Colony Ship Concept

The Matriacrch Class colony ship is used by most human factions, it is the largest vessel of it class and assigned purpose, essentially a city in space, it is also not uncommon for them to retrofitted as battleships, with sufficent modifcation they can stand up to dedicated combat vessels like the Mako. With the insteller war reaching to 38th year, the amount of Matricachs serving in combat service has tripled and are frequently only leaving the shipyards to refitted for the front lines. The only drawback to ship is it is impossible to refit the core reactor and drive system without effectivly stripping the ship down entirely, meaning it uses a civilian class drive. The manufactures refuse to incorporate a military drive or improvements in fear of their shipyards being targeted in a "Scorched Earth" attack from one of the factions in the war

Three Matricach's orbit Kali at any time, providing colonists support from orbital drop construction packs, to fully bombarding areas with kinetic slugs and environmental controlling chemicals, deploying troops and vehicles built from the colossal vessels internal foundries and factories.