Ballista was the largest battleship created by Salusan Militia and was used later during the Butlerian Jihad.
Characteristics
Ballistas were motherships of great capacity, able to host smaller ships in its bay, as well as carry a large amount of military. Ballistas should be commanded by a Tercero or higher.
Capacity
Ballistas could carry the following additional armaments
- 1500 crewmen
- 20 troop transports
- 15 large shuttles for cargo and equipment
- 20 small passenger shuttles,
- 50 long-range patrol craft
- 200 kindjals.
History
Ballistas participated in the Liberation of Giedi Prime. They were later retrofitted with portable Holtzman Shields and participated in the Battle of Earth.
A strength of five Ballistas protected IV Anbus during the machine assault, and the one commanded by Tercero Vergyl Tantor was destroyed.
Around 88 BG, Ballistas were updated with a new kind of model.
About 83 years after the Battle of Corrin, Manford Torondo blackmails Emperor Salvador Corrino into giving Manford's Butlerians a fleet of 200 mothballed Ballistae. This fleet attacks the recently rediscovered machine shipyards and the defending Venhold forces. While the orbital shipyards are destroyed with over 6000 Venhold employees aboard. However, the Butlerian fleet also sustains heavy casualties thanks to daring tactics employed by the defenders and also due to the fact that they are using outdated ships.