Crest
Shipbuilders whose enormous, supposedly defenseless behemoths give the resistance its perfect disguise.
Story so far
Crest builds behemoths - the largest ships in orbit, and vessels not known for their defenses. That reputation is why nobody ever fired on the Homecoming Queen during the orbital fighting, and why the shooters around it never guessed what was aboard.
Under Crest's harmless silhouette, Porthus installed a full complement of enhancement zone guns and beams, and York worked hard to keep the ship's real armament secret. By the epilogue the Crest behemoth in Earth orbit is very likely the strongest warship there, having already vaporized The Orc Yacht with a point-defense weapon and passed unremarked.
Role
The shipbuilder whose civilian reputation conceals the resistance's flagship.
Relationships
Sources — 7 recorded facts, by chapter
- The polity associated with Long Haul and the habitat whose desperate exploding-chicken signal inspired Donut's new tiara.
- Species of the galactic community; Tipid is a Crest by both birth race and current race.
- Humanoid alien race, notably physical and affectionate, to which both Rosetta and Tipid belong.
- Allied faction in Carl's army whose veterans die in the trench assault alongside the crawlers.
- Rosetta's species, both her birth race and her dungeon race, from a world where kindness was seen as weakness.
- Rosetta's people and Tipid's; she offers him a story about the bravest Crest she has ever met.
- Shipbuilders whose enormous, supposedly defenseless behemoths give the resistance its perfect disguise.