The Empiricist

The Empiricist
The flagship of the Secessionist Technocrat Sebekh the Execrator, The Empiricist is a vast supercapital class ship originally of the Technocracy's Orion class. The Orion class was an ancient design intended to be a fully self-sufficient expeditionary and exploratory vessel, capable of reaching the farthest-flung corners of the galaxy, seeding outposts, gathering resources and manufacturing almost anything it could possibly need without ever returning. Named for the special drives the original handful of these nigh-mythical ships were equipped with during the earliest days of the Hegemon, Orions were critical in re-establishing contact with worlds lost to time, establishing contact with worlds settled but never recorded, finding new worlds for colonisation or exploitation, and continuing the Technocracy's great search for knowledge lost during the collapse of the Mars Federation.

The Empiricist, as with other Orions, has evolved over the millennia as Archmagos after Archmagos added to it, and resembles a colossal insect or arachnid, with leg-like armatures along its length capable of breaking apart ships and asteroids alike, a carapace studded with countless turreted emplacements, and primary broadside, fore and aft armaments that dwarf those of Hegemon battleships.