The Lead Zeppelin

Overview

The Lead Zeppelin is an experimental cruiser, of hybrid 🏫Cin'Dar Academy Arcanus and unusual Odari design. It is designated in technical manuals as a "Mk1 Celestial Raven". It's a 3600-ton light cruiser with a highly modified shard blimp chassis.

Activities

• She was discovered in 🏫Cin'Dar Academy Arcanus hanger in 🏢 Ezdin during 📖Book 3 - The Lead Zeppelin
• She was stolen by our heroes and left 🏢 Ezdin bound for Parta.

Crew

• Captain : 🚹Merrick Landon
• First Mate : 🚹Gunter Shortreach, also Marine Officer in Charge (OIC)
• Pilot : 🚹Lyra du Vectari
• Other Known Crew
  • 🚹ChoTaan Gathakanathi, Navigator
  • 🚹Greeco Substath, Gunnery Officer in Charge (OIC)
  • 🚹Kramram, Quartermaster
  • Zeke “Spanners” Bilgewright, Chief Engineer
  • 🚹Adelaide Zimen, Engineer
  • Sergeant Griffin Cromwell, a naval sergeant from the ⚔️Legionius Nauticus 14th Fleet 2nd Navy
  • 🚹Carl Thamareen, Marine
• Notable passengers
  • 🚹Claire Victorine, a "seamstress" from Madame Palmyre’s Emporium
  • 🚹Ned Walstrand, an injured 🏫Cin'Dar Academy Arcanus engineer
  • 🚹Jaabir al-Hamidi, a 🏫Cin'Dar Academy Arcanus scholar and mage

Capabilities

History

The ship was created in secret by 🚹Oracle Ardentis of the Nurokh Enclave and 🚹Lucius Verus of the 🏫Cin'Dar Academy Arcanus several years before the fall of the Cin'Dar Republic.

Rumours and Legends

Several things about the ship are ambiguous and unclear.

Other Notes

• The Lead Zeppelin is outlined in full in this document The Lead Zeppelin
• The crew and logistics for the Lead Zeppelin is tracked here Logistics for the Ship (Google Doc)
• Our heroes have learned much about the ship including:
  • They have met Servitor Lambdaeus, an Odari skull reanimated as an information repository, that abides in the bridge. Lambdaeus has been introduced to the crew and has a wealth of information about the ship.
  • They have learned that Lambdaeus was an Odari named Luminary Arcanum in a previous life (before becoming infected with stabilised carcassite).
  • Lambdaeus told them that the ship was constructed in joint effort by 🚹Oracle Ardentis of the Nurokh Enclave and 🚹Lucius Verus of the Cin'Dar Academy Arcanus.
  • Lambdaeus told them that the ship is home to several sentient systems, including itself, Servitor Omegus, and named servitors for each of the ships guns. Each of those entities has an Odari name.
  • They have learned that Servitor Omegus is the being which is the ships Central Core - an artificial heart the size of a wagon. Servitor Omegus is barely sentient, as if in a coma.
  • Lambdaeus provided the specifications for how to create a gun-servitor, which included mundane fabrication and the use of a material called "stabilised carcassite" upon the corpse of an Odari. Our heroes know that carcassite is a necromantic crystal used to animate the dead (see Arcane Minis Skyship Campaigns Rulebook (PDF) pg 102 and 136).
  • Two Cin'Dar Academy Arcanus engineers, Emil Regis and 🚹Ned Walstrand helped construct the ship under the orders of 🚹Lucius Verus and at the direction of 🚹Oracle Ardentis. Ned told them that 🚹Oracle Ardentis ordered the killing of the engineers constructed the ship - he survived the attack but lost an arm.
  • They have found the ships manifest, a book in the quarter-masters cabin which outlines the correct disposition of stores and crew - a useful guide for operating the ship.
  • They have found a set of naval regulations in the quarter-masters cabin which outlines the correct of crews and ships in the Imperial navy.
  • They have found a canister marked "Mk1 Celestial Raven - Command Blueprints - Top Secret” from the chief engineer’s cabin. Unlocked by the Command Bracelet, it holds the detailed technical blueprints for the ship.
  • They have found the Command Bracelet, a modified Bracelet of Ship Command (AC pg 202).
  • They have discovered that the the Central Core mentally controls carcassite infected beings onboard the ship, including anyone wearing the Command Bracelet.

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