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The Afterlife4 is ORDER’s largest and most advanced vessel, a super-dreadnought stationed permanently within the Breach, serving as a mobile command center, city, and multiversal operations hub. Spanning 13 Terran miles from end to end, it dwarfs its predecessors—The Afterlife, Daughter of Afterlife, and Afterlife3—all of which were destroyed in battle. Designed with the explicit purpose of overcoming the weaknesses that led to these losses, the Afterlife4 has become a mobile fortress and self-sustained ecosystem for ORDER’s personnel, providing unprecedented capabilities in defense, logistics, and support for multiversal operations.
Built within the Breach and not intended to enter real space, the Afterlife4 incorporates a range of specialized systems designed to withstand the dangers of its chaotic home environment:
Redundant Vargas Fields: Multiple Vargas Field generators protect the ship from breachfire and allow it to operate indefinitely in the Breach. The redundancy ensures continuity in defense even if one generator fails.
Kinetic Shielding: Designed to deflect projectiles, debris, and energy-based attacks, the kinetic shields provide a robust first layer of defense, especially useful in volatile Breach conditions.
Hexagrammic Wards: Wards etched into the hull serve as magical defenses against arcane, extradimensional, and undead threats, adding an extra layer of protection that is particularly effective in the Breach’s unpredictable environment.
Ablative Ceramic Armor and Octium Hull: The outer hull of the Afterlife4 is layered with ablative ceramic armor to absorb and disperse high-energy attacks, with an indestructible Octium core beneath for additional resilience. This dual-layered structure makes the Afterlife4 impervious to most known forms of attack.
The Afterlife4 is equipped with an array of powerful weapons capable of handling any threat:
Point-Defense Turrets: Positioned along the port and starboard sides, these turrets protect against smaller, faster targets such as drones, missiles, or boarding craft.
Relativistic Rail Cannons: Twin rail cannons on the dorsal and ventral sides of the ship can fire telephone-pole-sized projectiles at relativistic speeds, delivering immense kinetic force. These cannons are the Afterlife4’s primary weapon against other large vessels or powerful breach-born entities.
Missile Pods: Missile pods along the dorsal and ventral sides allow for a variety of payloads, from high-explosive warheads to EMP and arcane-tipped missiles. This versatility ensures the Afterlife4 can respond to threats at any range.
The Afterlife4’s size allows it to operate like a mobile city, with extensive docking bays capable of housing frigate-class ships in the same way a traditional carrier might accommodate one-man fighters. These bays allow for:
Refueling and Resupply: High-capacity refueling stations and storage centers keep smaller ORDER vessels fully stocked for continued operations in the Breach.
Repair and Maintenance: The docking bays feature automated and manual repair facilities capable of servicing and overhauling frigates and corvettes, ensuring ORDER’s fleet can operate with minimal downtime.
Personnel Transfer: Smaller ships continuously transfer new crew members, specialists, and resources between the Afterlife4 and other ORDER facilities, sustaining its generational crew and keeping it fully operational.
The Afterlife4 is not merely a warship; it is a fully functioning generational vessel where crew members are often born, live, and die without ever leaving the ship. This city-sized vessel offers:
Residential and Educational Areas: Designed for the families and descendants of ORDER personnel, the Afterlife4 includes dedicated spaces for education, recreation, and community life, fostering a multi-generational culture within ORDER.
Community and Legacy: Crew members carry on family legacies, often taking up the roles of their parents and grandparents. This continuity has created a unique identity among the residents of the Afterlife4, blending ORDER’s disciplined ethos with the familial ties and traditions of a close-knit community.
Under the command of Michael Shadesmith, Overseer of Operations, the Afterlife4 serves as a central hub for ORDER’s Breach activities and is essential to the organization’s ability to monitor and respond to multiversal threats:
Intelligence and Surveillance: Equipped with advanced sensors and surveillance equipment, the Afterlife4 monitors fluctuations within the Breach, identifying emerging threats and sending operatives as needed.
Containment and Research: The ship’s secure laboratories and containment units allow ORDER to study and neutralize dangerous artifacts and breach-born entities.
Deployment Center: As a mobile staging ground, the Afterlife4 enables ORDER to quickly mobilize forces, deploy resources, and maintain logistical support across realms.
The Afterlife4’s presence in the Breach ensures that ORDER maintains a continuous, unassailable stronghold capable of launching operations, housing personnel, and serving as a beacon of ORDER’s mission in the multiverse.
The Afterlife4 represents the pinnacle of ORDER’s engineering, designed to compensate for the weaknesses that led to the destruction of its predecessors. Its scale, defenses, and self-sufficiency make it a nearly indestructible fortress, a mobile metropolis, and a testament to ORDER’s commitment to stability and control within the multiverse.