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Stronghold Class Commerce Vessel

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Stronghold Class Commerce Vessels belong to the Demiurg and are extremely well powered, large and advanced. They are factories or ore-processing vessels and are often bases which move between systems and asteroid belts. They are also bases for a fleet of intersystem asteroid mining pods, haulage flyers and prospector probes. Strongholds are often seen in uninhabited systems with fleets of small ships moving resources to and from the vessel and a planet or asteroid, with the prow facing the star. Most of the time the vessel will disengage if challenged but some will attack with a dangerous ferocity.

They are slow but well defended, especially at close quarters, and have a good capacity for launching retrofitted mining vessals as attack craft. The ship also uses an array of complex electro-magnetic fields around which are accellerated towards the rear of the hull in order to give some form of fast increase in speed. This process is not well understood by the Adeptus Mechanicus and they would like to get their hands on an intact one.