Voluptas

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Voluptas Class Sa'arm "Conquest Sphere"

   A Voluptas is the largest Sa'arm colony ship that we have met.  It apparently carries ~25,000 troops ready for use, another million in hibernation or stasis, and literally hundreds of armed landing craft.  They are built in orbit, but when reaching their target they land.  They are designed for rapid disassembly and are not capable of taking off again.
   These ships represent an immense investment in time, labor, and materials, and in Confederacy experience they are only used to deal with particularly troublesome food sources.  One should be enough for any planet.  It should be a source of pride to the Humans that at the Fourth Battle of Earthat the Sa'arm brought four of them as well as two smaller colony ships.

Details Known

• Mounts an immense number of Medium Particle Beam turrets.  Probably 243 (3^5).
• Before landing, the outer shell comes apart to be used as "gunboats" or landing craft.  Since each gunboat has a "lower" hull made of a warships' outer hull and has a Medium Particle Beam turret sticking through it, it can be assumed that each Voluptas 'carries' 243 of these.
• Carries 9 light starships internally, usually Vacuna scout/patrol ships
• Carries 21 (plus, probably 27) smaller ships internally, usually Lima or Lactanus local-space craft
• All wrecked Sa'arm colony ships inspected had 243 (3^5) units in each "freezer" room
• Live crew may be exactly 19,683 (3^9) units
• "Frozen" troop count may be exactly 531,441 (3^12) full-grown or immature units with another 531,441 stored eggs ready to be hatched.

Story Usage

   A textual analysis of the story repository, current as of 2018 and performed on 2019-09-06 identified the following usage counts for Voluptas:

• Chosen Frozen II by lordshipmayhem 7 instances.
• Guerilla by Zipper D Dude 3 instances.

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