Quetzl Ski'tok'chul ' Dreadnought Class Carrier

Quetzl Ski'tok'chul "Brilliant Serpent" Class Fleet carrier

The Quetzl are renowned for their starships. their technology is considerably more advanced than their human allies. featuring technology that is unavailable to the Terrans, Tau, and Valkiir. They often build vessels that are larger and more powerful than their allies.

Their military is seldom involved in external actions remaining within their borders unless responding to a direct incursion into their space and infrequent operations to assist allies defend their holdings against a major threat.

The Quetzl have a relatively small defensive fleet based on smaller warships with a core fleet of heavy battleships and dreadnoughts. These are supplemented by large numbers of carriers, and jump capable ferries that deliver strike craft, bombers and fighters.

These carriers are built to scales larger than the conventional designs built by human allies. They often carry strike craft up to several hundred tons in size. These  craft often carry weapons capable of dealing heavy damage to capital ships, and leveling fortified installations with large scale high speed, and highly aggressive strikes.

The Ski'tok'chul is three times larger than the heaviest Terran built fleet carrier approaching 500,000 displacement tons and  capable of carrying entire fighter wings, in it's vast bays as well as strike craft up to 400 displacement tons. When deployed to suppress incursions, or launch counter attacks against heavy resistance the Ski'tok'chul can reduce enemy formations into burning wreckage with minimal support from other dreadnought class warships.

In addition to their fighters the Ski'tok'chul carriers the direct fire potential of a heavy battleship to dissuade direct assault on the carriers by anything lighter than another battleship. In many cases the Ski'tok'chul will engage in offensive direct combat actions alongside their cruiser and battle cruiser escorts.

The Ski'tok'chul has been in service with he Quetzl Fleet for over two hundred years. constantly updated and modernized to keep on par with the newest vessels in both opposition and allied fleets. the design has a highly modular internal structure allowing it to be stripped to the spine and rebuilt to replace older systems with more advanced hardware.

This modular design with significant internal bulkheads also makes the vessel extremely resistant to hostile fire. the addition of defensive screens, shields, and dampeners makes the Ski'tok'chul as heavily protected as many less advanced dreadnoughts. Due to this advantage few of the vessels have been lost in combat.


Kohl'Chut: Fleet Flagship
Several of the vessels which supported the lifting of the siege of Earth during the first Najuhlim incursions still serve as active combatants and fleet flagships two centuries later. The Fleet flagship Kohl'Chut has been on almost constant service with the fleet barring refits, and repair periods after major wars. It's two hundred fifty year service life has led to it's crew referring to it as Chii'Tokrii "The Matron Mother" after the nearly immortal mythical hero of many of their epics.

According to traditional tales as log as one feather of Chii'Tokrii remains after her death she will be reborn from a stone to defeat any of the bloodthirsty gds who threaten the Quetzl with desruction.his has only strengthened the legend of the Kohl'Chut since at least twice the ship suffered near catastrophic damage while engaging both he Najuhlim High Command during a major border war, and an Onai fleet that assaulted Quetzl space. The ship was rebuilt and updated returning to service on both occasions.

Due to the massive expense of building new Ski'tok'chul class vessels the Quetzl only construct a handful usually to replace ships which through age or damage are no longer capable of being returned to battle or are lost in combat. Each ship receives the name of the vessel it is replacing, or in the rare case of a new hull being built to expand the fleets capabilities the name is chosen by a moot of the Quetzl priest class, and Precognitive.

The most recent new hull was commissioned into service within the last five years. Given the Name Chii'Tech'Nitzca. "or "last Son of The Moon" hinting that the class might be slated to be replaced as the main super heavy carrier by a newer class of warship.