Editing Spelljammer Vessels (section)

==Beholder Fleet==
[[Beholder]]s, being simultaneously one of the most magical races in [[Wildspace]] and also one of the weirdest shapes, don't have a lot of use for conventional ships. So, instead, they came up with their own take on spelljammers, using their natural spells such as disintegration and telekinesis to mold asteroids into shapes where a specialized breed of beholder-kin called the Orbus can propel them and their crews through the void. Although they also buy ships custom-built to their specifications from the [[Mercane]], too. Beholder ships are very rare, largely because beholders are xenophobic to an extent that even the [[Imperium of Man]] would look at them and go "Dude, you guys need to chill", so beholder nations are small and fractious. Still, beholder ships are literally some of the most heavily armed vessels in all of [[Wildspace]] by simple virtue of having multiple beholders working together.

Theoretically, nothing could stop another race from using one of these ships if they somehow captured it as booty, or even installing an Orbus into their own ship to use as a spelljamming helm, but this is very unlikely in practice. Firstly, beholder ships are regarded with about the same dread and loathing as [[neogi]] and [[illithid]] ships. Secondly, you've got to actually ''take'' the damn ship off of its beholder crew, which is just... good luck! Finally, the beholders are determined to keep the orbii to themselves, so they will kill the little buggers if it looks like they might actually risk losing them.

===Tyrant Scout Ship===
::Built By: [[Mercane]], [[Beholder]]s
::Used Primarily By: [[Beholder]]s
::Tonnage: 13
::Hull Points: 13
::Crew: 8/10 (total weapon crew: 2)
::Maneuverability Class: B
::Landing - Land: No
::Landing - Water: No
::Armor Rating: 2
::Saves As: Stone
::Power Type: Orbus
::Ship's Rating: 2
::Standard Armaments: Special
::Cargo: 5 tons
::Keel Length: 120'
::Beam Length: 90'

The Tyrant Scout Ship is a small vessel used by beholders for scouting, exploration, and other missions where they don't want to risk a Hive Mother in person or it's just not important enough to warrant a major display of force. Crewed by half a dozen beholders and powered by two orbii, the Scout lacks the Tyrant's communal beam blaster circuit weapon, but can still draw raw magical energy from two dedicated beholders and convert it into powerful bolts of force, described as resembling [[Magic Missile]]s on steroids. Physically, Tyrant Scouts are as wildly divergent in shape as Tyrants, they're just smaller.

===Tyrant Ship===
::Built By: [[Mercane]], [[Beholder]]s
::Used Primarily By: [[Beholder]]s
::Tonnage: 23
::Hull Points: 69
::Crew: 15/23
::Maneuverability Class: C
::Landing - Land: No
::Landing - Water: No
::Armor Rating: 0
::Saves As: Stone
::Power Type: Orbus
::Ship's Rating: 1-6
::Standard Armaments: Beholder Circuit
::Cargo: 11 tons
::Keel Length: Varies
::Beam Length: Varies

Much like how the beholders are literally a race of [[mutant]]s where virtually no two individuals are exactly alike, so too are their Tyrant Ships wildly divergent in form. Each "beholder nation" under the reigns of its Hive Mother creates its own personalized, custom-tailored Tyrant Ship, which the mercanes love because it gives them more excuses to ramp up the price (to a degree, they're not ''stupid''). Regardless of its custom jobs, however, Tyrant Ships all share the same basic structure - a concave "shell" indented with small pockets to serve as resting places for individual beholders with their tentacles down. Whilst they usually don't bother with the catapults and ballistae that other races arm themselves with, they more than make up for it with the fact that they carry the combined offensive power of up to two dozen beholders in one place. In fact, so long as the "queen" beholder is alive, the collected beholders can actually turn the entire ship into a focusing lens, allowing them to effectively blast out super-sized versions of their eyestalk spells across space. That's right, move over Great Bombard; the beholders are packing motherfucking laser cannons!

All Tyrant ships carry 1 Hive Mother class beholder, 1d6 Orbii for propulsion, and a number of beholder crewmen. If a Tyrant ship is planning an invasion, it will also field various "Abomination" class beholders, though purely space-based missions will see Abominations either as a minority or entirely absent, due to their inability to contribute to the Beholder Circuit that provides both offensive and motive boosts to the ship.

Two known variants of Tyrant ships exist; '''Rammers''' feature a built-in piercing ram and always carry Abominations, being primarily raiders and ship-to-ship combatants, whilst '''Alliance Ships''' extend the cargo hold (sometimes by literally welding a second spelljammer to the Tyrant ship) and house an increased crew of non-beholders, either Charmed slaves or a tentative alliance.

Combatting a Tyrant is possible, and best done at long range; their magical attacks are powerful, but comparatively short ranged. Of course, even when you destroy the ship, you still have to worry about the pissed off survivors flying over to you under their own power.

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