Editing Tau Merchant Battleship (section)

====Vash'Ya====
[[File:14438720_f1024.jpg|300px|right|thumb|THE Tau aircraft carrier.]]

The carrier fleet of the Tau navy and the older cousin of the smaller [[Vash'Ya Configurated Lar'shi-class Starship]].

It is the one efficient use of Launch Bays for the Tau Merchant fleet, costing 73.5 points per Launch Bay from the base cost, 49.5 points, if you account for the base cost of the Vash'Ya before the [[Orca-class Destroyer|Orcas]], are added in. The only other places you'll find Launch Bays will generally cost you around 100 points per bay so there's really not much of a contest for second place, as they are all equally inefficient compared to the Vash'Ya.

Beyond this bit about the Launch Bays, if you don't have a significant need for deploying squadrons, the Bor'Kan is a vastly superior Battleship for the cost.

It is armed with 6 [[Starship Railgun]] Batteries, 4 Launch Bays carrying [[Barracuda]]s and [[Manta]]s, 3 Gravitic Hooks carrying [[Kass'l-class Gunship]]s, [[Skether'qan-class Starship]]s and the [[Kir'qath-class Starship]]s and 3 Double-Barrel Super [[Heavy Starship Railgun]] Turrets.

*'''Length:''' 7.3km
*'''Mass:''' 35 megatonnes; approx
*'''Crew:''' 94,000 crew, including 20,400 pilots and support personnel; approx
*'''Acceleration:''' 2.2 gravities max sustainable acceleration; approx