# ISV Obdurate

Attached to the [437th Legion of Centaurus](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/sollan-empire-vBP/page/437th-centaurine-legion). Captained by [DAME RAINE SMYTHE](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/sollan-empire-vBP/page/dame-raine-smythe).

A supercarrier containing massive holds filled with dozens of smaller frigates (including the <i>ISV Balmung</i>, the <i>Pharaoh</i>, and the <i>[Mistral](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/norman-starships/page/mistral)</i>), thousands of crew.

Obdurate (adj.) - stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action.

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  Far to one edge of the projection, like the body of some fattened game bird, sat the <strong><i>Obdurate</i></strong>, flanked now by the knife-edged shapes of <i>[Balmung](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/sollan-empire-starships/page/isv-balmung)</i> and <i>[Pharaoh](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/norman-starships/page/pharaoh)</i>, as well as two other Imperial destroyers whose names I did not know. The great super-carrier herself was an ugly thing, squat and more square than the deadly forms of the ships at her side, and pathetic-seeming next to the graceful bulk and horror of [Kharn](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/legends/page/kharn-sagara)’s <i>[Demiurge](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/extrasolarian-starships/page/demiurge)</i>, but she was a hundred miles from bow to engine-clusters, and fierce as fire if engaged.<br><br><i>Howling Dark</i>, Chapter 56: Like Castles of Ice
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<i><font size="3">[Empire of Silence](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/empire-of-silence)</i>
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    Accompanied by the Cousland Drakes and the Whitehorse Company foederati groups to defend the Emesh system from Cielcin invasion.</p>
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<i><font size="3">[Howling Dark](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/howling-dark)</i>
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<i><font size="3">[Demon in White](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/demon-in-white)</i>
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<i><font size="3">[Kingdoms of Death](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/kingdoms-of-death)</i>
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<i><font size="3">[Ashes of Man](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/ashes-of-man)</i>
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<i><font size="3">[Disquiet Gods](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/disquiet-gods)</i>
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<i><font size="3">[Shadows Upon Time](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/shadows-upon-time)</i>
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  <i>The Dregs of Empire</i> - N/A 
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<i><font size="3">[Tales of the Sun Eater & Other Stories](https://www.suneater.wiki/books/short-story-collections)</i>
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