YS North Star

Natively known as the YS Zeyγcaron, the ship is more widely known as the Ys North Star or the YTE North Star. Measuring three kilometers in length and several hundred meters wide, Zeyγcaron masses roughly 500 megatons with roughly 10% of the mass composing it's armor and 90% for fuel. The North Star is a Battleship under OUC classification.

Purpose
The craft is designed for independent deep space action, harassing enemy lines, or providing heavy hit and run fire. Unlike the majority of nYaucto craft, the ship is not modular and is designed to work separately from Kana craft swarms

Weapons
The ship is capable of delivering fire from a single large 10-Exawatt cannon and fifty 100-Petawatt cannons as well as numerous smaller point defense weapons. Half of these weapon systems are powered by state of the art black hole generators.

Crew
The ship is has a crew of up to one hundred and fifty, with fifty gun masters, ten maintenance specialists, ten deck crew, and up to eighty additional Kana Craft pilots/engineers. Gun masters would also specialize outside of their use in brief confrontations.

History
See Also: Ebullience Gate

Ebullience Gate: Promotional Chapter 0: The YS North Star
As massive as she was, she was utterly dwarfed sitting still to the adjacent enormous shipyard which rested beside her. The two hanging together in orbit of the still larger world below.

My eyes glanced along her mile long haul, fascinated as they traveled from the engines, along the spine, to the guns, and finally dancing around the various aspects of the crew deck. North Star, a true Beacon class superior battlecruiser, soon to become all mine. The design was to be accompanied by several thousand Kana Craft. The small modular craft could be helpful in defending against drone swarms, double as escape pods, or form a larger reconnaissance vessel. Which will doubtless be useful in our upcoming confrontations with void marauders.

After the brief appraisal my mind was forced to return to world side issues. But still my thoughts lingered.

My former command, The YS Star Strider, had been a durable 800 meter heavy cruiser. I had cared for her ten years and despite the inexhaustible amount of maintenance she had required she had been a tough little vessel and true to the bitter end. But there, before me, was an object of true vacuum voyaging beauty and military capability. My mission would soon be taking me to the very fringes of the Teyno frontier. To the dimly lit spaces around the useless cluster of red dwarfs bordering the chaotic mess that is the Cipius Cluster.

North Star, though not created to act as an escort outright, I know that I'll be excepted to serve as the an anti-escort, by preemptively eliminating threats to the accompanying Eighth Consular Armada Group before they arrived to threaten our craft. After all as another of those sayings go "An offense can serve as a pre-emptive defense" or something to that measure.

The masterpiece would hold my gaze for a few more moments before I look over the crew that would be assigned to her. I see a "nYoryoll" will be serving as my XO and a "Conraek" as 2nd Lieutenant and number 2 overall. Just like the navy to assign somebody to second guess my every move. I much prefer executive officers to second commanders, they never questioned you. Of course I'm sure my previous commanders had always felt the same way about me.