Pharaoh

The flagship of the Meidua Red Company during the mission to find Vorgossos. Captained by Bassander Lin. Taken on the planet Pharos following the betrayal of the Norman Emil Bordelon.

The Pharaoh was a proper Uhran-made capital ship. Two miles long, with a profile like a knife blade: wider than it was tall, pointed on the front end, with the bridge far in aft atop a conning spire like a fin two hundred and fifty meters high. Bassander’s quarters were in that spire, near the bridge, but we plunged out of it before the lift entered a horizontal shaft that carried us along a good hundred meters of tube before dropping us down and further aft. Toward her stern, the Pharaoh flared wider to accommodate her engine cluster—enclosed in the ring of her warp drive—as well as the docking bays for her various shuttles and the two dozen Sparrowhawk lighter craft she could field for inter-ship combat. I watched us descend on the lift’s terminal screen, a little red node moving against the blue wire frame.

Howling Dark, Chapter 1: The Red Company