary and intersystem struggles. As warships, Demiurg vessels are slow but well-defended, boasting considerable firepower at close ranges due to its potent Lances and possession of a prow-based laser cutting beam intended to be used to slice apart asteroids for mining but easily repurposed to serve as a potent weapon. Stronghold-class vessels also maintain the capacity for launching mining craft reconfigured as At

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rdfs:label	Stronghold-class Commerce Vessel
rdfs:comment	In most cases these ships withdraw their small craft and disengage if challenged but in some instances have inexplicably turned on their attackers with a surprising ferocity. It is worthy of note that every known encounter between Demiurg and Ork vessels has resulted in combat and that Imperial renegade elements have often hired Demiurg vessels to fight as mercenaries in interplanetary and intersystem struggles. As warships, Demiurg vessels are slow but well-defended, boasting considerable firepower at close ranges due to its potent Lances and possession of a prow-based laser cutting beam intended to be used to slice apart asteroids for mining but easily repurposed to serve as a potent weapon. Stronghold-class vessels also maintain the capacity for launching mining craft reconfigured as At
dcterms:subject	Spacecraft S Spacecraft S Tau Spacecraft Tau Tau Empire Tau Tau Empire Tau Spacecraft Demiurg Spacecraft Demiurg Demiurg Spacecraft Demiurg
abstract	In most cases these ships withdraw their small craft and disengage if challenged but in some instances have inexplicably turned on their attackers with a surprising ferocity. It is worthy of note that every known encounter between Demiurg and Ork vessels has resulted in combat and that Imperial renegade elements have often hired Demiurg vessels to fight as mercenaries in interplanetary and intersystem struggles. As warships, Demiurg vessels are slow but well-defended, boasting considerable firepower at close ranges due to its potent Lances and possession of a prow-based laser cutting beam intended to be used to slice apart asteroids for mining but easily repurposed to serve as a potent weapon. Stronghold-class vessels also maintain the capacity for launching mining craft reconfigured as Attack Craft and torpedoes. Some Rogue Traders have reported that Stronghold-class starships serve as the homes for up to three Demiurg clans or Brotherhoods and are essentially the mobile fortresses of this nomadic species. The sociopolitical nature of Demiurg Brotherhoods or what the relationship between those who share a single vessel might be are not yet understood by Imperial scholars. Stronghold-class starships are often seen in uninhabited star systems with fleets of smaller ships moving resources to and from the vessel and a planet or asteroid, with the prow facing the star. A notable trait of the Stronghold-class is its employment of an array of powerful electromagnetic fields around its prow to serve as a Bussard Scoop that will absorb interstellar hydrogen. This hydrogen is accelerated to the rear of the vessel to speeds near that of the speed of light to provide motive force as a ram-jet but the complex radiation shielding it requires evidently produces numerous other defensive benefits for the starship. This process is not understood by the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Tech-priests are eager to get their hands on an intact Demiurg vessel to analyze it.

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