The Flower of the East

The Flower of the East
Renewed Glory-Class Flagship of Lotus

There is no weapon known in the East finer than Ivory's Flower. The hull itself is a wide 'V' of adamant and orichalcum several hundred yards long and half as tall. Inside, the Flower of the East is divided into five decks, in ascending order: Cargo, Engineering, Recreational, Living, Bridge.

From its bridge, the Flower of the East commands an impressive view of the horizon. Essence-lit displays offer an Exalted captain a 360-degree view of the battlespace. The Living Deck contains comfortable berths for fifty crew members in mostly doubles, and the Recreational Deck offers a wide park stocked with the most exotic and beautiful plants of the East.

Speed: 35/70mph (90/210mph in Hyperdrive)
Maneuverability: +2S (Lore 4, Sail 4)
Endurance: Requires a Dualcore Protoshinmatic Reactor, and the captain must commit five motes of Essence to the throne. The shipboard AI must assent to the captain's commitment. Every five hours of operations beyond low-power deals a single point of Bashing damage.
Crew: 25/10 (5/1 if captained by a Celestial Exalt)
Cargo: The Flower of the East has roughly two decks worth of cargo space in addition to crew berths and even a small recreational area. It could comfortably transport legions of troops, a fang of warstriders, and other assorted supplies.
Armor: 38L/38B
Health Levels: Ux35, Mx20, Cx10, Ix10, D
Weapons: Ten mounted Medium Essence Cannon emplacements, six must be manned. Six manned lightning bows. Two manned Medium Implosion Bows. Six manned Medium Essence Cannons fitted specifically with Motonic Disruptor Lenses.

Other Systems:

Shipboard AI - The Flower of the East is administered by an awakened intelligence called the Seven-Leaved Prince. His core is a battery capable of holding two hundred motes of Essence; these are not linked to the reactor and thusly must be donated by Essence-users. He is kind spirited and somewhat naive. Bronzeheart has curiously adopted him as something of a son, and the Prince is capable of projecting his image to a transmitter in Bronzeheart to discuss strategy with the elder mechanism. When in range of one another, Bronzeheart and Seven-Leaved Prince can automatically coordinate any attacks that they can control (Seven-Leaved Prince controls only two of his Medium Essence Cannons; Bronzeheart controls one Large).

Hover-System - The Flower of the East is equipped with a large artifact at it's core called a levitation pillar. The pillar is, somewhat ironically, a tremendous cylinder of blue jade. When attuned for fifty motes--usually by Seven-Leaved Prince--the cylinder's girth is mystically inverted and it becomes less than weightless, capable of holding the ship in place. In this mode, the engines may be disengaged and operational damage can be assessed without causing further risk to the Flower. This also means that it would take quite a feat to down the Flower of the East, as this artifact is explicitly not part of the ship itself in any meaningful way.

Golden Dragon Hyperdrive - Now partially operable, the Golden Dragon Hyperdrive was reverse engineered from the Dragonrail system. It allows the ship to completely Dematerialize and would effectively triple the craft's speed. Opening a stable hyperdrive window through the Dematerialized world is a Speed 7, DV -4 action costing the Seven-Leaved Prince or captain 25m. Every hour spent in hyperdrive deals 1B damage to the Flower. It can also be used more readily: by spending 15m, Seven-Leaved Prince may reflexively dematerialize the ship for one tick, acting as an applicability-trumping Perfect Dodge against any attack that can not strike immaterial targets. This can not be invoked against attacks which the Prince or his captain are unaware of. This also incidentally sends the ship 100 yards in a random direction.

The Titanic Emulator - A chamber newly opened by Ivory Eyes, it is directly above the ship's Protoshinmatic Reactor. Inside, there is little more than a single throne of polished crystal and feathersteel. When in use, the room darkens and begins to draw energy from the Reactor. While in use, the ship is completely inoperable: it must be kept aloft by its levitation pillar. It can not move, and weapons tied to the ship's reserves must be powered by the Prince's own store of motes or, in the case of manned emplacements, their operators. The Prince may invoke the Flower's Perfect Dodge, but the cost rises to 25m, 1w.

Activating the Titanic Emulator requires someone with Wyldshaping Technique to attune to the chamber as a reflexive action by investing ten motes of Essence (or five, if the being is also attuned as the Flower's captain). Once attuned, the Emulator acts as a large-scale Hand of the Great Maker. The Protoshinmatic Reactor is capable of storing up to 50 banked successes. Spending successes on Battlefield Shaping causes the Flower's core to temporarily expose itself through an iris, releasing a thin beam of concentrated Wyld energy directly downwards.